has risen at present it's now at four and among the injured is a diplomat's wife to the police the wife of the military. she's now in hospital although her condition is not critical it was to exactly what happened according to eyewitnesses they saw a man on a motorcycle following the diplomatic car and throwing an object after which the car exploded this explosion did happen less than a mile from the prime minister manmohan singh's residence police say they are currently looking for a man believed to be on that motorcycle now in terms of a diplomatic a statement prime minister israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu did come out rather quickly and a meeting of lawmakers saying that he believes that iran was behind both attacks on the israeli embassy this is while the indian and georgian authorities are holding back until the investigation reveals more details some indian terror experts expressed skepticism on the involvement of terror that it will be difficult to carry out such an attack without the involvement of local people and. had nothing

to do with it netanyahu had also said that israel had several other potential attacks in recent months that were backed by both iran and hezbollah now to put it in context iran has also been blaming israel for a series of killings and killings of scientists and officials related to the controversial nuclear program and the accusations fuel to the flame to an already rising international tension iran is currently facing harsher sanctions over its nuclear program the sanctions coming from the u.s. and its allies as well as the e.u. and time and time again that if the sanctions against iran don't work they are willing to up the ante and bring it up to a military level of course it is on the backdrop of this international conflict international tension that such incidents such as today's car bomb attacks will be scrutinized and the implications analyzed. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead with less than

a month to go until russia's presidential election prime minister is the latest campaign article highlights one of the toughest task facing the country's future and find out what shortly. plus the summer games in london or risk being marred by a controversial sponsorship deal with the chemical giant linked to one of the world's worst industrial disaster. but first russia says it will study an arab league proposal for a joint arab u.n. peacekeeping mission in syria foreign minister sergey lavrov says that a cease fire should be achieved before any mission of this kind should be deployed arty sara for the latest. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov was meeting today with his hero a counterpart they were discussing the ongoing situation in syria over the weekend of course the arab league called for a need joint u.n. arab peacekeeping mission to enter the country now the first minister responded to those calls by saying that russia would consider that proposal but the implementation of that would come with

a number of conditions because first in order to deploy a peacekeeping mission we needed the agreement of the host secondly there should first be peace which the peacekeeping mission will then help sustain you know the words there should be a kind of cease fire agreement but the trouble is that armed groups fighting with the regime's forces do not listen to anyone and are not controlled by anyone no one of the crucial points tonight and what the foreign minister has said there was that damascus would have to agree to that plan and the arab league proposal was rejected by the mask he called it to one side is simply backing the opposition not taking into account all the sides of course we've seen damascus very very wary about the u.n. being used in this way and indeed russia as well as the u.s. being used as a tool for regime change rather than pushing for an end to the violence as well russia from the very beginning means very clear about that that the any proposal

should be taking into account all the sides are not simply part of the opposition today the foreign minister calling on the opposition he waited for very clear they did want to have dialogue with the president to at least continue dialogue with the government with the vice president there now we actually heard today from the visiting u.a.e. foreign minister was the arab league seen very clear that they're going to back the opposition financially and politically he said that the maybe there are plans to back the opposition militarily but of course there are already reports that countries like qatar have indeed already started arming the opposition. within the country has cooling a lot of concerns of course he's seen the situation growing increasingly violent as members of the opposition and different factions of the opposition have the coming . now over the weekend we had al-qaeda publicly backing the opposition and that is really fueling fears that the situation in the country at the main is really a very ground for the interference of terrorist groups. in neighboring let it out

officials say at least three people have died more than twenty wounded during clashes between sunni muslims hostile to the syrian regime and al the whites who support it for more on this i'm joined by marcel lumumba a sitter for the universal peace federation now it seems that we're seeing some violence spilling across the border how serious are these clashes do you think. well there are very serious according to lebanese officials and security spokes men of the actually the lebanese army and according to my own analysis this only shows is strong signal actually towards not only syria but also to middle east by itself because lebanon is not only in neighboring states for syria and the republic syria under bashar al assad today the regime actually but the sunni and the shiite the problem is that they are interconnected to the shiite and the area and most of the powerful groups inside lebanon such as hezbollah are the party of god they are

a major league shiite animal movement let's say they are the major ruling parties actually representing the shiite muslim they are recruits they connected to the regime of president bashar al assad and they are not well thought of by current local sunni is inside tripoli and i cut region which is a very close region geographically and strategically towards the border with the republic of syria to these there is a high tension between the not only the two peoples that see but certain people they have been you know supporting actually the opposition is inside syria by you i meant the people from north lebanon majorly they are sunni sunni but there are alawite inside the north especially. what's that all about which is a majority of alawite that the occupy there or the actually they live there by by a majority and that they are closely related to the ruling party the ba'ath party

