breaking news here all in all it's at least fifteen people are being killed in a kabul market in russia's volatile north caucasus region around ninety all those were injured in the attack in the republic of north the second security has been stepped up in fear of mobile.

live from moscow this is our thoughts here let's go let's get to our top story now . huge car bombing in the city of lot of us in southern russia has killed at least fifteen people a suicide bomber is believed to have carried out the attack which also injured around eighty our correspondent on the opposition the region with the latest developments. it's also explosions off the central market in logic of cost or a bomb has been funded in the car part of it one of the entrance gates to entrance gate to use its market so it will want a car wash box fish market is one of the princes places in greece cd and it's always packed with people we've talked with some locals and they say they will first things first that he gets the blasts and bad people started calling their friends and families to find out what happened everybody was shocked the whole area is covered with blood and it's really shocking seeing now the whole area where you plug by police the medics are taken into cuban hospitals liminal report has gone

contains forty kilos of t.n.t. and are they hadn't also said here who was at the scene said earlier that the law was carried out by former i wouldn't also say that explosion was so powerful it smashed out the windows and in houses nearby the criminal case has been launched and investigators call fiberglass as an act of terrorism so now the russian president dmitry medvedev just called it to emergencies and tells me to try to provide all intrinsically to necessarily aid and the injured and the families all that we can get compensation from the. pictures all so far but we'll keep you updated. talk to correspond on our last show but we plan to get a live report from a live update and in the coming minutes i witness accounts are coming in from the city and here's what some of the locals off saying about this attack. but you could

show i didn't hear much we were sitting there talking and then we heard some debris fall of the ground that was it became outside and saw dead bodies on the ground you know i didn't look at the time i think it was around eleven i told you i was in the pavilion i don't know anything else i told you everything it's all i saw was coming grandmother was killed along with one of her grandchildren my daughter in law went to the market and i still don't know if she is alive she hasn't called me i'm so sorry to lose them i was at home my house is on the street nearby so i heard it i don't know what happened i came here and they told me that everyone died the people who had the fruit stand clear the woman who sold greens they have all been killed. we pulled this out of a woman's leg my friend works here is a jeweler and they survive because they entered a shock across the street from the bomb and seen right before the explosion his mother happened to be standing behind a pillar when the bomb went off she survived whom it was turned into our way and

this is what we pull out of her leg. well russia's top authorities have taken personal charge of the investigation into today's terror attack our correspondents are now going to join us live and hello to you sara so the case is clearly being treated with the utmost importance but all the authorities any closer to catching those behind this well earlier today here in moscow president medvedev met with security officials and this case is now under the control of russia's chief general prosecutor now we've heard him saying asking the emergency ministers to provide all unnecessary support said today to get affected by this attack. because i would first of all i just say to all the people of north to say that we are mourning the victims innocent victims of this terrible tragedy russia's people with the people of north. first priority is to give medical help to those who are

injured in front of camp cast moscow or any where it's needed and to offer moral and financial support to victims and their families so you know the latest information is coming from the general prosecutor's office is that the owner of the car that was carrying the bomb has been established we know that the number plates were registered to the neighboring india yet region now there are unconfirmed reports at the moment that the caller has actually been caught and arrested and is now being questioned but we do know why mr peyton has come out and said that he weather is responsible for this will be cause and will be able to just. be changed . thank you very much for your words of condolences and your brave position i know how many muslim clerics have suffered a terrorist towns from openly stating that they were against terrorism and extremism russia is a multi-faith country it is diverse and that is the reason it's strong muslims

reside all across russia would regions that are considered traditionally muslim are home to only half of russia's muslims or a little over them. over forty percent of russia's muslims live in other areas of the country crimes like the ones they were committed to doing in very kind of cars aimed at promoting amnesty between people. and of course muslims must play a decisive role in this struggle i thank you for expressing your position. now the head of the federal security service has travelled to. be assisting the police and investigators down here in moscow security certainly being stepped up in the wake of this attack and any calls that are coming into the capital now being closely monitored. sir can you can you bring us up to date on the casualties we've had the most severely injured are now being airlifted. yes to the emergency ministry a plane. that left about an hour and that was carrying medical equipment.

