but those who are russian are not surprised. going back to normalities is doing a favor to somebody. in this case, people who do not belong to prison, it's a sign of normalization, but in reality it's a sign that putin want high level of participation in sochi because he's invest there. >> khodorkovsky literally went right from his cell to the plane and onto berlin. is part of he being free mean he is out of the country. >> i think so, that he will be completely out of russia, and therefore not being able to become a political leader. >> is he still rich? >> yes, he's certainly quite rich. we can see that there are organizations that are well off. >> katherine stoner, did people reign in their ambitions seeing what could happen from trying to fly too high in putin's russia? >> yes, he was really an example that putin made for the others. around the same time we have others like boris and those who control important media assets and oil and gas assets, and we saw them withdraw more and more from politics, and they had been warned

but those who are russian are not surprised. going back to normalities is doing a favor to somebody. in this case, people who do not belong to prison, it's a sign of normalization, but in reality it's a sign that putin want high level of participation in sochi because he's invest there . >> khodorkovsky literally went right from his cell to the plane and onto berlin. is part of he being free mean he is out of the country. >> i think so, that he will be completely out of russia, and therefore not being able to become a political leader. >> is he still rich? rich. we can see that there are organizations that are well off. >> katherine stoner, did people reign in their ambitions seeing what could happen from trying to fly too high in putin's russia? >> yes, he was really an example that putin made for the others. around the same time we have others like boris and those who control important media assets and oil and gas assets, and we saw them withdraw more and more from politics, and they had been warned by putin to stay out of pol

composting the role of russian culture and the russian language and what. we need to consider that when we can seriously education policy we don't. need the schools that teach we need that if you're a culture that bring up a personality. in a culture that possible of independent thinking. and started for next year. we'll have. you apart from the standardized exam students. we also have to write the fine i say. and that will be. included in the record books of course teachers need to be able to use some modern technology is the one to be able to work and we shouldn't have disabilities. as we need to come up with new retraining programs i know that the education ministry is working on it who needs. to finalize this we're going to finalise this program it was another major you shoe a very good. in which we see that. which education that curriculum is. to go into shifts. of course to the positive demographic situation where you see korean children while a million and i would like to address the federal regional authorities we need to assess usual need to provid

do you feel that plays into the russian perspective here and russian actions here, and if so in what way? >> there are a couple of things that one has to bear in mind about putin himself. one of which is that his goal from taking the presidency in 1999-2000 was to restore russia as a state internally but also some of russia's power standing, not in a cold war since -- i think we have made it very we're here on the panel that is not a russian objective or a putin objective, but to basically make russia back of a player. he said he went to make sure there was a geopolitical demand for russia as well they geo- economical demand. that is something that russia and putin himself have affected, and as we are talking about here, there is certainly a demand for russia to play some kind of role in the middle east, even on our part of the u.s. we see russia as an important player. i have to -- i have to than the europeans here. the europeans have played a very important role in the negotiations of iran, even if they're not playing more broadly upon the middle east process. the other elements ab

in too many russians just you know a very limited circle or the richest russians may be. but to hold a cold case lawyer as well as khodorkovsky himself say that they actually didn't ask for a pause and what's going on that. well we'd have a very strange case or miscommunication. mr gorski or all these people. without two years on your snow in about it it's possible because he is known to take his own decisions not necessarily taken advice or maybe missed important just decide that it's time to. any case i remember there was a lot of people from the russian liberal intelligentsia ask who can bargain for his term expires so what i'm sort of responded. to their letter so i would see . that announcement comes amid a new case against ucas what they're called skis for my company as you know how well it affects the investigation want to think. well. you course was a huge company and. billions of dollars certainly a lot of them a lot of this minute was not quite clean because you know they're going to get himself acknowledged that they did this all on tax up to my station a lot o

now i think a russian-and rainy iraniana russian- relationship have improved. it is helpful and great. there are different views and moscow on whether we should increase the -- encourage a u.s.-iranian interest or not. some people do not think it is because ifinterest iran improves relationship with united states, it will immediately turn to the west and forget about everything we did for iran. and that is why we should try to prevent it. but i think it is very shortsighted because my position -- we will -- we should encourage this and we will benefit out of a u.s.-iranian healthy relationship because iran is an extremely important regional player. influence is growing. the u.s. invasion in iraq greeted the opportunity for iran. and for russia, it is very a good workingep relationship with iran. more opportunities for iran and international affairs. it will be more important for moscow, and i will never become a u.s. ally. iran will be an independent will nevernd iran become a u.s. ally. iran will be an independent force. >> fiona, you were not incurred dding.

