syrian authorities and the opposition are trading accusations over who was behind a series of deadly suicide attacks in regime strongholds with the government also blaming foreign forces for involvement. egypt's new constitution is not yet written but already in the middle of the scandal a year after people voted for change in a historic referendum. making people feel they were prepared to defend their graves and until they tried that lawmakers in washington were legal lines when it comes to u.s. freedom of assembly making it easier to throw protesters behind bars. and in the business bullets and the russian equity markets have climbed out in the first hour of trade mainly thanks to rising oil prices and positive global sentiment all of

the details in twenty minutes. eleven am in moscow i'm mad 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 a ripped through the city of aleppo sunday explosion left three dead and more than thirty injured and comes just a day after two lethal blasts in another government stronghold damascus authorities also accuse qatar and saudi arabia with which both a backer were arming the rebels of involvement in the attacks bombings come as the u.n. teams prepare for a government led humanitarian mission and attempts to launch a monitoring operation to help end syria's year long crisis he's mideast correspondent policy clear has more on the recent spate of violence across 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 the security building although officials say that it hit between two races there residential buildings behind a closed off as 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 but now understand was a car bombing now we understand this to be security officers who were firing in the air immediately following this blast they also cordoned off the area to try and prevent people from coming closer now the glass comes just one day after twenty last 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 north of the country twenty eight people were killed in twin blasts not far from a security office now the syrian pris is blaming saudi arabia and qatar for sunday's bombing face say that they have been calling for the arming of an opposition and that this is merely fueling the situation on the ground and intensifying the violence explosions in pro-government strongholds happens against the backdrop of special envoy kofi and arms peace efforts on the syria the mission is aimed at agreeing on a cease fire between the assad regime and the opposition and to get talks between there are underway but he repeats political analyst or more of a shadowy tells us the terror attacks of the massacres are aimed directly.

the objectives of these explosions that are coming within two days this shows that there is an intent to actually destroy or create. 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 ceasefire in order for the dialogue to start now these explosions actually show the need for the successful from this that and 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 when paying from the chinese academy of social sciences thinks it's sometimes difficult to know just who the opposition is the interview coming your way in the next hour here supreme. these are the factors are milder mostly. eventually because also forces has.

a panel takes effect nowadays the so-called freedom of the syria now is not longer the pure syrian people resume. freedom army i think even some of our forces are also involved. we've been an army so now all of those. are. becoming complicated much much more complicated than before. and egypt's parliament has agreed on a panel that will write the country's new constitution but it's already employed in controversy human rights activists are reportedly calling on 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 agree that half the panel will hear from the parliament where the muslim brotherhood has a majority of seats this all happens exactly

a year after a historic referendum paving the way for a reshuffle of power in the country but is already is really to reports it hasn't yet produced the change directions had been hoping for. 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 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 result. we were in against mubarak is a person we were against the whole system against oppression and injustice and scarcity were proved lucian their actions should apply in the same chick meek's usenet here. the ruling military council caffe replaced hosni mubarak who rejections accused of corruption and nepotism economic mismanagement and human rights abuse but a thorough look at the gas policies and build

a situation eerily similar if not worse now you get proctors that are suspended why don't you listen instead of rubber bullets as well as the police and the courts you get labeled strikers who get preferred to military buglers of the records in the past two years you have more than thirteen thousand egyptian citizens who are processed all military units that's where you more than what one of the during this thirty years of all of the streets of cairo teeming with tourists before their evolution are now considered an see 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 we don't really help anyone you know it's like a kind of and they are punishing the people because they have done that evolution so they're not doing their or their work where they don't care about what happens and deliberately neglecting their every single crime that is happening and they're

just their choice to turn their back and some really revolutionary parties to think turned their backs on the military council's questionable policies seemingly comfortable with the way things are. and so heard a lot of revolutionary forces sided with the military council and start making deals and forming coalitions which given more ground and ignore them in demands of the revolution most of the political elite and lucian irish are looking at fixing things not changing them. 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 and the economic 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 their families and these

people are really they are going to lead to this guy and this this this you know the wave of the if you can what you want to call it like a second wave of. what is going to be very very aggressive and really violent and bloody these days that's here's 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 little better cuisine say their job is far from over and the revolution continues in those courts here cairo. will stay with us here on r.t. still to come the right to life the right to you. are doing in favor of so-called after birth abortion in a leading medical journal plus constructing a problem in very far to the world as best it's 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 them through the phone and