medical staff to assist the hospitals in the area think they have been injured now we need to know the plane is preparing to leave as well and. carry twenty people back to the emergency ministry at least ten of the people who have been injured in that area are in a very serious condition say to him. and treat them. all right. thank you well political analyst dmitri babich says north ossetia has often been a target for islamic militants with links to al qaeda. the author said their house has been a bargain for terrorist attacks for a long time i would like to remind you of that child when he was alive all of north are said to russian good reason in not boxers because i say down south the only ethnic group in the north caucasus besides russians which is predominately also the

christian explosion so the market especially invited confidence were very very often used in the past i would remind you of that vinyl there was a terrorist attacks in the ninety s. was also an explosion at the market invited showed them there they used alarmist terrorist in north caucasus had connections to al qaeda they didn't make a secret out there where the western press doesn't report that very often about that cage and that he was also hear stories that some way in afghanistan where people were taken prisoner or some camp was destroyed people from north caucasus were also present there unfortunately. now all schools and kindergartens were also evacuated in vladikavkaz this morning after a telephone warning that claimed one of them would be bombed out of thousands of the ria novosti news agency says today's events show the terrorists have been waiting for the opportunity to seize power. with i think terrorists want to

take revenge for the beslan school siege during this year's commemoration of into the security forces were on high alert so no terrorist attacks were carried out now security measures have been slightly weakened by terrorists attack people you know i'm almost sure that extremists are behind this blast he was fully with foreign support but of course he can see for sure which organization is behind the attack terrorists which blew up the car just wanted to stabilize the situation in the north caucasus and discredit the current leaders in the area they want to show that the states of thirty's are feeling to provide stability in the region. our to discuss the latest developments on russia's ongoing war on terror i'm now joined by victor coming from the international federation for peace and conciliation thank you for joining me today. this attack comes just a month after russia's much talked about operation against militants in the north caucuses where some forty militants were killed during those operations was moscow do you think too quick to boast about its success against terrorism so i don't think that somebody has

a boost in the success i think it was really. a result of the concrete attempts to hide the tourism but i think the question is not in the results or in how many people have been killed the question is how we will find the answer i'll just talk the true reason and how to stop the people to join these terrorist operations against the civilians because mainly because suffering from these this is a normal civilian population now could today's attack be a message from the militants to say that no amount of security measures can stop us from our agenda so i think that this is not the question which are related just for today's situation because the question of the war in the northern caucasus as well as in the world is that these the war against the reason this is the question of long term roar in all fields and first of all

this should be social political and the. economic responsibility in the region. to. will draw the people from the opportunity to join the terrorists so you're saying this is an ongoing agenda here from the terrorists to continue waging their war here there are some to say that more militants are killed the more a born what you have to say about that definitely think if to take into consideration the traditions in in this region. it can be the case but i think that the roots are a bit different and i think that all the people politicians the military the security forces they have to think together to be vigilant civil society and build the spiritual leaders of the to understand what is really good and not how do you think russia can be terrorism without fuelling retaliation or creating so-called black widows these female suicide bombers. so i think that for for this it's

necessary to really unify the efforts in the in the country first of all and also it should be aerial international cooperation in the fight against terrorism because this is not only. the local roads which creates the opportunities for this struggle in confrontation but also in order to victor the commission of the president of the federation for peace and conciliation thank you. well and to recap our top story this hour at least fifteen people have been killed in a car bombing at a market in the southern russian city of lot of caskets a suicide bomber is believed to have carried out the attack which also injured around ninety it's not the first time markets in the capital of russia's volatile republic of north of thirty or have been targeted by terrorists the first and deadliest attack took place at the central market of logic costs in march one thousand nine hundred ninety nine claimed fifty two lives and left over one hundred people injured a year later

a car bombing in the same market killed six terror returned for the next two years but this time in different locations but with the same deadly outcome another thirteen people lost their lives and in november two thousand and eight a minibus exploded in a market square outside a cinema killing twelve and injuring forty one. and later we'll bring you more on the marketplace attack in the bloody tough costs live from the scene of the explosion. well for the meantime though we're going to go back to our live broadcast in the city just northeast of moscow of all our continuing coverage of the global policy forum. well some of the best minds from the world over have gathered in this old russian

