breaking news on r t it's now thought a terror attack in the russian city of volgograd was in fact carried out by a man fifteen were killed by a suicide bomber targeting the city's main railway station. it's ten pm in moscow you're watching archie international with me and he said no way let's get straight to our breaking news this hour it's now sought that a man and a woman carried out a suicide bomb attack in the southern russian city of volgograd it's been confirmed fifteen people were killed in the attack which targeted the city's central railway

station let's now cross live to our cheese arena go for more details obviously this is a quickly developing story just a couple just a couple of minutes ago it was thought that it was in fact a female suicide bomber suicide bomber and that she acted alone now we're getting this new information what do we know well at this point it does look like a man's body has been remnants of a man's body have been found at the scene of the blast according to various records there is the room a remnant of a hand clutching a grenade and there's also reports of a grenade that was just covered just a little while ago discovered at the scene of the blast as well so now the authorities are saying there is a high possibility that in fact a man could have been involved in this blast in volgograd prior to this there was talk about a female suicide bomber we actually were even getting reports about her identity she is reportedly been wanted by authorities since march of last year when she was

last seen in august on this southern russia or. public however i gather at this point we're closely watching the developments because there has been there of course. remnants of a female body found at the scene as well and yes the new developments are coming in with every single moment of course we have to keep track of what's happening we have. what we have all through the heads of the various security services from volgograd at the scene the president of russian federation what you're pushing has sent his special envoy to volgograd as well to keep to keep track of the situation so everybody and there are also reports coming from the ground that everybody in the city is on high alert in the aftermath of this horrific blast yes fifteen people dead it's a great possibility that that number could rise we know that many people are in critical condition how powerful was the blast well there is video of the blast out

there on the internet of course and there are also reports from witnesses who are saying that the blast was incredibly powerful the very immense heavy duty doors of the rails of the of the train station were actually blown out completely by the blast and let's have a quick listen to what the people who were actually there at the scene had to tell about this. i heard an explosion i didn't realized what had happened and i saw the giant engines do was completely ruined and people were coming out with their hair and. i was with a child not far from where the blast happened i saw a blast shot its last flight and i pushed the child to the floor and covered him with my body 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. now the first three days of the new year have been declared to be days of mourning for volgograd and the terror alert level in the region has been raised to a higher level it's important to remember that this is a city which has just had a similar terror attack happening there just two months ago nic tobar a female suicide bomber has blown herself up on the bus killing along with herself five other people and wounding dozens of others so it's unfortunately this doesn't look like it's going to be a very happy. for people living in volgograd in the region. arena go live with the latest details from this terror attack the latest information of course that it's believed the act was carried out by a man and a woman working together thanks for that. there's been a lot of reaction to the events in volgograd on social media on twitter i witnesses have been posting their reports from the scene here some of them let's take a look

a photographer a local photographer said the doors were so powerful they blew right off we heard that from marina volunteers saying that lots of people came to the station to help . those wounded and injured in this attack and a government official local government official said that heads of security agencies are all at the scene well the senior lecturer at moscow state university mark sloboda he explained why he believes the city came under attack. well look 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 aide to the self-styled a mirror of the caucasus doku umarov was killed in dog stand by security forces i think we can look at this attack today as for more than likely

a very rapid reaction revenge attack for the killing of this a local artist. a policeman was killed trying to stop the suspect just before the bomb was detonated marks a lot of says that great efforts are put into place to prevent such tragedies. surety has been in a heightened 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. antiterrorism adviser to the u.s. house of representatives will leave for thinks the motives behind the hottest attacks like these are always the same wherever they are we're talking about asian harvestable which is linked to al qaida that is our greatest 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 democracy is against countries that they want to consider as enemies most of the answers that we had around the world and of course in russia is that the chechen jihad is all those terrorist units have a greater presence and activity geographical area in both of pride in this case and therefore they are instructing militants to do the repeat of these attacks. we will be closely following developments and we'll bring you all the details as and when we get them you can also log onto our to dot com for a live minute by minute timeline of the events in volgograd. just ahead for you a line discussion about media stana road movie about wiki leaks activists on