his help him take place on thin ice after finishing as runner up to teenager marks in court at the russian championships in sochi. plus ice battles spotlight moscow slumped to their sixth straight defeat crushing six mil. champions dummer moscow heaping more misery on the cash strapped club. and there's also doc off a seven time we're not lucky me a child in russian team come to a twelfth victory as their trucks gear up for the thirty fifth dakar rally. but first to the ice and yevgeny pollution might not be going for gold in sochi as the two thousand and six and the big figure skating champion good only finished second at the russian national championships which have a big say in deciding who will represent the country at their home winter games in february which is on course for the tussle. it might be the end of a dream for one of russia's most talismanic figure skaters guinea. after just missing out on a limb big gold mine coover despite before me a quadruple jum the thirty one year old had hoped to make amends at this home games but opera season blinded by a back injury the two thousa

grave human rights abuses including political money policeman of justice that are happening in the russian federation given that so many private profile people who have been involved in political activity have been released early do you think that signifies any change in the way the kremlin operates or indeed the political climate in the country while it's like the revolving door of russian political just is a revolving door of trumped up charges where you have some high profile political president. the rule is in one single week just before christmas just before the holiday says develop should be ready to celebrate but done at the same time although people still remain in jail on three charges if we could stay on the subject of. sochi olympic because you you mentioned that you believe that this was part of the political campaign and when you place and it's interesting the holocaust himself was asked about it during the press conference and i want to play this question by b.b.c. for you are you encouraging people to show she's really fix or to stay away. so essentially the holocaust a man

russian people remember all fortunes were made in the ninety s and suddenly the richest russian men overnight guests will not despise seemed to be in too many russians just in a very limited so call all the restrictions me. add the staff of the costs gainesville as well as the clip of state himself that's a bad day and cheney didn't opt for cars and what's going on that. well we have here is change. he's always community. even if that was the role of these things. we don't use it on a snowy mountain. this possible and it was the norm today his own decisions. seventy eight and unwise. or maybe mr clinton has decided that it's time to set the goals keep reading are in any case i remember that there was a lot of our people from the russian hebrew and contingency plan should have asked for them to pop in and posted before his term expires. so all weekend so the freeze on that. to them at the sentencing. i then ask and comes amid new case again steve. it has come across these for my company as a knock at how would that affect the investigation what you think. oh well. cube the euro's was a huge co

associate and he said oh you're russian i said no no i'm british but speak a little. better russian i lived there for a long time and he said oh you're right mr putin i said mr putin is doing good things for russia and he then said i agree and i would i particularly like the way he stands up to other international countries especially the united states and i have a great deal of respect for him in fact i wish he was a teacher he said i would do anything to send my son to study under him. when investors are expressing their opinion on the presidential pardon through the markets kiddie pool boomers told us what it is they're so happy about and what it could cost he might get up to once he is out. the my cigs index gained over one percent it means that the index is now on its longest winning streak since september got telecommunications financials oil and gas stocks all right using by one point three percent on average and international investors have been calling for more transparency and this is another stage inclusions campaign to make russia more desirable place to c

must be taxed according to russian russian laws and those taxes are to be paid to the russian budget and we need to think of a system to actually get the money to actually get to see taxes. and by the way. the end methods do exist and there is nothing special nothing particular well that's. already. said. if you want to work in the uk sure that's up to you but your taxes need to come here and if your business operations are here and actually. the world economy. measures any works also a company. outside russia will not be. given access to. government support from the russian government including providing support for their loans. it will also have a new axis. state provided contracts or contracts placed by. partially government owned company in other words if you want to reveal yourself of government support and get. them to market their bonuses from the government you need to register and to establish yourself as a russian company we also need. to provide. information provided a bank companies on the economic performance on their social. realities and so on we need to keep reading t

just two days ago, a car bomb killed three people in the southern russian city piatigost ordinary russians may wonder where the next attack will come. peter sharp, al jazeera n moscow. >> earlier, i spoke with charles hecker. he is a security expert who joined us from london. i asked him who he thought is responsible for this latest attack. >> well, doca amarav has gone public in saying he wants to do aggie he can and is calling on his troops and allies, if you will, to do everything that they can to disrupt the sochi olympics. he has branded them as an unholy event. you have to assume he has something to do with the attack that happened in volgerad today. >> many americans will think of volgegrad as stalin grad during the old soviet union but why volgegrad? >> that's a good question. you are right. it was called stalingrad and was the scene of historic work war 2 battle. there could be any number of reasons. it is in the south of russia and is near to the caucuses region awe noel it's not the closest big city, but that's an important factor. it has to be in terms of a target slightly soft

