ethnic chechens actually from georgia from the punky sea valley in georgia so called ethnic chechen kists but there are many dogs danis from russia from the north caucuses in many chechens and even some. of our genes involved cars so and we're talking about you know hundreds we don't know exactly how many probably at least four hundred five hundred i would like to pick up on what you just said the instability in the north caucasus has long had at least one external player and you just mentioned it georgia there putin has a lot several times that georgia under mikhail saakashvili provided a sanctuary to some of the armed groups operating in the north caucasus possibly logistical and even material support now since then georgia has had a change of leadership the georgian team is taking part of the olympics but i wonder if georgia still place apart and base a regional security puzzle because after all georgia shares a border with turkey and turkey as we all know has been somewhat permissive when it comes to foreign fighters crossing its borders yes there's a large turkey of. chechens from th

and litvinenkno was providing this information to the people, to chechen terrorist. it was kind of an information away, he is not passing judgment but, of course, something like that was going on, i would say that by the standards of the russians duty service could decide to go off. but i don't see of the reasons. this is one of those mysteries where it's a human initiative that we know the answer and decide the russians are clearly done it and then several years later we still do not know. >> guest: i think so. it's had a very bad effect on british russian relations, but because i don't have that much effect on russia's relations with other countries. including the united states because the united states actually -- with exception of another chechen separatist leaders in the united states, we haven't really given asylum to that many chechens, except for and, of course, we come back to the boston bombings earlier this year, some formerly lower profile people but it has been such an issue with the united states. >> host: the reason ask you about that in addition to th

against chechen separatists some of them outright islamic terrorists.litvinenko was providing this information to these people to the chechen terrorists. now zakias was describing it in an informational way. he is not passing judgment -- judgment but i would say by the standards the russian security service could decide but i don't see any other reasons. again this is one of those mysteries where we are kind of assuming that we know the answer and the russians clearly have done it in several years later we still don't know. >> guest: i think so and it's obviously had a very bad effect on the british russian relations but it's you know it hasn't really had that much effect on russia's relations with other countries including the united states. the united states actually with the exception of ilio sock mod off another separatist leader in the united states we haven't given asylum to that many chechens except for and of course we come back to the boston bombings earlier this year of some formerly lower profile people but it hasn't been such an issue with u

for a series of pop and pullman's in nineteen ninety nine which ended up ultimately in the second chechen war. three other people to know about those bombings for the event of the war what brought them on into power because they galvanized the country behind a new war in church and then that war was pursued more successfully than the first chechen war and with the result and that there was a huge spike in putin's popularity now. all evidence points to those bombings having been a provocation organize by this the authorities themselves including the fact that when a fifth bomb there were four bombs in them there was a fifth bomb that was found in the basement of a building in maria's son was discovered and the people who put enough in that basement were rested they turned out to be not chechen terrorists. but the fsb agents. and there's no question about that they were they were rested and identify. so on. it's not it's not a question of being provocative in my writing it's simply a question of reporting and being willing just to to lay out the incontrovertible facts but even the title the

it was no accident, i think that the two bombers in boston were chechens and the chechens seem pretty good at terrorism and they seem extraordinarily determined. as you thing about our role around the world and you think about the enemies we have anew england radical islamism around the world, don't you find it really sobering that after all this effort and bloodshed, the russians are at this very moment having to bring in 37,000 additional police just for the sochi area because they can't -- they can't break the back of this resistance? >> i think that's exactly right. and it shows the double-edged sword that the russian heavy-handed tactics bring. on the one hand, yes, they can have this ring of steel, they can bring all these resources in, yes, they can surveil everything electronically and otherwise and quite ironic that snowden would be there with so much electronic surveillance going on in russia right now. but by the same token their vigorous crackdown in places like dagestan, chechnya, has resulted in fans the flames of a lot of this militancy that has in part contributed to t