a mission to reveal sensitive u.s. secrets will be back live with julian assange as the creator of the film and one of the journalists filmed trying to give up secrets. it's. science technology innovation all the list of melanin still around russia we've got the future covered. this is extremely interesting. strategic vision told china. alone to

cover a team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents about the united states it's trying to. make me a local media more pro-american they encounter fear ignorance and pressure. the country blocks the way to information freedom. media stuff on our t.v. . welcome back to our international with me and he said now a media stand is a road movie which follows wiki leaks activists on a mission to reveal sensitive u.s. secrets we're showing you throughout the day here on our t.v. and cannot discuss it live with a special panel of guests we have the producer of media said johannes while strong

joins us live from new york also afghan journalist in one yet. who joins us from kabul and then finally we have wiki leaks founder julian assange who's on the line from london thank you all for joining us in the media stand journalists search for media outlets to publish leaked documents let's first take a look at a clip from the film which gives viewers an idea of some of the reactions that you got. this is really just a ok you could use. this group you would be sure to give. me that. your fear. would be three zero this will go to you. because you are saying we're going to go if you're going to we're going to. so radio free europe financed

by the congress to say the least some of the reactions were we can do this julian is that what you expected these kind of responses to wiki leaks to the wiki leaks offering i should say. well we didn't know and this was really. a test of the media environment throughout the central asian region and moving beyond to london and new york is what makes this documentary so interesting is that we have a different media organizations in different countries but all starting out of the same place al the journalists come to them offer them the same type of material us government diplomatic cables and then we see what the response is publish not publish a sense of some things and document what they're thinking as they're doing to and in most cases. there are very significant as can be constraints in fact most cases resulted in no publication by the organizations concerned at all of those published

some materials and not because you know how does what about you do you feel like the mission you documented in media stan was a success there were a lot of reactions i remember in tajikistan with people saying you're not going to make a difference nothing will really change. i think that if we speak about making a difference or if the mission in itself was a success. obviously when the regards to actually getting the material published in the various medias it's difficult and called it's a great success because there were actually quite a well not that many newspapers neither in central asia or for that matter here in the united states that were particularly interested in in publishing the full material that they got access to so from that respect no it wasn't a success but from a broader respect of course we can see that the the conflicts releases have have.

made a large impact i can say and. change the way that we interact with with media. since then and i think that if we just look at the. whole affair which has has been going on for the last half a year or so and that is that they wrecked consequence of. releases and that is the fact that. the nowadays there is no there is no direct censorship which is feasible by a particular media organisations with replications that happen in different countries in different places where it is possible for them to become. right we also have afghan journalists in one yet not. with us on the line from kabul he actually took the risk and decided to collaborate with wiki leaks in short he said yes to their offering let's take a listen to what he had to say in the film about the risks. having access to this information we can give this to disclose the face of war

the face of those who commit. the face of those who committed genocide but later when we need a new thing this. could be dangerous since afghanistan is a secure country and it is no good to for the life of a journalist in the way out tell us how did it turn out did you manage to publish any leaks how did it turn out for you in the. world for for some time so we decided to. take these diplomatic cables from for a week and work with afghan media organizations in kabul and in many other provinces to work with some local organizations as well to publish to make a stories out of these cables but unfortunately later we found out that having. this material with ourself might be. might be life threatening and it

would be difficult for for media organizations. to to make a story south of them. i want to talk a little bit more about the actual channeling of these revelations of the leaks and your challenge i mean the film obviously proves how difficult it was across central asia per se but let's talk about the united states bradley manning now chelsea manning decided to blow the whistle on u.s. army violations he did so by going before going to wiki leaks and he was turned down by the media as well why do you think that happened julian. sadly it's no surprise to me and it's i can talk about the specific case of course but we've dealt with many others. you know old media organizations that are any size i get invited to sit at the table of power and the because they become health organizations in their own right and people want to curry favor with them. as an

