syrian authorities and the opposition trade accusations over who is behind a series of deadly suicide attacks and regime strongholds but the government also blaming foreign forces for involved. egypt's new constitution not yet written but already in the middle of a scandal a year after people vote for change in a historic referendum. i think people who they want free citizens until they try to see lawmakers in washington blur a legal lines when it comes to the u.s. freedom of assembly making it easier to throw protesters behind bars.

it's nine am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on our team our top story syria's government and opposition forces blame each other for a deadly car bombing that tore through the city of aleppo sunday the explosion left three dead and thirty injured and just a day after two lethal explosions at another government stronghold the capital damascus authorities also accused qatar and saudi arabia which both back arming the rebels of involvement in the strikes the bombings come as the u.n. teams whatever a government led humanitarian mission and attempts to launch a monitoring operation to help end the country's year long crisis are he's middle east correspondent paula sleeper has more on the recent spate of violence in syrian cities. well the explosion happened at one o'clock local time in the second largest syrian city of aleppo in a residential area very now throughout the day state television has been showing

pictures of destroyed vehicles of damaged buildings and shattered glass and it's turned the attack a terrorist bombing we are hearing from the opposition that the attack happened not far from a security building although officials say that it hit between two razor the residential buildings behind a post office now i witness on the scene say that they were bodies lying everywhere they also say that they heard massive explosions and gunfire immediately after the understand was a car bombing now we understand this to be security officers who were firing in the air immediately following the blast they also cordoned off the area to try and prevent people from coming closer and now the blast comes just one day after twenty blasts on saturday killed some twenty seven people in the syrian capital of damascus and it is the latest in a string of suicide bombings that have been happening in syria over the past few weeks on the tenth of february last month in the same city as sunday's the last the

city of aleppo in the roof of the country twenty eight people were killed in twenty last not far from a security office now the syrian pris is blaming saudi arabia and qatar for sunday's bombing they say that they have been calling for the arming of the opposition and that this is merely fueling the situation on the ground and intensifying the violence series of explosions and pro-government strongholds took place against the backdrop of special envoy kofi arms peace efforts on syria his mission is aimed at agreeing a cease fire between the assad regime and the opposition and to get talks between them started they were based political analyst dr omar xabi tells archly he thinks the terror attacks in damascus and all work could be aimed directly. these efforts the objectives of these explosions that are coming within two days this shows that there is an intent to actually destroy or create obstacle

to the initiative by the former secretary general of the united nations kofi annan who is acting on behalf of the united nations and on behalf of the arab league and would receive the support. at least the verbal support from the russian foreign ministry now these explosions actually show the need for the successor for mr mission china has been siding with russia and calls for a foreign powers with links to the opposition in syria to persuade the rebels to sit down to the negotiating table but professor he when paying for the chinese academy of social sciences thinks it's sometimes tough just to know who the opposition is the interview coming your way in the next hour here's a preview. even the slightest amount of listening actually eventually because our side. has been penetrated it nowadays the so-called other freedom of the cd now is not longer the pure. reason of our freedom

army i think. that force is. also involved. so now all of those fighting i think they're becoming complicated it's much much more complicated than before. huge a parliament has just agreed on a panel that will write the country's new constitution but it's already embroiled in controversy human rights activists reportedly calling on the military rulers to dissolve the newly elected commission saying the muslim brotherhood is trying to use the process as a power grab m.p.'s argued half the panel will be chosen from within parliament where the muslim brotherhood holds the majority of seats this is all our year after a historic referendum that pin of the way for a reshuffle of power in the country but as our kids are really delusional reports it hasn't yet produced the change most egyptians had been hoping for. how delhi

mother could be opposed to a boy for egypt's revolution young educated a t.v. talk show host and politically active he was among those whose protests on the two square toppled the regime of president mubarak last year but like many others who were on the streets with him he doesn't feel things in egypt have changed for the best result. we were in against mubarak as a person we were against the whole system against oppression and justice a lot of scare so they were program illusion their actions sure they are applying the same techniques used by him or. the ruling military council or scouts replaced hosni mubarak who rejections accused of corruption and nepotism economic mismanagement and human rights abuse but a thorough look at scarfs policies until the situation eerily similar if not worse now you get proper sort of suspended with live ammunition in a sort of rubber bullets as was the case in the courts you get legal strikers who