an elderly take you live to moscow for the russian president vladimir putin is making his annual state of one thousand people attending both the upper and lower houses of worship allah but they have as well as government leaders and supreme court judges. onto the international control and their destruction. we need to aim for is stronger now through attrition between the syrian press incidentally also strengthens the rule of the un. naturally she shoots the sign to excel in this old city and diplomatic means. it should be no place for a minute intervention to stop which are not accepted by the international society of course there is a wicked sense of the rainy knew she would just make a fuss that no need to be continued to compose his own. that school was done to protect the brain in life were new to thailand is most interested in its ease and security for all the states of the region opening is true keep it. well what's so we had previously the reigning uk shoe was one of the main reasons why the media to defend senor up with steve's deployed. now we see that the rhythmically ratio h

opponent in russian it means poetry lawyers months the civically to demonize independent that to this what i would like to ask you something different . this year justice ministry has decided to look how complying with this law and they in the shade if i'm not mistaken i think around fourteen cases of legal proceedings against various angelos and in one out of fourteen cases those al gore's actually won legal proceedings in court against the state and this is in a country that according to human rights watch has no independent judiciary. where the state prosecutors you just sat and yours how would that be possible well i wouldn't want to ruin you have some dope of the problem as the first to wall the prosecutor's office actually launched this massive campaign of the units of aggressive inspections and over one thousand organisations rick choked across the country and in some cases those inspections were just completely over the top where activists were all asked for their correspondence when the prosecutors wanted access to their computers and so on and so forth but then dozens of gro

it's a phone vaguely in russian it means. their lawyers months the civically to demonize indep. back to this what i would like to ask you something different. this year justice ministry has decided to look how and yours are complying with this law they initiated if i'm not mistaken i think around fourteen cases of legal proceedings against various angelos and in one out of fourteen cases those laws actually won legal proceedings in court against the state and this is in a country that according to human rights watch has no independent judiciary where the state prosecutors do just sad and yours how would that be possible well we want to ruin you have some dough but the problem was that first the wall the prosecutor's office actually launched this massive campaign of the units of aggressive inspections and all in one fell then organisations which got across the country and in some cases those inspections were just completely over the top where activists were all asked for their correspondence one of the prosecutors wanted acces

female suicide bomber we will organize by as nic russian mujahideen working with the sons of the and the perpetrator perpetrated was also an ethnic russian so that's the most likely to be another possible for their mission is there is a look at the who joined the club with a convert to islam about a decade ago and then eventually joined the new courses in which it means he's a former russian military person by the name of bubbles because a lot of the news from will regret and he was involved in the train bombing back in two thousand and seven and there were other bombings and he also claimed that he was evil and as expressed bombing of a train in two thousand. and nine will him he believes what progress has been rather silent ever since that two thousand line that we could conceivably have been planning all these. years for you know the show running up to you know what do you make about the about the timing of the attack and why now as opposed to say in february for example or during the nationwide holidays that happened at the beginning of january here. that's a good question you kn

and families in the russian city of volgograd have started back. successive suicide bombings at times within twenty four hours of each targeted the city's main train station and a crowded bus the number of dead following the terror attacks has risen to. dozens wants to hospital how is and. is tense it's also very somber traffic seems to be moving more slowly than i was able to catch up with some of the family members of people who have died namely the father of the security guard who says one of two people who will be having a funeral today and here is their story it's been one more of an easy night put a resident of russia's southern city of. loved ones of the injured in two terror attacks held vigils in hospitals others mourned. he was a good man a good father a good son a good grandson there are not so many of such good ones around the good ones die first they say. with barely contain tears a lot of near no levy clutches the memory of his son who was the first victim of sunday's attack in the train station thin again it was a security guard ther

civilians regularly in russian it means. lawyers months the civically to demonize independent that to this what i would like to ask you something different. this year justice ministry has decided to look how complying with this law they initiated if i'm not mistaken i think around fourteen cases of legal proceedings against various angelos and in one out of fourteen cases those algos actually want legal proceedings in court against the state and this is in a country that according to human rights watch has no independent judiciary where the state prosecutors do you just sat and yours how would that be possible well i would you want to ruin your some dope of the problem as the first to wall the prosecutor's office actually launched this massive campaign of the. units of aggressive inspections over one fell then organisations rick choked across the country and in some cases those inspections were just completely over the top where activists were all asked for their correspondence when the prosecutors wanted access to their com

