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

a new phase as activists ditch their tents but vowed to carry on with the battle against greed and inequality. in broadcasting live direct from our studios in central moscow this is our sean thomas glad to have you with us here 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 the state broadcaster claims the attacks were carried out by terrorists who detonated car bombs the blasts come at a sensitive time as the former u.n. security general kofi anon struggles to find a diplomatic solution to the yearlong crisis in the country our middle east correspondent policy or as more. eliminate reports are just that vehicles packed with explosives were discriminated 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 blasts come after a string of recent suicide attacks just last month every detail twenty eight people were killed in twin blasts that hit the security complex in the government stronghold of aleppo and since december they have been three suicide bombings in damascus these blasts 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 is now operating there calling for the opposition groups to unify there if that and they fight against the syrian regime in the later as if that 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 the syrian president bashar

assad and opposition groups and he is urging 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 this 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 also to syria i can assure you that these proposals do not mention any demands on president bashar al assad to step down i believe it's up to the syrian people to decide this issue we will endorse any consensus decision that the government and all opposition groups come to as a result of dialogue russia is not supporting the syrian regime we support the launch of a political process a cease fire is needed for that in the first place in the coming days there will be a delegation from the united nations visiting syria to assess what is the reality on the ground and this is the latest effort to reach some kind of political

agreement between the sunni and the opposition. james at petrus a sociology professor at the big and university in new york says the bombings could be the opposition's response to the un's diplomatic mission in syria the opposition refused to look at this fate in a referendum. they refused to participate in the elections they refused to look negotiate they're only interested in violent overthrow of the government but it also reflects frustration over the sacked that the un is moving toward a position of dialogue and not regime change as cozy an arms mission was the need for a cease fire negotiations and a repudiation know that by the opposition using bombs from start a dialogue is an indication that they they're losing international support.

and as always we would like to hear your opinion and we are asking do you think kofi annan mission into syria will bear fruit and cast your vote at our teen dot com you'll get the results right now so far only five percent of you think that anon will manage to negotiate a cease fire in the country while 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 or to dot com is where you can go to cast your vote. and so had for you this hour in post revolutionary take on justice. thousands of vigilantes take over maintaining security interest on as police are pushed aside. convicted nazi war criminal john guinee a new york died in a care home in germany he was 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 death camp in poland however he was sentenced to just five years in prison because the court ruled that no particular crime could be directly attributed to him he was also allowed to stay in a home for the elderly while his appeal was being reviewed. elsewhere in europe as veterans have been honored as heroes the annual march held in libya's capital has been widely condemned as a glorification of naziism despite that it still receives support at the highest political levels as jacob grieves reports now from an ego there's been decades of change since the world where nazi germany donates is despite the bloody legacy and some courses of europe you still have an audience. are you ready for the jews are crying about the holocaust were between forty and forty one the word for the

bolsheviks who killed me i think they received the would be deserved. to be pardoned. this is one thousand five hundred people gathered to officially commemorate those who force alongside hitler's armies and joined the waffen s.s. the beating stoking fears of a neo nazi resurgence in latvia. we cannot be silent when the people of the ring the memory of the now deceased of the birth and this hour marching industry of 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 volunteers and members of the disbanded latvian auxiliary police response of all the mass killing of jews this image of that is you lining the streets to welcome in veterans

commemorating even 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 those same commentators are asking why this message is supported at the very top of the country's leadership. i love being president andres bers inch as argued it is foolish to assume that when s.s. veterans are criminals saying they deserve the public's respect people who are in charge in positions will 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 sentiment and the fascist groups gather nearby in a protest to be annual march the rise in far right rhetoric is not unique to let via 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 etc and or whatever and you've got the fascist light of people who like probably marine le pen in france are actually coming from that kind of coming from that position it's a growth most apparent in march is that celebrate those who others struggle them accompanied by personal messages such as this one made it a latvian t.v. station they stand as a striking image of europe's lingering past one that could have an increasing impact on its future degrees r.t. reader in latvia and still ahead for you in the program in a skater from modern civilization. ickes of course obsoletes takes you to one of a remote village that seems to have frozen in time. to belorussian sentenced to death for last year's metro bombing in and have been executed the family of one

