she's now in hospital though her condition is not critical it was to exactly what happened according to eyewitnesses they saw a man on the motorcycle fall with the diplomatic car we're going to object to which the car exploded this explosion did happen less than a mile. 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. and a meeting of lawmakers saying that he believes that iran was behind both attacks on the israeli embassy this is why georgian authorities are holding back until the investigation reveals more details some experts expressed skepticism on the involvement of saying that it will be difficult to carry out such an attack without the involvement of local people and they. had nothing to do with it to put it in context iran had also been blaming israel for

a series of killings and killings of scientists and officials related to the controversial nuclear program the accusations from 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. time and time again that is the sanctions against iran don't they are willing to bring it up to a military level and 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. were closely following the tension between israel and iran you can find more expert analysis on our web site r t v dot com. russia says a ceasefire is needed in syria before a joint arab un peacekeeping mission could be deployed there the idea of the mission was put forward by he arab league at a recent meeting in cairo damascus rejected the plan after hour of states also

vowed to fully support the syrian opposition and halt diplomatic ties with the country's government or to marry if an ocean has more from damascus. lots of prize only the official damascus has got furious over the initiative pushed forward by the arab league to send international peacekeeping force to syria calling this initiative all style act and flagrant interference in the country's internal affairs president bashar al assad blamed. the eleven month long allowed to belittle or still see where things were but still come you know he holds all the terrible rules of great of the country it's really hard to really and this is critical to the core here of the meeting and to all the troops of their response to . this initiative by the arab league nearest carriage of the countries over for this alliance. to secure the u.n.

security council interference in the country's serious internal affairs after china and russia vetoed resolution many of those we've managed to speak to here in damascus also fear that this initiative make pave the way to foreign military intervention something they're really afraid of and they're very much opposed to it also has been very quick to react following the meeting with the foreign minister of the united arab emirates russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has sat that russia needs more information more details on this plan to consider how successful how effective it could be. the first in order to deploy a peacekeeping mission we need the agreement of the host secondly there should first be peace which the peacekeeping mission will then help sustain things are not that optimistic here in syria right now with violence escalating recently the terrorist number one the head of al qaida has the fact that the back to back up

across india in syria urging all the muslims all. in lebanon and other countries in the region to get to nod to help the syrian opposition fight to get its. syrian crisis also currently on the table at the un general assembly up for discussion there are keys on a stock future going to joins us live from new york with an update so what we expect from the discussion at the world body today. well a week after a double veto came from russia and china on a syrian resolution at the security council we're seeing the saudi arabia and qatar attempting a symbolic push at another un body the general assembly it consists of one over one hundred ninety members but it's important to keep in mind that it's not nearly as powerful as the security council where the resolution was blocked and whatever document the general assembly would pass would largely be symbolic now it's key to

remember that russia and china blocked the resolution and that's pretty much the exact same text being put on the table of the general assembly because it said that the text was biased as it would not acknowledge the existence of armed group on the group the groups on the ground would only put the blame on the syrian government as well as called for the president of syria to step down and russia and china said it's really not the business of the international community to call for regime change and what's key in terms of what we're expecting to come out of the united nations is if this vote does take place and if this vote which we are expecting will support the text of the document it will only be a recommendation it will not be by any means binding and it's important to note that some members of the general assembly are raising their eyebrows there questioning the entire even legality of this meeting taking place because qatar is currently presiding at the general assembly and they're saying the fact that tar is using this opportunity to push through its own country's interests is quite

questionable or he's out of stuff that you're going to live for us with an update from new york thanks for that. for more on syria now i'm joined by neil clark a u.k. based journalist and contributor to the guardian newspaper. thanks for being with us and so the arab league observer mission in syria last month blame both the government to end forces of the opposition for violence why is legally taking measures though against the authorities while taking a supportive stance toward the opposition well that shows the agenda behind the arab league i'm afraid and this is not a real genuine attempt to bring the warring factions together this is agenda driven and again it's all about regime change because i think any genuine attempt to end instead it is in syria we have to acknowledge the government the government does have majority support in syria there was an opinion poll last month which showed the president sat at about fifty four percent of the people who wanted him to stay

and yet these are the kind of normal people as far as the western powers and the arab league concerned and all they're saying is basically the government must go and the government must lay down their weapons and this is not very constructive other people. how do you think the arab league stands against the syrian government affect the potential negotiation process with syria which russia and china have been pushing for well i think the arab league on. the saudi arabia is very key part here is how to oraibi opposed to the inside regime. and so i don't think that syrians feel confident the arab league has actually proposed a solution to this we have the arab league report which was a very and as you said earlier the arab league blame both sides for violence yet the arab league itself is saying you know that they that they support the opposition possible forms of assistance and so the one how they're trying to pretend to be honest brokers on the other hand they're not on the facts opposite.