russian has very important strategic interest in ukraine. it is the home of the black sea fleet for russia. russia needs ukraine to cooperate with it in terms of leasing lands and access to the black sea as a result. again as i say earlier mr. putin and many people like him view ukraine as a natural part of the traditional ira russian empire. to have asia and the united eure united states behind europe to bring the ukraine further into their orbit is a threat. and they'll encourage that. the threat is very high. >> hold that thought, everyone. we'll be right back. this is "inside story." exclusive... former president jimmy carter reflects on the life and legacy of nelson mandela. >> that spirit of nelson mandela is embedded deeply in the heart and soul of the south africans... >> they worked side by side for freedom, now president carter talks about mandela's global impact. a revealing interview you won't see anywhere else. >> i've never heard him say, that he was grateful to the united states... >> talk to al jazeera with jimmy carter only

is targets of it and will have an immediate impact on the russian public and not just the russians but those traveling to the games next year i mentioned a few moments ago between pro gangs in london it was my company carried out a counterterrorism exercise two years before those games took place and we simulated what would happen if a terrorist attack occurred during the construction of the limpid venue let alone during the games themselves and very very important lessons were learned that we had to live in the united kingdom a relatively free society so information was shared but people do worry sometimes that in russia certainly access to unbiased media reporting is often challenged as it was in catastrophic terrorist attacks such as in two thousand and four in the business school trying to day were over three hundred eighty people were murdered so turkey and russia are not necessarily strange words to use in one sentence as we now move forward into the games in russia next year one could almost predict further attacks but i still make the point they don't necessarily have to be by

a so said lost in the russian city of volgograd kills force your passengers on a bus less than a day after a deadly bombing ripped through the city's train station. meanwhile russia's president vladimir putin orders times of security across the whole country in the wake of the bombings are seen best against the security situation and sultry the host city of the upcoming winter olympics. our the top story this hour artificial intelligence u.s. government routinely bugging computer gadgets catching online according to fresh n.s.a. leaks published in germany. and syria misses its yeah and deadline for reading itself a toxic weapon as we speak exclusively to the how to build an ice age where they prohibit chemical weapons to find out why. this is all seen to national coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program for the second time in just two days the russian city of volgograd has been targeted by terrorists today fourteen people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew up on a bus less than twenty four hours earlier a similar assault on the city's railway station clai

khodorkovsky ordinary russians were thrown into. abject poverty into abject misery this is not a man who should be called the fires in the west the only reason he's being glorified in the west is because he's a critic and opponents of president putin a president who has made strong again. for the reckless. of the nineteen nineties mr khodorkovsky valid to fight for the release of some of his former colleagues who were jailed now and some of them were found guilty on charges of murder so do you agree with mr holder confiscates description of them as political prisoners. i certainly don't agree whatsoever they're not political prisoners as you said one of them was convicted of murder the other once they were convicted of having been associated with the left of russian state assets in the ninety nine seas if. he had done what he had done in russia but say in britain where i live he would have been thrown into jail there would have been no mercy from the british major i'm quite rightly as well rico could of course create is a criminal b

three attempts five french chinese and australian ice breaker is to reach a russian ship stuck in the end in the antarctic have failed the vessel the academics you call a ski has been stranded since christmas with its crew set to be evacuated by helicopter an american icebreaker the polar star could still give it a go but that won't be for another week despite this scientists aboard the stranded ship aren't wasting their time and have continued their research and getting to know the local wildlife. more than a kilometer long train carrying crude oil crashed into another into the in the u.s. state of north dakota the collision set off a series of explosions that left at least ten wagons a blaze no one was injured but local authorities evacuated about three hundred people from the surrounding area the incident raised alarms over the safety of the growing oil by rail traffic following a spike in fracking in north dakota more than two thirds of the state's oil production is currently shipped iraq. u.n. refugee agency says the humanitarian crisis in the central african republic could be em

do you feel that plays into the russian perspective here and russian actions here, and if so in what way? >> there are a couple of things that one has to bear in mind about putin himself. one of which is that his goal from taking the presidency in 1999, 2000 was to restore russia as a state internally but also some of russia's great power standing, not in a cold war sense -- i think we have made it very we're here on the panel that is not a russian objective or a putin objective, but to basically make russia back of a player. he said he wantedt to make sure there was a geopolitical demand for russia as well they geo- economical demand. that is something that russia and putin himself have effected, and as we are talking about here, there is certainly a demand for russia to play some kind of role in the middle east, even on our part of the u.s. we see russia as an important player. i have to defend the europeans here. the europeans have played a very important role in the negotiations of iran, even if they're not playing more broadly upon the middle east process. the other elements abo

