according to the police the wife of the military. she's now in hospital with 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 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 statement prime minister israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu did come out rather quickly at the meeting of lawmakers saying that he believes that iran was behind both attacks on the israeli embassy now this is while the georgian authorities are holding back until the investigation reveals more details some indian terror experts expressed skepticism on the involvement of terror saying that it will be difficult to carry out such an attack without the involvement of local people and the. had also said that 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 and 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 the e.u. 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 out of the u.n. peacekeeping mission could be deployed in the country that idea of the mission was forward by the arab league at the recent meeting in cairo but damascus rejected the plan after arab states also vowed to fully support the syrian opposition and hold

all diplomatic ties with the country's government maria for notion reports from the syrian capital. lots of prize in the fischel damascus has got furious over the initiative pushed forward by the arab league to send international peacekeeping force to syria calling this initiative act and flagrant interference in the country's internal affairs president bashar al assad blames. the eleven month long bloody volatile crisis here in syria on the arab western conspiracy in support of the armed terror groups operate in here in the country and syria is best of the to cairo where the ministers of the twenty two countries of the arab league were meeting has said has come out actually with a very strong statement saying that this initiative by the arab league mirrors hysterics over the countries of this alliance of a healer to secure the u.n. security council's interference in the countries in syria's internal affairs have

to china and russia vetoed the 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 is something they are really afraid of and they're very much opposed to moscow 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. first in order to deploy a peacekeeping mission we need the agreement of the host secondly you 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 he backed al qaida backs up

problems in here in syria urging all the muslims of turkey jordan lebanon and other countries in the region to get united to help the syrian opposition fight against assad. the u.n. general assembly is also currently discussing a non-binding resolution on syria the draft document one vetoed in the u.n. security council by russia and china about a week ago on seasons the. us a week after 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 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 groups on the groups on the ground that 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 winding 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 and. contributed to the guardian newspaper says

instead of diplomatic wrangles well. having both sides in the syrian conflict to lay down arms. why haven't we got peace in syria over the last eleven months that the government has said they would make concessions the government can open to talks but the opposition has been picked on by irresponsible western powers and its allies i think they would have had a peaceful solution to this months ago. the opposition not been egged on by the west they are being encouraged to take a very hard line in the west has been denouncing the government violence 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 it's actually it's 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 quite the talks that can go on

while while the opposition of the day point in violence we 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 from the opposition mockers from the assad regime. still ahead here on our sea with less than a month to go until russia's presidential election prime minister blair to reprise an outline his russia social development and his favorite major press article the campaign find out the challenges of that and the short legged. cost tainted reputation of the summer games in london britain being marked by a controversial sponsorship deal with a chemical giant links to a while before a western industrial disaster. the whole buildings and fine shops looted and dozens injured this is how the greek public met a new round of trast cuts approved by their parliament tens of thousands of people

protested the deeply unpopular package needed to get this second bailout from international creditors artie's drake agrees the latest from athens for. 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 have 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 are 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 or tally a thing 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 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 also 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 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 had 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 is that what price are they expected to pay for these bailouts. greece for the whole journey elections in april that's interesting consultant and author says the government will have no choice about have to deal with. the 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 govern. and that means that they will be always be against the people it was so sad to see the same sickening scene time and again. taking to the streets they are repressed by the

police who tear gas they throw stones somebody gets injured get into somebody always ends up getting killed and i always figure that it's the poor people on the streets in 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 scenes and just laughing at a lot of population decline is one of the toughest problems russia faces in the long term but the disturbing trend can be of a vast according to the country's prime minister and the latest campaign article and his bid to return as president let in a person has put forward plans for social reform that he hopes will significantly improve the demographic situation and he proposed measures include the proposed measures include better welfare of families with many children and smarter immigration policies including the repatriation of russians living abroad or your article titled building trust also focuses on salary hikes for teachers and doctors