and dr bashar assad the ruling alawite sect inside syria but the problem is this is not seen by the west or the international community as a sectarian not only the sectarian. conspiracy against the region between different factions will do or different sects inside the muslim religion in the area between even lebanese themselves and syrian this is. the whole plot that has been demonstrated or architect of actually or engineered let's see by the west so far and the united states in particular and even israel in order to divide the nations of the neighboring nations such as lebanon and syria which is a great that it made towards isn't it because they have supported the islamic and certain resistances with it inside lebanon or inside palestine i meant gaza and hamas in particular how could developments in the or check that rather the arab league observers mission in syria last month has blamed both the government and opposition for the violence why do you think the league is taking so long in

bringing measures against the authorities while supporting the opposition. well they are betting on time it seems there's a tactic by the arab league not only perpetrated by them but the in coordination with the united nations under the umbrella of the west i meant the united states administration and the white house specifically and the european commission unfortunately or the libyan continent headed by britain so far and as i heard there are a british experts under the military arms and guns actually inside homes so far and they are believing that actually the west they are believing that the russian experts military and experts inside intelligence actually they are based within the syrian army offices and certain headquarters by the syrian national army which is headed by bashar al assad because he is the highest ranking actually general in ordering such military action inside major cities and cites you know the whole situation it needs to have a certain dialogue myself as

a peace ambassador i urge and i do any condemn the any massacres that have been committed by either sides it's time i think for enough bloodshed it's time for a dialogue between both conflicting parties and it is truly the time to stop killing any children or women or elderly people on the streets of either homes or that our dead live even a liberal and liberal has never seen or has that has not been under test two forces eleven months or twelve months so far or a year ago let's say inside which is a major economic city inside syria and this has been such a signal that even economic cities can be hurt by international terrorism in coordination with local terrorist groups but they can't hurt inside syria and i meant inside a city is that have been so quiet and so natural and they have been going on with their own lives i mean the people of aleppo insights here are from western or arab

states the opposition now says it enjoys backing from al-qaeda so how much of a p.r. goal is it that countries like u.s. and u.k. and france may now find themselves on the same side as a terror group when it comes to goals in syria. i think this back up or support by the law which is the leader of al qaida international and even in the middle east that see because they have representatives even inside syria and lebanon i suspect this as i always did but unfortunately our own government does not recognize so for as the defense ministry says i mean it while ago now the al qaeda has even bases inside out of the nations neighboring nations to lebanon and syria but on purpose this has been publicly on media so far by. who is the leader in order to put some more pressure against the regime it could be not core they need to do it engineered by the west because i see al qaeda as really an enemy to the west so far

but do not forget that i'll cry the used to be funded and even engineered by the west back then under the soviet union when they had a fight between al qaeda and osama bin laden back in the late seventy's and early eighty's against back then the soviet union all to the well known as the russian federation. saloon bassett or for universal peace federation thanks for your insight thank you very much thank you investigative journalist and middle east expert acer winstanley spoke with r.t. that told r.t. the syrian opposition is fragmented and says there is no unity between groups or means of fighting the regime here is a preview. although both sides deny differences in. in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition and mainly between the people who support outside intervention and the protestors who don't so you've got groups like the syrian national council which are now openly in favor of

a no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because you know there isn't any even claimed that i know of the syrian regime for all its many crimes there's no claims that is a problem to people so no fly zone just seems a political pretext to invade to me. buildings on fire shops looted dozens injured this is how the greek people met a new round of drastic cuts approved by their parliament tens of thousands protested the deeply unpopular package needed to get a second bailout from international creditors argues jacob greaves has more from athens. based on those pictures as events that took place last night really getting a sense here that the government the greek government is under attack from all sides now you've got the euro zone international monetary fund really increasing the pressure saying the cops haven't gone far enough and they have implemented correctly also we saw taking place last night we have the demonstrators now really

seeing in very large numbers up to one hundred thousand people in attendance and there is growing anger throughout the course of that evening in the end we saw clashes taking place with police and that resulted in certain amounts of petrol bombs being thrown at police by some anarchists in the crowd also police italian. firing tear gas into a crowd there resulting in total and dozens of injuries we also saw dozens of buildings of flame all of this of course taking place in central athens now there is a lot of discontent as well within harlem and we saw that take place last night a number of m.p.'s forty three from the ruling coalition made up of socialist served as they rebelled against this latest measure of force there see cuts now what we're talking about here really is fifteen thousand job cuts in the public