it is the revolving door of russian justice. if it becomes a dragon to go well that's an interesting point that theory's because at his news conference in berlin. he was asked whether he feels any bitterness about spending saw much time behind bars and. i would like to play what what he said. to. budge when i was running a large business in business i was fully aware. that i was a player in a very tough game commuter me. well conditional before she knew once the game you turned against me to reach became even tougher shoot him now i think he's being a bit vague here you can interpret that in many different ways but what i think he's saying is that he believes that selective justice was applied to him but he also recognizes that he did break the law and i think that applies to many of the people that you call political prisoners. activist greenpeace activists some of the defendants in the case and i wonder if you believe that the political nature of their actions justifies them breaking the law while they're talking about the lef

the russian actions or near the occupy line. are very frustrating but we want to normalize our relations with neighbor there right now i've just quoted the statement by the new prime minister of cores that we have rich cultural and economic ties but all warts political steps is russia ready to take to normalize relations with georgia or. personally you have you changed your stance on georgia or once after the shift in. the political structure you have such a comprehensive question. well i have changed my position. towards the. georgian politicians and those who are in power i have always had a positive attitude towards the georgian nation towards the people even when the. fillets is were under we. were in the military conflict was. due to the reasons you're well aware of even. in those times i had very warm attitudes towards the georgian people and it was reaffirmed even in those hours difficult hours by the attitude of georgians to wards russia did i say that and probably in one of the. us a grand for well you know an old man c

what the russians said is we are not in a free trade area with the european union perhaps one day we would like to be but we cannot have a situation where our market is flooded with european goods through the ukraine with which we have a free trade agreement so what the russians basically said was if you go ahead with this is an agreement then your arrangements with us and and that was something that i think the ukrainians woke up to in the autumn on top of the fact that the ukrainian industrialists also work up to the enormous amount of view norma's costs this is going to impose on them if they proceeded mayor. i just make one very final point about this in response to the things that young has said one has got to understand in talking about the ukraine that russia is there just as eastern ukrainians are there if you are going to make this work if you're going to have some kind of an association with the ukraine and the european union you have to involve russia you can't just wish russia away you can't just wish eastern europe east ukrainians away you can't just wish the people who

influence in this case which is a perfectly legitimate thing for the russians to do but of course in this case one just must state the fact just the second thing that i would like to react to is this question of a zero sum kind of approach the association agreement for ukraine would not have meant that the trade relations with russia would have been they would have been forced to abandon them or that you know they would have lost all of their russian kind of investments or these kinds of things that's just a very simple miss what is clear is that if you sign an association agreement you can't be in another free trade agreement that's a very technical and very you know but basically it's accept that kind of truce but we're not talking about is zero sum position that the that the europeans have given to the ukrainians quite to the contrary what they have said many times over is that this is not a zero sum thing but this is in the end beneficial for everybody involved and that was made again and again and again the one force in this game who said it had to be zero some was russia in thi

breaking news a nasty international as suicide blast in the russian city of volgograd kills at least fourteen passengers on a bus less than a day after a deadly bombing ripped through the city's train station. russia's president vladimir putin orders tightest security across the whole country in the wake of the bombings. and while some are suggesting that socks are related to the upcoming winter games and sultry but the international olympic committee she says it has no concerns about safety posse investigates the security situation and the host city. this is asking to national coming to you live from moscow and we start with breaking news this hour for the second time and just to day's the russian city of volgograd has been targeted by terrorists today fourteen people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew up on a bus less than twenty four hours earlier a similar sold on the city as a railway station climbed at least claimed at least seventeen lives archies margaret howell is following developments in volgograd for us. i am here in the marketplace where that troll a bus explod

i just spewed it's after being released from russian to all of the oil tycoon the l a cost. it is the news conference here in berlin later this afternoon speaking at checkpoint charlie a symbolic place which is to be a crossing point between east and west during the cold war. he expressed gratitude to those who supported him during his decade long incarceration heath and german towns uncle a miracle in particular where kosky also pledged to help political prisoners in russia the throughput of course can go to bed. ruth museum at checkpoint charlie early in the morning he looked fit and refreshed for a man who just emerged from a decade in prison. there were hundreds of journalists on him for the event. of course he said that he was taken aback by the huge media interest. most people can be deployed dealt the onetime threat to russian president vladimir who will do next. but he was unable to be specific. she deployed close to the future which might just don't know yet. as a prisoner told you to really really cold which you don't know what is possible and what is not possible

a suicide blast in the russian city of volgograd kills fourteen passengers on a bus less than a day out so deadly bombing ripped through the city's train station. russia's president vladimir putin orders tighter security across the whole country in the wake of the bombings actually investigate the security situation in sochi the host city of the upcoming winter olympic games. and other top stories this hour also official intelligence and u.s. government attackers are routinely bugging computer gadgets purchased online according to french and i say leaks published in germany. and syria and misses it scares deadline for reaching its house with toxic weapons we'll speak exclusively to the head will be organization but we prohibit ahead of the weapons to find out why. this is also international coming to life from moscow hello and welcome to the program and for the second time interest today's the russian city of all the grad has been targeted by terrorists today fourteen people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew up on a bus less than twenty four hours earlier a similar sort on th