the chechens do have access to them. again, we're looking for specifics. >> bob, without going into specifics, can somebody make a bomb out of -- with just enough material that would put in a tube of toothpaste, a bomb that would do significant damage? >> a to be of toothpaste is too small. but there are certain powders that could be used as explosives, if you have a suicide bomber in the bathroom. are the chechens aware of this? i suspect they are. but have they perfected it? that's another question. >> in terms of the other attacks we've seen in russia, what kind of level of sophistication has there been with bombmaking? >> i remember seeing paint tubs being filled with homemade explosives. but more recently video showin suicide belts, very small and tightly made. it suggests they got a lot more sophisticated here. an ethnic russian with significant expertise has been pointed out by the russian security service being behind some of the more recent devices. this is a very active insurgency, so you can imagine in eight y

tolstoy was writing about fighting the chechens in the 19th century. this has gone on for a long time that the chechens have pretty good reason to not like the russians. and they have followed through on a number of these threats. >> we'll see what happens. let us know what you think, follow me on twitter @ac360. >>> up next tonight, call it the world's the worst surfing movie, "the endless winter," another blast of snow, ice and rain hits the northeast and midwest with power outages and thousands of flights canceled. we have a live update on the winter that will not quit. >>> also ahead, four arrests in connection with the drugs found in philip seymour hoffman's apartment. the latest when we continue. they don't know it yet, but they're gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, they'll find some financial folks who will talk to them about preparing early for retirem

the chechens under the leadership of their general wanted independence just like ukraine and georgia and kazakhstan got independence. ut, there was a catch. chechnya was not a union republic, it was an autonomous republic inside the russian federation and president yeltsin said niet. i will not bore you now with all the details of how those to s developed, suffice say that the then-defense minister said that if he has a battalion of tanks, he will retake the capital in four hours. it took, unfortunately, two years, over 100,000 victims and probably hundreds of thousands of refugees, until a cease ire. and then a fascinating thing happened in front of our eyes. the nationalist movement of the chechens transformed itself with the outside intervention of the likes of imam al-zawahiri, the current head of al qaeda, then number two, to osama bin laden, into an internationalized radical islamist threat. ends.6, the war 1999, chechen rebels led by the late basai invade their neighbor and these are already people with green ban da in as and black flags with the battle cry on the flags. so in

the chechen extremists know this. they want to make a global statement.hey want to make a jihad statement. now what better time to do it than right now? and that is i think the biggest threat that is to these olympics. they don't have to hit in the ring of steel at the olympic village as long as they hit somewhere in russia. to them, that's a good thing. >> let me switch subjects on you. a lot of us found out this week about an attack on a substation, a power substation in san jose, california, last april in which snipers knocked out 17 giant transformers. congressman shift, this happened in your state of california. how sophisticated was the attack? what does it say about the vulnerability of our electrical grid and what can we do about it? >> well, it was a sophisticated attack. there's abundant evidence of preplanning. the people that went in knew exactly what they were doing. they knew what they were going to shoot at to disable the transformers without blowing them up and traattracting attention. so it was sophisticated. we're hoping this was not a d

the chechens have attacked airplanes in the past. they're capable of doing it. it's very difficult to protect all flights going into moscow or leaving moscow. the chechens have access to very sophisticated bombs, including ones using powder or liquids. they've got the detonators. i mean, if i were the russians, and as washington is i'd be scared of airplanes. >> in terms of the detail of what has happened today, banning all liquids, gels, aerosols and so on, obviously a pretty draconian step. is that indicative to your mind that they are really expecting something to happen or they're just being ultracautious? >> i think they're serious about this. i mean, they don't do this unless they have very good information, very specific. you always have threats against airplanes. but to ban powders and liquids there has to be something very serious going on. and i take these seriously, too. i lost three colleagues to an airplane bomb in the 80s. you can get these things on. it's very difficult for tsa to catch them all, especially the sophisticated ones hidden in suitcas

the chechens are capable of hitting at least somewhere in russia and i think they will. frankly, i'm a bit surprised they didn't try something today and i don't think that hijacking clearly wasn't part of their operations. i don't think we've seen the end of this. i can't imagine that the chechens or islamic groups would let this pass the entire olympics. the only thing we know is what kind of deal the russians may have cut with them. that may pass without it happening but i would be surprise gld what i have heard, coming into these games and i wonder if you agree, i've been hearing from officials here in washington, what they are worried about is so-called softer targets outside of the immediate area of the olympic village but potentially could cause a lot of casualties, a lot of damage and areas that are less secure than the so-called ring of steel. >> wolf, you're absolutely right. you cannot protect all of russia. there's still missing weapons around the rlc, improvised devices. any number of things could be used against soft targets, foreigners in st. petersburg or

