♪ >>> it's a very large fire in the area of chechnya. fire and the guy with the camera that we're watching getting a little too close. yes, he does. there we go. holl holy cow. >> that is like a bomb went off. >> of course, it was gasoline. you could hear that hit of the gas escaping. and a fire burning. and then, poof, up it goes in this huge mushroom cloud. all of these people. now backing off miraculously, despite the size of that last, no deaths reported to this. there were some injuries, though. we don't know the extent of it. pretty incredible explosion. >>> this next explosion is from england. you see a couple of guys come out of their guard shop and they start running. you don't see anything immediately but there is a large clue on the screen what they may be running from. >> it's wet. i'm going to guess some sort of mudslide. >> bingo, as these guys run as fast as they can the rocks come down. >> holy -- >> yes, it's just i maa massive slide of rocks and debris. >> wow. >> they were able to make it out just in time. look at the

putin send 100,000 troops to chechnya, called the second chechen war.al. >> it's a criminal state, terrorist state. >> terrorist networks were on putin's mind when he met with george w. bush in slovenia in june 2001. he warned the american president and his national security adviser, condoleezza rice about the taliban and al qaeda. according to rice, both discounted his alarm. >> apparently a plane has just crashed into the world trade center. >> the very first leader in the world to call george w. bush on 9/11 is vladimir putin. he wanted to pledge to the united states that he would fight this together. that made for a close and effective relationship in those early years. >> putin thought well perhaps now bush and his european allies will finally sign up for my war of civilization against what he perceived to be islamic terrorism. >> but beginning in 2004, nato began expanding to include countries formerly in the soviet eastern bloc and putin's early warning towards the united states took a cold turn. >> what drove a wedge between the united states an

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no casualties reported but thousands have been moved from their homes in the northern region of chechnya vive . russian separatists have been blamed for previous attacks on similar ammunition stores that's a look at your headlines here on al-jazeera more of course online at al-jazeera dot com honeyed is here next with today's inside story. american pressure growing on saudi arabia over missing journalists. president donald trump says he's worried and the u.s. secretary of state is urging the kingdom to support a thorough investigation. geishas of murder be a turning point in relations between yeah lies this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm had up that hamid a week after his mysterious disappearance a saudi arabia's consulate in turkey u.s. leaders their fears for. donald trump says he's concerned the vice president says he's troubled by the disappearance and america's top diplomat my is are ging saudi allies to be open about what happened stephanie decker has more from istanbul. it's an ominous image. on security camera video entering the saudi considered last tuesda

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, and that he served in chechnya, and that he served in chechnya, and that he served in eastern ukraine, as a hero of russia, because the kremlin claims it does not have information about that. it is all very slow to come out, it is a difficult man to find out information about, but what we are managing to find out now on the ground is contradictory to what the man himself who appeared on russian state television two weeks ago set to claim he was a tourist in salisbury, a civilian working in fitness nutrition and he travelled there to see the cathedral. the picture emerging is very different, despite the fact russia continues to deny any involvement in the salisbury poisoning and the kremlin last week told us that they don't wa nt to last week told us that they don't want to discuss this any further, they said many people look alike, that this is simply an informal investigation and they do not to wa nt to investigation and they do not to want to comment further on the case at all. thank you, sarah. how would you feel about befriending a convicted killer? for the last 30 years, a britis

no casualties reported but thousands have been moved from their homes in the northern region of chechnya vive . russian separatists have been blamed for previous attacks on similar ammunition stores that's a look at your headlines here on al-jazeera more of course online at al-jazeera dot com honeyed is here next with today's inside story. american pressure growing on saudi arabia over missing journalists. president donald trump says he's worried and the u.s. secretary of state is urging the kingdom to support a thorough investigation. allegations of murder be a turning point in relations between yeah lies this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm hit up that hamid a week after his mysterious disappearance of saudi arabia's consulate in turkey u.s. leaders there fears for. donald trump's a.

in massachusetts, the tsarnaev brothers were flying back and forth to chechnya, a country where theyere being radicalized, and ultimately committed an atrocious murder in the marathon bombings. you are against a travel ban that would take a temporary hold on six countries that were known under president obama's administration, known states of terror, where we didn't want people coming in like the tsarnaev brothers. you are against trying to fix that as the top -- with the travel ban. countries that were known for terror. sen. warren: i believe it was unconstitutional. this started as a muslim man. we know what this is all about and we know where you stand on it. you joined a rally organized by the largest anti-muslim hate group in america. that is not who we are as a country. immigration makes us stronger. this is how we build a future. i voted for comprehensive immigration reform in 2013. basically, it was about dreamers, about a path to citizenship, and about stronger borders. said no,f republicans we can't go forward on this. jon: you made a reference to have participating in a ra

places where there were the worst violations of human rights to the democratic republic of congo to chechnya to colombia when there were when colombia buggered her was a terrible place for human rights defenders and human rights defenders were teachers trade unionists ordinary people defending their human rights and the courage of ordinary people and their the importance that they placed on rights and now we hear a lot about the shrinking of civil society space that people have less room that if you speak out against a government you can be branded a terrorist even though you've no no no idea of violence or terrorism but you could be called that because that's what happens now and we have to understand that this is a bumpy time and we have autocratic leaders we have a populism we have a nationalism that's very centered on countries rather than solidarity of a more global sort and all of this means we have to struggle and that's the lesson i learned human rights is a struggle doesn't always go smoothly forward but you have to keep fighting for what is right and what is true and what is import

the war together with other songs as you break and murdered a young woman in a mountain town in chechnya what's crazy about this real life case is that the unit was on a kind of holiday. but then they couldn't stand it they started waging a kind of war within a war. and i'd keep. a story akin to a classic tragedy. billy explores crime and punishment was inside heads and the evil within us all. so not topics some pretty heavy ones there and it's how the stories but the stories they explore really did wide reaching topics and what i personally think is very interesting that this year three of the six nominees are not german native speakers actually so two of them we just saw in the report. about better who is born and raised in argentina and went there to a german school the other one you know how to really who was born in georgia and they mind their past and they the stories like the past of their own families outside of germany for. their stories and their novels or there's many personal background in there like another author on the shortlist in belair. he was born in prague and his par

places where there were the worst violations of human rights to the democratic republic of congo to chechnya to colombia when there were when colombia buggered her was was a terrible place for human rights defenders and human rights defenders were teachers trade unionists ordinary people defending their human rights and the courage of ordinary people and their the importance that they placed on rights and now we hear a lot about the shrinking of civil society space that people have less room that if you speak out against a government you can be branded a terrorist even though you've no no no idea of violence or terrorism but you could be called that because that's what happens now and we have to understand that this is a bumpy time and we have autocratic leaders we have a populism we have a nationalism that's very centered on countries rather than solidarity of a more global sort and all of this means we have to struggle and that's the lesson i learned human rights is a struggle doesn't always go smoothly forward but you have to keep fighting for what is right and what is true and what is im