explosives detonated. another two cars found. in each of those another dead body. in another village the next one over, if you will, a few miles away again, another vehicle found there. three bodies inside of it. a bucket with explosives placed nearby to that vehicle. the police detonated the explosives on or made safe the explosives near the vehicle. it appears as if these were possible attacks staged to draw in the police and then detonate explosives to injure the police. but, of course, the intelligence services here, very detrying to figure out if there is any linking to sochi. this happened in the volatile region where there is a lot of terrorism over the past number of years. of course, it happens very, very close, literally just over the mountains from where the winter olympics will be taking place in less than a month. were these are these bodies connect medical some way?
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right? jenna: and a really good book. jon: speaking of cold, russian president vladimir putin is paying a visit to sochi, the host of next month s winter olympics. true to form, mr. putin even strapped on a pair of skis and hit the slopes. not to olympic ski run, but a nearby resort for non-olympians. jenna: like a bunny hill? j. jon: he momentum want to em he doesn t want to embarrass himself. jenna: that looks like a nice little run. i shouldn t be so judgmental anyways. [laughter] just when you thought your privacy couldn t be compromised any further, think again. the nsa s reportedly developing a supercomputer that can decrypt any code. we ll bring you a full report in the next hour. and cheerios, they re a favorite, right, jon? jon: uh-huh. jenna: come on, everybody loves cheerios. what is the cereal maker taking out of its original recipe?
linked. diana magnay joins us live now from moscow. what do we know about this latest blast? reporter: well, we believe from authorities or they re telling us this was also the work of a suicide bomber and they are analyzing now the dna of the remains of both the attackers to try to find out their identities. they also say when they ve looked at the explosives used both of them included a type of shrapnel that was identical and, therefore, they believe they were linked and it s more than likely they are, therefore they originate from the north caucasus region close to volgograd, fairly close, also, to sochi, where the olympic games are due to take place in six weeks time or a little under that. the north caucasus is where all the terror attacks that have taken place on russian soil in recent years have originated
gold medals in berlin. in 1980, the united states did boycott the summer olympics, president jimmy carter made the call that all american athletes would sit out the games in moscow to protest the soviet invasion of afghanistan. and the ussr returned that favor four years late, boycotting the summer games in los angeles, which brings us back to russia right now. this past summer, country that already had a spotty history on gay rights, russian parliament unanimously passed a new law against so-called gay propaganda. it makes it illegal to say straight relationships and gay relationships are equal, the law that says distribution of any kind of material about being gay is a crime. just this week, a court in russia convicted a gay rights advocate for breaking that law. because he held up a sign saying that being gay is normal. in response to russia s human rights crackdown, the united states is not boycotting the games, not this time. but that doesn t mean it isn t protesting. that officia