sector or so that's going to be accompanied by slashing by twenty percent of the minimum wage and cuts to pensions three those who are being affected are those who are probably most exposed by these crisis conditions have to bear in mind this is something that greece is really where the for some time it's a situation they are all too familiar with and had their team measures for a number of years impose them by international bodies and hasn't been that many positive financial indicators since you seem g.d.p. slumping in two thousand and eleven so the main message coming from the demonstration taking place yes they said and the protests this is the. what price will be expected to pay for these. germany's finance minister has declared that promises aren't enough anymore saying greece must now implement reforms to prove it's not just a bottomless pit john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation says there are more radical plans currently being drawn up by the germans for there is

one theory and i lend some credence to it that the germans who are calling the shots on this do indeed want to force greece out of the euro there is a lot of bad feeling towards greece by germans by germany and vice versa and there is a theory that perhaps certain leading german polish politicians want to love the boil and get rid of greece if that is the calculation in other words to force greece to leave the euro if that is the calculation i fear that it's a mistake because the problem in the eurozone is not a greek problem it is a structural problem in the eurozone these debt problems which various countries are suffering from including of course italy but also portugal spain and these debt problems are the inevitable consequence of the way the euro is structured they are the inevitable consequence of it and the measures which are being required of these countries to as it were remedy the situation are only making things worse so even

if greece were to be forced out of the euro my prediction is that the markets would then realize that the eurozone is not impregnable and would turn their attention to other countries as well whose position is very similar in particular political parties cross-talk is also focusing on the greece greece's financial predicament coming your way in less than fifteen minutes the hidden costs of the bailout rescue . the exchange is clear in germany you give me the cash to survive given my debt problem and i'll give you my sovereignty but will the public actually comply will they agree to accept the pain of this austerity and will they agree to submit the most important. sovereign aspect which is your school your budget to technocrats in brussels that are not answerable to your population through. them of managing to get going to me that there's nothing and that's i might's i might be provocative here but that's all it is the little c.p.o. you jean international monetary fund.

population decline one of the toughest problems facing russia in the long term but the disturbing trend can be reversed according to the country's prime minister is the latest campaign article in a bid to return as president vladimir putin has put forward plans for social reforms he hopes will significantly improve the demographic situation the proposed measures include better welfare for families with many children smarter immigration policies including the repatriation of russians abroad the article titled building justice also focuses on salary hikes for teachers as well as making housing affordable to everyone by twenty thirty putin's wrapped up his election campaign in the light of mass opposition protests as political analyst dimitri bad as he explains now mainly addressing russia's middle class my whole is that putin on the stance that he's a doctorate right now it's not reach you know reach c.t. people he's an entrant these are the real russian middle class you know people who

believe in small towns who have a really hard time adapting to the market economy mean c.t.'s so i hope he's economic point is a little more to the left you know we had a former finance minister who did we have that definite tilt to the right now if we believe what putin writes he wants to get the states policy more to he's real electorate which means you know the masa of the russian people. can always read more on our website r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. and stripping down to shake things up find out the naked truth behind the message this ukrainian activist groups topless tactics on a visit to russia. and nothing says i love you like a cockroach find out more about the creepy crawly valentine's gift that some love birds are sharing with their sweethearts on our team dot com.

after more than two decades the effects of one of the world's worst ever industrial disasters still lingers in bhopal india now the scandal is fixing itself to london's attempt to stage a green a lympics this summer bennett has more on a controversial new partnership. organizers claim is the greenest most sustainable a limb pick games ever but a poisonous cloud of controversy hangs over london twenty twelve because of links to this the bhopal gas leak nine hundred eighty four one of the worst industrial disasters of all time left a toxic legacy still claiming lives the company responsibles now owned by dow chemical a major olympic sponsor meredith alexander was part of the game's ethics watchdog

but is just quit in protest all of it is supposed to be about this and instead all of us are going to have a toxic legacy of dow chemicals are hundreds fifteen thousand people died when poisonous gas leaked from a factory in rural india the subsequent fall out killed another ten thousand congenital birth defects in the area ten times the norm in the rest of india for was ten of the time the gas she inhaled left permanent damage and as well i can believe that how it would all been high and the money's been taken for i got just one thousand dollars compensation part of a four hundred seventy million dollars payout in one thousand nine hundred nine by union carbide the factory owners dow chemical company in two thousand and one but