twitter after officers forcibly arrested more than seventy people during an occupy wall street protest since the start of the movement nationwide protests are facing numerous cases of police brutality the photogs in tear gas often used to disperse the crowds as the movement continues so does washington's desire to silence the u.s. public according to our t's very important 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 but it's made people realize if they kind of devastating states or

our ability to be in a place of dissent in america and how to challenge that in our press that it and i think people thought they were free or dissent and great care until they tried it. in america it is a criminal offense to exercise freedom of speech and events 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 hefty fines and up can ten years in jail the federal buildings and grounds improvement act known as h. or three four seven is a law most americans don't know about but you don't have to do a lot to feel that force we represent people who are charged with felony offenses solely because they put up posters they put up signs asking people to join a demonstration and they've been arrested by the police detained held on twenty

five thousand dollars bail and turned to poems with nato 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 act and you know like. transforming that sort of landscape katie davis and was arrested twice last year while taking part in legal nonviolent occupy wall street demos in new york i feel like we are living in earthworks 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 i knew reality where it's here that just about any american engaging in political protests. can be prosecuted unsound it ranges from 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 i it's just unconscionable that the congress passed this on or is lean on for it's bickering i want to we reached consensus when it came to clamping down on constituents only reluctant officials voted against expanding federal restrictions on protests while u.s. leaders can't resolve issues like national debt and. there on the scene each when it comes to how to handle all those citizens flooding the streets to demand change and accountability. r.t. new york. political and communications strategist steven kuhr landor believes the occupy movement needs to establish a leadership to gain by magic. you know that they haven't really jelled as either a piece of. this or anything else i think they have to decide what they want to go

after i mean you know my opinion they should go into the back of the movie the compas is a number of issues number of different people in the news there's no leadership there's no identifiable leadership really standing out and leading the leading them 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 then addressing. remember the log on to our t. dot com for the latest footage on the occupy crackdown there is much more a click away right now the u.s. soldier suspected of slaughtering sixteen afghan civilians may already have a criminal record discover the charges against him in the past on our web site. plus outrage and dismay among middle east christians as the grand mufti of saudi arabia demands the destruction of all the churches in the region cried out more at r t dot com.

a public storm raging in britain after a controversial article where two academics advocated the use of so-called after birth abortion the authors receive death threats but say their arguments were just an academic discussion but as art he's either better a ports that's left some wondering whether the views should be avoided at all. surely 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 tried to persuade her sam's condition would be a struggle not worth living at 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 i was treated as something that is something that. malice he actually i was

treated as if i was just a bit stupid. and it is very sad to think that they are the people who are giving advice to their mothers they have a duty so everyone may take to preserve life and they don't a lot of them i don't feel that our children know where they're big they're not well say they don't know what happened and that really isn't the case that 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 or that article has been defended on the grounds of

free speech but would we accept for example an article vacating that jews or blacks were not persons only potential persons and they could also be kewl those sort of asked the question is a newborn child any less of 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 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 of 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 job is to publish arguments for. issues so that people can in. the long run have some. these issues are very complex

and. the example i took to agree was. completions of the pit i would like to defend people's right to express these and other people's rights 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 possible it was horrible there definitely seems to be a trend now to say that you need these children shouldn't be here it's not something terrible it's not also just because it's not what you imagine it doesn't mean it's not something fantastic but having found in our life it's amazing absolutely amazing and 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 on the bennetts see london stable and now some other stories making headlines across the globe police and hundreds of still hurling 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 a kurdish new year the number of those injured or detained remains unclear. in libya to british journalists and initially accused of espionage had been freed there's almost a month since the country's militia detained the men who were working for an iranian broadcaster last week to apologize for illegally entering the country. and st patrick's day celebrations turned violent in the canadian town of london where a crowd of around a thousand started a fire with police started a fire and battled with police revelers flipped over a t.v. news then threw rocks and bottles of security guards when they arrived at the scene at least eleven arrests were made. it may be banned in many parts of the world