i think if you are at a pakistani islamist i think it is a left over chechen warlord. you don't feel much affinity to. but we should also remember that the north caucasus is very volatile and danger -- danger is quite ways from sochi and what happens in dagestan has no relationship to what happens in sochi itself. what is happening in pakistan looks to be very unfortunate. it looks to be putin again having a tactical short-term response to the games, lots of reports of rounding up marginal young men, they kind of young man who could be sitting at home doing nothing or if they are rounded up and harassed and abused by the police could be going to the militants and in that gray zone. and i think the head was trying to draw those people into the fold but because of the tactical response of the sochi games a lot of people are being rounded up and that is making the problem worse. so just to sum up this is not going to be unfortunately a moment of great caucasus reconciliation between georgians and russians. it's going to be a test the games where there will be a heavy secu

this network is much weaker than the dagestani network as is the chechen network but it is the second most powerful network and it is possible they would assign several mujahadin to make part, with the caveat that in february of 2011 they carried out a practice run for an attack on sochi, carried out an attack on the ski resort district multi pronged attack involving destroying ski lift, truck bomb in front of a hotel killing four tourists from moscow and several other small-scale attacks on police virtually simultaneously within 48 hours. most of them within a 24-hour period. and alarm raised in connection with the foreign element is on january 13th for the russian national anti-terrorism committee claimed they had arrested five terrorists were part of, quote, and international terrorist organization in the capital of chaqasi. i would not expect the chaqasi operation to be led. one detail on the foreign element and the possibility of a chemical attack is a fought what --fatwa was issued and it was requested by d 0 b k b. kay, from the web site sharia committee of one of the leading j

he leads chechen terrorists. >> the leader of the chechen rebel extremist, that's where this plot hatched out of. >> reporter: while u.s. officials have increased confidence about security inside the olympic venue, transportation hubs leading to the games including planes, trains and automobiles are still seen as softer targets and more vulnerable. russia's deputy prime minister insisted sochi is safe. >> translator: i would like to repeat once again that the level of security in the city of sochi is not worse than new york, london, washington or boston. >> reporter: that is little reassurance to some. chechen terrorists have struck in the air before. black widow bombers are believed to have brought down two jets in rue shane 2004. the security focus may make it more difficult for a similar plot to succeed again. >> i can't think of a case where there's been a series warning publicly and then something actually happened. >> reporter: concern about the toothpaste threat led french officials to arrest two chechen women in france. there are continuing concerns about intelligence cooperation

ieds, a weapon of choice for the chechen rebels, they have been at war for about 150 years. they spun into radical islamic militant group and i think the idea of debt nation of explosives, both to aviation but also loads on the ground is where the greatest risk is. >> also about basic preparedness, beyond security, especially when it comes to the rival of family member, reporters, our own cnn team arrived to show that their hotel wasn't ready and had to find other accommodations. stacy st. claire tweeted this out. "my hotel has no water. if restored, do not use it on your face because it contains something very dangerous." here's a picture of the water. it's the color of -- let's be polite and say it's the color of apple juice. we'll put it that way. you were in sochi. did you expect them to be this unprepared for visitors and are you concerned that this is a sign that bigger, more security-related details could fall through the cracks? >> remember, they stood up a small resort town in the black sea and put $6 billion to setting this up. when i was there and staying at a hot

. >> lets talk about these two chechen women arrested in france earlier this week. what is the possible connection? >> well, apparently according to security officials, there is some connection there. this is very interesting. if chechen terrorists targeting america europe, not just russia, they have no problem killing americans and europeans. while russia is their number one target, they are part of the global jihad, lets remember. >> on a much lighter note, to a certain extent because we're not talking about terrorism per se, but there are reports when anyone coming to russia lands and they turn on their phone, they are immediately being hacked. they also have no privacy in their hotel rooms. what do you know about that? >> gretchen, a few things here. lets remember, vladimir putin, president is a former kgb man. this is a guy not big on civil liberties. he's basically a dictator. look, the russian mob, organized crime in russia, major problem with hacking. lets not forget islamic terrorists also into the cyber warfare hacking thing. so many problems in sochi, gre

