good morning from moscow where it's just four am i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. the week began with tragedy and russia when a suicide bomber killed six people she blew herself up in a bus packed with at least forty passengers in volgograd the terrifying moments of the attack was caught on video take a look. police suspect the killer stalked the city waiting for an optimal moment to wreak the most deadly damage i went to volgograd to reports and retrace the events of that day. october twenty first started just like any other monday here in boulder grab people woke up with places to go and things to get done heavily using bus stations just like this but for several people needing bus number twenty nine they could never have foreseen how quickly their lives would change when they took that ride. the route ran without incident from morning till afternoon until one person got on board thirty year old lie you see all of that is when things took a tragic turn and a start to the very end of it was on the way home from classes at the university laughing and talking with t

deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd. if you wish to know more about the tragedy logon to our website on c dot com we've got witness accounts dash cam footage and more on the alleged perpetrator including the details of the personality of the woman who carried out that. there also on our web site the not so secure secure she was a bunker that's all trades for a very old stuff repeated love the door to a control center of wide open get the full story at all cheated. on facebook users team up and arrange a private phone calls by the scorpions a lead singer for a russian hospice patient making his long a lifelong dream a reality in less than twenty four hours the time true story right now if we don't like. saudi arabia murtha's closest ally in the guard says it no longer wants to be dependent on his big brother because of its foreign policy this new shaved could bring about a variety of problems for washington the worst one being a possible disruption of oil sales he's been a chicken explain angered to the

southern city of volgograd a monday dozens more injured when a bomb went off in a parked bus lindsey france retraced the events of the day. october twenty first started just like any other monday here in volgograd people woke up with places to go and things to get done heavily using bus stations just like this but for several people needing bus number twenty nine they could never have foreseen how quickly their lives would change when they took that ride. the route ran without incident from morning till afternoon until one person got on board thirty year old why you don't see all of that is when things took a tragic turn and a stop to the very on the ball was on her way home from classes at the university laughing and talking with the other students crucially it was being intimidated at the bus which say training life. when the blast hit everything around me went flying and then i don't remember anything but i remember flying out of the window and suddenly i was on the street and in a panic i understood that something happened with my hands i was covered in blood but it was right here at ab

good morning from moscow where it's just two am i'm lindsey france thank you for joining me. the week began with tragedy in russia when a suicide bomber killed six people she blew herself up in a bus packed with at least forty passengers in volgograd the terrifying moment of the attack was caught on video take a look. police suspect the killer stalked the city waiting for an optical moment to strike the most deadly with the most deadly damage i went to volgograd to report and retrace the events of that day. october twenty first started just like any other monday here in boulder grab people woke up with places to go and things to get done heavily using bus stations just like this but for several people needing bus number twenty nine they could never have foreseen how quickly their lives would change when they took that ride. the route ran without incident from morning till afternoon until one person got on board thirty year old lie you see all of that is when things took a tragic turn anastasio the verano boy was on her way home from classes at the university laughing and talk

deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd. and on our website we've got witness accounts dash cam footage and wrong the alleged perpetrators and you can also find out just who this side bomber was and how much influence she had in radical islamist circles. a south korean cargo vessel has passed the north of the sea route along russia's chorused it's only the second asian country to start using this route for trade but the passage is becoming more popular after opening up due to the melting ice in the arctic and probably weighs here with me in the studio to explain why it's actually a pretty good idea to use a cage is there it is becoming more and more popular the reason for it was an abundance of reasons but there's probably three main reasons i think the number one has to be the cost because it's that much shorter and therefore it costs less money to transport your ship across that amount of c i'm talking about fuel payments to employees as well so it is less costly if we talk about days you'll be able to s

six people were killed and dozens more injured when the bomb went off in a packed bus artie's lindsey france retrace the events of that day october twenty first started just like any other monday here and people woke up with places to go and things to get done heavily using bus stations just like this. but for several people needing bus number twenty nine they could never have foreseen how quickly their lives would change when they took that ride. the route ran without incident from morning till afternoon it's a one person got on board thirty year old lie you see all about that is when things took a tragic turn anastasio the very honorable it was on her way home from classes at the university laughing and talking with the other students crucially it was in the middle of the bus which say trade life was the roof of our shoes when the blast hid everything around me when flying and from that moment i don't remember anything on the recall being thrown onto her window then suddenly finding myself on the street and in a panic i realised something had happened to my hands i was covered in blood. it

