the. syrian authorities and the opposition trade barbs over who was behind a series of deadly suicide attacks in the regime strongholds with the government also blaming foreign forces for involvement in the new egyptian constitution it's not yet written but already in the middle of a scandal a year after people voted for change in the historic referendum. i think people thought they were free heir to the stands and until they tried washington lawmakers were legal lines when it comes to u.s. freedom of assembly making it easier to throw protesters behind bars.

noon in moscow i match reza 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 here blast left three dead wounded thirty more and comes just a day after twin lethal blasts in another government stronghold damascus authorities also accuse qatar and saudi arabia which both back arming rebels of involvement in the attacks bombings come as un team from fare for a government led humanitarian mission and intends to launch a monitoring operation to help resolve syria's yearlong crisis archy's middle east correspondent paula so you're has more on the recent spate of violence in syria. 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 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 a tween to raise a 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 what 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 blast comes just one day after twin 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 role for five hundred twenty eight people were killed in turn blast 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 position and that this is merely fueling the situation on the ground and intensifying the violence explosions and pro-government strongholds happening against the backdrop of special envoy coffee and arms in syria his position is aimed at agreeing a cease fire between your side regime and the opposition and to get talks started between their. political analyst tells you things the terror attacks in damascus and the war in that direction those efforts. the objectives of these explosions that are coming within two days this shows that there is an intent to actually. destroy or create obstacles to initiate the 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 success of this that and mission china has been siding with russia and calls for a foreign powers with links to opposition groups in syria to persuade the rebels to come to the negotiating table but professor hay when paying from the chinese academy of social sciences thinks it's sometimes tough to know just who the opposition is your interview coming your way later this hour here's a preview. of the set. amount of listening actually eventually because. panel takes it nowadays they still call the freedom of the cd now it's not. the pure syrian people reasonable our freedom army i think even.

our forces are also involved in days we've been in so now all of those i think i think they have become more complicated it's much much more complicated than before. egypt's parliament has just agreed on a panel that will write the country's new constitution and it's already embroiled in controversy human rights activists reportedly calling on military rulers to dissolve the newly elected commission saying the muslim brotherhood is trying to use the process as a grab for power and he's agreed half the panel will be chosen from within parliament where the muslim brotherhood has a majority of seats is all happening exactly a year after a historic referendum paving the way for reshuffle power in the country those are he's really glued school reports it hasn't yet produced a change egyptians had hoped. khalid dilema 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 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 scarcity were program lucia their actions should apply the same techniques used by him. 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 scabs policies unveiled a situation eerily similar if not worse now you get porters that are suspended with live ammunition in a sort of rubber bullets as was the case and of course you get the war strikers who get referred to military tribunals

a lot of them are doing records in the past year you have more than thirteen thousand egypt citizens who got processed all military viewers 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 and see even by those who have lived in the egyptian capital all their lives you can find them 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 done the revolution so they're not doing their or their work they don't care about what happens and the deliberately neglecting their every single crime that is happening and they just a choice to turn their back and some believe revolutionary parties to see turned their backs on the military council is questionable policies seemingly comfortable

with the way things are. and so a lot of revolutionary forces sided with the military council and started making deals and forming coalitions was given more ground and ignore them in demands of the revolution most of the political lead and rule lucian areas are looking at fixing things not changing now. a real possibility now is the revolution and the 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 and there are there are families these people are really there are going to lead to this this this this new wave of emotion if you can call it like a second wave of emotion but it's going to be really really aggressive and really really violent and bloody these days that where it's filled with vendors to be in

your cellars idle youth 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 cuisine say their job is far from over and the revolution continues it goes quiet see cairo stay with us here on r.t. still to come on the program the right to life or to u.k. academics who argue in favor of so-called after birth abortion in a leading medical journal was. constructing a problem in many parts of the world as best it is still used in building india homes triggering deadly diseases in the countries. but first new york city police investigating death threats made against them from phone calls and over twitter this after officers forcibly arrested more than seventy people during it occupy an occupy wall street protest since the start of the movement nationwide protests facing the worst cases of police crackdowns with the targeted here gassed often

used to disperse crowds as the movement continues so does washington's desire to silence the u.s. public according to our he's a marine a port 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 may people realize it's the kind of devastating states or our ability to be in a place of dissent or america and how to challenge that and how press that is and i think people thought they were free air to dissent and great there until they tried . in america it is a criminal offense to exercise freedom of speech i did then 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 to ten 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 and charged with 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 a factor and you know like. transforming the 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're living in a 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 here that just about any american engaging in political protests. can be prosecuted and start rages affront 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 a victory i wonder if we reached consensus when it came to clamping down on constituents only three of the elected officials voted against expanding federal restrictions on protests while u.s. leaders can't resolve issues like national debt and. they're on the scene each when it comes to how to handle all citizens what in the streets to demand change and accountability. artsy new york steven kuhr lander a political of communications strategist thinks the occupy movement needs to establish a leadership to gain momentum. you know they did have a really chilled as either piece moved the morning if not. for anything else believe it i think they have to decide what they want to go after you know my opinion they should be the only independence movement encompasses a number of issues the number of different people in it is real no there's no leadership there's no definable 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 their dramatic . remember log on to our t. dot com for the latest footage on the occupy crackdown and there is much more in store for you there the u.s. soldier suspected of slaughtering sixteen afghan civilians may already have a criminal record discover past charges against him on our web site plus. outrage and dismay among many middle east christians as the grand mufti of saudi arabia demands the destruction of all the region's churches i doubt more authority dot com . a controversial storm raging in britain after an 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 about his art he's ever been a report that's left many wondering whether their views should be voiced at all. surely through pos 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 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 that has something to their. up analyse actually i was treated as if i was just a bit stupid hey. it is very sad to think that they are the people who are giving advice their mothers they have a duty to everyone