one pm in moscow i match reza continuing today's breaking news coverage russian president vladimir putin has ordered security to be tightened across russia after the southern city of volgograd was struck by two explosions in a space of less than twenty four hours a latest blast ripping through a trolley bus during the monday morning rush hour in one vesta gaiters now suspect was a suicide attack both bombings have cleaned up to thirty two lives or he's margaret howell has been covering the events throughout the day in volgograd margaret are we any closer to getting more details about what happened today well some new details have emerged regarding the bombing this morning long a lot for enforcement officials now believe that the bomber there was a suicide bomber that he is male they believe that they may have found his body they are in the process of identifying it now now as you mentioned the two explosive devices identical this one in particular having roughly four k. g.'s of t.n.t. as opposed to the one before it with ten. about a smaller bomb in size but the impact still devastating

breaking news announcing to national as suicide blast in the russian city of volgograd kills fourteen passengers on a bus less than a day after a deadly bombing ripped through this it is train station. russia's president vladimir putin orders time to security across the whole country in the wake of the bombings. and some are suggesting their tongues are related to the upcoming winter games in sultry but the international olympic committee says it has no concerns about safety the international investigation the security situation in the host city. this is on c international coming to life from moscow and welcome to the program and always start with the breaking news this hour for the second time in just two days the russian city of volgograd has been targeted by terrorists today forcing people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew up on a bus less than twenty four hours earlier a similar sort on the city as a railway station claimed at least seventeen lives margaret howell is following developments involving ground. i am here in the marketplace where that troll a bus exploded th

the unity and integrity of the russian state. [applause] dear colleagues, in the may 2012 decrees, specific measures were identified that were designed to ensure dynamic development À la the areas. -- in all of the areas. those decrees provided a single program of action, accumulating the willpower and desires of millions of people. the aspiration of russians people -- of russia's people to a better life. often times one hears there is not enough resource and funds. it implements plans to bring the bar down to simplify the tasks. dear colleagues, i am now embarking on an important and responsible subject. i do not believe that we are built on a -- printable. -- on a formal principle. the economic situation may change and is changing, but this is not an excuse for revising our goals. one needs to do actual work and to look for solutions and to set budget and other priorities property -- properly. i suggest all government programs be brought up to speed within the next two years. the budget of all levels should be switched to prob

spying for the russians in 1985. good news is you're in the middle of the biggest case we've ever run. >> joining us is the man who actually busted robert hanson, the former fbi agent, eric o'neill. thanks very much for coming in. let's talk about this case that evan was just reporting on. what do you make of this alleged spy ring? >> well, it sounds a little bit like the mobster investigations where you can't get them for what you want to get them for but you get them for tax fraud. we have a group of russians who are working in the different diplomacy, the diplomacy in d.c. and consulate in new york, and it seems that you guys broke a good story, the initial investigation may have been for intelligence, for spying, and they found some other information that was able to release a much broader and distressing number of actions against them. >> if these were all russian diplomats or their spouses, for example, they would have diplomatic immunity as evan points out and the u.s. -- unless the russians agree to waive it,

three tries by french chinese and now australian ice breakers to reach a russian ship have stuff stuck in the antarctic have failed the vessel the academic chicago has been stranded since christmas stuck in the ice with its crew set to be evacuated now by helicopter and american icebreaker the polar star could still give it a go but not for another week despite this scientists aboard the stranded ship weren't wasting their time continuing their research and even getting to know the local wildlife. in a more than one kilometer long train carrying crude oil crashing into another train in the u.s. state of north dakota the collision set off a series of explosions i left more than twenty wagons on fire no one was injured but local authorities evacuated a nearby town just in case the incident raised alarms over safety of the growing oil by rail traffic following a spike in fracking in north dakota more than two thirds of the state's oil production currently shipped by rail. and there's been an early morning fighting between south sudanese forces and rebels in the flashpoint town of bor this

and this includes the russian diplomacy. and i think the foreign minister said was what was part of this is a model how international local conflicts and credits. you think you. what is your response to that. >> do you think -- >> this is an enormous capacity. >> this is now russia's standing against what is away of intervention in the affairs of other countries and the support for certain people. >> i think that was on the possible. in my view, correctly. not to intervene in the problem. and i think that we stumbled would seem to imply and imagine that it was the those are starting the whole thing which is known for democracy, they were were known as the sagittarian conflict and they would get unsold for that and it was part of that and the whole thing was transformed into something that would be contained on the basis of wider international accommodation with what ever happened to others this includes various aspects of the peace process will produce benefits for one of them. this is the nature of the game and the next pha