killed while doctors are still fighting for the lives of those critical to head in the blast lindsey france has been reconstructing the band so that fateful day. october twenty first started just like any other monday here in volgograd people woke up with places to go and things to get but heavily using bus stations just like this. but for several people needing bus number twenty nine they could never have foreseen how quickly their lives would change when they took that ride. the route ran without incident from morning till afternoon it's a one person got on board thirty year old lie you don't see all of that is when things took a tragic turn and it starts to the very honorable it was on her way home from classes at the university laughing and talking with the other students crucially it was in the middle of the bus which say trade life. when the boss hid everything around me when flying and from that moment i don't remember anything on the recall being thrown onto her window then suddenly finding myself on the street and in a panic i realised something had happened to my hands i was cover

deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd it is well known that terrorists tend to plot their attacks hidden away in small clusters called cells for terrorism nowadays could be changing with criminals openly engaging in society and using social media to raise their money on things poll scott father story isn't his name so we don't even know what happened please help us. well this is the russian t.v. program called wait for me it's june two thousand and thirteen and a distraught mother is making an appeal for information for the return of her missing son who's been missing for around a year now it's the type of appeal that's been at hundreds of times before over the years and at first glance nothing appears to be out of the ordinary and likewise this appeal in a russian social networking site doesn't appear to be out of the ordinary it's an appeal for funds so that a friend can receive medical treatment for an incurable disease while the friends turn out to be naïve. the suicide bomber who carried out monday'

twenty three days to a flame so to arrive in the games will be good lindsey france is the loser you can you hear me. good to see you notice where there was always some sort cheers from indian government in the outflow but those are the folks in the locals there's been a lot of criticism about all the building work that's going on the locals a robot mode has put out a joint for various reasons one of the i have to say about it. well as always kevin when you're living what is essentially been a construction site for a couple of years noses are going to be bent out of shape but the constant didn't create it but i think as as andrew farmer mentioned that it's been a construction site but now it's about beautification so the residents are really getting to see everything being sort of prettied up around these gorgeous facilities which is a very nice sight to see and the weather has it looks like we're going to have a nice cold winter in saatchi this year this current weather is any indication that the people here are very excited for the flame to actually finally be on russian soil the last

live from our studios in moscow you're watching r t i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me crowds of flooded capitol hill in washington d.c. venting their fury against the n.s.a. sweeping surveillance practices the organizers say it's the largest probe privacy rally in u.s. history artie's guyana to check on is in the american capital. thousands of people gathered here on the anniversary of the signing of the patriot act twelve years ago they believe that was the day when in the name of fighting terror their rights have been taken away from them they believe that the tradeoff between security and privacy is a false one people here say that they're tired of lies that the government has been telling to cover up their mass spying after all just a year ago the director of national intelligence james clapper said no when asked whether the n.s.a. was collecting data on millions of americans edward snowden's revelations of course confirmed that was a lie and the latest i've heard was that just within a month the n.s.a. spied on more than one hundred and twenty four billion phone calls world

live from our studios in moscow and lindsey france thanks for joining me and you green on blue attack at a military base outside of kabul has left one afghan private dead at least one nato soldier injured it's the fourth such incident this month involving afghan servicemen turn their guns on the international troops are fighting alongside some one hundred coalition personnel have been killed in insider attacks since two thousand and twelve more than half of those in the last ten months alone middle east history expert deepak turk pasi told r.t. what he believes is behind this aggression first of all there is really a lot. of. over the last ten years twenty years or what you know most of the fighting is being done by afghans while about one hundred thousand foreign troops protected by contractors so there is a feeling in afghanistan both in the army and the police and in the civilian population that the americans and other nato troops are truly protecting themselves and getting ready to get out. nato member turkey is coming under fire from its allies over its talks with the chinese fir

deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. invoker grad the woman that carried out how been living and working for a business company in moscow that's according to investigators that contradicts a common believe the terrorists hide away from society living in the remote county the trash meanwhile grant has shown sometimes so side bomb has openly lived among this post called looks into the new face of terror he doesn't use them so we don't even know what happened please help us. well this is the russian t.v. program called wait for me it's june two thousand and thirteen on a distraught mother is making an appeal for information for the return of her missing son who's been missing for around a year now it's the type of pill that's been at hundreds of times before over the years and at first glance nothing appears to be out of the ordinary and likewise disappear when a russian social networking site doesn't appear to be out of the ordinary it's an appeal for funds so that a friend can receive medical treatment for an incurab

deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd. and on saturday a large cache of suicide belts and explosives was discovered in russia's southern republican dagestan that's after police detain a man carrying a grenade and several blocks of t.n.t. on a boss going to moscow to learn more about these and other and i terror operations here in russia on our website r.t. dot com. chancellor angela merkel has been spied on by the n.s.a. for over a decade and that's according to the leaks published by germany's difficult magazine the surveillance goes back even before merkel became the country's leader and this week has been revealed that thirty five world leaders have also been closely monitored by an american national security agency europe has voiced its anger complaining that its trust in washington is now undermined former french prime minister dominic of a pound says that if the u.s. continues to strive for world dog. anon's it could lead to conflict. we knew that. some practices were existed but the search and ove

emerge in the investigation of the dutch of us all involved in last month's greenpeace protests lindsey france has the details. investigators found drugs and including poppy straws and wood is reportedly more feet along with dual purpose devices this was discovered in the arctic sunrise when investigators did a search of the vessel according to the investigative committee this means thirty people that currently face piracy charges could face even more charges and of course that means facing. tougher jail sentences if convicted for its part green feet greenpeace says it's very skeptical about this information drugs are very strongly prohibited. in its entire organization and so of course it sees no reason any of these activists would have brought that sort of paraphernalia on board also it's wondering if the morphine and dual purpose devices that the investigators are talking about isn't the morphine and devices that the doctor at the on the on board doctor would keep in the cabinet thirty people do remain behind bars despite repeated appeals by various lawyers to secure their release so this o

kilograms of explosives and later this hour be joined live by our correspondent in volgograd lindsey france who bring us the details. also international alert as teenage sisters from norway head for syria they could soon join the growing number of european muslims fighting alongside the rebels there part of the worrying trend in the e.u. amidst concern over what happens when they come home. amnesty international is accusing the your eyes of committing war crimes a series of drone program in pakistan a report from the human rights organization lists in recent incidents and says there is an almost complete absence of transparency that the action is have challenged the obama administration to prove it has authority investigated cases of unlawful killings and that could be a lot to look at the program began in two thousand and four under the bush administration two thousand and six was the deadliest year of his presidency when almost one hundred civilians were killed but since two thousand and eight the use of drones in pakistan has escalated reaching a peak after broke obama was sworn into off

welcome back you're watching are to live from moscow with me lindsey france thanks for joining me a new green on blue attack at a military base outside kabul has left one afghan privates dead and at least one nato soldier injured it's the fourth such incident this month involving afghan servicemen turning their guns on the international troops there working alongside middle east history expert deepak trip believes that nato forces are more concerned right now about protecting themselves rather than afghan civilians it's first of all there is a lot. of. over the last ten years twenty years or book you know most of the fighting is being done by afghans was about one hundred thousand foreign troops protected by contractors so there is a feeling in afghanistan bold in the army and the police and in the civilian population that the americans and other nato troops are truly protecting themselves and getting ready to get out now nato member turkey is coming under fire from its allies over its talks with a chinese farm on building billiam multibillion dollar anti-missile system the u.s. has voi

deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd r.t. talked to an expert on international terrorism xander dahmer and he believes it's time to put differences aside and combat a disease which is plaguing us on a global scale. i can tell you that you know we're dealing with this kind of a terrorist international we cannot divide what's happened in america in boston or in a global masoud in the name of the five well we cannot separate it from what has just happened in boulder out all from what happened in they'd all be just several weeks ago we're in the same boat and this is very unfortunate and we need to deal with it this is something you know about happens on the kind of in a regular basis this is snopes that first own this is no the last time but once again on the way in the same boat and unlike just several years that you had with school and you know with expression one person's terrorist is another person through them fight or i can see you know that no matter what if somebody is there to do to russia and the

deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd. our to talk to an expert on international terrorism alexander he believes it's time to put differences aside and combat a disease which is plaguing us on a global scale and i can tell you that you know we are dealing with this kind of a terrorist international channel divide what's happening in america in boston or in a global masoud in the name of the five well we cannot separate it from what has just happened in volgograd or from what happened in there all the just several weeks ago we are in the same boat and this is very unfortunate and we need to deal with it this is something that you know about happens on the kind of irregular basis this is not the first time this is not the last time but once again we're in the same boat and i'm like just several years ago when i had was feeling you know with expression one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter i can see you know that no matter what if somebody is there to do to russia and the russian govern

deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd and still to come for you here on r t one home becomes a war zone. whatever happens i will not leave my house again i would like to destroy the walls and build them again are to reports from the devastated syrian city of your money and meets the families who are here you said ban and their houses. america's on going on man aerial strikes in pakistan and yemen should be regarded as war crimes according to reports released this week by the human rights group amnesty international that's despite the u.s. government's attempts to play down the civilian a death toll from its drone campaign well let's now take a look at some numbers here so. it all began in two thousand and four under the bush administration the number of drone victims soared dramatically in two thousand and six when almost one hundred people were killed another escalation came in two thousand and eight with seventy five lives lost the toll in two thousand and nine reached one hundred sixty two the year br

deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd and if you want to know more about the tragedy log on to our website or t dot com there we've got witness accounts dash cam footage a more on the alleged perpetrator including details of the personality of the woman who carried out the attack. fulford on our website not so secure security. revealed stuff repeatedly left the door to a control center wide open. right now dot com. facebook users team up and arrange a private phone by the scorpions lead singer for a russian hospice patient making his lifelong dream a reality in less than twenty four hours a touching story right now online. nationwide protests against police brutality have been held across the u.s. activists are calling for an end to impunity for officers accused of abuse. often shielded by the so-called war on terror reports from one of the rallies. in new york and dozens of other cities across the west a national day of protest to stop police brutality repression and the criminalization of a generation

deadly plans authorities will be keen to find her husband in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd why america isn't going on man dariel strikes in pakistan and yemen should be regarded as war crimes according to records released this week by the human rights group amnesty international all this despite the u.s. government's attempts to play down the civilian death toll from its drone campaign let's now take a look at some of the figures here well it all began in two thousand and four under the bush administration that number of drone victims soared dramatically in two thousand and six when almost one hundred people were killed another escalation came in two thousand and eight with seventy five lives lost the toll in two thousand and nine reached one hundred sixty two the year barack obama took office and a record number of strikes from a man jets were recorded over the next twelve months that's one hundred twenty two and the drone war continues all the obama administration is responsible for about ninety percent of all the strikes carried out since two thousand a

left in shock on a bill to comprehend what had just happened and earlier we spoke to our she is lindsey france who's involved the ground and she told us of the horrifying injuries there. city itself is on a heightened state of alert right now with investigators still on the scene combing the scene and the bus that remains standing behind me for clues to put this piece of this pieces of the puzzle together now at the scene here six people lost their lives forty three were injured many of them very critically injured local hospitals were inundated with very severe injuries witnesses say it just looks like a war zone severed limbs and severe birds everywhere they love many of these people were sent to moscow for more intensive treatment investigators arrived with the first light of day and they're now actually breaking through rubble on the side of the of the bus to see if they can find anything that would give them more clues as to what happened and why the loved ones of the bombing on says this point do we know exactly what happened on the bus well an investigator has told r.t. that if women bo

quite a bit this whole sorry episode of happy well it certainly sounds like it did backfire there lindsey france where the details on that story for us by dr mohammad has sun carney from the international relations department at imaam saadiq university in iran is with me right now good to have you with us now mustn't we are you've been in high level politics for a long time are you surprised by what seems basic blunder. actually what we heard from netanyahu was an insult not only an insult to you on an iranian nation but also an insult to intelligence of one of your it israeli person . and their reaction that we saw against mr netanyahu comments was somehow a response to what he said that. some of what he said actually was an indication of the fact that how ignore and or the israeli leaders about real situation in iran and that also includes those political claims or claims about the european nuclear issue so does shows that what you're hearing from tel aviv is absolutely nonsense and ridiculous so how are people that you you know reacting to this gaff. well everybody who has been traveling to y

russian convert to islam missing since two thousand and twelve in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd. so the kona program went home becomes a war zone. whatever happens i will not leave my house again i would like to destroy the laws and be on the menu and one or two reports in the devastated syrian city of the other and mixed families who refused to abandon the. americas ongoing unmanned aerial strikes in pakistan and yemen should be regarded as war crimes according to a report this week from amnesty international it's despite the us government's attempts to play down the level of civilian deaths from its drone campaign let's take a look at some of the numbers in the news wall here it all began back in two thousand and four under the bush administration the number of drone victims so dramatically through two thousand and six when almost one hundred people were killed and another escalation up to two thousand and eight seventy five people lost their lives the following year where barack obama took office the killings reached two hundred sixty two then all egos a rec