foreign powers are now mulling over deploying a peacekeeping mission of sorts to syria how feasible do you think that is well first of all to have a peacekeeping force you've got to have peace and why haven't we got peace in syria over the last eleven months that the government has said they would make concessions the government's been open to talks but the opposition has been egged on by irresponsible west powers and its allies and i think they would have had a peaceful solution to this months ago had the opposition not been egged on by the west they are being encouraged to take a very hard line the west has been denouncing the government violence but it hasn't been denouncing the violence by the opposition and until it does does that then we don't have any peace in syria so you know that is actually the western powers in the arab league who responsibility now say to the opposition forces look you have to stop the violence the government stops the violence everybody stops the violence and then we can have that can't go on while the opposition of the ten point in violence we've got yesterday the announcement from the leader of al qaeda

supporting the uprising that's been terrorist atrocities in syria over the last few days. and so the violence has to stop but it has to stop and the opposition not just from. now apart from western and arab states the syrian opposition does enjoy backing as you mentioned from al-qaeda now there is some irony that the u.s. and the terror group appear in this case to be some fairly strange bedfellows so to speak do you think this will make washington ease up on its backing of the opposition i don't think so because if we look back of the last twenty years it's not the first time that the u.s. and al qaeda have been on the same side let's think back to the balkans in bosnia in kosovo they were on the same side let's think back last year to libya they were on the same side as the great meath to think that the usa and the sort of radical islamic terrorists of al-qaeda are opposed to each other on terms of geopolitical strategy and in many ways they share. an agenda here and the us go. enemy of course

easterhouse secular states and if you look back at the number of secular regimes that the us has undermined will destabilize will topple afghanistan in the nineteen seventies and eighties had libya yugoslavia again and so it's a great move to think that the us and al-qaeda will always be on the opposite side they're often on the same side. neil clark u.k. based journalist and contributor to the guardian newspaper thanks for your time thank you very much investigative journalist and middle east expert a so winstanley tells r t the syrian opposition is fragmented and says there's no unity between groups over a means of fighting the regime here's a preview. although both sides deny differences in in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition mainly between the people who support outside intervention and the protest with who so you've got groups like the syrian national council which are now openly you favor of a no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because you know there isn't any even

claim that any of the syrian regime for all its many crimes there's no claims that is the people so no fly zone just seems political pretext to invade to me. buildings on fire shops alluded 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 or his jacob greaves has the latest 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 the euro zone international monetary fund really increasing the pressure saying the cuts haven't gone far enough and they have been implemented correctly also we saw taking place last night we have the demonstrators now really massing in very large numbers up to one hundred thousand people in

attendance and they're growing in anger throughout the course of that evening in the end we saw clashes taking place with police and that resulted in a certain amount of bias petrol bombs being thrown at police by some anarchists in the crowd also police a tally a seeing by firing tear gas into the 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 his they were against this latest measure of force there if he cuts now what we're talking about here really is fifteen thousand job cuts in the public sector also that's going to be accompanied by slashing by twenty percent of the minimum

wage and cuts the 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 austerity measures for a number of years impose them by international bodies and there 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 say and the protests this is the. what price are they expected to pay for these. for more perspective on the story i'm joined by adrian an international consultant and author so we saw violent scenes on the streets of the greek capital last night looks like the people many of them feel like they have nothing to lose at this point how far do you think this public anger can go. well i can tell you from experience because what we're seeing now taking

place in greece in athens is so similar to what took place in my country of argentina in two thousand and one and two thousand and two which is similar to what the scenes we have seen in brazil in one thousand nine hundred ninety in mexico in ninety seven with the southeast asian tigers in spain in italy in portugal it seems that this is basically and a model that is being followed in country after country and always with the same sort of media coverage at least from the western media i feel that there are two key questions that have to be asked first of all who runs greece is it the greek people or is it the i.m.f. the european central bank the european union germany and the private bankers and i ask this question because prime middle president lucas papademos is a member of the trilateral commission which is one of the power groups where you also have the top brass members the top brass of dresdner bank their bank goldman sachs city those are. j.p. morgan so you figure well mr parker either moves prioritize the interests of the

greek people or the interests of the bankers we have a similar situation if we were mario monti is the european president the chairman for the trilateral commission and the second question matt is who is all this money owed to i mean this sovereign debt crisis as i said happens time and again our banker is that stupid that they always make the mistake of lending too much money to countries and are governments that stupid that they take loans much more than they can pay back or i insist is this part of a model where like shylock's pound of flesh you ability of the solver and this is literally used to control the entire country the parliamentary elections are due in april but with the current coalition government set to make written commitments to implementing these reforms do you think a new government will have no choice on how to deal with the debt crisis. well a new government will have no choice because it will probably be a new government that is in one way or another subordinated to a global power masters so to speak to the money powers because in

a way all governments whether it's in greece in italy and spain in the u.k. in argentina all governments today have two choices they can either government for the people which means governing against the bankers or they can go over to the bankers and that means that they will be always be against the people and it's so sad to see the same sickening scene time and again protesters taking to the streets they are repressed by the police with tear gas they throw stones somebody gets injured hundreds get in somebody always ends up getting killed and i always figure that it's the poor people on the streets fighting the police who are also poor and i always wonder if there are a cigar smoking perched on the fiftieth floor boardrooms looking down of these horrific scenes and just laughing at it all but you mentioned a pattern earlier and you mention a pattern you said this happened in argentina you mention that this happened in the asian tiger economies at the same time eventually they did get back on their feet

