i remember flying higher window and suddenly i was in the street and in terror in volgograd our team lead survivors of monday's horrific suicide attack on a crowded bus in southern russia. caught out again america has ten years top level phone tapping. so it's an overall sense that this came as a surprise for everybody conflicting reports in europe about how much president obama really knew about the n.s.a. listening in on the german chancellor's cell phone got the developments. and drone deaths in war crimes amnesty international says the u.s. must answer for the many civilian deaths inflicted by unmanned arts in pakistan and

yemen. good morning from moscow where it's just four am i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. the week began with tragedy and russia when a suicide bomber killed six people she blew herself up in a bus packed with at least forty passengers in volgograd the terrifying moments of the attack was caught on video take a look. police suspect the killer stalked the city waiting for an optimal moment to wreak the most deadly damage i went to volgograd to reports and retrace the events of that day. october twenty first started just like any other monday here in boulder grab people

woke up with places to go and things to get done 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 on board thirty year old lie you see all of that is when things took a tragic turn and a start to the very end of it was on the way home from classes at the university laughing and talking with the other students actually it was in the middle of the class which saved her life. when the blast hit everything around me went flying and then i don't remember anything but i remember flying out of the window and suddenly i was on the street and in a panic i understood that something happened with 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 the same rock was in 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 a headline there me and my friend took a young boy and his father to the hospital the remnants of an explosive device told the tale shrapnel t.n.t. and a grenade the accident site became a crime scene while. edgy hardest from republic of dagestan became the central focus of the investigation authorities will be keen to find her husband teacher sokol of an ethnic russian convert to islam missing since two thousand and twelve in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd. international terrorism expert alexander dahmer and told us that it's a worldwide problem that needs a global answer. i can tell you that you know we're dealing with this kind of a terrorist international. divide what's happening in america in boston or in

a global masoud in they notified well we cannot separate it from what has just happened in boulder got off from what happened in there all the just several weeks ago we aim to seem boot and this is very unfortunate and we need to deal with it. reports in german media suggest president obama was aware of the n.s.a. tapping chancellor merkel's phone even though he reassured her he knew nothing during a having a phone call merkel said the monitoring would be in fact a breach of trust if it was confirmed shuster said that spying among friends just does not work obama of course apologized and reportedly claimed that he had no prior knowledge that it was actually going on but germany's build newspaper goes as far as suggesting he not only knew but actually encouraged the bugging of records phone a claim to die by washington over the last leaks documents now show that number was on the n.s.a. as watchlist as far back as two thousand and two before she became chancellor she

wasn't alone though more than thirty other leaders were targeted and r.t. has been gauging reaction as developments have unfolded. we knew that. some practices were existed but to search an overall system this came as a surprise for everybody controlling internet controlling deformation you know well this is it privilege in monopoly that canard to be accepted because we know that if we are going to follow the same direction then confrontation might be the when it's a case of ordinary citizens and that's what the real scandal is the real scandal is the true extent of mass surveillance in the e.u. and of course beyond what's happening is there's a whipping up of hysteria an attempt to use that histeria to undermine the rights of people to privet see this has. created

a massive reputational crisis for the united states the entire populace is now in essence on edge about what is the united states government doing what is the n.s.a. doing certainly we've lost a lot of credibility as an ethical internet steward. now author historian gerald horne joins us for more now live mr mark can you tell us please you know washington is denying any prior knowledge of this if this saying that president obama didn't know about this wiretapping who's telling the truth here do you think. i'm afraid that mr obama is in the position where he has to deny what is painfully obvious you should recognize that one of the many reasons why the united states spies when chancellor merkel is economic espionage that is to say that u.s. corporations like forward or in competition with folks wagon the software manufacturers in competition with as a.p. for example and siemens of germany is in competition with g.e.

