and broadcasting a lot of direct from our studios in moscow this is our team sean thomas let's get right to our top story in investigators say they are looking at a number of possibilities of who carried out a suicide bomb attack in the southern russian city of volgograd that killed fifteen people ninety's correspondent margaret how will be joining us later with more information we'll bring you her report a little bit later but anti-war activist don de bar now he believes that the international community should have bring to account the state actors that enable such terrorist attacks. people on the ground who did this perhaps may be you know anonymous players just individuals who are incited one way or another but you do not move weaponized explosives into a major city without the aid of very powerful forces state actors usually and so i think that the focus should be for the entire international community to take a look already at who are the state actors that are enabling these things saudi arabia comes to mind for example and to make them the international pariah is that they should b

artie's sean thomas is also here with us joining us live from central moscow for more on the kremlin reaction to all this tell us what is the view from the russian ministration in light of this morning's developments well matt with two attacks within one twenty four hour period you can imagine that the federal government is certainly gearing up for action and in communication with local governments as well in fact the head of the f.s.b. alexander mcauliffe and the head of the interior ministry's what to call it. they have briefed president putin on the latest in fact they talked about the security operations in dhaka ston instead of a pole where they have disrupted terror operations that are down there and killed several suspected terrorists also the interior ministry briefed the president on measures that they are taking to maintain security in the region following these recent attacks now locally the volgograd emergency ministry is said that they have bolstered their troops in fact we've heard of another plane being sent to the region with people and supplies to help out in that as

and a live one from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas let's look at our top story for that night now investigators say that they are looking at a number of possibilities of who carried out a suicide bomb attack in the southern russian city of volgograd that killed fifteen people artie's correspondent margaret howell is at the scene of the tragedy near the railway station. well i'm standing here in volgograd literally a short path down from the volgograd regional train depot just behind me where a bomb went off sunday december twenty ninth killing a fifteen people so far and a sixteenth person believed to be the suicide bomber over thirty five people in new to change now though it was originally reported that it was a female suicide bomber now believed to be a male by law enforcement officials possibly a male bomber at this point it's inconclusive they originally believe the suspect to be a female twenty six year old from the republic of dagestan however finding a male finger in the clip of neda the suspect thought to be no male by law enforcement officials the role of

sean thomas glad to have you with us now an anti fracking protest in northeast romania has turned violent clashes broke out between police and locals who are trying to stop the u.s. oil giant chevron from drilling for shale gas in the area protesters fear that fracking will damage the environment and contaminated ground water supplies are reports from the site of the unrest. we're here in print jesse this is just moments after a very tense clashes between protesters who are against chevron conducting exploration for shale gas drilling here in this area in northeastern mania what you see behind me over there is actually the chevron site. protesters had ran across the street they broke down the perimeter of the chevron location tore down the fences and entered the area there were actually inside the chevron test exploration area these units riot police officers had been called into the area this is when things very much escalated and we have several protesters arrested there are options between the police and the demonstrators and actually if we pan over here you can see people very upset a

melways its slashing jobs what does that mean exactly corporate news to come our in-house investor mr sean thomas he went over the course on us last week he was heading towards the financials with see how he's think getting on but first i want to start with the chinese currency because as i say it's now the second most widely used currency in the world so it's below the u.s. dollar but it's overtaken the euro so what exactly is happened in the last year that well can tell you that last year its share of global trade was just over one percent and now we fast forward it's reached almost nine percent so what happened to the euro in contrast last year it had almost eight percent now it's got just over six percent now this is coming at a time when china is changing things up a bit it's in a state of transition now we know that the state is loosening controls on exchange rates as well as boring costs as well so i want to get expert analysis so i'm going to speak to david quote he's from motley fool and just see david i want to know when you're i was first introduced it was supposed to rival the u.s. do

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas let's get right to our top stories you are. seeing rival rallies in the ukrainian capital the pro e.u. demonstrators are on your left today have been camped out in kiev for several weeks now the pro-government crowd well they're having their say as well they've joined in tens of thousands of people have come from all over ukraine to show their support for president. ortiz paul scott is in kiev for us. you can see the close proximity between the two opposing rallies right behind me is independence square which has been the halls of the opposition movement for the last number of weeks now you can see the barricades that have been built by the protesters and reinforced in the last couple of days but if we pan around to the left hand side now this is european square and this is the scene of a rally in support of the president where you can get a sense of exactly how close the pro and anti government supporters are the line of police separating the two camps just here to my right hand side now if we take you

the whatever to our studios in moscow this is rtm sean thomas. what have you with us. now a massive anti government demonstration in he stumbles the central square sparked by a higher level corruption investigation has been violently dispersed by police and demonstrators are now calling for the country's prime minister. bridget i have ever wanted to step down but he refuses to give in to their demands. the star press reports. not that i have said that they have in the past couple of weeks. i miss fifth. i've given them a gift i was better to do that yet the defense and offensive once again coming from a safe bet that well. the fact that the faith. if the director of the restaurant from thinking of that. identify with that addressing the crowd friends i'm afraid of the best of the pontiff said that the preference thing the beet red. the principal scott the is also the truth the croats and i were emailing. however the sunset exactly what the i'm so bad that the battle of the fact that you can get it from approaching the end of the house. he is going to do the unexpected

