breaking news dominated this hour not international a terrorist attack in the russian city of volgograd pills fifteen and injures dozens more an alleged female suicide puller targeted the city's main railway station. the week's top headlines this hour mass rallies in turkey to demand the government step down over a wide ranging corruption scandal are met with a tough police response. also lived together the stories the trade twenty two thirteen a get that cia contractor turned whistleblower edward snowden exposed america's far reaching global surveillance.

watering the weekly on our team to national with me. and welcome to the program and we start with the breaking news this hour isn't confirmed fifteen people have been killed in a suicide bomb blast in russia's southern city of volgograd dozens more were injured by the blast which was detonated at the city's central railway station. as the details for. well the blast was caused by a female suicide bomber at the checkpoint at the entrance to the central train station and all of this happened queue of passengers were standing there waiting for their luggage to be right now investigators are working there on the scene the president has sent his representative to forgot about to control the situation on the spot reportedly the blast was very powerful several stories off the train station were damaged and here's how witnesses described what was happening i was inside in the waiting home i heard an explosion i didn't realized what had happened

and i saw the giant engine still was completely ruined and people were coming out to the here and. i was with a child not far from where the blast happened i saw at last shot at last flight. to the floor and covered him with my body. because we were drinking coffee there was an explosion i was lucky to be wearing my hood it saved me from all the shattered glass we heard screams my coat is covered in blood. the emergencies ministry has been on standby ready to send planes through all guards to provide medical assistance to the injured and possibly to evacuate some of those who need more sophisticated medical help to moscow and it's already been announced that generally first second and third will be morning in god region just around two months ago and we are another female suicide bomber detonated an explosive device on

a public bus killing herself and six others and wounding over thirty other passengers. there's been a lot of reaction to the bunsen volgograd on social media on twitter eyewitnesses have been posting their reports from the scene and here's some of them that's now have a look at photographer who lives nearby and tweeted but the blast was so powerful they must have dogs at their railway station had been completely blown out another witness reports that people immediately a riot at the scene to help victims there while the deputy head of the city tweeted all volgograd top officials are at the scene right now and scene electric moscow state university. and he explained to us why he believes the city came and. all the good is the principal focus simply because it's an easy and close target to the south of the caucasus. just yesterday there the russian security services reported that

a principal the to the self-styled leader of the caucasus doku umarov was killed in dog astonished by security forces i think we can look at this attack today as for more than likely a very rapid reaction revenge attack or the chilling with the state of local farms . and a policeman was killed trying to storm the suspect just before the bomb was detonated not clear that a great effort separate in place to prevent such tragedies. in surety has been you know high in that condition regarding the threat of terrorist attacks for the last year as we approach a countdown to the sochi olympic games the. several services of russia have already announced that they have stopped a large quite a large number of terrorist incidents throughout the last year and are constantly reporting on a number of militants they have killed. spoke to

a political observer sergei struck and he believes the nature of that point that al qaeda cells operating in russia's north caucuses what is already clear now that they was a suicide bomber let me just recall one of the statements which was made by the leader of the church and terrorists a dark old model who if i'm not mistaken last year came up we would just appeal for terrorists just to come up with their terrorist acts so i think that most probably this is the al qaeda cell which is leading to chichen on the ground. about forty people who were in the waiting hole when the explosion happened were taken to hospital the victim is reported to be and nine year old girl how taxi drivers were acting as volunteers to quickly take the wounded for treatment and cadets from the local police academy rushed to donate blood to local hospitals journalist fred

we're says the threat of terrorism is a global not local and that all countries should fight it together. i think terrorism because of the nature of. the motivations of the woman and strap explosives on ourselves and walk into a crowded train station like that it obviously comes from somewhere and we all reach analyze that but at the same time i'm not the only person wishing the international community would get its act together and cooperate much more slowly. dealing with these kinds of threats. and will be closely following the developments and we'll bring you all the details as we gather you can also log on to aussie dot com for a minute by minute timeline of the events in overall crime. now

