syrian authorities and the opposition trade accusations over who was behind a series of deadly suicide attacks in regime strongholds with the government also blaming foreign forces for involvement. the new egyptian constitution not yet written but already in the center of a scandal very year after people vote for change in a historic referendum. i think people they want free air defense and creates until they try the lawmakers in washington the illegal lines when it comes to the u.s. freedom of assembly making it easier to put protesters behind bars.

ten am in moscow i'm mad as a good to have you with us here on r t 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 wounded more than thirty and comes just a day after two lethal explosions in another government stronghold in the capital damascus the authorities also accused qatar and saudi arabia which both back arming the rebels of involvement in the strikes the bombing comes as the u.n. teams prepare for a government led humanitarian mission and attempts to launch a monitoring operation to help and syria's yearlong crisis archy's middle east correspondent paula sleepier 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 there now throughout the day state television has been showing

pictures of destroyed vehicles of damaged buildings and shattered glass and it's termed 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 raises their residential buildings behind a closed off has now i wouldn't says on the scene say that there were bodies lying everywhere they also say that they heard massive explosions and gunfire immediately after but now understand was a car bombing and now we understand this to be security officers who were firing in the air immediately following this blast but also cordoned off the area to try and prevent people from coming closer now the glass comes just one day after turn 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 blast the city of aleppo in the north of the country twenty eight people were killed in two thousand blasts 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 not position and that this is merely fueling the situation on the ground and intensifying the violence the explosions and pro-government strongholds took place against the backdrop of special envoy kofi annan peace efforts in syria his mission is aimed at agreeing on a cease fire between your side regime or any opposition and to get talks between underway beirut based political analyst on our to shari tells r t he thinks the terror attacks in the car in damascus and or or in these are. the objectives of these explosions that are coming within two days this shows that there is an intent

to actually destroy or create 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 we need a period of cease fire in order for the dialogue to start now these explosions actually show the need for the successor from within and the mission china has been siding with russia and calls for foreign powers with links to the opposition in syria to persuade the rebels to come to the negotiating table but professor he when paying from the chinese academy of social sciences thinks it's sometimes tough just to know who the opposition is and the interview coming your way later this hour here's a quick look. these are the sectors are milder mostly absolutely eventually because i also thought. as being penetrated nowadays the so-called freedom of the syria now is not longer the purer

syrian people are reasonably afraid of the army i think even some of our forces. also involved in the. army so now all those fighting cost i think they're becoming complicated and much much more complicated than before. egypt's parliament has just agreed on a panel that will write the country's new constitution but it's already in world 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 n.p.'s agreed that the panel will be chosen from within parliament one of the muslim brotherhood holds a majority of seats. a year after an historic referendum that pave the way for a reshuffle of power in egypt what is art is a really crucial reports of how to get produce the change that the citizens have

been hoping for. how it could be a poster boy for egypt's revolution young educated a t.v. talk show host and politically active he was among those whose protests on a few 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. and against mubarak as a person we were against the whole system against oppression and injustice and all the scarcity we're programmed illusion your actions should reply you seem to me. the ruling military council or staff replaced hosni mubarak who rejections accused of corruption and nepotism economic mismanagement and human rights abuse but a thorough look at gas policies unveiled a situation eerily similar if not worse now you get proctors that are suspended with live ammunition in

a sort of rubber bullets as was the case in the courts you get legal strikers who get referred to military three bureaus of the courts in the past two years you have more than thirteen thousand egyptian citizens who are processed all military funerals that's where you more than what one of the during this thirty years of war all of 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 really help and you know it's like a kind of they are punishing the people because they have done the revolution so they're not going there and there are other 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 really

revolutionary parties choose to turn their bags on the military councils questionable policies seemingly comfortable with the way things are. and so her beloved revolutionary forces sided with the military council and started looking deals and forming coalitions was given more ground and ignore them in demands of the revolution most of the political elite and lucian are looking at fixing things not changing now. 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 situation is really getting worse and i believe that these people who are really suffering nowadays because they can't even. afford to work to feed there are there are families these people are really there are going to lead to the sky and this. wave of revolution if you kind of called it like

