swarms of locusts devour entire fields. officials say at least 10% of crops have already been destroyed. it s devastating the livelihoods of local farmers like piotr stefenchenko. look, he says. there s nothing left on the corn. the locusts ate it all, from the leaves to the cobs. officials from the russian ministry of agriculture say they re stepping up efforts to save the harvest, declaring a state of emergency and spraying the crops with powerful pesticides. but officials admit the locust swarm is moving too fast across southern russia. translator: volgograd, dagest dagestan, there is no more food left for locusts there. so they have flown to a new source of food. they have wing spans of nearly 12 centimeters, like small sparrows. reporter: some frustrated locals have posted videos of
too. exactly. the other link is to a man named mahmoud al sunidal. sort of this war lord and islamic extremist who was killed back in may of 2012. so what we see happening here is the creation of the timeline where russian counterterrorism forces are really going after these rebels who are in the mountains. so you have first the death of mahmoud and whether those two deaths influenced tsarnaev to get out of dagestan is what they re looking at right now. there s been no confirmation that he midwest met specifically
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chechnya one disturbing trend, in that part they actually have a for them there. they re called black widows named that way because some are wives of insurgents killed by government forces who themselves then take up the cause and become suicide bombers. nic robertson is in dagestan with an outfront investigation. reporter: in dagestan s capital last may, an inferno. moments earlier, a female suicide bomber known here as a black widow detonated a bomb at a police checkpoint. minutes later, another blast. the following day reveals the full horror. the black widow s brother, driving a car bomb blew this fire truck apart. callous timing killing the emergency service workers just as they arrived to put out the flames. a brutal conflict spilling over from neighboring chechnya playing out as tamerlan tsarnaev
blood dna could have indicated that this came from a victim. skin cell dna, as joe ind indicated, from someone along the manufacturering line or someone involved in the making of the bomb. a possible link between tamer tamerlan tsarnaev, the older brother, and a jihadist in russia who died in a firefight with police while tamerlan tsarnaev was in the region right? that s right. what we re learning is that they re looking into the possible link between tamerlan tsarnaev and a young boxer, canadian turned jihadi. he and six others killed in the dagest dagestan region in july 2012, exactly the same time that tamerlan tsarnaev was in the very same region. his body was prepared for burial by an imam july 14th. they believe it was brought down from the mountains and prepare days later, tamerlan left