by booking telephones at a high level in berlin united states can get information that can be very helpful to the competitor words of these german corporations well exactly when ties between the e.u. and the us are vital how much damage they can surveillance of this type actually cause it can cause enormous damage i do believe that chancellor merkel was probably somewhat aware of the spying and surveillance of her cell phone but the problem is the german populace was unaware and there is a tidal wave of revulsion at this intervention in germany's affairs and therefore chancellor merkel has to respond and that complicates berlin washington relations. ok let's look at the bigger picture here obviously european countries are doing a fair share of spying and surveillance as well why is the u.s. getting all the flack do you think because the states is the heavyweight champion

of surveillance united states not only engages in surveillance against alleged folks like al qaida for example like the cubans like the north koreans like the iranians but also. the french the germans etc and because of this proclivity in washington it's understandable why they want to states gets the attention when it comes to surveillance. well apart from the angry words and the marches and all the hubbub surrounding what has transpired in the last couple of months in this arena has the edward snowden have the edward snowden leaks actually you know made a positive difference what what is going to come out of this do you think well my understanding is that washington is engaged in an agonizing reappraisal of its surveillance methods against friendly nations such as germany and france it would not surprise me at all if washington moved towards a relationship with germany and france that it now has with britain for example or

destroy or new zealand or canada where they're much closer relations and at least on the official level there is not surveillance of cell phones of the leaders of those latter nations so the n.s.a. members say that the eavesdropping eaves dropping on the leaders produce little valuable intelligence that that was that was usable what's the point of risking a diplomatic fall out for something like this that's actually going to produce nothing well i would take with the n.s.a. so it is with a grain of salt in fact with the shaker of salt you have to realize also that one of the many reasons why washington spies on berlin is because of hysteria about the rule of the green party in germany about the role of the left party in germany and there is also concern about the european central bank and its never closer relations with the chinese central bank and how that may lead to sidelining of the federal reserve bank in washington all of these recent shift light upon this

massive surveillance program against supposedly friendly nations all right we'll leave it there for now thank you very much sir gerald horn political historian. as fresh leaks about the n.s.a. surveillance keep rolling out artie's twitter is on top of the story for you of course follow up with the real time updates and then their reaction awaits. i write my. first. and i think. i. amnesty international is on the attack saying america's ongoing drone attacks in pakistan and yemen violated international

human rights law and should be regarded as war crimes the group released a report just this week revealing that the number of civilian casualties is actually much higher than what the u.s. repeatedly claims let's take a look at some of these numbers now it was back in two thousand and four when the bush administration started widely using unmanned craft in its pursuit of al qaeda and the taliban the number of deaths soared dramatically in two thousand and six when almost one hundred one hundreds of civilians were killed most of them children another escalation came in two thousand and eight with seventy five lives lost now a year later the fatalities reached one hundred sixty two the year brok obama took office a record number of strikes from remote control jets was recorded over the next twelve months and the drone war continues now the bomb a administration is responsible for about ninety percent of all the strikes carried out since two thousand and four almost a thousand civilians have been killed including up to two hundred children now

according to some estimates the total number of drone deaths in the region tops three and a half thousand lucic half of looks into the latest report from amnesty international . 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 and 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 might be 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. most of them i heard that. the first hit and the second hit my cousin. but her grandmother's body was whole her eyes the missile fragments are all that remain of amnesty documents other such cases but its main point the need for transparency and accountability for us 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. artie's been given rare access to the guantanamo bay prison. only people who know little girls on the mall is also under ten years. after the break we asked staff at the facility why conditions and instance they're so wrapped in mystery. and shooting the messenger of the syrian journalist working for state media being terrorized by the rebels more on that just a few moments. two

years after the force ouster of gadhafi by nato forces in libya stands at the abyss the lack of a strong central government weak rule of law and endless violence in a country awash with weapons has resulted in libya facing a failed state status added to this the presence of islamic militants can things get any worse in libya. free. education free. free. free. free. free. download free blog video for your media. free media r t dot com.

