to bomb blasts killed twenty seven and leave scores wounded in a cordon aided attack on security compounds in the syrian capital damascus. two belorussians sentenced to death for last year's terror attack on the minsk metro have been executed this despite calls from human rights groups to reconsider the sentiments. of the nationalist marchers in a lot of honoring s.s. veterans it sparked concern over the resurgence of the far right groups in the european union. and six months on the occupy wall street movement seems

to have entered a new phase as activists there tends to carry on with the battle against agree and unequality. three o'clock in the morning here in moscow russia's capital this is r t i'm john thomas and these are your headlines in syria at least twenty seven have been killed and one hundred forty injured as twin bomb attacks on security compounds rocked the capital damascus state broadcaster claims that the attacks were carried out by terrorists who detonated car bombs. at a sensitive time as the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan struggles to find a diplomatic solution to the yearlong crisis in the country our middle east correspondent paula sleep has more. eliminate reports of vehicles packed with explosives were disseminated targeting the security complex and hitting the police

and intelligence buildings now the government is calling this the work of terrorists and state television is showing pictures of charred bodies vehicles and blood stains to the streets these glass come after a string of recent suicide attacks just last month on theory that in twenty eight people were killed in two thousand blasts that hit the security complex in the government stronghold of aleppo and since december there have been three suicide bombings in damascus these glass also come just two days after the one year anniversary of the uprising against syrian president bashar assad there is ongoing and spiraling violence in syria and we're also receiving reports that al qaida isn't operating there calling for the opposition groups to unify there if that and they fight against the syrian regime the latest if it a diplomatic compromise comes from the former head of the united nations kofi annan last weekend he was in syria where he met with both assume president bashar assad

and opposition groups and he is all members of the united nations security council to give the nod to the proposals he's put forward on the table now the russian from minister sergei lavrov has members of the u.n. security council to come forward and give a support russia is also calling for a political dialogue that will see an agreement between the syrian regime and the opposition. has handed over a set of balls all sort of syria i can assure you that these proposals do not mention any demands on president bashar assad to step down i believe it's up to the syrian people to decide this issue any consensus decision that the government and all opposition groups come to as a result of dialogue russia is not supporting the syrian regime support the launch of a political process a cease fire is needed for that in the first place in the coming days they will be a deliberate and from the united nations visiting syria to assess what is the reality on the ground and this is the latest if it to reach some kind of political agreement between the sunni and the opposition. james patterson

a sociology professor at binghamton university in new york says the bombings could be the opposition's response to the u.n. diplomatic mission in syria the opposition refused to look to just state in a referendum they refused to participate in the election they refused to look negotiate they're only interested in violent overthrow of the government and it also reflects frustration over the sacked that the un is moving toward a position of dialogue and not regime change as kofi annan mission was the need for a cease fire negotiations and a repudiation of that by the opposition using bombs and start a dialogue is an indication that they they're losing international support

and as always we would like to hear your opinion we're asking do you think kofi annan mission to syria will bear fruit cast your vote now at r.t. dot com so far past results show that only five percent of you think that anon will manage to negotiate a cease fire in the country meanwhile the majority thinks that the mission will fail because the u.s. and its allies do not want to see a compromise but rather want assad out of the country about six percent think that at this point finding a peaceful solution is difficult and the rest of you believe it's simply too late for a diplomatic solution r.p. dot com is where you can go to cast your vote. so i have for you this hour a post revolutionary take on justice thousands of vigilantes take over maintaining security interests as a police police are pushed aside. convicted nazi war criminal john new york has died in a care home in germany it was the ninety one years old in two thousand and eleven

he was convicted of assisting in the murder of around twenty eight thousand jews while serving guard duty in a camp in poland however he was sentenced to just five years in prison because the court ruled no particularly crime could be directly attributed to him he was also allowed to stay in a home for the elderly while his appeal was being over the new. elsewhere in iraq says veterans have been honored as heroes the annual march held in life capital has been widely condemned as a glorification of naziism despite that it still receives support at the highest political levels as jake agrees reports now from america there's been decades of change since the world when nazi germany donated despite the bloody legacy to some courses of europe you still have an audience. are you ready for the jews are crying