get very fertile militantly buglers of the courts in the last year you have more than thirteen thousand egyptian citizens who got processed to the military funerals that's where you more than what one of the during this thirty years of rule the streets of cairo teeming with tourists before the revolution are now considered on sci fi even by those who have lived in the egyptian capital all their lives you can find the police in the street and even if they are there they don't truly help and you know it's like a kind of they are punishing the people because they are the of the revolution so what they're not doing there when there are work where they don't care about what happens and the deliberately neglecting their every single crime that is happening and they're just their choice to turn their back and some believe revolutionary parties choose to turn their backs on the military council is questionable policies seemingly comfortable with the way things are. and sound

a lot of revolutionary forces sided with the military council and started making deals and for evolutions given more ground and ignore them in demands of the revolution most of the political lead and revolutionaries are looking at fixing things not changing. a real possibility now is the revolution entering a second stage this time prompted not just by the young and the educated but by the poor and the unemployed whose numbers have been steadily rising since the military council came to power. the economic situation is really getting worse and i believe that these people who are really suffering nowadays because they can't even. can't afford to work to feed their families and these people are really there are going to lead to this guy and this this this you know wave of if you kind of what you want to call it's like a second wave of innovation but it's going to be really really aggressive and really violent and bloody these days that's who square is filled with vendors to

bring your sellers i believe you and if you would sense but from time to time things get heated up again those who have spent their days and nights here just a little over a year ago talk a little better see their job is far from over and the revolution continues in those quite see cairo stay with us here on r.t. still to come the right to life to a a academics arguing in favor of after birth abortion in a leading medical journal also. struck a problem bad in many parts of the world as best is still used in homes in india triggering deadly diseases among the country's people. but first new york city police are investigating death threats made against their style on phone and on twitter this after officers forcibly arrested more than seventy people during an occupy wall street protest since the start of the nationwide protest based numerous pieces of police brutality the tons of tear gas being used to disperse crowds as

the movement continues so does washington's desire to silence the u.s. public according to our. porton in this report. it's a country that extols the virtues of liberty on like no other. since september some six thousand seven hundred americans protesting against economic inequality and corporate greed have been arrested and silence. a police offensive aimed at crushing on. wall street has succeeded in shattering america's globally marketed brand of freedom but it may people realize that kind of devastating states oh our ability to be in a place to send their marriage and how to challenge that and how pressed that is i think people thought they worked for a year to dissent and create it until they tried it. in america it is a criminal offense to exercise freedom of speech and advance deemed nationally

significant such as presidential conventions and debates. protesting in areas where the u.s. president or anyone protected by the secret service may be visiting is considered a felony punishable with fifty fines and not contain years in jail the federal restricted buildings and grounds improvement act known as h r three four seven is a law most americans don't know about but you don't have to do a lot to feel its force we represent people who are charged with felony offenses solely because they put up posters they put up signs asking people to join in demonstrations and they've been arrested by the police detained held on twenty five thousand dollars bail in charge of felons with nato and protest posters popping up nationwide u.s. lawmakers are tightening up recent active men's include prohibiting protests around

the white house and broader language to make arrests and prosecution easier i think this is a specific response sort of the fear that we are actually going to your doctor and you know like. transforming the political landscape katie davison was arrested twice last year while taking paul in legal nonviolent occupy wall street demos in new york i feel like we're living in an authoritarian government here be sort of like sprinkled democratic you know like words all over everything as if you know like we have all these freedoms that we actually don't buy new reality where it's here that just about any american engaging in political protests. can be prosecuted unsound wages affront to civil liberties and the first amendment and. i have my personal personally have been arrested several times protesting that i have been mr meaner so now would be a felony and i it's just unconscionable that the congress passed this on or is

legal or it's a victory i want to leave reached consensus when it came to clamping down on constituents only three elected officials voted against expanding federal restrictions on protests while u.s. leaders can't resolve issues like national debt and wholeness there on the scene each when it comes to how to handle all those citizens flooding the streets to demand change and accountability are enough we're not artsy new york steven kuhr lander a political and communications strategist thinks the occupy movement needs to establish a leadership to gain momentum. you know they did have a really chilled as either a piece of the morning protests or anything else i need i think they have to decide what they want to go after and you know my opinion is she don't appear to be moving in compas is a number of issues the number of different people in these there's no leadership