to the week's top stories this hour thousands gathered in turkish capital on koran to demand the resignation of the country's government after a violent dispersal of protests is in istanbul on friday night where police used tear gas and rubber bullets against the crowds the iranians it was sparked by a corruption probe that led to a major candidate or shuffle and arrests of government officials. has been following the ballots for us that. it's not uncommon site so this doubles streets in a year that's been marked by widespread protests this time the rallies taking place in the. the wake of a corruption crackdown that's rocked the government the threats to prime minister erdogan and now comes not just from the streets but from within his own party the turnout for the demonstration was significantly smaller than the scene this summer none the less ugly clashes break out between police and protesters other times been

in power for such a long time has maintained control a lot of people said and a lot of good things stirred the country right now of the actually it has become very very visible a protest. in the center if there isn't a lot of relief that is not the first. video to stop this speaking publicly out to the protests the prime minister remains defiant and continued to blame the corruption probe all of foreign conspiracy. a second wave of detentions may still be possible if the tide being a deadlock for mainz with the police the prosecutor publicly accused the law enforcement being in the government's pocket by refusing a court decision to carry out more raids on government officials and the families as that political drama continues to unfold arguably the biggest test now facing the embattled prime minister still lies ahead of him match. test for

mr i am. going to stand strongly crush. van we can see. the rabbit and assume. that the future of. the other people think may be very difficult. and it could well be that when these local elections take place that the full impact of the corruption scandal could really be felt so first stumble. upon. and for oil mogul and. as he is now on a mission to help his jailed associates look at the cases and talk to the witnesses and victims that they say they are a god that boy's head and a western media that's just ahead after the break.

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this is that we can all see international welcome by twenty says hanaa winds down while looking back at the biggest stories of the year. hailed as a hero and condemned as a traitor cia whistleblower edward snowden revealed to the while just how much they do us is spying harvesting information and storing huge amounts of phone and internet data with every new nneka n.s.a. surveillance appears more and more far reaching and. you can looks now at how the revelations are changing the world and they cost a whistleblower. edward snowden says george orwell's fictitious big brother is no

match for the u.s. national security agency the types of collection the book microphones and video cameras t.v.'s that watches are nothing compared to what we have today snowden revealed that is secret court rubber stamps warrants for telecommunication companies to hand out the data of millions of their customers he also leave to the programs that the government uses to track virtually anything anybody does on the internet and also store that information and he showed how the u.s. government had liked about mass surveillance does the n.s.a. collect any type of data. on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir while most americans think the edward snowden the u.s. government tectum as a spy and a traitor the united states government classified its evidence of its own criminal

misconduct its its violations of the bill of rights what we're doing is said to catering to tele tarion procedures which was gathering information about all the individuals in the world. the former intelligence contractor is now in exile knowing for certain that he'd go to jail should he return to the u.s. like bradley and now chelsea manning who was sentenced to thirty five years in jail this august through weekly leaks mending released many thousands of diplomatic cables and video proof of u.s. involvement in wartime just another man who found himself in jail this year was john key the first u.s. official to confirm the government's use of waterboarding to interrogate carries suspects i caught up with him shortly before he went to serve his two and a half year sentence i have never believed that my case was about a leak i have always believed that my case is about torture in the hunt for whistleblowers journalists have been targeted as well u.s.

authorities secretly tapped the phones of dozens of associated press journalists the partner of glenn greenwald who broke the story about n.s.a. surveillance was detained in london while carrying materials from edward snowden to british authorities so closely cooperate with washington now accuse him of quote terrorism. aaron swartz was neither a whistleblower nor a journalist but he was a champion of the free internet fighting against censorship bills and advocating the online release of as much information as possible on the government on january eleventh the twenty six year old committed suicide. prosecutors wanted to put him in jail for up to thirty five years for downloading academic articles from a subscription based research website at his university with the intent to make them available to the public this was somebody who was pushed to. by what i think

of as a kind of bullying by our government a government for treated him as if he were nine eleven terrorists edward snowden's revelations showed with the kind of surveillance that governments are doing i would seize out the window but this year will also learn what happens to those who embrace this new age of openness and accessibility of information showed that while governments in the u.s. government first and foremost one their populations to be open and transparent they themselves become increasingly secretive in washington i'm going to shut down r t. let's now take a closer look at snowden exposed about n.s.a. surveillance its collection millions of phone records in america every day and it also has access to internet giants like google facebook and microsoft and is harvesting online data around the globe under on top of that the security agency telling its european citizens and even top say you need is but at the same time germany and the u.k. along with australia and canada actually closely collaborating with american