if you were russian. not even gonna put them. you look at that and say oh yes i want me to watch my friend t and that's exactly where i want them and i think that you can actually separate the sole european initiative from the major question in putin's mind. probably not in the ukrainians mind tornadoes of european union's clients as for the european perspective. um i think it's clear why is that in there who would want to keep ukraine we didn't have to have a trade deal with ukraine and keep those former soviet countries within his sphere of influence but what is at stake for the european union hear a lot of commentators have said the eu didn't really fight very hard to keep. two to three new clip ukraine closer but what's the use interest. i think i eat very often. in the west of its expression is still on the significance. we are conducted by opinions or by some media people. that puts presupposes values. so far ahead of politics and realpolitik. then people get carried away and say well we have to change this government in uk

the russians spent a lot of time with this. my old outfit is also engaged with providing assistance. the interesting part for me is how much will the russians allow other international partners to exist. the logistics surrounding these events becomes borderline chaos when you deal with vip visitors, kings and queens and heads of states that like to show up at the event, bringing a challenge to security agents doing protection for attendees and the olympic athletes. >> the head of russia's olympic security said: credible? >> obviously not. part of of that is russian pride, part of that is an attempt to send a message that we are prepared. it's inconceivable that you would have two attacks in two days from a group from dagestan in the caucus, and there wouldn't be additional measures taken. this is a difficult task. i mean, as fred suggests, if you can control the venues, where people go ice skatingor indoor event, events outside, they are soft targets. if they are trying to make a point, trying to embarrassment putin and draw at

now in terms of the russian olympic security. plan for the olympics we know that twenty three thousand police officers will be deployed up to ten thousand military troops who will dig deep deep to be deployed as well including twenty eight three thousand. the emergency services also will be out here during the olympic time as well everybody else within the city we've been seeing already police officers patrolling around the cities particularly at those special places that we see the vents of the twenty fourteen olympics and also the people been working on the construction there who've all come to sochi during that time building this city up will be also to leave the city come the end of december and then in terms of the transport hubs vehicles with the limited on the roads starting a from at the end of december only people with special passes will be allowed to go on the roads now of course of those numbers i'm you know we're looking forward in the next couple of days to see if indeed officials will want to extend the amount of t

you want to discuss this with a regional governments together with the russian parliament and the russian government so they could work out. a beneficial and acceptable solutions but you can't postpone solving these problems any more but i don't want to put forward any ideas of my own because in that case it will because. the final the ultimate decision and it will it will be hindering an open and free discussion i would like the people to talk openly about it so that they can could put forward their own arguments their own process columns i've recently met with the municipal leaders and i know that there are very well staffed. and i know that they're exposed to a lot of criticism. and yet it's i know that they are at the forefront of the fight for a better future. this is really they have to make really difficult choices and this is really a big ordeal for them and those who go through this ordeal successfully are the best professionals so i would like the. municipal governments to produce the best of the resources so to speak so that after the municipal government of people could move f

and of course can watch the highlights of our exclusive interview with the russian foreign minister in about an hour here on our c plus it's available in for on our website r.t. dark. egyptians who have been sewer has been rocked by a bombing of target targeted with police h.q. in the city fourteen people have been killed and more than one hundred injured the blast has devastated a large portion of the building the government has put the blame on the muslim brotherhood with spokes person calling it a terrorist organization reporting for us from cairo is tom de. around one am a series of at least two explosions went off inside and just next to the security directorate building in mansoor we know that at least two senior security officers are among the dead according to state t.v. and this is the deadliest the most audacious in a series of attacks a series of bombings which are plagued egypt since the july third ouster of mohamed morsy. and the group which has been behind most of these bombings which has claimed most of them it's called beat them up this the party zones of jerusalem. and

it's a high-stakes drama and a flash point of the larger power struggle between russian president putin on one side and the united states and europe on the other. on this edition of our program we're going to dig in to why all this matters for america. but we start on the ground in kiev's independent square. >> for more than two weeks demonstrators have rallied against the government in the ukraine's capitol kiev. in the middle of the night riot police moved into independent square. >> we're standing here, but we're moving. we're moving forward step by step, we're going forward. everyone makes a big effort for our country, for our families, and the whole world is watching ukraine. >> in freezing conditions the police pushed and shoved their way in the square trying to remove barricades and tents. protesters pushed back for hours chanting shame while those in occupied buildings dumped ice cold water on approaching police. finally the authorities pulled back. the government claimed they only wanted to restore traffic downtown. protesters are protesting against the decision of president ya