organization with individuals in the organization and so they basically become part of the very family not that they claim to be holding to account but another whistleblower edward snowden did use the media and not wiki leaks to channel his revelations don't you think that's a good sign that he was able to do it through the media well i think it's quite sad actually edward snowden didn't go to in fact the media he went to someone that's closely associated with us and specific journalist glenn greenwald and another specific journalist laura portress. the most prominently prepared a couple journalists to wiki leaks has gone glenn greenwald's for his part was then working with the guardian has left the guardian. as a result in caught all of the censorship by the guardian all of that material to date less than zero point zero five percent of all the snowden documents have been

published. the majority of the media are still reluctant to challenge the government like you said and speaking of glenn greenwald recently he reprimanded journalists across the globe for not standing up to the government lets out so have a listen to what glenn greenwald had to say at a recent conference in hamburg. what is that we were targeting in the behavior of the media over the past six months is just revelations have emerged almost entirely without and despite the role of the us media and their british counterparts is to be voices for oppose with the greatest power and to protect our interests and serve that. your highness i want to ask you is it as bad as greenwald is saying. well i mean generally speaking if you just understand the powerful media institutions are part of power rather than being being so to speak.

of information you just understand the very idea obviously you will start looking at the media consumption of news or information in a different in a different respect so yes of course there is that. and if we look at an institution such as the washington post which was one of the first institutions that had access to snowden's and they say documents they decided not to publish anything i mean practically didn't publish anything and what we can understand from that is that there is a direct relationship between between the different power institutions in our societies and media is most definitely one of the most important power institutions that we have in our society. well of course the examples of manning and edward snowden and your example julian of course showed us what revealing the cost of revealing i should say as days go by you still don't know your fate have you

started having any regrets. not at all let's look at the shift in development over the past three or four years. the internet has gone from a politically up with it expects to a new international body politic which is just starting to find its feet it would snowden was. motivated largely by bradley manning's both by success of his revelations and by the treatment of over him in prison demonstrating that the us government lacks moral authority it is not possible to change this is to from within this very conversation is part of the purposes so. to a degree of the mystique that there is a new international cultural consensus forming it is largely embodied

we've seen the generation of young people between the age of fifteen and thirty five and it becomes a war between the older generation and the large body of the younger generation the older generation is simply going simply going to lose an important part of this process is has been demonstrating that the old media organizations are simply a branch of the establishment and we can then societies it wouldn't come as any surprise that the u.s. army would not say publish us diplomatic cables that's no surprise but we simply should also not be surprised that the new york times since as material from washington post since material with god ian or the central asian republics. newspapers censored. institutions they have interests

what has gone on historically is that they have been very hypocritical institutions in pretending that they are always free to publish anything that is truthful and that the public is interested in that is false and that is the illusion that needs shattering. the many other organizations they have a power interest to use natured about its power interest being a russian perspective all media organizations are based somewhere within power and we must see what that interest is and no it was the reason why the propaganda that there isn't one is simply false that's interesting what you say about here at r.t. we certainly don't don't hide who we are where we come from and what we want to talk about how deep does it go in the mainstream media because you meet i certainly meet a lot of people over the years i've worked here that believe they're true journalists they're doing the right thing and obviously you're talking about some decisions that are made on the corporate level at very high levels how far down does it go to

these journalists that work for the mainstream media understand what it's really what's really happening well look the best the best ones to there's a lot of foreign journalists working at the news of the new york times associated press and i will swear and they use the media institutions just like the rest of us who show in our car. they see that it is a network and a process distribution system but they don't buy the rhetoric it is simply a tool to be used to get out what they can and try and pass through the filters that they can't. the problem is there is a sort of cultural being created to because over time for many of the people that are in that system to use and use whereby they assume police work. you are. not capable of recognizing rise from the censorship that is occurring it is goes on for so long it becomes imbued into the subconscious so they do not even have.