. >> the plot itself originated from the leader of the chechen rebel extremist. that's where this plot actually hatched out of. >> reporter: while u.s. officials have increasing confidence of security inside the olympic venue, transportation husbands leading to the games, including planes, trains, and automobiles are still seen as softer targets and more vulnerable. today, russia's prime minister deputy insists that sochi is safe. >> translator: i would like to repeat once again, that the level of security in the city of sochi is not worse than new york, london, washington, or boston. >> reporter: that is little reassurance to some. black widow bombers are believed to have brought down two jets in russia in 2004. however the intent, security focused by russian and international authorities now may make it more difficult for a similar plot to succeed again. >> i can't think of a case where there's been a serious warning publicly and something actually happened. none leap to mind. >> concerned about the toothpaste threat led french officials to arrest two chechen w

i think that the russians have security forces, they have good intelligence, they know the chechen area, the dagestan area and the brutality of these groups and the way that they will hit soft targets. so i think people going to the olympics should be careful. i think they should watch their backs. i think they should stay out of crowds, if they can, and that's just my personal advice. >> if you had family members asking you if it was worth it, what would you tell them? president obama told me if people want to go to the olympics they should go to the olympics but your colleague from the house, congressman peter king yesterday told wolf blitzer it's not worth the risk. let me play that bite. >> i believe that sochi is safe. >> i would not go myself. if i were an athlete, that's one thing. but just as a spectator, i don't think it's worth the risk. >> if i had a son or a daughter performing in the olympics, i would go. now that i don't, i probably would not. i've seen the threat stream. i know the opposition and it's continuing, it's threatening, and hopefully arrests can be made and any

two chechen women were arrested in france last week in connection with this threat. and u.s. abc's pierre thomas. >> reporter: as the olympic torch made its way to sochi, new warnings from u.s. intelligence put commercial airlines on notice. terrorists may try to use toothpaste containers to smuggle explosives on board planes. >> i believe it is specific credible information. >> reporter: sources tell abc news the new potential threat isn't necessarily directed at americans but does pertain to all international flights into russia during the games, including a small number through the u.s. terrorists have come up with creative attempts to blow up commercial and cargo planes. there was the shoe bomber, liquid explosives plot, underwear bomber and a plan to smuggle a bomb in a printer cartridge. while it is not yet clear what type of explosives might have been used in a toothpaste plot, it is true small bombs can be dangerous. a bomb technician tells us the certain explosives in gel or paste form can be easily molded into a powerful bomb, fit into a toothpaste tube. here is wha

jihaddism came in after the first and second chechen war as a fuel to the fire. but the fire was there beforehand. chechnya tried to become independent. the russians destroyed grozny and killed an enormous at of chechens during the fight and this radicalized people and led them to jihaddism. but there is a huge ethnic and nationalist component here which is the seed bed for this anger. and if you look at where terrorism has been happening in russia, the star area for terrorism is really the caucuses. i have to ask because the u.s. state department did make this comment about americans not being specifically targeted but do you think that is a risk? are americans in some way vulnerable in a way other tourists or international visitors might not be? >> i think americans are more vulnerable anywhere they go. if you kill a nepal ease in nepal they will hear about it. maybe a short comment someplace else. if you kill an american in nepal everybody will hear about it. if you kill americans at sochi that is a phenomenal media source. a lot of terrorism is about getting