a second wave of an emotion but it's going to be really really aggressive and really really violent and bloody these days that are serious where it's filled with vendors to the nearest 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 talked with barack regime say their job is far from over and the revolution continues and then goes quiet here cairo. stay with us here on are you still to come the right to life. to academics in the u.k. who argue in favor of an after birth abortion in a leading medical journal plus. constructing a problem of bad in many parts of the world as best this is still used in homes in india triggering deadly diseases in the country's people. but first new york city police are looking into the death threats being made against their staff on phone calls and through twitter this after officers forcibly arrested more than seventy

people during an occupy wall street protest since the start of the movement nationwide protests they say numerous cases of police brutality with the tongs and tear gas often used to disperse the crowds as the movement continues so too does washington's desire to silence the u.s. public according to argues maria porton in this report. it's a country that extols the virtues of liberty i'm 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 occupy wall street has succeeded in shattering america's globally marketed brand of freedom for its many people realize aids devastating states for our ability to be in a place of dissent america and how to challenge that and help press that is i think

people thought they were free air in the sense and 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 to be. protesting in areas where the u.s. president or anyone protected by the secret service may be visiting is considered. felony punishable with hefty fines and up to ten years in jail if 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 soley 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 felonies with nato and protest posters popping

up nationwide u.s. lawmakers are tightening up recent act in 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 to sort of the fear that we are actually going to be active and you know like. transforming the landscape katie davison was arrested twice last year while taking part in legal nonviolent occupy wall street demos in new york if you like we are living in inner clark's american government here we 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 feared that just about any american engaging in political protests. can be prosecuted unsound wages front to civil liberties and the first amendment and i have my personal personally have been arrested several times protesting there have been

misdemeanors and now would be a felony and it's just unconscionable that the congress passed this on or is legal or it's bickering i want to leave reached consensus when it came to clamping down on constituents only three officials voted against expanding federal restrictions on protests all u.s. leaders can't resolve issues like national debt and. the wrong on the same page when it comes to how to handle all those citizens flooding the streets to demand change and accountability. not r.t. new york steven kuhr lander a political and communications strategist thinks the occupy movement needs to establish leadership to be imminent. you know there's not many really jelled is either a piece of the war and it's not just protests or anything else i think they have to decide what they want to go after and you know my opinion they should be only in

the back and moving in compas is a number of issues the number of different people in news there's no leadership there's no definable leadership really standing out and leading the league. they're not they're not i'm reaching the average american and they're not going to succeed unless they start to terrifying their needs and then address it. forgets a lot on the r.t. dot com for the latest footage on the occupy crackdown there is much more click away while you're there the u.s. soldier suspected of slaughtering sixteen afghan civilians may already have a criminal record discover charges against him in the past on our web site. and outrage and dismay among many christians in the middle east as the grant of both the of saudi arabia demands the destruction of all the region's churches find out all this and more it put away at our t.v. dot com.

a public storm raging in britain after a controversial article where two academics advocated the use of so-called after birth abortions the authors receive death threats but say their arguments were just an academic discussion for better reports that's left many wondering whether such news should be forced off. actually through course 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 try 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 say and i was treated as something something. up maliki actually i was treated as if i was different it's stupid. it is very sad to think that

they are the people who are giving advice. they have a duty to everyone a taken and i like and they they a lot of them i i still don't feel that our children know where preserving them not worth saving and that we're happy and that really is. that stereotypes just being 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 not actual persons they say killing them snow 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 kewl that sort of asked the question is a new born child any less or equal member of the human family than a member of a certain race or of one gender or the other what really is the difference the authors of stoped unethical storm by advocating after birth abortions in all cases . even if the baby's 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 line the journals editors defend our job was to publish arguments for and on professional issues so that in. the long run some of these issues are very complex. for example i don't agree with.

the conclusions of the peer or i would like to defend people's right to express the views and other people's right to respond to them academic discussion or not the articles prompted outrage not only among pro-life groups but also mothers of children with disabilities who declined the option of abortion it was a hit because it was horrible there definitely seems to be a trend now 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 doesn't mean it's not something fantastic having family now like it's 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 i've had bennett see london. taking

a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe police and hundreds of stone throwing kurdish demonstrators clashed in the east and the water cannons and pepper spray were used to break up the rally that was protesting against a ban on celebrations of a kurdish new year the number of the injured were arrested remains unclear. in libya to british journalist of initially used of espionage had been freed there's almost a month since the country's militia detain the men who were working for an iranian broadcaster last weekend to apologize for illegally entering the country. st patrick's day celebrations turned violent in the canadian town of london where a crowd of around a thousand started to fire and fought with police took over a t.v. news bad and tossed the rocks and bottles and security forces when they arrived at the scene they arrested at least eleven people. may be bad in many parts of the world because of its danger to human health but the toxic mineral as best is is

