the wife of the military. she's now in hospital with her condition is critical and was to exactly what happened according to eyewitnesses they saw a man on a motorcycle following the diplomatic car going to 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. 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 the region and. had nothing to do with it 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 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. and time and time again that is the sanctions against iran don't work 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. russia says a ceasefire is needed in syria before a joint arab un peacekeeping mission could be deployed to the country the idea of the mission was put forward by the arab league matter recent meeting in cairo but damascus rejected the plan after arab states also vowed to fully support the syrian opposition and hold diplomatic ties with the country's government or team or if an

ocean has the latest from damascus not surprisingly the official damascus has a few raised over the initiative pushed forward by the arab league to send international peacekeeping force does the really cool in this initiative at and played went into theories in the in the country's internal affairs president bashar al assad blames. the eleven month long. so we'll get to that story later if we can but first the u.n. general assembly is also currently discussing a non-binding resolution on syria the draft document echoes one vetoed in the u.n. security council by russia and china a week ago or tease us an honest has more from new york. 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 you one body the general assembly it consists of over

one hundred nineteen 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 cost 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 bias 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 qatar is using this opportunity to push through its own country's interests is quite questionable. clark or u.k. based journalist and contributor to the guardian newspaper says instead of diplomatic wrangles world powers should now be focusing on urging both sides in the syrian conflict to the negotiating table. why haven't we got peace in syria over the last eleven months the government has said they would make concessions the government can open to talks but the opposition has been picked 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 being egged on by the west they are being encouraged to take a very hard line the west has been denouncing the government marlon's but it hasn't been denouncing the violence by the opposition and it to me it does does that then

we don't have any peace in syria so you know that he is actually the western powers in the arab league who responsibility now to 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 congo all while the opposition is saying point in violence we got yesterday the announcement they needed 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 look as from the assad regime. stay with us here on r.t. still to come with less than a month to go until russia's presidential vote prime minister vladimir putin sounds like outlines his views on russia's social development in his fifth major press article of the campaign find out the challenges facing the country short. plus tainted reputation the summer games in london or risk being marred by a controversial sponsorship deal with

a chemical giant linked to one of the world's worst just real busy. but first buildings on fire shops looted dozens injured this is how the greek people made a new around 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 he's jacob greaves has the latest from athens. the greek government is under attack from all sides now you've got the e.u. eurozone international monetary fund really increasing the pressure saying the cuts haven't gone far enough and they haven't been implemented correctly also what we saw taking place last night we have the demonstrators now really amassing 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 petrol bombs being thrown at police by some anarchists in the

crowds also police a tally a thing by firing tear gas into the crowd there resulting in total and dozens of injuries you also saw dozens of buildings of flame all this of course taking place in central athens now there is still a lot of discontent as well within parliament we saw that take place last night a number of m.p.'s forty three from the ruling coalition made up of socialists and conservatives they rebelled against this latest measure of austerity 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 the pensions so really those who are being affected or those who are probably most exposed by these crisis conditions have to bear in mind this is something that greece is really where the time it's a situation they are all too familiar with for about five years now they've been in

such crisis conditions and have measures for a number of years impose them by international bodies and there hasn't been that many positive financial indicators since we seem g.d.p. slumping in two thousand and eleven so the main message coming from the demonstration taking place yes they and the protesters at what price are they expected to pay for these bailouts. chris will hold general elections in april international consultant adrian so bucci says the new government will have no choice about how to deal with the debt crisis. but 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 in 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 since taking to the streets they are repressed by the police who tear gas they throw stones somebody gets injured hundreds get in because 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 boardroom looking down of these scenes and just laughing out of all. our t's crossed are also commenting on greece's financial predicament coming your way later this hour the hidden costs of the bailout rescue. the changes 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 this call your budget to technocrats in brussels that are not answerable to your population through. their not monitoring the greek economy there's nothing and that's i might's i might be provocative here but that's all it is the latest you feel you can even imagine a moment that he funds. population decline is one of the toughest problems russia faces 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 run up to his presidential bid let him hear putin also put forward plans for social reform he hopes will significantly improve the country's demographics the proposed measures include better welfare for families with several children and smarter immigration policies including the repatriation of russians living abroad the article titled building justice also focuses on

salary hikes for teachers and doctors as well as making housing affordable to everyone by twenty thirty putin has wrapped up his election campaign in the light of mass opposition protests and political analyst mitri babbage explains that now mainly addresses russia's middle class. my whole is that which in no understands that he's a doctorate right no it's not the reach you know reach c.t. people he says entrant these are the real russian middle class you know people who believe in small towns who have a really hard time adept into the market economy c.d.'s so i hope he's economical. a little more to it than that you know we had a former finance minister quit and we had that definite tilt to the right now if we believe what putin writes he wants to give the state supporters see more to he's real electorate which means you know the masa of the russian people. 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 artie's ivor bennett has more on the controversial new partnership. organizers claim it's 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 one thousand nine hundred 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 us and instead all of us are going to have the toxic legacy of dow chemicals. 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 a ten times the norm in the rest of india for was ten of the time the gas she inhaled left permanent damage and. i can believe that how it was open hand the money's been taken far got just one thousand dollars compensation part of a four hundred seventy million dollars payout in one thousand nine hundred nine by union carbide 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 contaminated union carbide factory

children are being born with deformities people have more cancers there's growth. boy there's there is girls have problem with their periods all kinds of issues have that have. isn't from the legit see that has been left behind by this poisonous factory 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 the curtain before the games actually begin but it's now said it's not even going to do that 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 that 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 and distance the most sustainable solution to our rock and we are comfortable with that a boy called from indian athlete 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. you can always find more of our top stories online at r.t.

