lead. to bomb blasts killed twenty seven and leaves scores wounded in a coordinated attack on security compounds in the syrian capital damascus. to belorussian sentenced to death for last year's terror attack on the mitts for metro have been executed this despite calls from human rights groups to reconsider the sentence. nationalist marchers in latvia honoring s.s. and veterans it sparked concern over the resurgence of 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 ditch their tents but vowed to carry on with the battle

against greed and inequality. six o'clock in the morning here in moscow russia's capital this is r t i'm john thomas and these are the top stories 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. secretary general kofi anon struggles to find a diplomatic solution to the year long crisis in the country our middle east correspondent post here has more. eliminate reports of his death vehicles patter with explosives were decimated 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 on theory the ten to twenty eight people were killed in twin blasts that hit the security complex in the government stronghold of aleppo and since december there 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 are 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 the latest effort at a diplomatic compromise comes from the former head of the united nations kofi annan last week and he was in syria where he met with both assume 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 foreign minister sergei lavrov has members of the u.n. security council to come forward and give his 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 any consensus decision by the government and all of position groups come to as a result of dialogue russia is not supporting the syrian regime will 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 of ots and the opposition. james petrus a

says sociology professor at the binghamton university in new york says the bombings could be the opposition's response to the un's diplomatic missions in syria the opposition refused to look to 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 but it also reflects frustration over the fact that the u.s. 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 know that by the opposition using bombs instead of 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 you got your vote now at are to you dot com taking a look at the results so far only five percent of you think that anonyma will manage to negotiate a ceasefire 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 seventy nine percent think that six percent think that at this point finding a peaceful solution is difficult and the rest believe that it's simply too late for a diplomatic solution dot com is where you can go to cast your vote. and still ahead for you this hour a post revolutionary take on justice. thousands of vigilantes a take over maintaining security in kyrgyzstan as police are pushed aside and. convicted nazi war criminal john demjanjuk kaz's 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 thousand jews are serving guard duty in a death camp in poland however he was sentenced to just five years in prison because the court ruled no partly for the 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 i said veterans have been honored as heroes the annual march held in last year's capital has been widely condemned as a glorification of a naziism despite that it still receives support at the highest political levels as jacob graves reports now from rica. 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 come are you going to the jews are crying about the holocaust with between nineteen forty and forty one 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 joins the waffen s.s. the meeting stoking fears of a neo nazi resurgence in latvia. if we can be silent when the people. in the memory of the nads east of the earth and this are marching in the streets of a member of the european union those in the crowd defend their stance same as 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 lap you know siri can lease responsible for the mass killing of jews this image of these youths lining the streets to welcome in

veterans commemorating even as they is one that has become commonplace it's also something that's increasingly warring observers if it may represent a rise of the far right both same commentators are asking why this message is being supported at the very top of a country's leadership. levien president andres has argued it is foolish to assume that an s.s. veterans are criminals say may deserve the public's respect people who are in charge in the third in 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 sentiment 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 we've got the fascist right people are

a are proud of being sort of or at reference 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 kind of position is the growth most apparent in march is that celebrate those who others struggle with them accompanied by personal messages such as this well made it a latvian t.v. station they stand as a striking image of europe's lingering past. that could have an increasing impact on its future degrees r.t. riga in latvia and still ahead for you in of the program and the scape are from modern civilization. please call some serious takes you to one remote village that seems to have frozen in time. two belorussians sentenced to death for last year's metro bombing in minsk have been executed the family of one of the men

confirmed where they had received notification from the country's supreme court and the state media later reported the executions as well but case has attracted much criticism from human rights groups and of the e.u. has condemned the decision calling on the belorussian leadership to impose a moratorium on the death penalty i please you know. 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 new place and were put on trial and they all were accused of carrying out not just the terror attack in april of last year but also their one which also happened in minsk in two thousand and eight one of the men to meet you could have all of has actually pleaded guilty to both cases where is the other men what is left 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 leaders that 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 he has also been refused of course teller's has been on the radar of the european human rights organizations for a very long time a lot of people in europe question the tactics and the policies of people who are still gordie's 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 is the only country in europe still to employ capital punishment in its legal system. well you can get the latest news videos and stories you may have missed at r.t. dot com here's some of what's there for you right now but. he wanted a whistleblower julian assange gets ready to run for the senate in his native australia and won't let house arrest get in britain get in the way.

and are your appliances acting as cia agents the dark secret of the white goods which are keeping tabs on your family explain how they're doing it at our t.v. but come on. it is six months since the occupy wall street movement swept of 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 archies christine reports. every gaps of free will is good to leave it's a global the state should befalls up a nation a soul fly a media saturation we first met joel northam in the early stages of the occupy wall street movement and out here since october second degree a little bit just

a whole. hell of a corruption i suppose really incestuous relationship that they got a lot of. like it's thought it was possible for trust wall why 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 to be here. this is the will supplement that we just wrecked it to protect us from the outside conditions and those conditions not all thanks to mother nature every night or something and there's always some fights there's always some kind of drama happening there's a lot of the wild i swear the police have been telling my joke and his brother is a good one of us want to hang out go to macpherson. macpherson square one of the longest lasting occupations ended up becoming a microcosm of society itself with similar issues from timeliness to crime.