of the men confirmed or they had received notification from the country's supreme court and a state media later reported the executions as well ok so has attracted much criticism from human rights groups and the e.u. has condemned the decision calling on the belorussian leadership to impose a moratorium on the death penalty. as more. the two men are accused of carrying out the blasts in the metro in two thousand the level 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 the men dimitri kind of all of has actually pleaded guilty to both cases where is the other man what is has pleaded not guilty he has also written a letter with a petition for pardon to the belorussian 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 all figure at p. and 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 bellerose 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 the bill russian authorities really comes to matters concerning human rights and the freedom of speech and freedom of expression and belarus and as it stands right now bellers is the only country in europe still to employ capital punishment insley go system. well you get the latest news or videos or stories you may have missed at r t dot com here is some of what we have there for you right now. if you wanted it whistleblower julian assange gets ready to run for the senate in his native australia and it won't let his house arrest in britain get in the way. and are your

appliances acting as cia agents in the dark secret of the white goods which are keeping tabs on your family explain how they're doing it and are to dot com. please. it is six months since the occupy wall street movement swept through the world with millions are 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 artie's christine fans out reports. never doubt free will but they'll be to the people but the states that will hold up a nation is whole lot of media saturation we first met joel northam in the early stages of the occupy wall street movement but not here since october second. a little bit just the whole. government corruption i suppose really it's just

relationship that they got a lot of. like it's thought it was possible for multiple atrocities all by a former children's mental health counselor jools position was cut and he was left without a job and instead found a place and a purpose here. this is the settlement that we trust and directed to protect us from the outside conditions and those conditions not all thanks to mother nature every night or something there's always some fights there's always some kind of drama happening there's a lot of theft a lot of ice where the police have been telling the junkies the drug they want to get us. out of affairs. mcpherson square one of the longest lasting occupations and it up becoming a microcosm of society itself with similar issues from family ness to crime

still joel and many others here remain under turds or today is january the third two thousand and twelve. year of 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 something that maybe stopped would be there was the raid. that was i mean that was i mean that infrared helicopters flying around at night you know i. michael formal vision on the transfer make sure the people are in the tent sleeping but even police crackdowns have not meant the end of occupy wall street and this is an experience where today nearly six months after the occupy wall street movement began a few tense remain but it's largely symbolic joel and the others say the occupation

aspect of this movement is simply one chapter in a longer story with many more still yet to be written. work for them the desire for radical change and a newfound belief that it can actually be achieved is strong enough not to be subdued who brought me here was that feeling that something was incredibly wrong with society in the system in general and everything that we you know are you know should be naturally against this human beings and. i think i found that there is actually something that we can do about it in washington christine for us now our team the u.s. soldier accused of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan has been named as staff sergeant robert bales he's already back in united states in a military prison but has not yet been charged army officials say he's being held in solitary confinement an 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 was off believes a cold blooded killing of civilians by american forces is history repeating itself . and we have reason to believe you know every seat know if there are we have to recall that seven years ago in iraq when the said we would leave the twenty four hour iraqi civilians were killed by nine u.s. servicemen none of them were prosecuted for their crime as the leader of a group of super when charged with dereliction of duty and broken and right in. your original suit is hardly amounts of you know punishment but there is a difference between so-called collateral damage and targeted killings and it occurred this past sunday several thousands on the internet and she were a factor of were people around it often can hold you know sixteen to the afghan government state seventy two more people killed in the government of nine children three women and so forth this suggests first of all other than one person could