still widely used in india for importers are desperate to push the deadly substance asia's way despite the risks as artie's reports. the residents of this slum in south delhi have no idea that the routes they live on air are contaminated with a toxic mineral called i think that's joe's once widely used in building projects for insulation against heat and fires today but since it's banned in fifty two countries around the world because of its proven dangers. posed by blue and white this business by booth was. like asbestos the missile to yuma one can fit in fact ready to go but it isn't as this these it be to me. 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 a spot but the importing in manufacturing of it is still legal and is growing

economy has led to a construction boom and alternatives to a spot souce cost almost double that's why many indians believe it's worth it despite the health risks because of us so save for caution three guy is one of the three million people involved in the eight hundred fifty million dollar a year business in india he's 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 . a new it is harmful to those two soon because they have to support my family while activists campaigning to ban espoused within 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 about stowe's even though it's illegal for it to be used inside its own borders. it wouldn't spend quite many first only one hundred because they wanted to get

a house of commons. yes. and some posing with going to india this is a human. act as they're trying to inform indians about the danger is that it's best to those but 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 to people they're leading 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 archie new delhi india. a look now at everything going on in the business news with natasha hello i've been going there today well good the spotlight over the weekend has been on china where global economic leaders gathered they gathered in beijing for china development forum and socially of course china has been the pillar of stability in these uncertain times and it's been the main driver of global economic

growth but last week it lowered its rules target to seven and a half percent from its longstanding target of eight percent well some analysts say that my view go higher but it's certainly not going to be as high as one point two percent which we reported last year and the prevailing opinion of those gathered in beijing this weekend is that china must reform to continue its growth and let's now take a look at the equity markets first of course to asia where they're actively trading this hour and as you can see they are higher into the nikkei is gaining mainly on energy producers and they are gaining value on rising oil prices a bit more on oil in just about a minute and in hong kong the hang saying it's putting on around a quarter percent mainly thanks to banking stocks asia's b. c. and the china development bank are seeing strong gains and now on to the u.s. markets they're closed this hour you saying friday's figures wall street was a little world which essentially means that the dow did not extend its longest

winning streak more than a year to blaine was the consumer confidence index which unexpectedly dropped in march but overall both the dow and the nasdaq ended up putting on two point four percent for the week and that's not bad at all one stock to watch on monday is apple it briefly touch the six hundred dollars level and we'll see if they can if it can't climb there again. this week of course we'll see the first results from the sales of its newest i pad and now moving on to oil as i mentioned or oil is higher this monday with ground hovering around one hundred twenty six dollars a barrel over the weekend speaking at the china economic forum the head of the international monetary fund christine lagarde essentially said that rising oil prices is a threat to global economic recovery and while it very well may be the wall street journal reported on sunday that there are no signs of that yet certainly not in the united states and now want to currencies the dollar is losing against the euro and

the russian ruble is gaining both against the dollar and the euro and now russia is. russia's gas giant gazprom is expanding its partnerships with european companies. the gal's giant plans don't share swap it out so its water actually germany's biggest oil and gas company. has all the details. we don't talk about germany its biggest oil deposit on me to plot a plot for me in the north sea the developer of this field is german is leasing all in gas producer winters holds wishes planning to have assets war with russia castro . get up to twenty five per cent share in some of russia's gas projects in the limo putin slow with options for fifty per cent while gastro wire and the. shares in the

reserves holds all sure a project like this one gets from. the mill ceaselessly the dutch person. is very interested to broaden its production base to russia. as a region. with a very. rich we also joined. the two companies have been cooperating put their case they jointly build the wall street man 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 really cascades in the world it's a compliant with the e.u. sure the energy charter fish for him is a producer from also holding the means of supply gasper which invests billions of dollars in pipelines wants to keep control but the rapidly changing rules mean they're tying up with local operators may be the best way for gas prone to access

customers in europe's new liberalize gas markets. this artsy problem for the wealthy. and the russian market started trading less than a half an hour ago and they are recovering some of friday's losses you can see both m i six and they are ts are gaining and the rising oil and the positive global sentimental are both no doubt socrates' that's the latest from the business desk this hour i'll go back in about fifteen minutes so you don.

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