i'm going to check on earlier my colleague lindsey france dr anti-war activist brian bagger and he says this family's case is just the tip of the iceberg of civilian deaths brought by the u.s. drone war. if nothing shocks the conscience of the congress like this nothing ever will we see that this is a criminal action by the u.s. government those drone pilots who carried out the direct violent death of this sixty seven year old grandmother they should be arrested and so should their superiors but the whole program has killed hundreds perhaps thousands of civilians many of them older people many of them their grandchildren so last week amnesty international published a report released a news report saying that drug casualties in pakistan and yemen were higher than a lot of what has been reported by the government and here's what the researcher said about the survey take a lesson the u.s. must explain why these people have been killed people who are clearly civilians must provide justice to these people compensation it must investigate those responsible for those killings now what are your

the dreams of the athletes and spectators it's fulfilling the dreams of the man of the street lindsey france r.t. . all right back to moscow very p.c. so you know talk to her now. she's three time olympian champion synchronized swimming and indeed on the future torchbearers as well we're going to be translating what she's going to do with this. hi there thanks for being with us hope you can hear me my name's kevin you're live on r.t. and how do you feel about being able to carry the sochi twenty fourteen olympic torch are going to be doing it very shortly. that's my question hello thank you very much for this opportunity to comment on what has been happening here it's an amazing feeling ah it's tremendous i feel very good. for what is happening here today we finally launched to do use really feels very happy and proud that i will take part in this olympic torch really. this isn't your first olympic relay is it in your view is this one more special that was you've taken in the past. there is a slowness that's exactly this is. very special for me this is my third so i mean my first time was be

russian convert to islam missing since two thousand and twelve in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd coming up when home becomes a war zone. whatever happens i will not leave my house again i would like to destroy the ones that love you the monkey and one r.t. reports from the devastated syrian city of yarra walk with me to the families who refuse to abandon their homes. but the next tracking drones america's ongoing unmanned aerial strikes in pakistan and yemen should be regarded as war crimes according to a report this last week from amnesty international it's despite the u.s. government's attempts to play down the level of civilian deaths from the drone campaign let's see what pans out on the news wall shocking numbers here it all began in two thousand and four under the bush administration the number of drone victims saw then dramatically through two thousand and six when almost a hundred people were killed another escalation then came in two thousand and eight with seventy five lives lost the following year barack obama took office the killings reached one hund

russian convert to islam missing since two thousand and twelve in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd. america's own during unmanned aerial strikes in pakistan and yemen should be regarded as war crimes according to a report released this last week by the human rights group amnesty international and that's despite the u.s. government's attempts to play down the civilian death toll from its drone campaign let's take a look so the numbers on the news all here so it pans out all began in two thousand and four under the bush administration the number of drone victims saw dramatically then in two thousand and six almost one hundred were killed and another escalation came in two thousand and eight seventy five lost their lives there on the two thousand and nine hundred sixty two the year barack obama took office and the record number of strikes from unmanned jets were recorded over the next twelve months you see the figures go up and up and up the drone strikes continue the obama administration's responsible for about ninety percent in fact of all the strikes curried out s

out of the windows as the other cars on the road come to a standstill while lindsey français lindsey francewitness the aftermath of the tragedy in the southern russian city. at this point investigators according to four people involved in this case they point to thirty year old aida i see all of us from dagestan a career jihad it as the suicide bomber in the case and then three men also involved one dimitri sokol love who is her reported husband was on his way to moscow and then two men waiting for them there from dagestan both of them wanted for twin terrorist attacks in dagestan back in two thousand and twelve so police are on the hunt for those three men at this point report stated she got on the bus shortly after that is when the explosion took place shop will t.n.t. and a grenade remnants were found at the site which six dead and more than forty injured many of them very severely local hospital it is dated with very graphic witnesses say that there were severed limbs and severe words many of those cases were said to moscow for further treatment i we've got an eyewitness we spoke to who

russian convert to islam missing since two thousand and twelve in the hope he may have the answers lindsey france r.t. in volgograd. on the misters syria's brutal conflict and information wars being fought we talk about that some night syrian rebels desperate silence pro-government media of put several employees on the hit list late in the program we'll bring you a witness accounts from some of those journalists. next though america's ongoing unmanned aerial strikes in pakistan and yemen should be regarded as war crimes as according to reports released this last week by the human rights group amnesty international it's despite the u.s. government's attempts to play down the civilian death toll from his drone campaign let's take a look at some of the numbers should be on the news all the it all began in two thousand and four under the bush administration the number of drone victims then drop dramatically rose in two thousand and six almost one hundred were killed then another escalation came in two thousand and eight with seventy five lives lost then the toll in seventy in two thousand and nine it