a taken an eye to preserve life and a day i loved them i think i failed a field our children know where preserving them not where saving them not what happened and that really is the fate that stereotypes just been taken a whole lot further by to 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 advocating that jews or blacks were not persons only potential persons and they could also be kewl the sort of ask 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 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 of 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 drug use to publish arguments for and. so that people can run mimes in the long run so. these issues are very complex and . example i don't agree with. the conclusions of the paper i would like to defend people's right to express the. i'm the 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 we declined the option of abortion it was a hit with us but it was horrible there definitely seems to be a trend now it state it in these children shouldn't be here it's not something it's not just because it's not what you imagine it doesn't mean it's not something fantastic because having famine i think 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 can say his life would be a burden for bennett c. london taking a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe five suspected militants have been killed by indonesian police on the tourist island of bali are pretty open fire on officers and men were believed to be a part of

a regional extremist group linked to al qaida authorities had been tracking them for the last month and claimed the group planned to rob several locations on the island to fund terrorist activity. in libya two british journalists initially accused of espionage have been freed this almost a month since the country's militia detain the men who were working for an iranian broadcaster last week had 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 a fire and thought police revelers overturned a t.v. news van and threw rocks and bottles at security forces when they arrived at least eleven arrests were made. well now it may be banned in many parts of the world because of its danger to human health but the toxic mineral as best this is still widely used in india and foreign importers are desperate of course the deadly substance injures way despite the risks that are pretty sure to reports the

residents of this slum in south delhi have no idea that the routes they live under are contaminated with a toxic mineral called a spot stoves once widely used in building projects for insulation against heat and fire today the substance is banned in a fifty two countries around the world because of its proven dangers as both tools by going. to. cause. lung diseases and i guess both will see the. lung cancer in fact rather go but it isn't as best as disease if we did 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 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 of of us to save three guy is one of the three million people involved in the eight hundred fifty million dollars a year business in india has 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 stress test in india acknowledged the government needs to do more to stop it they say blame also has to live with their biggest importer of the toxic fiber canada the north american country is one of the world's largest export as of us bastos even though it's illegal for it to be used inside its own borders. the standards is quite mean if you just on the one hand to be going to be a house of commons on the other hand the. guns of causing would be a good one because they can do this is what different. activists are trying to

inform indians about the danger is that its best shows but even the ones who have heard about it feel like they have no option but to live with it whether you are going to intrude pay attention to the way poor people are leaving when they were 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 priya sri there are t. new delhi india. but i'm going to take a look at the latest from the world of business with the target what's going on in the markets right now. well of course china was in the spotlight over the weekend as global economic leaders gathered in beijing for china development forum of course china's been the pillar of stability in this uncertain economic times but last week and lowered its growth target to seven and a half percent from its longstanding target of eight percent and though some analysts say that might be a bit higher than that it's certainly not going to be nine point two percent that we saw last year and the prevailing opinion of those gathered in beijing this

weekend was that china must reform to continue its robust growth let's check out the equity markets to see what's going on first on the asian bourses of course where the trading is pretty active this hour and in tokyo the japanese stocks are higher but in hong kong they are losing that value they slipped into red over the past hour and now in the united states wall street is closed at this moment so you see friday's figures and their vehicles in the red which means that the dow did manage to extend its winning streak that was the longest in more than a year but essentially poor the week overall both the dow and the nasdaq ended up getting two point four percent which is not bad at all one stock to watch is our poll it's briefly touched through these six hundred dollar level last week and we'll see if it goes up there again this week as it reports the first results from the sales of its newest i promise and now on to the oil prices they've slipped into

red as well this hour over the weekend speaking in beijing the head of the international monetary fund warned that high oil prices can really stall economic recovery and the wall street journal on sunday reported that there are no signs of that certainly not in the united states so far which is good news now moving on to currencies the dollar the moment is again in against the euro as you can see the. the ruble is also stronger against both the euro and the dollar and now moving on to the russian equity markets they did not manage to withstand the pressure of the slipped into red over the past hour as well as you can see now that my six is shedding value and the biggest movers on the my six at the moment are gazprom and lukoil in the energy sector they are losing value and of course sol it's losing more than one percent first of all on

a lower than expected profits for twenty eleven and also on the news that its new chairman barry chill might not be what investors expected they certainly don't believe that he would be more effective than viktor vessel that he's coming to replace now russia's gazprom is expanding its partnership with european companies it plans of assets with the biggest oil and gas company in germany that has all the details. we come top of. the class a lot for me in the north sea the developer of this field is germany's lead gas producer winters hole wishes planning an asset swap with russia's castro. get up to twenty five per cent share in some of russia's gas projects in the summer with an option for fifty per cent while castro wire in the. shares in the us holds

all sure a project like this one. is very interesting it's production. russia. will. also join. the two companies have been cooperating 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 transports which distributes the russian gas in europe has just been made in the pantaloons and renamed cascade in older to comply with the current energy charter to spread hiv is a producer from also holding the means of supply gas from which invests billions of dollars in pipelines loans to keep control but the rapidly changing rules mean that tied up with local operators may be the best way for gas problem to access

customers in europe's new liberalize gas markets that's going to cool the business artsy from the north sea. and that's the latest on the business desk the sour doing join me in about fifteen minutes. the.

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