the sort of a story that might. be censored by their attitudes so we experienced it not succeeding. along particular directions over and smack down with seeing other people disappointed. that the very thoughts ceased to occur to them there's no honest i want to ask you about the the price again that whistleblowers have to pay edward snowden also like julian saying he has no regrets but he became the most wanted man in the world give it gave up his family his job still doesn't know his fate how long are whistleblowers going to have to pay this kind of price. well you see if you if you think of of the price that he pays. then compared to the actual impact that this prize results in. it's not

a very high price for this week. and the reason why i'm saying this is that if you if you think of it if you think of an occurrence as if it were to happen there. then would most likely be in prison and we would most most likely not even know of the existence of any of the n.s.a. documents from that point of view the price that he would have paid a few years ago would have been much much higher compared to the impact that it would have resulted in. and today i would say the considering the fact that the monopoly of information has become. to a large extent shattered. because of this the system of censorship that we can see inside the big media institutions such as the new york times or washington post for that matter. newspapers the country where i'm from these monopolies. they become irrelevant and we can see that in this

particular example where whistleblowers have the opportunity in getting the information via the help of the internet or via the help of media. for that for that matter as an example. and i think that we're seeing. we're seeing a system where we're actually the ability of for us to get access to this type of information is becoming is becoming much higher and i think also the price that we will have to be paying in the future will be much lower which means that i actually see this from a very optimistic and positive point in the yacht in afghanistan obviously the risks are a whole different kind of risk there are you going to continue your work to try to keep revealing the truth. i think this is our responsibility as journalists to reveal what's happening behind the scenes within

the government and the regional level as well as international level so i've been working as a journalist since two thousand and six in afghanistan and the risks to be generous in afghanistan is so high it sense too since since early two thousand and thirteen there have been sixty cases against. journalists violation of violence and many other cases against journalists in afghanistan so that they know there is a high risk to be a journalist in afghanistan but this is our responsibility not to give up and continue our work as a journalist i want to talk a little bit about the state of press freedom in the u.k. specifically the detention of david miranda the destruction of the guardian hard drives what are the british authorities so scared of they say it's terrorism what does it really julian. it's lack of authority. what.

like most of these prosecutions are so examples to make people scared. you're lation to a particular area but in relation to its authority of the security services judiciary broadly speaking what is defined as establishment united united kingdom because when people fire authority authority can't do what it wants to do in a whole range of areas so the. guardian newspaper very reluctantly i might add divide authority. region rules of the u.k. system by publishing a quite as serious story about. intercepting hundreds of cables. hundreds of the telecommunications cables coming into his country that information on to continental europe. in response. to the

security services obviously feel threatened and the police and white hole all moved to try and discipline the offender to show an example of what happens if you violate the hundred rules now. let's look at this situation people closely what's happened in the u.k. is quite different to what has happened in the us the us for all its faults is still a relatively analyzable society it does have a constitution yes there are lots of on written rules and very powerful organization zenda a deep state of sixteen different intelligence agencies but in the u.k. there's not even a constitution the on bridging rules form a greater part of the body of the management of the united kingdom and so you see a very british reaction by the guardian newspaper coming under pressure it allows. technicians to come in and destroy its hard drives and then keeps it all quiet it

keeps it secret even though it was not legally compelled to do so for over a month and then made the room. wiil that it happened even though they had footage of it. made the revelation in the night's paragraph of a blog article by the editor you know if you will about me. to show you that they were to confront you directly you can start with the guardian didn't put that on its front page you didn't splash the video up the next day we should. by rights this is what we're the story in these here are saying is that where is the decade we're seeing now and it was hidden self-censorship is what you're saying we're seeing that's why that's a classic example so since the ship to the guardian suppressed it all until the david miranda event happened until they found that there was an event where they could. latch on the fact that this it happened to them once they saw that there was a bit about rage about david miranda because of the brazil.