intelligence lashed american governments and companies are a major target for u.s. spies plus the n.s.a. is collecting data from fiber optic cables that carry most of the world's internet and phone traffic and a former cia officer ray mcgovern believes those violating privacy should face justice not that any. i am delighted to hear that ed snowden on his desk in honolulu had a copy of the constitution of the united states all dog eared because he used it to argue with his his come patriots there it is say as to whether what they were doing was legal whether it was constitutional whether it was a crime for them to be corrupt to be cooperated in using their technical expertise to violate americans privacy right and left the question should be why those who are aided and abetted this whether they should be. suppose impeached in their case

and brought to trial for these of gross violations of their solemn oath to to support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies. through the day r.c.a. international is showing media stunt a road movie about a wiki leaks actually it's on a mission to reveal sensitive u.s. secrets and at six pm g.m.t. will have a live discussion about the project with a pile of gas talking about the challenges and dangers was a blowers are facing as well as the role of the media in china and the revelations to stay. in while on line for you right now breaking records an open space on our website there's a breathtaking video of russian cosmonauts on a shared space walk which turned out to be the longest and twenty first seen. fast and furious hundreds of teenagers storm

a new york shopping center quashing windows and putting customers and staff in a panic to find out more about the youth gone wild had to r.t. dot com. newly freed me how holder will dedicate himself to helping what he calls political prisoners there man who until very recently was russia's most high profile inmate sas he wants to pay back his dad's to the people who are still incarcerated but as our own of our reports their cases have little to do with politics after ten years in jail. there's no decided to do his new found freedom and some of those plans have caused a few raised only bros. some of my comrades remain in jail they are my fellow sufferers for example my friend platon lebedev i like so. there are still other political prisoners in russia not only those related to the u. cos case i am free now and i'm asking you to think of it as something which

symbolizes that the efforts of civil society can lead to the release of some people who no one thought would be able to walk free to chew good and was the head of security for mr hodder coasties oil company you cos he's currently serving a life sentence for five counts of murder in two thousand and seven a court convicted good of ordering the shooting of blood in me a pet you call of the mayor of a town in siberia you call four hundred clashed with you can also over his insistence that the oil giant pay taxes due to his tone the court found no link between the murders and the head of you cos however because widow believes this was a crime that went to the top and you're welcome by this was registered there so when it came to tax revenues it was answering to the mayor of nifty hugh grant's regiment that the whole of the depended on him and that was the only reason why he even mattered only time will solve the mystery surrounding my husband's murder but

i'd just like a copy to confess and clear his conscience. while on trial for the murder of pair of legs you're going with already serving twenty years in prison for the attempted murder of former holocaust good byes are all good cause dinner after quitting her post with you cos she went on to work as the head of p.r. for the mayor of moscow it was then that a bomb was placed in her moscow apartment fortunately it detonated while no one was home because dinner sees the holocaust these comments about political prisoners as self-serving. how to craft a hostage of his own past he can't act differently now if he ever recognizes what his security forces were doing he will automatically become responsible or whatever i think now he fears that. it may start talking and what the third you can skate could potentially be is a further investigation into those murders and assaults which the company security

forces carried out a lot of crafty has no other choice he will continue to insist people from the security department are political prisoners that are and he will pretend to be pushing for release the are being heaped upon mr holocaust years left some of those watching feeling that only half the story is being told he stole a lot of oil not physically by means of fiscal many police. every kind of businessman in the west who had done the same waterfall saw that in prison of this story is i'm told in the west. peter all of a r.t. belin. and recap now all breaking news story it's now been confirmed that fifteen people have been killed in a suicide bomb blast in russia's southern city of volgograd a hand grenade was found at the scene of the bombing it was destroyed by security