whether it is the russian state or whether it is the chechen rebels or people who have had family members in that war, i mean, this is an act of incredible hubris by putin to have these games here but a lot of lives at risk. >> helen lenskyj, as you wrote your second book on the olympics, and particularly focused on sochi 2014, what surprised you most? >> it surprised me the resell many parallels with the attitudes toward sexual russia andin putin's other parts of the world. i did not want to demonize russia as being the only place with these kinds of attitudes and policies. but more importantly, what struck me were the parallels between the ioc and prudence russia. my conclusion is that the ioc and prudence russia deserve each other. they share so many characteristics. the moral bankruptcy of their leadership, the fraudulent processes that still go on , the attitudes toward gays and lesbians, specifically the ioc, quite satisfied with gay and lesbian invisibility in the sport as is the wider world of sport and russia -- putin's russia is enforcing it. the reliance on this old document th

but remember every chechen rebel slain in dagestan has a widow attached to him. and they are all considered black widows. the russians are pretty heavy handed in their security have put most of them under house arrest. that is the other threat internally in russia over these suicide bombing black widows that could disrupt the olympics. so you have really two threats going on. one is the aviation sector and one would be the suicide bombers within russia, which i think there's a high probability that one of those will probably go off again. we've already seen two, as you know, explode in december blowing up a train station and a bus. >> in volgograd, which is a few hundred miles away. i've been told that the area where the athletes and venues are taking place, that's probably pretty secure. but if there are terrorist attacks, it would happen just outside that area where there's less security. is that your understanding as well? >> yeah, wolf, i think that's a correct analysis. i was in sochi. i saw the ring of steel, although one of the black widows did penetrate i

police in france and austria picked up a small number of chechen women with ties to that terror group but source tell us there's no hard evidence yet connecting them to any plot, scott. >> pelley: bob, thanks very much. it's just one day now before opening ceremonies. the olympic torch was carried through sochi today by among others, ban ki-moon, the u.s. scenl. earlier ban told olympic officials games cannot allow any form of gender discrimination. he was referring to a russian law that restricts gay rights. there was a surprise in washington today that may mean the end of immigration reform. surprising, because last week, both parties were optimistic that the one thing that would pass this year would be enhancements to border security and a plan for 11 million illegal residents to work toward legal status. republican house speaker john boehner was among those most encouraged until today. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: immigration reform has always been a tough sell with house republicans, but house speaker john boehner argued today that if the push for reform fails, it will be th

>> well, tamerlan, the older brother, and they are half chechen, and in chechen society, he is an enforcer bullied the younger brother into this thing, but with we discovered that he is a shockingly different story. dzhokhar is a leader among his friends. according to very close friens,s he makes more money than anybody else in the family. he has made hundreds of thousands of dollars, and he has a weapon. and he is the one, allegedly who downloads the how to build a bomb on to his computer. >> what was the relationship we teen the brother sths. >> well, the people who talk about it, they tell that story that led to that narrative that we had of tamerlan, the guy in charge, and he would, you know, go, you know, tamerlan with was a boxer and good boxer for a while, and he had dreams of being on the american olympic team, and by the way, one of the things that happened to him as the time goes on the american dream is falling apart, and he does not get a u.s. passport and realizes he is not going to be on the olympic team, and he stops training, and when they used to go together, he would sort

i'm very concerned by the sheer level of attention and effort not just from chechens and folks in that region but you know, outside of that region that have expressed an interest in actually having a violent act occur at the games. i'm very, very concerned. there's some lack of cooperation issues. they're not at 100%. they really should be when it comes to people's lives at the games. we know it's a high threat environment. >> when you say from outside the region, obviously, you know outside the chechen dagestan area. are you talking about al qaeda? what other threats do you have? >> well, there are al qaeda and al qaeda affiliates and we believe other groups that fit the terrorist profile that have expressed an interest at least in aspiration of trying to do something at the games. so all of that is concern, and it just kind of ups the opportunities for a mistake to be made if somebody were to slip through one of the cracks in what is a fairly robust guards, gates and security plan. the best security you can have is that combined with fully robust inner cooperative intelligence. that

