that some. of our times. i remember flying out of the window and suddenly i was on the street and in a panic. terror in volgograd are to meet survivors of monday's horrific suicide attack on a crowded bus in southern russia. caught out again america's ten years of top level phone tapping. 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 cell phone we've got the developments. and drone deaths and war crimes amnesty international says the u.s. must answer for the many civilian deaths inflicted by unmanned ops in pakistan and

yemen. good morning from moscow where it's just five am i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. the week began with tragedy in russia when a suicide bomber killed six people she blew herself up on a bus packed with at least forty passengers in volgograd the terrifying moment 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 report and to retrace the events of that tragic day. october twenty first started just like any other monday here in volgograd 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 a way to classes at the university laughing and talking with the other students actually it was in the middle of the class which saved her life so. 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 one that seemed like 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 r.c.l. over a jihadist 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 a demented five well we cannot separate it from what has just happened in the mall to get out 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. report to german media suggests president obama was aware of the n.s.a. tapping chancellor merkel's phone even though he reassured her he knew nothing during a personal conversation and a phone call merkel said the monitoring would in fact be a breach of trust if it was confirmed and that spying among friends just doesn't work obama of course apologized and then reportedly claimed to have not have had any prior knowledge that that was going on but germany's builds newspaper goes as far as to suggest he not only knew about it but actually encouraged the bugging of arkell's phone and a claim which is denied by washington now for the last leaked documents now show that her number was on the n.s.a.'s watch less from two thousand to three years before she became chancellor but she wasn't alone more than thirty other leaders

were targeted r.t. has been gauging reaction as developments unfolded. we knew that. some practices were existed but the search and overall system this came as a surprise for everybody controlling internet controlling the formation you know well this is a privilege a monopoly that cannot be accepted because we know that if we are going to follow up in the same direction then confrontation might be in the book 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 it's there's a whipping up of hysteria an attempt to use that hysteria 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. as fresh leaks about the n.s.a. surveillance keep rolling out our t's twitter is on top of the story for you follow us to get real time updates and reaction. to see. first. and i think you're. going to. be in the. amnesty international is on the attack saying america's ongoing drone attacks in

pakistan and yemen have violated international human rights law and should be regarded as war crimes the group released a report this week revealing the number of civilian casualties is actually much higher than the u.s. repeatedly claims take a look at some of the numbers here it was two thousand and four when the bush administration stated started to widely use 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 civilians were killed most of them children now their escalation came in two thousand and eight seventy five lives last year later the fatalities reached one hundred sixty two the year barack obama took office a record number of strikes from remote controlled jets was recorded over the next twelve months and the drone war continues now the obama 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

according to some estimates the total number of drone deaths in the region tops three and a half thousand artie's lucy caffein of looks at the latest report from amnesty international. 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 effective and legal america does not take strikes to punish individuals we act against terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the american people not so according to amnesty international in a damning new report the human rights group warns u.s. drone strikes could amount to war crimes documents recent killings in pakistan's northwest tribal areas and the lack of transparency surrounding drones this is

a secret program in fact in our case we've found at least in some cases they've clearly killed civilians and some of these cases might be war crimes that really concerns us one such case is that of sixty eight year old man nama bibi killed by a u.s. drone last october she was picking vegetables with her grandchildren when that attacks took place a double strike the children miraculously survived. first it was so then i heard that. the first hit and the second hit my cousin. huge 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 art has been given rare access to the guantanamo bay prison only people who knows what goes on get more us and the detainees. later this hour we ask staff at the facility why conditions and incidents there are so wrapped in mystery. and shooting the messenger and the syrian journalists working for state media who are being terrorized by the rebels more on that in just a few moments. spain's being ordered to release a boss except terrorists guilty of killing twenty three people in the late eighty's

thousands of protons protested in madrid over the european human rights court's decision on you know still real a member of the separatist movement she was given the maximum thirty year sentence but strasbourg judges say spain denied her the right to reduce her tariff through work in prison something which is afforded to other inmates in the country john laughlin from the institute of cooperation says the strasbourg court is doing the opposite of what it was created to do. but 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 is free and convicted of to due process of the murder of more than twenty three people this woman is a mass murderer and the idea that european court of human rights which was set up to safeguard citizens against the abuses that could be committed by states because through an citizens that such