officials it's not clear exactly how it's connected to that time dozens were injured by the blast of the city's central railway station it was carried out by a female suicide bomber who was stopped by a policeman to have detonated herself near the metal detectors at the entrance to the railway terminal the blast was extremely powerful causing the doors and windows of the state to be blown out completely let's not discuss this further with the need for rares anti-terrorism adviser to the u.s. house of representatives mr wahid for us welcome to our see very nice to see you now judging by what we know now as suicide of the suicide bomber targeting a crowded place. who do you think is behind that tague. well russian authorities information is validated that is that the person who perpetrated that attack is on our son over who has links to the jihadist groups including two of her husbands have been killed before she has links according to the report that we were reading

to work another attack which she had as she made that hackers are still a lot more than we're talking about is your hardest movement which is linked to al qaida that is our age problem just in russia but also in other countries including in syria as we know now now the direct motive is not different from the previous attacks on moscow on other locations inside russia and i would say it is not so different from attacks that has happened around the world or i'll guard a t.v. it's against the prophecies against countries that they want to consider as enemies in july terrorist leader dog. militants to launch attacks to disrupt the upcoming winter games in salt was that second war god inspired by his statement you think there would be little doubt that this attack. is not inspired by anything and then trying to bring down the russian preparation the russian security preparations but also international interests in the olympics russia is going to be hosting this

is a very attractive target to we're not just the jihadist inside russia my concern the concern of many colleagues across the atlantic is dead other jihadists who have ties to the chechen jihadists may also be part of the future and i hope that authorities both russian and international will be ready for that why do you think the city of volgograd has been targeted for the second time in just a few months. look this is a question that many international security expert always ask if there is a repetitive attack on the one target in one city most of the answers that we had around the world and of course in russia is that the chechen jihad is all of those terrorist units had a greater presence in that particular geographical area in the law grad in this case and therefore there are instructor you get a minute could flow do the repeat of these attacks sad volgograd i think if i'm not wrong is the largest city the closest to where the winter olympics are going to be

taking place few hundred kilometers north of. a line and harassment to terrorism advisor to the us house of representatives. thank you very much indeed for your time and sharing your views with us thank you for having me at the next getting classified documents into the public domain a's even trickier than finding them in the first place stay with us. although i have gone duck hunting a few times i've never seen the duck dynasty t.v. show but gosh i heard about the scandal involving one of the stars of the show phil robertson who got suspended for making what many consider anti homo sexual comments in an interview this slippery scandal is creating a lot of arguments about freedom of speech on social networks many people who believe that robertson deserved to be booted from the show for what he said argue

that freedom of speech means that robertson can't be arrested by the government for what he said but the any t.v. channel has the right to fire whom they like the thing is that if this situation were reversed and robertson was fired for making pro l.g. p.t. statements then people who are currently defending any right to hire and fire as they please would all be bashing the t.v. channel for violating the star's freedom of speech think cry that firing him would violate his rights and i'm sure some websites would make him into a hero or demand a boycott or a closing of a and a forever very few people actually believe in freedom of speech for all they just believe in freedom of speech for people who agree with them but that's just my opinion. if you leave with the economic up and downs and the find out they belong to the old

shanghai and the rest of the life doing the case you will be if we come out they. are going to fire do their cause. to go there wrote an article about it or. about your conditions of work since we just heard of it so i have heard they were

here in israel by this time. earns the year journalists there they interviewed the very frank with me and they told me about different things going to good reports of home things that they're good where the censorship that you experienced in there. at their workplace or the material that was published two of the six journalists birds are the guardians of you there you retracted their statement so you see the. face you see. all the time you get some to do with them or do you think out of the long text or something i think of some of those names. with you and then you're entirely open frank about it. and then after a while maybe you realize that this is going to be shown on television and your boss is going to see this and your mother is going to see this and. you know you start understanding the consequences it's not just a conversation between you and your friends but in reality i just it's not about

that because i think to an extent here and i made a very big mistake with this with that article and the mistake that i did was that i was. hired to do a very journalistic very difficult journalistic work. about journalists and the standards for doing a journalistic work about journalism has to be one hundred times higher because they were. they were immediately you know a backfire and they will start criticizing what you do in a completely different way than if it's a regular person because regular person doesn't have the power to where. to say no . he's got to say to you. here's a cable marked secret no four and that means that not even allowed states are allowed to read.