and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team i'm sean thomas let's get right to our top story now for the second time in just two days of the russian city of volgograd has been targeted by terrorists on monday morning fourteen people were killed after a suicide bomber blew up on a bus less then twenty four hours earlier a similar assault on the city's railway station claimed at least seventeen lives artie's market howell is following developments in volgograd. i'm here in the city of volgograd in the southern part of russia in the marketplace where that troll a bus exploded this morning at eight thirty in the morning causing a massive death bodies everywhere it has been confirmed that there was a suicide bomber on that trolling bus that claimed these lives we have an eyewitness account of this event. i was in my way from work to the u.-turn and then i heard a blast i was already standing in a queue and one of the other drivers asked if there was an explosion there was no panic but a hurt screen so i drove by to save the children and help people but they told me t

melways its slashing jobs what does that mean exactly corporate news to come our in-house investor mr sean thomas courses on us last week he was heading towards a financial so we'll see how he think getting on but first i want to start with the chinese currency because as i say it's now the second most widely used cars in the world so it's below the u.s. dollar but it's overtaken the euro so what exactly has happened in the last year that market tell you that last year its share of global trade was just over one percent and now we fast forward it's reached almost nine percent so what happened to the euro in contrast last year it had almost eight percent now it's got just over six percent now this is coming at a time when china is changing things up a bit it's in a state of transition now we know that the state is loosening controls on exchange rates as well as boring costs as well so i want to get expert analysis so i'm going to speak to david quote he's from motley fool went to see david i want to know when the euro was first introduced it was supposed to rival the us dollar as the global reserv

like a very much so i will sit up with all on financials and we see how you get on next week mr sean thomas and soon to be back next week as well live we're going to be seeing if another busted and bank fails what is the crisis in ukraine will really kate and i and that one and seeing how the situation progress is. not small surprises of course and i will indeed be back to see you as well have a fantastic weekend enjoy the rest if you only can give us now. ukraine is in a tough spot right now trying to figure out whether to join the e.u. or the arrangements custom union it would be nice if they would you know maybe allow the populace to vote for their future via referendum but sadly it looks like the politicians will be making a historic decision i can see why some people want to look west and some people want to look east but i don't understand why so-called ukrainian nationalists want so desperately to join the e.u. first off any nationalist groups in the e.u. are automatically demonised as right wing extremists and in the politically correct west patriotism is pretty much a dirty word ge

night present on insisted once again france does not aspire to be as the expression often goes to sean thomas africa ron's isn't seeking profits from the situation in the central african republic school there's nice self interested motivation and prawns isn't attempting to have an unjustified implements in the region. from squid simply intends to bring security to a population is being threatened by preakness militias. it all. shaykh umar your thoughts on this you might do me to complete. if talking to media about christians and the stamps i've used it to you. they defended very interesting and good news is that the church and from time to come. this is in houston and easter. i sold lots of aunts grandparents for an sec team and it has to do the valuable that they can lay their hands on with it. i think it is. it is important to me he got the power elite is to use program. not that i can get them on the fields well known produce. you can do is look of frustration and whenever they visited the doctor ordered him to use a headset off their frustration against the tide was dead. this cake into p

sean ryan. sergeant kelvin sanders. sergeant jason sawyer. [applause] can i have officer pete sable. officer thomas smith. officer michael wolf. officer ronald laberto. >> mike wolf decided to be with his wife, having a baby and missed our ceremony. see if he ever gets anything again. >> and the silver medal awarded for the first officer on that night sergeant roberto. and although captain told the story as well could be told. i was there that night. and the story pales by comparison if you saw what these officers encountered. and the fact of the smoke and the rounds going through floors and ceiling and fire and all the buildings attached. i can assure that the shot taken that night by officer hines saved lives as well as all of these officers. [applause] and one person that is not mentioned in the report is captain jason turnis, i don't know if he's here. but he's the captain on scene that had the courage and experience to call for the green lights. and green lights are less common than gold medals. because it takes that much thought and puts the commanding officer out there. and for jason to make that c

parties schon thomas joining me now live from central moscow with more on this sean what have you heard from the kremlin in the light of this morning's developments well matt as you can imagine two terrorist attacks within the space of twenty four hours it is a very high interest to the federal government in fact the head of the f.s.b. alexander board macof and the head of the interior ministry. they briefed president vladimir putin today on the latest developments about security operations happening in the southern russian regions of dogs stan and stab a pole where terrorist operations have been disrupted through on going projects down there and several terrorists and suspect suspected terrorists have been killed in those operations the interior ministry has also briefed the president on measures that they are taking to maintain security within the volgograd region itself and in fact the local. emergency ministry says that they are bolstering troops in fact we've gotten word of another plane of. people and supplies coming into the city in fact the latest information that we've just got