chechens and others come back into russia russia. to continue this fight the way bashar al-assad is continuing it make life more difficult for russia itself and i think that's quite apparent that there will be terrorists who go into russia as a result of this. but i also think there's if going to be a broad resentment in the sunni world as a result of whatting assad is doing in syria. what we've got to do is to rebalance the battle field a little bit. bashar al-assad is too dominant on the battle feed to want a negotiated solution. the way to do that is either to strengthen the opposition forces by increasing the training and equipment that go to them or by damaging bashar al-assad's forces and in particular, stopping him from using artillery and missiles and aircraft to attack libertied lid areas in syria. i think that kind of rebalancing would have a big type of dploavmentidiplomatic impact. >> heather, the rest of the world has been risk-averse doing what daniel has suggested. >> well, the rest of the world hasn't been risk-averse

common a desire not to see extremists multiply too much, russia in particular has to worry about chechens who may come back into russia and create havoc there. it seems to me what we've failed to do so far is convince them by continuing this fight the way bashar al-assad is continuing it will make life more difficult for russia itself. i think that's quite apparent that there will be terrorists who go into russia as a result of this, but i also think there will be a broad resentment in the sunni world as a result of what russia is doing in syria. so there is a common interest between the united states and russia as there was on chemical weapons, there is also in terrorism. we need to rebalance the battlefield a little bit. bashar al-assad is too dominant on the battlefield to want a negotiated solution. the way to do that is either to strengthen the opposition forces by increasing dramatically the training and equipment that go to them, or damaging some how basbashar al-assad's forces, stp them from using artillery, aircraft to attack liberated areas. it seems rebalancing it would have a

a federal official tells cbs news the alert originated after the arrest of chechen female suspects in austria and france. terrorists carried out twin suicide bombs in volgograd not far from sochi in december and million tajtses have vowed more attacks during the games -- militants have vowed more attacks during the games. alfonso van marsh, russia. >> the u.s. department says it will not change travel guidelines for americans going to the games but officials are advising americans to remain vigilant about security while in sochi. >>> crews are working round the clock to restore power to thousands left in the dark after yesterday's ice storm. right now fewer than 20,000 pepco customers in frederick county, maryland are waiting for their power to be restored. the utility says it could be days before everyone has service again. a shelter along -- with a hand full of warming centers will remain open for residents gldz the governor of pennsylvania has declared a state of emergency. more than 100,000 are still without power. >> reporter: this was a paralyzing storm that hit pennsylvania har

police in france and austria picked up a small number of chechen women with ties to the organized groupso far there's no ties to any connection to the threats. bob orr, cbs news, washington. >>> members of the all women punk rock band pussy riot spoke out, and they're not pleased. adriana diaz met with them in moscow and this morning she's at the olympic site in sochi. adriana, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. well, pussy riot has been making headlines all week after two of the members made a visit to the u.s. we met with them for an exclusive interview in their secret meeting location in moscow. this member of russia's punk protest group pussy riot wants her message heard about the most expensive olympics in history, but she wants to disguise her face and voice. she said the money should be spent on russian citizens who need it. she said they have tacks that make no sense and bad health care. the band member who asked us to call her shiba met us at a secret meeting place in the basement. another was also there. she doesn't wear a mask since her identity was revealed

radical views music joins you create an ultra nationalist party in one thousand nine hundred one in the chechen war he fought alongside the militants and prides himself on personally hitting three tanks and killing a number of russian soldiers he's previously been accused of organizing in the fascination attempt on a fellow party member and was convicted of kidnapping a businessman and causing him grievous bodily harm well despite all that he ran for ukrainian parliament and twenty twelve and now stands at the helm of the country's nationalist movement. well the whereabouts of ukraine's ousted president viktor and a covert remains unknown but he did release a public statement earlier today suggesting he's in no mood to give up the fight to hold on to power or he's unlikely to check your reports the unocal which saga has largely resembled a hollywood thriller something along the lines of catch me if you can he fled the korean capital five days ago after a huge outbreak of violence here ever since his his whereabouts have been unknown some have been speculating that he is still in ukraine and the

animal to live the chances of that however are slim i should add on a rather bizarre side note the chechen president actually took to his instagram account in order to offer to take in the second largest so we'll have to wait and see whether the zoo will succumb to public pressure for now the fate of at least one giraffe hangs in the balance reporting in berlin germany and of a more news coming your way after the break including reports of a british citizen carrying out a suicide bombing in syria counterterrorist forces in the u.k. investigate the case of a man who left his family behind joining in the war zone along with hundreds of other europeans. and call sit tight an immigration rules grow louder in norway where the number of incomers has increased tenfold in the space of three decades. transit. your best way to the heart of most. wealthy british style it's time to. go to. market. why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. welcome back you're watching our i