denies any lingering liabilities but the indian government disagrees demanding dow stumps up one point six billion dollars to clean up the contamination that lives on people's building that water that has been going down needed. factory children are being born with deformities people have more cancers there's growth retardation and boy death there is girls have problem with their periods all kinds of issues that have have been. it isn't the legacy that has been left behind this void and. dow chemical is paying for the fabric that will be draped around the stadium olympic rules forbid any advertising during the games itself but doubt is allowed to splash its logo all over that. before the games actually begin but it's now said it's not even going to do that it says it's nothing to do with the protests but it

does mean it's paying seven million pounds for something that won't even show its name but dow will still be able to call itself a sustainable a limb pick partner and organizers say their conscience is clean supposedly thanks to a green light from the ethics watchdog absolutely i do not agree with it it was the question was asked to look at the process and there were discussions within the question and i lie self presented a lot of evidence about what happened in the hall and then i was shocked to see a public statement come out i would never have signed off that statement dow chemical refused to speak to us so did london organizers instead they issued this statement from twenty twelve chief lord coe i absolutely stand by our procurement process. distance the most sustainable solution to iraq and we are comfortable with a boy called from indian athletes has been called off but india is a limpid committee is still demanding down to be dropped with just six months to go

it's unlikely they'll get their wish leaving claims of a sustainable legacy severely in doubt either bennett r.t. london. green is up next with the business news stay with us here at r.t. . my. hello and welcome to business the south thanks for joining me there's been a burst of interest in russian shares since the beginning of the year we're turning growth in the u.s. and progress with europe's debt is fueling appetite for risk last year more than eighty billion dollars fled the country business here there's been an inflow of one billion dollars to church on from the nascence asset managers says the perception of russia is changing. there has been a change of attitude towards the russian equity market since the beginning of the year and. demonstrated by the fund but the russian equity market has outperformed the markets in the world so to give you

a play you put nearly twenty percent since the beginning of the year where. you ice market has gone up only by seven percent since the beginning of the indian certainty over the politiques seems to have subsided but it's very much market pick speculations now and that mr putin will come back is president and the one difference which we have relative to these time left here is that. expectations for reform one seems to put a new president. or has recovered from a three day low as concerns grow that a ban on the rainy and crude make up supplies like sweet is trading over one hundred dollars a barrel while brant is that it's over one hundred eighteen dollars about u.s. stocks so high it may day off to greece's problem of cool stereo measures financial stocks are doing streaming well with bank of america two percent apple rose one point four percent and for the first time cost five hundred dollars a share before falling back to four hundred ninety nine dollars sixty nine cents

european shares closed in the black on monday after greece's parliament approved a deeply unpopular sturdy bill banks were among the main gainers across europe miners were also higher as the stronger euro helped boost the price of copper and other metals and here in russia markets ended higher with the mars it's giving the most in five weeks energy mage's among the biggest advances let's check on the index movements on the price of gas finished high on news that european market share grew by four percentage points to twenty seven percent last year noisemaker was his biggest mining company and france the most in a month on high prices for nickel gold ended lower on news merger talks between the company and another line of poly metal failed. but this fast growing food retail market which keeps on luring foreign investors seven eleven is one world renowned food chain thought to be eyeing up the market the company hasn't officially

confirmed the rumors last year the retailer said its priorities were brazil and india analysts say that seven eleven will have a hard time if it doesn't develop a food chain in russia alone they added that the most logical move would be to team up with an existing market share. and that's all the business is that i'll be back in fifteen minutes. culture is the same us you are going to go right you'll already know most of us

learn something different in these hard times there's no shortage of austerity in the slashing of budgets of the shrinking of the welfare state generate jobs in return is to. any match one see. is bound. to burn for ever more eternal fire is going to think you could possibly. do we all want to see this on forever. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know. i'm tom foreman welcome to the big picture.

we. nine thirty pm in moscow the zero r.t. headlines israel accuses iran of being behind bomb attacks targeting israeli embassies in georgia and india in which four people are thought to have been injured. russia says or regrets the arab league winding down its observers work in syria and stresses a proposed peacekeeping mission could only be deployed once the government and opposition agree to a cease fire. fiery protests in athens followed by chaos and looting as public outrage escalates after the greek parliament passes a new austerity bill to secure and other e.u.

bailout. next we take you to the russian republic of mariel where a community culture clash has become overcome through shared faith. this is how people of many ethnic groups prayed to ancient times. today this is the sort of worship but can only be found in this russian region. that i'm. not allowed to worship in soviet times people like us who did were put on trial we hope. as floods quakes and manmade disasters. services like the use a rooted in ancient history these words were firsts.