still joel and many others here remain under terser 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 of the action 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 libya was the raid. that was i mean that was i mean they have infrared helicopters flying around at night you know out. michael farmall vision on that tends to 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 though on the other say the occupation

aspect of this movement is simply one chapter in a longer story with many more still yet to be written so what 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 and that brought me here was that feeling that something was incredibly wong with society in the system in general and everything that we you know are you know should be naturally against human beings and. i think i found that there is actually something that we can do about it in washington christine frizz now our team. the u.s. soldier accused of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan has been named as staff sergeant robert bales he is 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 reason to believe go out you know receive notes right all we have to recall is seven years ago in iraq in the city of d. there are twenty four hour iraqi civilians were killed by nine u.s. servicemen none of whom were harassed you know for their crimes the leader of the group of super in charge with dereliction of duty and broken and ran. which is seen as hardly a commensurate you know punishment but there is a difference between so-called collateral damage and targeted groups that are going to spend a sunday at the several houses in the village where the fact there were people around and often killed innocents to the afghan government state seventeen or more of one of these and only have nine children three women and so forth and this suggests first of all ordered one person could hardly have perpetrated by

a crime of his own this is a very poor work or it's you know action and for us to try to portray it as anything now this is disingenuous 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 vigilantism is on the rise parties are kind of reports on those who patrol the streets in the name of justice. perfecting their blows and kicks in biscuits downtown these young men of the constant reminder of violence that apparently of kurdistan street for the past decade. this is who should be serving in the police in a punch line strike to the heart of the country's security problems two years ago during the last period as the revolution the police opened fire at protesters.

almost seventy were killed forcing the president to step down and since then the country's north or each have effectively replaced the police because of vigilante groups will move here move i told you the movement of drugs or people's guards counts turns of thousands who one is ready these men patrol the streets at night and just a phone call away during the day organized in small cells their mobile 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 and the ministry of defense whole train or volunteers and in time of need when police and the or mere demoralized we are ready to defend our country the new security arrangement was in full display during the recent presidential elections in addition to observe and regular police each polling 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 to rely on natural rather than political muscle the country's former interior minister says rewiring the regular police allows the any authority is an excuse to maintain their own private armies and keys the public discontent boils over once again. under the pretext for the police and the more annoyed the new authorities are creating their own security units whose primary goal is not to protect the law for all. but rather to protect private interests of the boss and to. be succession of the revolutions has also led to a rise in the number of private security agencies here in the center of this character chain the weekly targets. during the last revolution protesters raided several depots and many of their weapons are still at large and you know that it's true that all business grows in times of instability but we're

really tired of all these revolutions and what we need is stable economic development and evolution. and the speculation there are three key places well into the near thirty's hands they may have been brought to power by the popular uprising but with thousands of well trained guards under their command. not to leave the office in a similar fashion it's not going to artsy. and in a few minutes we'll bring you the party forcing patrick right here in the heart of moscow. if you're not in the islands and you're not iris how do you become a. pallies. with a dance and a drink at the center of the troubles bubbles and all things i would report first hand from the festival next. time to take a look at some more news making headlines around the world libya's former intelligence chief has been arrested in mauritania in

a joint operation with french authorities are. close confidante is wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity during the uprising in libya and by france for the nine hundred eighty nine bombing of a passenger plane both libya's national transitional council and france now want him extradited. japan says it is considering whether to destroy a satellite north korea plans to launch next month over fears that it's a covert long range missile test run yang 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 us russia and china have all condemned north korea's plans. the head of egypt's cut cut to christian church public shenouda the third has died 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 the recent months before calling on the egyptian authorities to do more to prevent attacks on copts muslim leaders have offered their condolences. time now to head to some of russia's hidden most corners in close. and today we take you to a remote settlement in the ural mountains that boasts a unique name in the village of newspaper time seems to have stood still for almost a century or at least dumbarton has found his way there. you could terran work 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 it 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 what with. missing your village they had to have to mission so they apply a trip through the local paper when the permission was granted their name to newspapering things. spread lerner 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 there snowed in so what if they need help.

you don't care to help if something happens you are on the road and if you can't get through the phone no one will come. strettle manner with her two horses is essentially the village taxi service for twenty one year old son lives here too and for the moment he's content working on a local logging site. that 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 here while he's still young but i think he might get more out of it when 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 cool ina who disagreed with me but i didn't hear the village has

a future it needs to hold on it's a nice quiet place and that's why i said to resident con here we even need new clothes for some houses so it looks like far from drying out the leaners granddaughter could be joined by many more visitors i wouldn't hold out for the road though tom barton r.t. . that it's time for guests and a green lager again as moscow hosts st patrick's day celebrations rattle those gathered in the capitals center to mark ireland's most famous holiday about drawing the festivities. there's no doubt that when you think all of us in paddy's day you think all the island and the irish people themselves but also the most iconic of all saints sampat he himself today at the all i was celebrating just said that just like the rest of the world from new york to back and called to beijing has not as yet in moscow now moscow had actually been celebrating simply how these days is

nine hundred ninety two and its cultural events like this that actually tied russia in a hiding to get back into the business and trade and you know why did they have a few similarities in terms of a culture they enjoy having fun and making people smile and having a few drinks so none of them catch each day celebration is complete and still you have an island that's a problem and that they get there and say hey we might even have a special pre-nup feel for you as they say. in island sunday everybody. the bum look they ahd see moscow. and as it is six twenty six in the morning here in moscow i hope she's still not out drinking coming up frank and no holds barred discussion about the state of the world's economy and kaiser report is on arjun shortly after a recap of the headlines in just.

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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 if people don't wake up nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all the firepower of the second world war this second. is the equivalent. of the world's nuclear arsenal today. liz .