a body should now be as it were to dealing in favor of people who have themselves grossly abused the rights of citizens by murdering them the u.s. claims a long running hunger strike at guantanamo bay has mostly ended but fifteen prisoners are still being force fed amid 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 but the wall of secrecy surrounding what happens there proved difficult to get through as an assessor truckin a 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 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 material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it abides by our policy here even though transparency is a word brought out 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 her very good 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 are even wary 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 detain easier to 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 have called the google for bia just not. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on get more os and to detainees and getting the detainees side of what goes on to 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 you know on film and things 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 any news

related to the time of detention camp. like. that 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 digital currency battle for mainstream acceptance is gaining momentum the first ever a.t.m. allowing customers to turn their big point into hard cash is about to be launched in canada the details at r.t. dot com. plus japan hold up its military muscle but tensions over the biggest territorial flare up in years aren't receding in east asia invision section takes a look at that. the tide of refugees trying to reach

europe and the disturbing number killed doing so is proving deeply troubling for the scores of people have drowned this month alone as they tried to cross the mediterranean in overcrowded boats here are the main routes which refugees are using in their efforts to get to europe some of them are flying conflict torn countries of course like syria and libya those who managed to reach the shores of europe south and try to move on to other countries like spain france italy germany and of course the u.k. but it's of course italy and greece at the south which shoulder the heaviest burden that's because the e.u. law obliges asylum seekers to stay in the country where they first arrive until it's decided what to do with them europe is going to have takes up the story. they want to buy the food from at the opiate of 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 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 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 principles can't allow italy to turn away a refugee since for many it is the only chance for survival but the situation has now reached 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 the work is going on r.t. italy. thousands of opposition activists have marched through central moscow into part of those who they consider to be plot. the prisoners the protesters were demanding the release of around two dozen people arrested on may sixth last year when a mass protest on the eve of president putin's inauguration 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 march went off peacefully organizers initially claimed up to twenty thousand people were to turn up police say just five thousand turned out in other news around the world britain is getting its 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 winds gusts of around one hundred thirty kilometers an hour are expected while many monday morning trains and dozens of flights have been canceled meanwhile the search has been called off for a teenager who was swept out to sea as the weather worsened. in india at least five people have been killed and more than eighty injured in bomb attacks on crowds who gathered for a political rally the blast went off just before the speech of opposition politician narendra modi who is a candidate for prime minister in next year's election some immediately clear who

was behind this violence. two years after the forced ouster of gadhafi by nato forces 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. mission. critical

three. three. three. three. three. three brought video for your media project a free media oh don carty dot com. syria has submitted its plan on chemical arms destruction meeting an internationally imposed deadline 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 singling out state media employees covering the war policy player has a story. now how about. these pictures were a long time coming syria's state t.v. headquarters in flames but the attack occurred just hours after rebel groups were and they'd showered damascus with mortars oh our 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 one tid 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 a show 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 in this business 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 and got a week to rally the strange thing is that we were never afraid for him we were afraid for my other brothers quine the army without our lives a civilian he'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 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're going to 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 i'll be back with more news in about half an hour but up next an r.t. how the world appetite for fish is literally stealing from the poor. a spanish language teacher in texas has been fired for posing nude in playboy before she became a teacher parents of found out about this demand that she be fired because her past was inappropriate and that it was a distraction the classroom well this was something she did in the past which was legal so there's that i mean if you pose for playboy you are forbidden to work in the normal world also as a former teenage boy i can tell you that any young attractive teacher will cause a distraction with the boys and wolf you can fire people for being distracting that

when they have to fire every teacher with a handicap or abnormal appearance on the other hand though teachers are supposed to be people for children to respect and to look up to and when you're spanish teachers one does so the good stuff for money to playboy it is a lot harder respect that sort of person and it sure isn't a good example for my daughter this is actually a very complex issue but i can say is that you should really try to fight the temptation to make quick money with some nude photos it could come back to haunt you but that's just my opinion.

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