hardly hear the perpetrator about crime of his own and this is a very deliberate you know action then for the us to try to portray it as anything else is just an groundless to 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 democratic future now the public has grown increasingly hostile towards the police and a culture of vigilanteism is on the rise artie's oksana boyko reports on those who patrol the streets in the name of justice. perfecting their blows and kids in this case downtown this young man of the constant reminder of violence that permeated kyrgyzstan street car ticks for the past decade. this is who should be serving in the police the punch line struck to the heart of the country's security problems two years ago during the last curtis revolution the police opened fire at protesters almost seventy were killed forcing the president to step down and since

then the country's north origins have effectively replaced the police with a cohort of vigilante groups move here move i told you the movement of drugs iniki or people's guards khans terms of power sense here that group one is really these men patrol the streets at night and just if one call away during the day organized in small cells their mood while and is a limited role 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 help train our volunteers and in time of need when police and your mirror moralized 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 polling station had a group of heavily built man who called themselves people's guards candidates in the corridors elections extolling the virtues of democracy and the rule of law but

to make sure that these progressive values work in their favor many of their own natural rather than political muscle of the country's former interior minister sas reviling the regular police allows any authority 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 to the new authority for creating their own security units primary goal was not to protect the law for all. but rather to protect private interests of the boss. just this expression of the revolutions has also led to a rise in the number of private security agencies here in the center of this character cars train weekly to hit targets. during the last the revolution protesters raided several depots and many of the weapons are still at large. it's true that our business grows in times of instability but we are really tired of all

these revolutions so what we need is stable economic development and evolution at the national level and this revolutionary sleepy place is well into the near thirty's hands they may have been brought to power and made a popular uprising but with thousands of well trained guards under their command i sure hope 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. you're not hire is how do you become a burden. with a dance and a drink the center of the capital revels in all things irish will report first aired from. now on to some other news making headlines for you around the world. will be as former intelligence chief has been arrested in my training in a joint operation with french authorities on the new scene close could afi

confidante is wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity during the uprising in libya and by france 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 is a covert long range missile test. insists it's just the 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 us russia and china have all these plans. the head of egypt's coptic christian church pope shenouda the third has guide in cairo at the age of eighty eight he had reportedly been suffering from cancer as the leader of the country's largest religious minority for almost forty years he

was prominent in recent months for calling on the egyptian authorities to do more to prevent attacks on catholics muslim leaders have offered their condolences. in time to head to some of russia's hidden most corners in close up. and today it will take you to a remote settlement in the euro mountains that boasts a unique name in the village of newspaper time seems to have stood still for almost a century artie's tom burton has found his way there. terran burg 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 ditch this and go even further off the beaten track.

of eventually we saw it welcome to the village of newspaper population ten people two horses 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 and wanted to branch out on their own but they had a problem. with when the to establish a new village they had to have permission so they applied for it through the local paper when the permission was granted their name to newspapering things. spread larner is one of only two people to have lived here all their life the other is clean up after her husband died she continued to live here alone every winter snowed in so what if they need help. if you don't get help if

something happens here on the road and if you can't get through the phone no one will come. said larner with her two horses is essentially the taxi service the 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 while he's still young but i think you might get bored of it the 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 i said to residents can hear we even need you cannot for some houses so it looks like far from dying out clean as granddaughter could be joined by many more visitors i wouldn't hold out for the road though some bottom party and it's time for a guinness and a green lager again as moscow hosted st patrick's day celebrations revellers gallery in the capital center to mark ireland's most famous holiday to join festivities. business though when you think paddy's day you think all the. people themselves but also the most iconic google. today at the oh i. just that just like the rest of the world from new york to bangkok to beijing as well as here in moscow now moscow has actually been celebrating. and it's events like this that. i didn't get into the train. out of

used to in terms of joy having fun. and having a few drinks so i know some countries day celebration is complete until you have that and that beginning in two days you might even have a special. rule so as they say. in ireland sunday everybody. must go. so it's like having an absolutely good time i'll be back with a recap of the top stories in just a few moments. this

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