city for a two day brainstorming the forums dealing with issues such as boosting global security and improving standards of democracy there are representatives from the twenty nine countries and it's being supported by russian president dmitry medvedev . is about two hundred fifty kilometers northeast of moscow and it's on the list of unesco world heritage sites this weekend marks its thousand year anniversary and will be there throughout the celebrations well to talk more about what's going on around this international things and we're now joined live by our correspondent there in the hours out of. well it's you can read some fairly important people in this city at the moment what's been happening so far. well we've had the first day of the forum up plenary sessions various meets and greets informal discussions and right now get another working sessions where the participants the policymakers the experts the analysts and the journalists all have

a chance to talk to talk out their opinions voice their opinions i hear what their opponents and the like minded individuals have to say and what the discussions are going to be about basically course is the first state market russian president putin is going to be taking part in the discussions and despite the fact that is a relatively young before him of course this is only the second world policy forum that is taking place in this historic washington already many are very optimistic about itself or tunis and possibilities saying that it could expand into a very strategic part of the international community let's listen to what adrian pap's a professor of all it's all a g. from the university of kent told r.t. a little earlier. now so many common challenges economic and environmental also political and it's very clear about countries like russia with a long cultural intellectual tradition have a lot to offer in terms of trying to understand the problems and trying to find

common solutions and i certainly see lots of potential because i think the case of pavel's makes very clear that international economic and financial debate can be extremely influential battle started off as a small initiative and has grown into a global fixture and i think he also has the same potential which is the focus is on the i think it's important that we move away from just be criticizing each other or lecturing each other or simply talking at cross purposes and really try and find the common modes and i think debate exchange critical questions and constructive contributions is what's needed and i think the former is just wrong in that direction and i look very much forward to seeing how about what unfolds in the next two days. so of course many hold many some hold their reservations are wondering whether the forum will in fact be able to get past the talking stage and actually implement some of the decisions that are made here or even just get back from move forward in fact from just talking and saying one's own point of view and not really accepting what the others here have come to say so far

most of the people that we've spoken to are very optimistic very happy to be here and of course we'll continue their discussions and we'll continue monitoring them and updating our viewers with the latest from. me reporting live from the global policy forum thank you. well global security is going to be one of the major topics during the local forum and head of the event you spoke to economic historian robert skidelsky he says the e.u. should consider russia's proposal for a new european security treaty. russia should be a much more effective part of the european security system and not be outside. because the european actually european military is very very weak the very to military power in europe the french and the british the rest haven't they do anything really but this small and there's no unity.

sort of no agreement to create something larger and russia has a has it has has good military forces and they're becoming increasingly modernized and specialized to the kind of work. that military forces have to do today which isn't to provide huge rewards but to the top of the counterinsurgency operations peacekeeping operations and so on so russia could be a great asset for european security system and president medvedev has suggested a new security concept that would include russia and we should that we should take him up on that and really see what we can do with it because all through russia is part of europe it shouldn't be outside. the founding director of your society in australia richard woolcott says the european security initiative could be

a step towards better global security. and centrism did you introduce this. lead for business regional security arrangements a new. plan to create detention germany june two thousand and eight i gather the first time and it's quite interesting. for prime minister kevin rudd he'll say. launch this idea of the need for an asia pacific some. security issues which are in june two thousand and eight so this is i think a very important set. of particularly both these concepts move forward and then you can find some linkage between the region and the global security that's a good thing because it will face common cause. and we'll have more live coverage from the global policy forum throughout the day so do stay with us for that. and when the news is not enough. when it's something really crucial what you want to

get down to brass tacks. special coverage. this time the latest news from the. policy forum live broadcasts special guests discussions on the you know modern stakes in providing security and stability of the present day world. question more on. it's now twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you without c let's turn to some other of today's stories now and prosecutors are investigating the crash landing of a crippled russian airliner in the northwest of the country old eighty one people on board miraculously survived after a mid-air failure of major electrical systems the pilots managed to touch down on an abandoned landing strip in the middle of a forest as tom barton he reports on this. the pilots an engineer just returned his

suv new cover airport in moscow they'll now go and talk to some psychologists for some deep breathes and counseling for any stress they may have undergone and what was a very tense landing they've also been helping investigators at the site trying to work out what happened and that's what investigators will be doing in the next week to ten days trying to get to the root of this search engine that tickle failure they currently say in a preliminary statement that they think that three out of four of the plane's electrical generators failed but for the full story on this remarkable crash landing we'll go to my report. new reckless that's what experts in passengers a calling the crash landing of this plane in the russian taiga without anyone injured we see in the polls will any ever in history and ended up in the roots imagistic crews arrived to find two weeks everything was organized very fast asleep you could not for the professionalism of the crew we would not be standing here.

