it's attention to the places that some gulag of our times. a female suicide bomber killed six people on a bus in russia. we report from the scene. more revelations from n.s.a. leaker edward snowden with reports claiming germany's chancellor has been spied on for over a decade as us thousands of protesters gather in washington united in anger at the country's global surveillance program and. whatever happens i will not leave my house again could not be worse than this our chief heads to the front lines of the syrian civil war way of palestinian community is fighting to protect its homes and families also coming up. at least in some cases they've clearly killed civilians in some of these cases. and amnesty international research told about the

bodies new report on america's so-called precision strikes in. line from moscow this is largely as of the week as well as today's top stories here with me to say let's take a look at a story on monday a poll full suicide blasts hit a bus in the country's southern city of volgograd killing six and wounding dozens many witnesses were unable to understand what had happened to describing the scene as a war zone are just lazy friends some of the survivors. october twenty first started just like any other monday here in volgograd people walk 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 until one person got a record thirty year old why you don't see all of that is when things took a tragic turn anastasio the very on the boy 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. when the boss who did everything around me when flying and from that moment i don't remember anything on the 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 buses fuel systems but aside from the shop they felt to ask

themselves if this was a gas explosion what was the fire. in your dragon boat was sitting right there in the car everybody in the blast was touching their faces and hats 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 a 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 hottest 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 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 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 a see all of us husband dimitri 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. our to talk to an expert on international terrorism alexander he

believes it's time to put differences aside and combat a disease which is plaguing us on a global scale and i can tell you that you know we are dealing with this kind of a terrorist international channel divide what's happening in america in boston or in a global masoud in the name of the five well we cannot separate it from what has just happened in volgograd or from what happened in there all the 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 i'm like just several years ago when i had was feeling you know with expression one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter i can see you know that no matter what if somebody is there to do to russia and the russian government will have a terrorist attacks in russia this is

a terrorist attack not just the are 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 southern republic of dagestan that's after police say 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 end to terror operations here in russia on a website outing dot com. sounds like angela merkel has been spied on by the n.s.a. for over a decade that's according to the leaks published by journalist a spear gold magazine the 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 voices anger complaining that. it's trust in washington is not undermined all of 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 existing 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 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 a review of the country's global surveillance ratios are promising changes in the meantime thousands have gathered on capitol hill to display their discontent with

what they called infringement of their privacy artie's gannets if 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 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. syrian minority groups some becoming increasingly active as the conflict spirals deeper into civil war kodesh militants have. the country's north east taking

control of a key crossing on the border with iraq arches policia is 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 now it's acute care where it's divided families and put her brother against brother. lee betrayed 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 know their whole lives. i have some friends fighting on the other side they're not friends anymore the ones who displaced 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 stacked furniture high against the windows to protect his family from snipers life inside these bullet riddled walls 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 all morry 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 goodbye 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 ya mork 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 abu more 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 they care of them and i pray that if i get more tired they will find tender people to look after america. the frontline 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 poor c.r.t. yarmuk syria. meanwhile russia is pushing ahead with mediation efforts to bring all sides of the conflict to the negotiating table in geneva next month the u.s. and its allies this week to reiterate the support for the syrian opposition which moscow calls a one sided approach from a pentagon official michael maloof says backing the rebels essentially amounts to helping the radical islamist 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 they just take them away it know the out the

extremists already control about seven of the eleven palestinian camps already and . in syria and they're using them as the base of operations and they're intimidating the moderates and 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 are look for keys to solve the issue of immigrant influx while the e.u. is economic troubles and deadly shipwrights is seem to have no effect on the and the stream of refugees seeking shelter cross the mediterranean some insight into that. last georgians i had to the polls to elect a replacement for president mikhail saakashvili we recap the controversial legacy and in a few minutes. the

. economic down in the final. days the new york shanghai and the rest of life it's going be a building every week. ok. choose your language call it we can with oh if they're going to kill some of the. treatments that is the consensus you can. choose the opinions that invigorated to. choose the stories that entire life choose the access to your office.

thank. you ed. thank you ok thanks for staying with us here on our two americas ongoing drone strikes in pakistan should be investigated as a war crime that's according to a report this week by amnesty international but getting to the bottom of the so-called precision strikes program could be difficult that it all began in two thousand and four under the bush administration two thousand and six was of the deadliest a year into his presidency when almost a hundred civilians were killed but since two thousand and eight the use of drones in pakistan has escalated reaching a peak after president obama was sworn into office in two thousand and nine then

that the next twelve months all of of his presidency saw a record number of strikes at one hundred and twenty two and despite many damning reports the drone war goes 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 of those are children many investigations estimate the total number of killings at more than three thousand you see care for not looking into the latest report. the predator drone remotely controlled and heavily armed it's the weapon of choice in the cia's undeclared war in pakistan that's where the u.s. is believed to have launched more than three hundred strikes since two thousand and four the target suspected taliban and al qaeda militants the white house says better drones then boots on the ground and justifies the covert program as both affective and legal america does not take strikes to punish individuals we act

against terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the american people not so according to amnesty international in a damning new report the human rights group warns u.s. drone strikes could amount to war crimes documents recent killings in pakistan's northwest tribal areas and the lack of transparency surrounding drones this is a secret program in fact in our case we've found at least in some cases they've clearly killed civilians and some of these cases might be war crimes that really concerns us one such case is that of sixty eight year old man nama bibi killed by a u.s. drone last october she was picking vegetables with her grandchildren when that attacks took place a double strike the children miraculously survived i am i 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 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 the 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 created purely to make sure everyone is feeling more cheery 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 lot of trouble now some are putting their foot down find out more at are two dot com. this week saw records being broken at our planet as an older and maurice point the olympics torch reached the north pole for the first time in history after the fastest ever cruise through the polar night on board a nuclear icebreaker arches 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 doubt there's a you might think it's just before the dawn or just before the sun search 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 that polar nights are coming into full effect and as you can see our ice breaker is really having to prove our worth now.

and you can see everything is getting rather busy and excited out here and we're all on the bridge for the final approach there is our lympics flailing away from sea to make its way on to the north pole was her i was on top of the world. was. thinking. 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 moment every minute of the north pole is exactly right. and i'm here to see. some other news of this week it despite the horrors of recent tragedies in the mediterranean boats packed with immigrants and refugees continue to head for southern countries hundreds were rescued off the city's case this week by italy's coast guard at a summit in brussels european union leaders promise to revamp the block's asylum policies and take active at measures on the issue. after a plea for help from rome now this may have a draw is a picture of of the roots are silent seekers taking many sort of two euro beef because they fear for their lives of homelands torn by conflicts like the civil war in syria now more move to find work and make money more northern african immigrants enter the e.u. three italy is a southern islands others attempt to make it to spain all friends among the most

popular final destinations alongside germany as well as the u.k. but is italy and greece that bear the brunt as according to e.u. laws asylum seekers entering without authorization should remain in the country they first arrived in you've got to be kind of went to meet some of those trying to make their way to a better life. they want to buy the food from the opium to saddam then traveled to libya and finally reach sicily after what must have been the most nerve wrecking ball right off their lives these three women are hiding their faces from the cameras and 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 a good who had just heard 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 anyone 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 but if you're 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 and international obligations and playing human principles can't allow it only to turn away refugees since for many is the only chance for survival but the situation is now which the 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 far 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. the controversial air of present. is coming to an end as georgia. take to the polls on sunday to choose their next head of state with twenty three names on the ballot analysts expect to run the vote between three candidates but the when i will eventually and essentially take up a second reposed as strings of our power are being now handed over to the prime minister's office or it is that mary of a national reports on such feelings legacy. they are among the males determined detractors of georgia's outgoing president. they follow me house circus nearly everywhere to leave him in no doubt of where

they stand. circus really was the once popular leader of the rose revolution the first color revolution which saw power change in post soviet republics. in the last days of his near ten year presidency even former allies are on the attack. after his successes start of building an authoritarian regime the media was attacked one million people fled one quarter of the population went through the penal system they were either arrested or interrogated in two thousand and seven police used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters wanting cyclists shrillest government to resign. in two thousand and eleven they did it again. boudin i'm ugly well people were afraid to express or even have their opinion if they faced injustice they failed to report it as it could affect their families.

told me his brother used to run the state audit office and claims he was tortured in jail when he took his case to the human rights cotton strasberg told nikki says he too was arrested over fabricated case becoming another recognised political prisoner. i got eight and a half years if it wasn't for new premie ivanishvili i wouldn't have got a. in just one week i saw they took out four dead bodies from jail they said those young men died from diseases but that's nonsense days before last october's parliamentary election videos showing yun inmates being humiliated and beaten became the last straw for the georgian people second party last year but this georgian media veteran says the public euphoria of a circus his defeat is tempered by how much the people had already lost the immediate need saakashvili promoted georgian people are still entered and the nation with history and we started to live in it we started moving away from our

soviet past b r he was a p.r. genius he managed to convince the entire world and under the flag of democracy we got fascists as george's electoral votes for many here it's less about welcome in the future but saying goodbye to their past the law prevents macao circa srila from running for president again now has a mission is life far away from politics in the wine business but the public seems in no mood to simply let him fade into the background there is a strong desire georgia for circa shrilly to be broad justice and it seems his detractors won't stop until that thirst is quite changed there are more stories coming up for you this hour here on our t.v. up next there is katie peel them and venture capital.

some of the sixteen percent of imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. on the day they enter our territorial waters they fish they load this fish into the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. places change the world rights now.