the the russian oriented or right and russian speaking part eastern part of ukraine is a minority of the country so if you say a majority of a minority want something but a majority of a majority in the other part of the country want to want something different by simple arithmetic an overall majority of ukrainians want a better relationship a more favorable economic relationship with e.u. this is about economics and this kind of the kind of cold war mentality or zero trying to define this as a zero sum game it's disappointing. let me make it clear i'm. i'm the head of a project that i think tank in philadelphia all the foreign policy research into the not speaking for the u.s. government i'm speaking based on eight years of our analysis of the situation in the post communist region and of our policies towards american and european west european policies e.u. policies towards the region in that perspective i think very frankly that the current government in moscow has made a mistake by putting pressure defining this is a zero sum game where if you crane we win some economic advantage

a suicide bomber attacked a russian train station. more than a dozen people are killed. >>> tension remains high in south sudan, the rebels moving on the city. >> weeks of protest in kiev. and protestors march on the capitol. >> a head injury in a sea accident. >> a suicide bomber has attacked a train station in southern russia killing at least 15 people, another 34 have been injured. it happened in the southern city of volgograd. comes just months before the russian winter olympics are set to start. >> a body lice on the ground -- lies on the ground as merge services the blast captured on camera. the station was packed with thousands of people leaving on their christmas holidays. inevitably, the attack killed and injured dozens of people. >> according to preliminary information the power of this explosion was the equivalent of 10 kill greams o kilograms of t. prevented the suicide bomber from getting through the metal detector into thing hall at the time there were lots of people because three trains were late. >> seven people died o

visit the russian to attend. it's a tradition that dates back many years some say it began as early as the nine hundred thirty s. when both norway and the then soviet union was still new to the occupy. the norwegians told their neighbors their traditional game called. we never even seen a stick before when we started playing we didn't know the rules and we were constantly asking questions now we've got the hang of it and how one wants. but i think we're on equal ground we're good at volleyball and always win a basketball we're about even in football and as for chess we've got a new player who will bring us victory. all the competitions are held simple to flee. winning is a matter of both countries especially when it comes to football and bundy. twice in the competitions history as the better team. at the national game. the second time. but fortune wasn't to smile on them this time. the football had the fans on the edge of their seats with the team's neck and neck . as though the russians proved victorious. i lost

crashing out of the group stage for midfielder alexander must avoid played in the tournament for the russians and says despite drawing the inform belgians their opponents could have been much tougher language there's a lot of people say belgium are a really top side but then again if you ask the majority of people who they want to know groups belgium or argentina belgium or germany belgium or spain everyone would say belgium and this sums it all up because. russia have never played out cheerier of face time career in a friendly only in november which they won two one things to goals from field a small oven to be true to our serve that result will have little bearing when the world cup gets underway with capello's men opening against a career ends in cuiaba on june seventeenth and most of all expects the russians to be in with a chance of reaching the knockout stages view i think russia and belgium of the two favorites to qualify from the group but we shouldn't forget about the south koreans who we recently beat in a friendly or is there a fast and very mobile side however if everything goes t

international a suicide blast in the russian city of volgograd kills at least fourteen passengers on a trolley bus less than a day also a deadly bombing ripped through the city's train station. russia's president vladimir putin orders times of security across the whole country in the wake of the bombings. and some are suggesting that talks are related to the upcoming winter games in salt treat a big international olympic committee says it has no concerns about safety aussie international investigates the security situation in the house searching. this is a national coming from moscow hello and welcome to the program and we start with the breaking news this hour. for the second time in just two days the russian city of volgograd has been targeted by terrorists today fourteen people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew up on a trolley bus twenty four hours earlier a similar sort on the city's a railway station claimed at least seventeen lives margaret howell is following developments involving ground for us. i am here in the marketplace where that troll a bus exploded this morn

the government of the russian federation. issues toisit these bring the situation in line with common sense with the requirements of the times. i believe clarifying the general strong,e and creating a independent and financially sustainable authority locally is a key task. this is something we must start doing and to provide legislative framework for in 2014. 50th will mark the 1 anniversary of the reform. it was the local government that allowed russia to make a thekthrough and find ability to productive large progressive reforms. through theterested mechanisms of elections, well-prepared, ambitious and professional individuals come to this institution of power. we will continue to work on legal competition, improving political institutions and providing an environment for them to be open. recent elections have shown that political life in this country is less bureaucratized and the results are much less predictable. i believe that many new parties have made themselves heard by winning seats in municipal and regional legisla