radical views he's actually known for being ukrainian national and he's actually participated in the chechen war he went to the caucasus was fought on the side of the terrorists and prided himself on the fact that he personally had several tanks and armored vehicles and despite that he still managed to run for the ukrainian parliament a couple of years ago again he's one of the leaders of alter nationalist movement and then there's also a leg who is essentially one of the three leaders of the of the my done of the independence square movement and he is openly not just but also just a mythic making numerous statements to in that regard that have actually gotten him into quite a lot of hot water with the jewish population of ukraine so this is what we're looking at in ukraine right now this is the type of people that the west has been until now is openly supporting and if you look at the fact that just recently just on tuesday in fact we have heard messages about the fact that a. synagogue in fact has been as it has been it's have to be one of the all of this is leaving all of this really shou

lucy coughing of offers to accommodate marya's are now coming in from a russia the leader of the chechen republic to instagram so you can down the killing of the first europe and to tell users he's ready to take in the second also a well known russian animal trainer garza pasha said he is ready to foot the cost of finding a new home from our use in a russian zoo. more news coming your way after the break including reports of a british citizen carrying out a suicide bombing and syria counterterrorist forces in the u.k. investigate the case of a man who left his family behind joining. with hundreds of other europeans. norway were the number of. the number of incomers rather has increased tenfold in the space of three decades. dealing with the location of a cylinder. weller's of the texan said you would stop this storm we might be more my people. stories the few. places. too. ok max this is r t international immigration is becoming an increasingly divisive issue for europe with widespread calls for tough for laws switzerland has just voted in favor of curbs on an almost half of germans want

we hear they're killing all the stray dogs the toothpaste the paste bombs are going to go off the chechen in tears or right outside your door putin is in your bathroom it what it happens it's a chain it's a domino effect that takes place in corporate media in once one person says it and then somebody has to out stupid that statement and that's what's happening here that the narrative has been set the narrative if you really think about it tom is be afraid now there's no mention of course the we the atlanta olympics we had a bombing and you know it and work were critical about how they're running things in russia just like we were critical about how they ran things in china but it's almost as if you create this stupid talk narrative by by producers that don't want to work that hard isn't it easier to talk about toothpaste exploding where there's a toothpaste bomb where there's no real proof of and be afraid is always the favorite narrative of streams and yes thanks so much for being with us i think and hit the nail on the head thank you. thank you. got it out it's been more than five years

a man of a radical views that he's actually participated in in the chechen war he went to the caucasus while fought on the side of the terrorists and prided himself on the fact that he personally had several tanks and armored vehicles and despite that he still managed to run for the ukrainian parliament a couple of years ago again he's one of the leaders of altering arsonist movement and then there's also alleged that he will hold resistance in one of the three leaders of many of them i've done of the independence square movement and he is openly not just for civil but also anderson mythic making numerous statements to the in that regard that have actually gotten him into quite a lot of hot water where the jewish population of ukraine one of the most active in propagating armed resistance against the ukrainian authorities has been the right sector and ultra nationalist group that has been becoming more and more active in kiev over the past couple of months and these are the words of its leader but it would be. so this is what we're looking at this is the type of people that the west ha

long been a member of ultra nationalist movements and despite being a ukrainian citizen during the chechen war he went to the caucasus to fight against russian forces alongside the terrorists and he's openly boast that he personally hit several tanks and armored vehicles russian media believes he was responsible for the slaughter of a group of marines and he's also notorious for his criminal activity and is believed to have been behind an assessor nation a tam business partner and spent several years in prison for kidnapping the spy this records ran for parliament just a couple of years ago and once again this person is now a leader of the protesters that to go were the capital well we'll be keeping you updated on the turbulence situation in ukraine throughout the day here and to international and they are on the line on our website or to comment by our twitter feed. more news coming your way this hour including pressure from the top. you look at their actual life they can be fired in five minutes this is a deeply dysfunctional system and a financial world is shaken by a series of suicide