as well as making housing affordable to everyone by twenty thirty but your patient has ramped up his election campaign in light of mass opposition protests and as political analyst mitri babiche explains now maine there dressed as it rushes to make class. my hope is that we're now understands that he's electorate right now it's not the rich you know rich city people he's electorate is the real russian middle class you know people who are living in small towns who have a really hard time adapt to their market economy c.d.'s so i hope he is economic policy will move a little more to the left you know we. former finance minister couldn't we had that definite due to the rate now if we believe we'll put in rates he wants to gear the states more to his real electorate which means you know the mass of the russian

people after all than two decades the effects of one of the worst world ever world's rather worst ever industrial disaster is still linger in but poll india scandal is fixing itself to london's attempt to stage a green olympic games this summer artie's other than it has more on the controversial 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 the 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 fallout 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 as well i can believe that how it would 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 had been contaminated. by factory children are being born with deformities people have more cancer 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 did 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 iraq and we are comfortable with that 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. and you can always read more of our top stories online at home and here's a look at it was that big you write. like stripping down to shake things up find out the naked truth about the message behind this bickering in our series groups talk that's tactics on a visit to russia. and nothing says i love you like a cockroach find out more about the creepy crawly of valentine's day get some love that sharing with that sweet heart or not a dog. and some more international headlines for you this hour american a north korean officials are to hold the first nuclear talks since the death of the reclusive state's leader kim jung il in december the discussions will be the third

round of negotiations aimed at restarting the multinational aide for design with. the meeting scheduled for a week or so as day will be the first contact in washington with pyongyang its new regime. the families of victims of the submerged costa concordia cruise ship marking one month since the disaster they're staging a ceremony at a church near the crash site off the west coast of italy meanwhile operations depart almost two and a half thousand tons of heal from this trick and vessel have begun seventeen people died and fifteen are still missing after the liner ran aground the captain was said to be among the first to have left the ship and is now under house arrest. now growth or passengers have been rescued by helicopters after being stranded for three days on a train blocked inside a tunnel by avalanche on us and died from a heart attack while others suffered from freezing temperatures and food shortages

bad weather had prevented their rescue attempts. in a black monday for the banks in spain were the victim of them downgraded by ratings agencies faith and standard and poor's europe's biggest bank santander and spain's second largest b.b.b. a well both hit in this week which follows the downgrading of several euro zone countries last month including spain account reflects concern over the weakness of the spanish banking sector and it seems part of the country's economy bad loans and problem debts are thought to total over one hundred seventy billion a year away. and right now an r.t. hour interview with investigative journalist asset with stanley focusing on the turbulent situation in and around syria stay with us for that.

today i'm joined by a so when stanley an investigative journalist rajan on the middle east whose latest piece into the discrepancies amongst the casualty figures in the syrian crisis things has been to r.t. now one of the most quoted sources for those casualty figures is the syrian. tree 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 abilities 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 romeo. makes a point to be they say you know they're independent their rights and. they were called 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 dead are much much lower. there seems to be you know a certain agenda there 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 it's bombed 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 there's a split and they said we don't support a no fly zone they said that to me and so on so forth so these see 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 friends groups as he was never a spokes person for them his kind of narrative which has become increasingly shrill that he 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. the 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. very much for the worse the kurds to the 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 u.s.

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're 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 that seems to have been very much the g.c.c. plan in yemen for example where they wanted. to step down to. essentially to keep everything apart and there were parents whose vice president 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 of revolution to the wave revolution has swept the region the whole are full sense. in the successful in approving. pinelli 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 percent they 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

. world. series technology innovation called the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for 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 sorry welcome to the big picture.

welcome back to this is triple the headlines. it's her accuses iran of being behind former times targeting israeli embassies in georgia and d.c. it and we will afford to have. russia have announced it regrets the arab league winding down its acceptance where i can see where that's trances a proposed peacekeeping mission can be deployed only once the government and opposition forces agree to a cease fire meanwhile begun members have met to discuss

a non-binding resolution on syria aimed at a withdrawal. prior protests and authors for the dr calle son losing his public outrage escalates on to the greek economy and processing new austerity bill to secure enough if you read out. next we travel to the russian republic of mario where community culture clash has been of the come through shad right. this is how people of many ethnic groups prayed ancient times. today this is the sort of worship that can only be found in this russian region. there is good it was not allowed to worship in soviet times people like us who did were put on trial we hope.