there's no identifiable leadership really standing out and leading the leading loop the loop that they're not they're not i'm reaching the average american and they're not going to succeed unless they start intensifying their needs and they're just sick of. dot com for the latest occupy crackdown footage and there's much more in store on our web site a u.s. soldier suspected of slaughtering sixteen afghan civilians may already have a criminal record discovered charges against him in the past on our web site plus. outrage and dismay among many christians in the middle east as the credibility of saudi arabia demands destruction of all the region's churches i doubt more of our team to. a storm of controversy raging in britain after an article where two academics

advocated the use of so-called after birth abortion the authors have received death threats but say their arguments were just macadamia discussion as archive or better reports that's left many wondering whether such views should be voiced at all. surely through paul's was eight months pregnant when she found out her son would be born with down syndrome even as late as that the only advice she got was to have an abortion doctors tried to persuade sam's condition it would be a struggle not worth living but six years on the only struggle mother and child have had was ignoring that advice i could start all over again and i was choosing not to and i was treated as something something for. maliki actually i was treated as if i was just a bit stupid. it is very sad to think that they are the people who are giving advice their mothers they have a duty. to everyone a taking an eight to put their life and a day in a lot of their might i failed

a field our children aware preserving they're not worth saving they're not that happening and that really isn't the case but stereotypes just been taken a whole lot further by two ethicists who argue that it's ok to kill babies even after the born the controversial comments were published by the oxford educated professors in a leading british medical journal they dismiss newborns as potential and not actual persons they say killing them so no different to a normal prenatal abortion but critics branded infanticide it was a speculative case and this article has been defended on the grounds of free speech but would we accept for example an article advocating that jews or blacks were not persons only potential persons and they could also be killed very sort of ask the question is a newborn child any less of equal member of the human bone member of

a certain race or of one gender or the other what really is the difference the authors of stoked an ethical storm by advocating after birth abortions in all cases . even if the babies are not disabled abortions are only permitted in britain on non medical grounds during the first twenty four weeks of a pregnancy the authors have now received death threats and say they were merely making an academic discussion they refused to give an interview but it's a lie in the journals editors defend our progress to publish arguments for a controversial issues so that people can live in the long run and some of these issues are very complex and personally for example i don't agree with. the car conclusions of the pig or i would like to defend people's right to express these and other people's right to respond to them academic discussion or not the

articles prompted outrage not only amongst pro-life groups but also mothers of children with disabilities who declined the option of abortion it was a here it was cold it was horrible there definitely seems to be a trend now is to say that. in these children shouldn't be here it's not something terrible it's not awful just because it's not what you imagine it's doesn't mean it's not something fantastic because having sam in our life is amazing absolutely amazing sam's a member of his local swimming club and plays football to seeing him here it's hard to believe how doctors could say his life would be a burden either bennett see london. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe police and hundreds of so throwing kurdish demonstrators clashed in istanbul water cannons and pepper spray were used to break up the rally which was protesting against

a ban on celebrations of the kurdish new year the number of the injured entertain remains on the. rights activists and former lutheran pastor george he has been elected germany's new president he won the backing of most parties gaining overwhelming support of a special problem in three assembly former president christian will step down last month following a series of scandals and allegations of corruption. st patrick's day celebrations turned violent in the canadian town of london where a crowd of around a thousand started a fire and. revelers flipped over a t.v. news and threw rocks and bottles of security forces when they arrived at the scene at least eleven arrests were me. but may be bad in many parts of the world because of its hazards to human health but the toxic mineral as best this is still widely used in india and foreign importers seem desperate to push the deadly substance asia's way despite the risks as artie's previous reader reports. the residents of

this south delhi have no idea that the routes they live on or are contaminated with a toxic mineral called fastow's once a bike we used in building project for insulation against heat and fire today is banned in fifty two countries around the world because if it's proven dangers as they still buy goods like this business might lose because intuitively. make as good as the missile kid yuma one can fit in fact right into what it is in as this post these if you didn't make. but it's still being used in india and studies show that it could kill as many as one million people in developing countries in the next eight years the indian government has banned the mining of especially but the importing and manufacturing of it is still legal and he is growing economy has led to a construction boom and alternatives to a spot cost almost double that's why many indians believe it's worth it despite the