about the holocaust. in forty intervention for you and the war for the bolsheviks who killed me i think they received it would be deserved. this is one thousand five hundred people gathered to fishy commemorate those who force alongside hitler's armies and joined the waffen s.s. the meeting stoking fears of a neo nazi resurgence in that view. we can't be silent when the people of. the memory of the now disease of the birth and they are marching the industry with a member of the european union those in the crowd defend their start saying the so-called legionnaires were fighting for liberty at a time when tyranny faced latvia from all directions it was a military force formed in one thousand nine hundred forty three for volunteers and members of the disbanded latvian auxiliary police a sponsible for the mass killing of jews this image of these youths lining the

streets to welcome in veterans commemorating asian as they is one that has become commonplace is also something that is increasingly warring observers if it may represent a rise of the far right both sane commentators are asking why this message is being supported at the very top of the country's leadership. i love being president. has argued it is foolish to assume that what an s.s. veterans are criminals saying they deserve the public's respect people who are in charge in the positions of all thirty should not be setting examples where young people start to believe that a buff n s s is something that you should wish to follow echoing such sentiments and the fascist groups govern it by in a protest to the annual march the rise in far right rhetoric is not unique to latvia as a continent rich by financial crisis ultra nationalists and has been growing

throughout europe you've got the fascist right people who are proud of being sort of at reprimands or whatever and you've got the fascist light but people who like probably marine le pen in france are actually coming from that kind of coming from that position as a growth most apparent in march is that celebrate those who others struggle with them accompanied by personal messages such as this war made it a latvian t.v. station they stand as a striking image of europe's lingering past. that could have an increase in impact of its future degrees r.t. reader in latvia. and still ahead for you in the program in a scape from modern civilization. hard cause some series takes you to one remote village that seems to have frozen in time. two

belorussians were sentenced to death for last year's metro bombing in have been executed the family of one of the men confirmed they have received notification from the country supreme court and a state media later reported on the executions but as artie's says it's a case that has attracted much condemnation. the two men are accused of carrying out the blasts in the metro in two thousand and eleven in april of two thousand and eleven they were arrested just a couple of days after the blasts took place and were put on trial and they all were accused of carrying out not just a terror attack in april of last year but also of another one which also happened in minsk in two thousand and eight one of them then dmitri kind of aleph is actually pleaded guilty to both cases where is the other man who. has pleaded not guilty he has also written a letter with a petition for pardon to the bell russian president that petition was refused officially now this case was very closely followed by human rights organizations

especially those in europe as a matter of fact the chairman of the european parliament has also written a petition regarding the plea for pardon of the two men to the bill russian authorities but that plea has also been refused of course valerie's has been on the radar of if the european human rights organizations for a very long time a lot of people in europe question the tactics and the policies of people are already said when it comes to matters concerning human rights and the freedom of speech and freedom of expression and belarus and as it stands right now belushi is the only country in europe still to employ capital punishment in its legal system. you can get the latest news videos and stories that you may have missed it or to dot com here are some of what we have there for you right now. if you want to get whistleblower julian assange gets ready to run for the senate in his native australia and he won't let his house arrest in britain get in the way. into our

your appliances acting as cia agents the dark secret of white goods which are keeping tabs on your family we explain how they're doing it dot com. it's six months since the occupy wall street movement swept the world with millions taking up the battle against corporate greed and inequality and now even though their camps are shrinking activists say the movement is far from dying down christine for reports. never gets a free wills we're told that it's a global the state ship will pull its obligation to soulfire me to get separation we first met joel more than in the early stages of the occupy wall street movement i've been out here since that october second degree a little bit just the whole. government corruption the fault lies mostly the really incestuous relationship that they got up there. like that stuff it was possible for multiple atrocity all why

a former children's mental health counselor position was cut and he was left without a job and instead found a place and a purpose to be here stuff. this is the rule settlement that we just wrecked it to protect us from the outside conditions and those conditions not all thanks to mother nature every night or somethin there's always some fights there's always some kind of drama happening there's a lot of theft a lot of i swear the police have been telling the junkies all drug do they want to get us not to hang out with various. macpherson square one of the longest lasting occupations ended up becoming a microcosm of society itself with similar issues from cleanliness to crime. still joel and many others here remain undeterred for today is january the third two thousand and twelve year the revolution as i'd like to call it. it is close to . maybe twenty six twenty seven degrees outside but it wasn't the