and if history is to if the pattern holds up to what you say especially including the given the current stability relative stability in argentina and the potential that we're seeing now from these asian tiger countries that eventually things do get better i mean do you think this can continue following that pattern this is different because the greece is within the euro zone so there are other interest will ensure that greece does not leave because one of the solutions that any country has is to work with its own currency however greece does not have its own currency its currency is handled from our mind of the european central bank one real option that they solve or in greece does have is to revert back to the drachma just like a sovereign spain should revert back to the pacific and its sovereign debt we should revert back to be our leader however all of this can only happen if they have one. real sovereign governments in power and i think that what this system of those in i'm sure is that whoever governs the country as we saw with mr part of the impulse and we're seeing with mr monkey or both trilateral commission members they

will always unfortunately end up governing in favor of the bankers and ensuring that government will bail out the banks and not the people in a way these people remind me a little bit of allowing a monkey to take here of a banana shop you know the projected results can be and be expected or adrian international can solve that author thanks for your insight thank you. r t cross talk also focuses on the greek financial predicament that's coming your way later this hour the kitten cost of the bailout rescue take a look at. the exchange is clear in germany you give me the cash to survive given my debt problem 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 best school your budget to technocrats in brussels that are not answerable to your population through amounts

of monitoring to get it going to mean that there's nothing and that's i might's i might be provocative here but that's all it is the good as you feel you can even imagine a moment that he funds. the 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 and his latest campaign article in his bid to return to the presidential seat let him hear putin put forward plans for so sure a poor reform he hopes will significantly improve the demographic situation propose measures include better welfare for families with many children smarter immigration policies including the repatriation of russians living abroad the article entitled building justice also focuses on salary hikes for teachers and doctors as well as making housing more affordable to everyone by twenty thirty putin has stepped up his election campaign in the light of recent mass opposition protests as political

analyst dimitri babbage explains now mainly addresses russia's middle class. my hole is that which in on the stance that he's a doctorate right now it's not reach you know reach c.t. people he's electorate is the real russian quasi you know people who are to live in small towns who have a really hard time adapting to their market economy c.d.'s so i hope he is economic bullish he will move a little more to the left you know we had a former finance minister called and we had that definite kill to the right now we believe for putin writes he wants to give the states more to he's real electorate which means you know the masa of the russian people can always find more on our top stories at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. stripping down to shake things up and find out the naked truth behind the message that ukrainian activists in their topless tactics used on

a visit to russia wants nothing says i love you like a cockroach find out more about the creepy crawly little valentine's day gift some love birds are sharing with their sweethearts on r g dot com. kareen is up next with the business news stay with us here on our. how to welcome to business here and how to thanks for joining me there's been a burst of interest in russian shares since the beginning of the year returning growth in the u.s. and progress with your stead is fueling appetite for risk last year more than eighteen billion dollars spent the country this year has been an inflow of one

billion dollars to cool he chaired shouting from the nations as it manages says that the perception of russia is changing. there has been a change of attitude towards the russian equity market since the beginning of the euro and. demonstrated by the pond but the russian equity market has outperformed the markets in the world so to give you a flavor of russia nearly twenty percent since the beginning of the year where the u.s. market has gone up only by seven percent since the beginning of the certainty over the politics and seems to have subsided very much market expect patients now and that mr putin will come back as president and the one difference which we have relative to this time last year is that there are expectations for reform one. back president. let's look at the markets now you close in the black on monday after greece's parliament approved the austerity bill banks were among the main

gainers across europe mining stocks were also high as the stronger you were helped boost the price of copper and other metals carry russian markets ended higher as well although my six games the most in five weeks energy majors were among the biggest advances let's check on the index most of them are. finished in the black hole to use its european market share grew by four percentage points to twenty seven percent last year it was great to watch his biggest mining company and perhaps the most in amongst high prices for nickel holders gold ended lower on news merger talks between the company and another miner called the metal have failed. russia's fast growing food retail market keeps all during for investors seven eleven is one world renowned food chain thought to be eyeing up the market the company has a deficiency come from the rumors last year the retailer said its priorities were brazil and india analysts say that seven eleven will have a hard time if a class of develop a food chain in russia alone they at the most logical move would be to team up with

an existing market player their houses. a vice president at wal-mart believes there just a couple of ways to add to the country's market at the moment. only their way for and from pressure markets for. at least reasonable in the markets or struggling for leadership position is a position of some existing players or just with equal more solution when you don't need your stores it'll saw i think within the next year some other companies will think about the us market them they way to enter the market and that's all the business is find more stories on our website r.t. dot com business.

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if if . eleven thirty pm in moscow these here are t. headlines israel accusing iran of being behind bomb attacks targeting israeli embassies in georgia and india which four people are thought to have been injured. russia says it regrets arab league winding down its observers work in syria and stresses a proposed peacekeeping mission can only be deployed once government and opposition forces agree to a cease fire. the protests in athens followed by chaos and looting as public outrage escalates after the greek parliament passes

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