health risks because of us as a precaution three is one of the three million people involved in the eight hundred fifty million dollar a year business in india has been selling its best to its roofing for twenty five years and says he's aware that it could become one of the country's biggest killers but with the new it is harmful because too soon to support. while activists campaigning to ban distressed those in india acknowledge the government needs to do more to stop it they say blame also has to lie with their biggest importer of the toxic fiber canada the north american country is one of the world's largest our exporters of us bastos even though it's illegal for it to be used inside its own borders. the standards is quite many faced on the one hundred the going to get a house of commons oh yeah. because of causing what you did going to india this is . activists are trying to inform indians about the danger is that i stress to those

that even the ones who have heard about it feel like they have no option but to live with it but a. government should pay attention to the way poor people are leaving whether we're living in a healthy safe environment. using the toxic chemicals shipped from the west to make their livelihoods even though it might cost them their lives preassure either r t new delhi india. time to take a look at things going in the world of the news with. so what's under the spotlight today in the world of finance well the spotlight is on china as the global economic leaders essentially gathered in beijing for china development for me see china as being the pillar of stability over the past several years but last week it lowered its growth target to seven and a half percent from its longstanding target of eight percent now analysts say might be a little bit more of a man but it's certainly not going to be not point two percent that it showed last

year the prevailing opinion of those gathered in beijing this weekend is that china must reform to continue its robust growth and let's now take a look at the markets first of course to asia where they're actively trading this hour and as you can see they are higher in tokyo the nicky's gaining value namely thanks to energy producers that are gaining on rising oil prices a bit more on oil in just about a minute and in hong kong the hang seng is putting on around one third of a percent as you can see there mainly thanks to banking stocks h.s.b.c. and china construction bank are on the rise and now moving on to wall street of course the trading floors they're close this hour you see in friday's closing figures and the stocks are mostly worth there and that means the dow didn't extend its long winning streak it was the longest in more than a year but to blame was the consumer confidence index which unexpectedly bell in

the march overall for the week both the dow and the nasdaq and the gaining two point one percent which is not bad at all one stock to watch is out fall it briefly touched the six hundred dollar a level last week and we'll see if it can find there again this week now on to or oil as i mentioned is higher in fact brant is hovering around the one hundred and this sick. one hundred twenty six dollars a barrel and mainly. most analysts are very concerned that rising oil prices are going to halt economic growth and speaking of form over the weekend the international monetary fund chief christine legarde a socially confirmed that saying that rising low prices can. be a threat to global economic growth but the wall street journal on sunday said that hasn't happened certainly a lot of the united states now who do want to currencies at the moment the dollars

lower against the euro the ruble on friday was higher against the dollar with lower against the european currency and no one to the russian equity markets as you can see and these are friday's schools and figures they were along were losing around half of the sound both the r.t.s. and the my sex now russia's gal's problem is expanding its partnership with european companies it plans to swap energy assets with germany's biggest oil and gas company a telephone call that has all the details. willow on top of. the oil deposit i'll miss two plots a platform in the north sea the developer of the field is german is leaves gas producer with this whole wish is planning to pass a small with russia's castro. get up to twenty five per cent share in some of russia's gas projects in the end all putin supply with an option for fifty per cent

while gas fire and i share in that we just hold all share a project like this. especially. in this very interesting. russia. the two companies have been park racing for decades they jointly build the world trade now intensifying their efforts to construct the south trade routes they turn central real gas transport to which distributes the russian gas in europe has just been made in the pantaloons and three in the cascades in older to comply with the current energy charter to spray him as a producer from also holding the means of supply gas bill which invests billions of dollars in pipelines wants to keep control but the rapidly changing rules mean

they're tying up with local operates as maybe the best way for gas problem to access the cost of a new liberalize gas markets that's going to be artsy from for the wealthy. that's the way it is from the business desk i'll go back about it's going to see that. the. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people

thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero love something might be going off by mistake specially like the founders of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. but the significance to it was if i did as a threat or as an extra bit you know if you keep spinning 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 to nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. just. fewer chances but full of life.

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