cold but these addiction notices that were posted on the occupiers tents setting off a firestorm of both anger and support and the construction of this tent of dreams. most people did end up leaving joel included i guess the thing that maybe stopped would be there was a wade. that was i mean that was i mean they have infrared helicopters flying around at night you know having like the will thermal vision on the tents to make sure the people are in the tent sleeping but even police crackdowns have not mentioned the end of occupy wall street and this is nick pearson where today nearly six months after the occupy wall street movement began a few tense remain but it's largely symbolic though and the others say the occupation aspect of this movement is simply one chapter of a longer story with many more still yet to be written but we do the dirty work for them the desire for radical change and the newfound belief that it can actually be

achieved is strong enough not to be subdued in the broccoli here was that feeling that something was incredibly was with society in the system in general and everything that we you know are you know should be naturally against that human beings and. i think i found that there is actually something that we can do about it in washington christine frizz now r.t. twelve regardless of where the occupy movement goes from here recent claims from a former goldman sachs executive over the company's moral decay are certainly something the occupiers will agree with coming up later this hour on our team and stacy also weigh in on the crisis of the controversial banking for. when someone at goldman sachs makes a ten million dollar bonus or a thirty million dollars bonus he has lost for various clients including greece or other countries or other corporations three hundred or four hundred billion in

losses he's paid a percentage of dull losses this is why the global g.d.p. is in retreat this is why the united states has increased our debt load to fifteen sixteen seventeen trillion to paper over the losses that goldman it is in the business of delivering to customers many of which are too frickin stupid to understand that it's not necessarily green idea if lloyd blankfein such. a forty second street that's not worth throwing your company under the bus for but a lot of c.e.o.'s are so frickin stupid because the cost of money is so cheap that they're willing to give away their company their family their life for just such an arrangement. of a u.s. soldier accused of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan has been named as staff sergeant robert bales he's already back in the states in a military prison but has not yet been charged army officials say he is being held

in solitary confinement and afghan investigation claims bales was not acting alone and that up to twenty other u.s. troops may have taken part in the massacre international affairs commentator rick ross off believes that the cold blooded killing of civilians by american forces is history repeating itself. and we have a reasonably a go at you know received no drive at all we have to recall that seven years ago in iraq in the city. for twenty four hour iraqi civilians were killed by the nine u.s. servicemen none of whom were prosecuted for their crimes the leader of the group was super in charge with dereliction of duty and broken and ran. which is decidedly come out sort of you know punishment but there is a difference between so-called collateral damage and targeted killings and it occurred this past sunday the several houses in the village were perfect there were people around and often people in the sixty's the government state something you

know more than one seventh of nine children three women and so forth this suggests first of all of the one person hardly a perpetrator of a crime of its own this is a very deliberate you know action and for us to try to penetrate anything now it's just not there and it was. to a violent revolutions in just seven years that's the price the people of the central asian republic of kyrgyzstan have paid so far for a free and a democratic future now as the public has grown increasingly hostile towards the police and a culture of vigilantism and excuse me vigilanteism is on the rise are times i would like a report on those who patrol the streets in the name of justice. reflecting their blows and kicks in this case downtown this young man a constant reminder of the violence the current leader of kurdistan street college it's for to cast their. vote and this is who should be serving in the police the punchlines track to the heart of the country's security problems two years ago

during the last congress revolution the police opened fire at protesters. almost seventy were killed forcing the president to step down and says that the country's north origins have effectively replaced the police because of the july into groups move here move i told you the movement of drugs iniki or people's guards counts tens of thousands of the one is ready these men patrol the streets at night and just a phone call away during the day organized in small cells they're more while and easily manageable and increasingly they're being trained by the very same security forces they're supposed to be filling for. the interior ministry in the ministry of defense train or volunteers in a time of need when police and the army are to moralize we are ready to defend our country the new security arrangement was in full display during the recent presidential elections in addition to observer and regular police each blowing