the tupolev one five four was flying at ten thousand meters on its way to moscow from russia's far east when there was a massive electrical failure the plane lost all automatic navigation and communication its fuel supply and wing flaps were crippled meaning i had to land quickly and at higher than normal speeds even the lights in the cabin and cockpit went out my sight too low privates found abandoned their strip in the depths of the forest and managed to land on the third attempt. by plane was designed to land on a concrete airstrip and at first we chose a restaurant in decided to land there but during the maneuver by a miracle we cut a glimpse of a concrete strip and all the shorter it would be much safer. the runway was too small for the plane and it overshot plowing through two hundred meters of trees before stopping but despite the danger all eighty one people on board were evacuated to safety investigators now pondering what caused such

a massive electrical failure providing that to police what fifty four is not quite the brand you have craft and i'm sure that that craft was manufactured probably at least twenty years ago away with more. i believe there is a chance that they could we plant was just more of our. lines which owns the plane says it wasn't aware of any issues with it so when a professional investigation committee is working out the site to find out what really happened before the flight the plane was functioning normally it on the ground planned technical maintenance and preflight checks out or seventy two passengers only two people a married couple refused to continue their journey by plane they went by train there was no real panic when the plane landed there was slight nervousness because there were emergency slides and everyone was anxious to leave the plane as soon as possible but the stewards did everything well and the evacuation was done in a normal manner and reduce the pilots are helping investigators to examine the scene before following the passengers back to the capital in

a few days but whatever the technical courses there are already calls for them to receive medals for bravery and skill the airline that owns the aircraft our roster airlines says that even if the plane is found to be functioning normally after they will never fly it again so although the plane story has come to an end the story of these aero pilots is really just beginning. well the u.s. navy has delayed the release of its plans to move more than eight and a half thousand marines from their military base on the japanese island of okinawa it's likely it's a local so highly critical of the u.s. presence. since the end of world war two the united states has had a military presence in japan which some people living in okinawa are finding a nuisance i don't hate people but sometimes we have a trouble with them because over the. song. next to doesn't

for. america. there was a huge problem. around eighteen percent of okinawa's main island is occupied by u.s. military forces here a week we can hear the noise of their airplanes which interrupt the city sounds and there are have also been maybe some accidents or crimes not only with this base but with other bases but. as we know it's also. they also help the economy and the people from up to now or into basis or depend on the basis weeding some to believe that in order to provide a more stable future there needs to be less reliance on the basis we must. look on the direction and make more business and we need to be

independent intending to station dinny to market represents okinawa in japan's house of representatives and is looking to bring about change. it has been sixty years since world war two seventy percent of u.s. bases in japan are in a can now we know that there are security measures and programs in place in asian countries we want the u.s. to reduce their bases games aside from noise police. and space concerns that one of the arguments against u.s. military bases on okinawa is a crime according to the treaty american citizens attached to the base can't be tried under japanese law now most of the crimes about ninety percent involve drinking and driving or are traffic related but there are a few high profile crimes which include rape and murder which have put a strain on japanese u.s. relations see them with us to hear crimes do happen the japanese security cannot deal with them directly they must go through the u.s. military base command then you have to simply trust them it becomes very difficult

. the u.s. military declined an interview with r.t. but did give us this statement we are as a small group of people in okinawa vocalized and they are not happy with the bases many people there and on mainland japan fully support u.s. forces in okinawa and to japan the realize the vital role the point in the defense of japan and for regional stability and security but getting the u.s. out isn't as easy as a vote by the people japan's surrender at the end of the war limits the country to having only a security defense force as part of the treaty the united states officially acts as japan's military in case a conflict should arise that affects the country but now there is a small but vocal movement suggesting that it is time to review old policies that just aren't needed anymore. the situation in egypt has calmed there are no conflicts here any conflicts that existed or and were.