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countries last month including spain the cut reflects concern over the weakness of the spanish banking sector and its impact on the country's economy bad loans and problem debts are taught to total more than one hundred seventy billion euros. the families of the victims of the submerged coast of concordia cruise ship marking one month since the disaster they are staging a ceremony at a church near the crash site off the west coast of italy meanwhile operations to pump almost two and a half thousand tons of fuel from the stricken vessel have the gun seventeen people died fifteen remain missing after the liner ran aground the captain was said to be among the first to have fled the vessel and is now under house arrest. in montenegro thirty passengers were rescued by helicopters after being stranded for three days on a train blocked inside a tunnel by an avalanche one person died from a heart attack others suffered from freezing temperatures and food shortages bad

weather had prevented earlier rescue attempts. coming up our interview with investigative journalist a so winstanley focusing on the turbulent situation in and around syria stay with us. today i'm joined by a so when stanley an investigative journalist rajan on the middle east whose latest piece delves into the discrepancies amongst the casualty figures in the syrian

crisis acer thanks for speaking to r.t. now one of the most quoted sources for those casualty figures is the syrian observatory for human rights but you've recently found out information that suggests it can't necessarily always be trusted why is that i think first of all you have to establish who really is this the syrian observatory for human rights. in our investigation we didn't really uncover any particular reason to doubt the genuine observatory's figures. but there is another group led by this man with a very as figures a slightly higher than the original observatories groups the syrian observatory for human rights led by rami up to or around makes a point to be they say you know they're independent they're right and that they record all deaths whether they're soldiers syrian soldiers loyal to the regime

or the defectors or their protesters where as. and now as arabs group as well but their figures for the number of. military day are much much lower so there seems to be you know a certain agenda there and behind it all seems to me basically. although both sides deny differences in in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition mainly between 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 this problem to people so no fly zone just seems a political pretext to invade to me rami abdelrahman and the original syrian observatory for human rights group is against that that there was split and they

said we don't support a no fly zone they said that to me and so on so forth so these these two sides these two groups they both seemed to although they denied direct links to different factions of the opposition they seemed their position seems to line up how willing has the foreign media would you say been its consumption of the figures published by the zawi group a lot of the mainstream news channels were taken in by as area and he's appeared on the b.b.c. and he's appeared on zero english and c.n.n. and probably others. as a spokesperson for the observatory although he rarely have direct lines group says he was never a spokes person for them his kind of narrative which has become increasingly shrill working it plays into the narrative of a we need to do something we meaning you know the west or the british government or

the american government or whatever we need to intervene we need to do something it plays into that kind of narrative i mean for example periods last month on. our straightly in t.v. and he used the word genocide which of what's happening now i mean. that seems to me exaggerated for all the crimes of the bashar assad regime he's he's kind of seems to be inflating it which to me is is damaging to the opposition and that's what people who i've spoken to who are part of the opposition or sympathetic to the opposition that's why they kind of they don't like this kind of approach because the crimes of the regime are bad enough without kind of. using words like genocide and how damaging could a foreign intervention be in syria any outside military and intervention in syria would be. different from worse the kurds to

a regional conflagration. and it could even increase support for the regime within the country we saw we see what happened in the case of iran when there was opposition. from within the there is rhetoric from the outside of threats of are the bombing from israel or the us where the all this talk of immediate threats allows the regimes to then say oh well look you have to support us because otherwise you're going to you know you going to get bombed and over these opposition people they're not genuine opposition they're just agents and so on and so forth so. i think and outside intervention. in terms of whether it's just a so-called no fly zone or any kind of military intervention would very much make things worse. the arab league solution to the syrian crisis is for the present sad to see power to his deputy is that fair i think that's

a way of keeping the regime in place and changing the figurehead seems to have been very much the g.c.c. plan in yemen for example where they wanted. to just down to. a safe thing to keep everything apart and there were parents who vice president cheney was and the regime essentially staying the same there's a what's going on in the region is there's very much a cancer revolution to the way of revolution to sweats the region the whole arab world since. they were successful in opposing. in l.a. there's a very powerful counter revolution which is led by saudi arabia backed by the americans. and also by a in a more indirect way by israel. the aim of this cancer revolution is by all means to keep regimes in power and if necessary shedding the heads and see you see that happening in egypt where the military rulers were able to preserve

themselves by dispenser and i think these same powers would they are open to that happening in syria keeping the same then we care about democracy perceval just want more that whatever is best for their interests and if if there would be a more manageable. regime which then had a different figurehead they certainly go for that and when stanley thank you thanks . culture is that so much i can tell you the one hundred thirty one of them was the old war and tell the difference in these hard times there is no shortage of austerity in the slashing of budgets and the shrinking of the welfare state generate jobs and return us to. lead a nation free accreditation free transport charges free. range

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one thirty am in moscow these here are t. headlines israel accusing iran of being behind bomb attacks targeting israeli embassies in georgia and india in which four people are reported injured. russia has announced it regrets the arab league winding down the observers work in syria and stresses a proposed peacekeeping mission can only be deployed once the government and opposition forces lay down their arms meanwhile the un general assembly currently discussing a non-binding syria resolution aimed at overthrowing the assad regime. and

fiery protests in athens followed by chaos and looting as public outrage escalates after the greek parliament passes a new austerity bill to secure another new bailout and. a crippling austerity imposed on the greek people also the center of debate in cross talk coming up next . and if you. want to. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle in these hard times there is no shortage of austerity in the slashing of budgets and the shrinking of the welfare state generate jobs and returns to prosperity and is the pursuit of austerity inherently anti-democratic.