station had a group of heavily built man who called themselves people's guards all candidates in the corridors elections extolling the virtues of democracy and the rule of law but to make sure the base for graphic values work in their favor many of them chose a natural rather than political. the country's former interior minister sas reviling get regular police allows then you have courage as an excuse to maintain their own private armies and keys the public discontent boils over once again. under the pretext that the police would be more annoyed than you will for it is a creating their own security units whose primary goal is not to protect the law for all. but rather to protect private interests. a succession of the revolutions has also led to a rise in the number of private security agencies here in the center of this character trained weekly targets. during the last revolution

protesters raided several depots and many of their weapons are still at large. it's true that our business grows in times of instability but we're really tired of all these revolutions that's what we need a stable economic development evolution. and despair pollution if it keyed plays well into the near thirty's hands they may have been brought to power a greater popular uprising is referrals and so well trained of course under their command. not to leave the office in a similar fashion it's not going to artsy. in a few minutes we'll bring you the party for st patrick in the heart of moscow. if you're not in the islands and you're not iris how do you become a. i would think that would be with a dance and a drink at the center of the capital revels in all things irish will report first hand from the festivity. now to some other news making headlines around the world

libya's former intelligence chief has been arrested in mauritania in a joint operation with french authorities. close confidante is wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity during the uprising in libya and by friends for the one nine hundred eighty nine bombing of a passenger plane both libya's national transitional council and france now want him extradited. japan says it's considering whether to destroy a satellite north korea plans to launch next month over fears that it's a covert long range missile test young insists it's just a satellite it wants to send into space in april to mark one hundred years since the birth of kim il sung the founder of the communist state the u.s. russia and china have all come down please it's. time now to head it to some of russia's hidden corners in close up.

and today we take you to a remote settlement in the year old mountains it boasts a unique name in the village of newspaper time seems to have stood still for almost a century thank you tom barton has found his way there. you could turn berg is one of russia's biggest cities but a few hours away it's a different world where we were going even tarmac would be a luxury that's the end of the road from here to the village it's just forest time for me to do this and go even further off the beaten track. eventually we saw it welcome to the village of newspaper population ten people two horses two cows no running water no electricity and

one rather strange name it was founded in one nine hundred twenty four by a group of collective farm workers who wanted to branch out on their own but they had a problem. with the pope to establish a new village they had to have to mission so they applied for it through the local paper when the permission was granted their name to a newspaper in things. spread lerner is one of only two people to have lived here all their life the other is cleaner after her husband died she continued to live here alone every winter there snowed in so what if they need help. you don't get help if something happens you only wrote if you can't get through the phone no one will come. said larner with her two horses is essentially the village taxi service but twenty one year old son lives here too and for the moment is

content working on a local logging site. he doesn't want to leave in the town he likes it here but i'm not sure if he'll stay here that long it might be fun for he wrote his still young but i think you might get more of it cows can roam freely. doors don't need to be locked in fact apart from tending the livestock the only law and order necessary here is to stop the dogs fighting but newspaper is incredibly small too small i wondered to survive i was surprised to find it was good lena who disagreed with me but. the village has a future it needs to hold on it's a nice quiet place and that's why city residents come here we have a need you cannot for some houses so it looks like far from dying out clean his granddaughter could be joined by many more visitors i wouldn't hold out for the

road though some bottom party. it's time for guinness and a green a lager again as moscow hosted st patrick's day celebrations revellers gathered in the capital's center to mark ireland most famous holiday. festivities. there's no doubt that when you think of us in paddy's day you think of the island and the irish people themselves but also the most iconic of all saints sam paddy himself today at the old regime just that bad just like the rest of the world from new york to bank called to beijing as well as yet in moscow now moscow has actually been celebrating some of his bases nine hundred ninety two and its cultural events like this that actually tied to russia and i didn't get back into the business in trade as you know i did that had a few similarities in terms of the cultures based join having fun as a baby people smile and having a few drinks so none of them patrick's day celebration is complete until you have

an island that's a crowd and that begin as soon as today so we might even have a special green of the whole you know as they say. in islands sloan's everybody. the moment they i would see moscow. i just hope they saved one for me coming up a frank and no holds barred discussion about the state of the world's economy reporters on arkan shortly that's after a recap of the headlines in just a few moments.

well for british style science that's not on the tires. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared from the risk is not zero love something might be going off by mistake especially the founders of the nuclear weapons on

hair trigger alert. because of the difference to use it either as a threat call as an echo of it but you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up with nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.