because of its toxic nature to human health but as best this is still widely used in india for an importer seen desperate to push the deadly substance injures way despite the risks there are things previous reader reports. the residents of this slum in south telly have no idea that the roots they live under are contaminated with a toxic mineral called especially once by a used in building projects for insulation against heat and fire today the substance is banned in fifty two countries around the world because of its proven dangers both pools by going to. cause. lung diseases like. cancer in fact radical what it is an asbestos disease to 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 been the mining of especially but the importing and manufacturing of it is still legal and the 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 to save for cost price reka is one hundred three million people involved in the eight hundred fifty million dollars a year business in india he's been selling its best shows roofing for twenty five years and says he's aware that it could become one of the country's biggest killers of. the new it is harmful to those to assume that because they have to support their family. while activists campaigning to ban a specialist 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 exporter is the best bastos even though it's illegal for it to be used inside its own borders. with the

standards is why many fist on the one hand of the big going to the house of commons on the other hand yes it. comes of closing with. this is and what grades what issue. activists are trying to inform indians about the danger is if it's passed those but even the ones who have heard about it feel like they have no option but to live with it. you should mention too that we poor people are living with it we're living in the future if you weren't. using the toxic chemicals shipped from the wash to make their livelihood even though it might cost them their lives preassure either you jelly india. right now to check out all the latest from the world of business with the sure what's going on. well the spotlight over the weekend has been on china where global economic leaders gathered they gathered in beijing for china developments form essentially the world is viewed china as the

pillar of stability in these uncertain times because last week it lowered its growth target for this year to seven half percent from its longstanding target of eight percent and although experts say it might be a bit higher than that it's certainly not going to be as high as not point two percent that it reported last year and the prevailing opinion of those gathered in beijing this weekend is that china must reform to continue its a robust growth and let's now check out the equity markets and of course first to asia where they're actively trading this hour and as you can see they are higher in tokyo the nikkei is gaining mainly on energy producers and they are supported by higher oil prices and in hong kong the hang saying is also gaining less than a quarter percent this hour mainly things to banking stocks ages the sea and china construction bank or one of the biggest movers there and in the united states where the indices are closed at this hour we're seeing friday's closing figures that they

were in the red and basically that means that the dow didn't extend its the longest winning streak in more than a year and the to blame is the consumer confidence index that ended up all of being lower for the month of march unexpectedly but overall for that we could both the dow and the nasdaq and of getting two point four percent which is not bad at all one stock to watch. on monday is out all to reach the six hundred hour level last week and will see fit can climb back to those highs as it reports the first results of the sales of its new new was i pad and now moving on to the oil oil is mixed this our brand is a losing value just off its highs of one hundred twenty seven dollars a barrel and over that we can do the chief of the international monetary fund brasil guard a second subtly norn in beijing

a high oil prices can really hurt economic recovery and indeed they can watch the wall street journal report on sunday that they don't see the signs of that yet certainly not in the united states and i want to the currencies the dollar is currently losing value gets the euro the ruble is gaining against both the euro and the dollar and i want to the russian markets they are quite upbeat and the second hour of trading although. they're not as of beat as they were on the opening and of the biggest movers on the my sense of the moment is a problem and lukoil they are both gaining value and ruffalo is actually shedding more than one percent as if to put in a lower than expected profit for twenty eleven and as a choose the new board the chairman last week that investors don't seem to like he replaced a victim of beck's solberg. and now russia's gazprom is expanding its partnership with european companies essentially its plans.

and that's a lot with the biggest oil and gas company in germany that's going to go to house all the details. we don't talk about big oil deposit i'll miss the plots a lot for me in the north sea the developer of this field is german is lisa ling gas producer winters hole where she was fretting at assets war with russia castro. get up to twenty five per cent share in some of russia's gas projects in the i'm all putin solo with options for fifty percent while castro wire and. shares in the polls all share a project like this one. special. person. is very interested. production base russia.

will. also join. the two companies have been talking racing for decades they jointly build the world trade and now are intensifying their efforts to construct the south trade routes they turn central real gas transport through which distributes the russian gas in europe has just been made in the pantaloons and renamed cascades get older to comply with the third energy charter this brave is a producer from also holding the means of supply gas grill which invests billions of dollars in pipelines loans to keep control but the rapidly changing rules mean they're tying up the local operates as may be the best way for gas problem to access customers in europe's new liberalize gas markets let's get a political book business art seed from the north sea. and that's the latest from the business team but you can always find a lot more stories there on our site at our teeth swash business.

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