kiev and he's long been a member of alter nationalist movements despite being a citizen during the chechen war he went to the caucasus to fight against russian forces alongside the terrorists and he's openly boasted he personally hit several tanks and armored vehicles russian media believes he was responsible for the slaughter of a group of marines and he's also notorious for his criminal activity and is believed to have been behind an assassination attempt on his business partner and spent several years in prison for kidnapping the spied us records go round for parliament just a couple of years ago and once again this person is now a leader of the protesters that to go over the ukrainian capital well we'll be keeping you updated on the turbulence situation in ukraine throughout the day on air and online and our web site r t dot com. twitter feed. china may be the dominant economic power in africa. but we'll bring you more news on that after the short break don't go away. and russia trees being gay is not criminalised there are absolutely no punishment for being gay in russia the only thin

the warning comes after the arrest of two chechen women after officials then warted a possible bomb attack. they had direct ties to the toothpaste tube intelligence that triggered the warning. russia has been trying to reassure the world that the games are safe. president vladimir putin created what he calls a ring of steel around the olympic venues with 100,000 security officials. the other concern, the so-called soft targets outside the olympic site and intelligence officials say the toothpaste tube threat is just the latest. >> there are a number of specific threats of varying degrees of credibility that we're tracking. >> reporter: now, russia has already banned gels and liquids into russia and out of an abundance of caution here in the u.s. the tsa may also step up security measures at airports around the country. but so far, no threats here on the domestic level. >> okay, michelle, we know the size of a toothpaste dub. do they think someone could pack enough explosives this size to take down a plane? >> he do. they say several of those tubes, you know, filled with the right type of e

kiev is long but member of alter nationalist movements despite being a gradient citizen jury in the chechen war he went to the caucasus to fight against russian forces alongside the terrorists and he's openly boasted he has personally hit several tanks and armored vehicles russian media believes he was responsible for the slaughter of a group of marines is also notorious for his criminal activity and is believed to have been behind an assassination attempt on his business partner and spent several years in prison for kidnapping the spies us record which go ran for parliament just a couple of years ago and once again this person is now a leader of the protestors that took over the ukrainian capital it was ninety international and we'll be keeping you updated on the turbulent situation in ukraine throughout the day on air and online and on our web site r.t. dot com and via our twitter feed. dramas that try to be ignored to. stories others use in those. places change the world light snow. to picture. from around the globe. drop to. welcome back to witching hour to international a china may be

radical views music joined ukraine's ultra nationalist party in one thousand nine hundred one in the chechen war he fought alongside the militants and prides himself on personally hitting three tanks and killing a number of russian soldiers previously been accused of organizing an assassination attempt on a fellow party member and was convicted of kidnapping a businessman and causing him grievous bodily harm despite all that he ran for ukrainian parliament in twenty twelve and now stands at the helm of the country's nationalist movement what would be bring you more on those developments in ukraine after this short break this is r.t. international live in moscow. technology innovation. developments around russia we. have heard. stories others who refuse to notice. things is changing the world. picture. from around the globe. and that's the international is accusing israeli forces of using reckless violence in the occupied palestinian territories a new report from the human rights group goes as far as to suggest some killings may actually be war crimes. as the details. this amnesty internation

offers to accommodate mario coming in from russia the leader of the chechen republic instagram's who condemned the killing of the for his giraffe and to tell users he's ready to take in the second also a well known russian animal trainer and go to the posh me he said it's a foot the cost of finding a new home for marise and the russians. now more news coming your way after the break including reports of a birth or suicide bomber in syria counterterrorist forces in the u.k. investigates why a man left his family behind to join extremists in the war zone. and calls for tougher immigration rules grow louder in norway where the number of commerce has increased tenfold in the space of three decades. i marinate join me. into impartial and financial commentary interviews and much much. only on the bus and. there's a seat you know when you're in the arctic you have the entire world at your feet. she looks like a fairly simple shit but really she's no symbol. handful of people have access to the nuclear icebreakers the real king here is that the polar bear and ice breakers come second not a s