welcome back you're watching our t.v. live from moscow i'm linda in france thanks for joining me spain is being ordered to release a basque terrorist guilty of killing twenty three people in the late eighty's thousands protested in madrid over the european human rights rights court's decision on in a still rio member of the separatists meant she was given the maximum thirty year sentence assessed by judges in spain denied her the right to due to her tariff through work in prison or something which is afforded to other inmates in the country john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation says the courts is doing the opposite of what it was created to do. it's incredible isn't it that a european court of human rights should intervene in this way to alleviate the sentence

of the woman who has been convicted to due process of the murder of more than twenty three people this woman is a mass murderer and the idea that a body the european court of human rights which was set up to safeguard citizens against the abuses that could be committed by states against their own citizens that such a body should now be as it were to beaning in favor of people who have themselves grossly abused the rights of citizens by murdering them the u.s. claims the long running hunger strike in guantanamo bay has mostly ended but fifteen prisoners are still being force fed their six month protest against their detention and conditions r.t. was given rare access to the facility to find out what it's like inside the wall of secrecy surrounding what happens there proved difficult to get through as an assessor turkana reports. 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 local media 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 talk 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 her car program accomplished with regulation sorry old video and audio recordings and even sketches are carefully studied cell phones 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 they get their vision so we try to photograph them to take 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 they have a call to get for be 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 then not using them is as you know. you know. making them some kind of curiosity 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 guantanamo 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 learn there we're not the only ones simply being treated to a show and party one tunnel bay cuba. the tide of refugees trying to reach europe and the disturbing number killed doing so is proving deeply troubling for the new scores of people have drowned this month alone as they tried to cross

the mediterranean in overcrowded boats here are the main road switch refugees are using in their efforts to get to europe now some of them are fleeing conflict toward torn countries like syria and of course libya those who managed to reach the shores of europe's south and then try to move on to other countries like spain france germany and then up toward the u.k. but it's italy and greece which shoulder the heaviest burden obviously there at the south that's because the law obliges asylum seekers to stay in the country where they first arrive until it's decided what to do with them you are pissed off takes up the story. 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 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 the refugees sank into a three hundred people died but we were lucky and in sicily we managed to avoid getting high 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 voiding 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 with you 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 principle scandal it only to turn away a refugee since for many 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 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 off italy. thousands of opposition activists have marched through central moscow in support of those who they considered. political prisoners the protesters were demanding the release of over two dozen people arrested in may the six last year when a mass protest eve of president putin in the aeration turned violent there was also a call for the release of greenpeace activists detained for trying to storm an arctic oil platform and for the freedom of jailed oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky

the march went off peacefully organizers initially claimed up to twenty thousand people were to turn up but police say just five thousand turned out in other news around the world. britain is getting the first taste of its worst storm in years which threatens to be the most destructive since the late eighty's southern and eastern england are already being lashed by heavy rain and ferocious winds gusts of around one hundred thirty kilometers an hour are expected of any monday morning trains and several flights have been cancelled meanwhile the search has been called off for a teenager who was swept out to sea as the weather worsened. in india and least five people have been killed and more than eighty injured in bomb attacks on crowds who gathered for a political rally the blasts went off just before the speech of opposition politician narendra modi who is a candidate for prime minister in next year's election it's not immediately clear who was behind this violence. syria has submitted its plan on chemical arms

destruction meeting an internationally imposed deadline but the peace talks spurred by russia and the u.s. are struggling to get all on board nineteen opposition groups are refusing to participate and amid the bloodshed within syria the rebels have published hit lists signal signaling out state media employees covering the war pulse layer has a story. only. these pictures were a long time coming syria's state t.v. headquarters in flames but the attack occurred just hours after rebel groups warned they'd showered damascus with mortars. and young women turn call for 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 wanted 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 this with this 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's brother ali kamel was an editor in chief of the syrian news agency he was killed by four bullets shot at close range after a mosque gunman broke into his home. the strange thing is that we were never afraid

for him we were afraid for my other brothers crying the army who thought i believe the civilian will 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 say that your body will be shot off from the head they said we know who you are we know the location we cannot kill you we cannot cut your head from the body you are. this is what they say exactly the fear for many is that this list is long there were many names on it and scenes like this could well be repeated until every last one of them is to be shared policy r.t. damascus syria later this hour here on r t we were port on americans who are fed up with heavy handed police.

this officer pepper sprayed students protesting peacefully yet he got the compensation for psychiatric trauma more on that ahead. with its move to find a better life the final bullet can be exploited by using the site to really explode on the border as you say to do the illegal playing. last week a new crop of british girls looking for love and loot online. but before that let's get the week's business news in venture capital. most of the missions that soldiers are sent to. pretext of terrorism prevention are in many ways targeting civilians that have nothing to do with actual attacks against.