accusations of who is behind the weekend of bombings in syria friday between rebels and the government puts an asterisk claiming saudi arabia left traces of their involvement at the crime scene. post a revolution the old ways still dominate in egypt with critics accusing the new islamist strong parliament of turning the constitutional assembly into a funk. and the people they work for a year. until they try to surface over america's cherished democratic as washington gets even tougher in a bid to silence homegrown protests. worldwide

news around the clock this is r.t. live from moscow with me rory solution the syrian regime has pointed at the finger at saudi arabia and qatar saying the arab states were involved in the chain of weekend terrible loss in syria's largest cities the gulf nations have been accused by assad's government of whoever carried out the attacks now which left around thirty people dead and dozens injured in the region is on a point. the two sides involved in this conflict the opposition and the syrian government obviously blaming each other for the twin suicide bombings that took place in damascus and syria second largest city off the left over the weekend now opposition says that everything has been staged by the syrian government to sort of deflect attention from its own crackdown on its people. and government obviously

disagrees with that and says the latest example violence is yet and now they're evidence that armed gangs terrorist groups are present in the country that they're being financed and supplied by major world powers particularly saudi arabia and qatar high profile arab diplomats suggested over the weekend that saudi arabia has being sending ammunition to the syrian rebels mainly through jordan just this morning major clashes between gunmen armed gunmen and the syrian army took place in damascus in a pretty off scale a neighborhood got houses many embassies and this is really a new development because up until now a damascus was pretty much spared although opened clashes. socks out of work are reporting their will for more analysis of a firefight in syria and that we can string

a bomb attack so i'm now joined live by vienna based on the research of benjamin share thanks for coming on r.t. today to mask this accuser's qatar and saudi arabia of assisting the terror attacks over the weekend why do you think the syrian government has arrived at these conclusions. well first of all the. crimes have been committed with. precision so it's quite likely possible that there . has been support from from the outside and we know that qatar and saudi arabia support the insurgents in syria because syria is an ally of iran and iran is in the region. now we do have the reports of saudi arms shipments to opposition forces they come and increased calls from some major western nations including america to avoid militarizing the conflict further do you believe the shipments are taking place and if so why has the gulf state ignored the calls from its western allies.

i mean we know that saudi arabia supports the insurgents but if this particular shipments took place i think it's speculation it's quite possible but on the other hand it might also be this anonymous diplomat. said this to disturb the relationship relations between jordan and syria because. through jordan i think this is still popular speculation and. i think the u.s. government. i think it's hard to imagine that they are not involved in training the insurgents there also have been reports for british media actually do so. it remains a little bit of. officially there was an embargo against. us still. to fight against the absolute reputation of this game and syria

so you're describing what some might call a proxy war in some ways with western powers are helping to arm rebels here one point of concern for many it is some are speculating that syria is steadily turning into a terrorist hub similar to that of what happened in iraq or afghanistan those those fears are could be truthful it's possible unfortunately because the insurgents in syria are interested in an escalation of sectarian violence because otherwise they did not. managed to achieve their goals so far and they don't have. some kind of stronghold or libyan rebels in the. capital so. there is an interest in turning. syria into a big chaos well it is such a mix here you've got certain accusations coming from the opposition accusations coming from the government all sorts of speculation about international forces at

work in syria but we do know that syria's exiled opposition the syrian national council sitting very comfortably in turkey at the moment blames the regime for the recent terror attacks in damascus and aleppo if that's the case why would the government bomb its own people and security buildings i. think that doesn't sound very plausible because. this that i'm going to. increase of sectarian violence in syria is not so much in the interest of. more in the interest of the insurgents in order to. transform the syrian government troops which finally could provoke a foreign interventions so you can you talk about provoking a reaction a hard reaction from the government troops there because ultimately damascus in recent weeks has been largely free of the daily violence so devastating other error . in the country do you think this is now why their capital is now being targeted to provoke

a harder response from assad's regime and his troops. yes because the comparable situations also in earlier cases i was talking about the war in but only in yugoslavia before for example in bosnia the muslims and the. serbs and provoked reaction reactions because otherwise they would have been to read because the western intervention and i think syrian government insurgence probably learned from this previous examples. look over search of their life in vienna thank you for coming on r.t. today thank you. egypt has unveiled the line up of a long awaited government panel tasked with creating a modern democratic and inclusive constitution but already human rights groups are unhappy claiming islamic factions have banded together in order to dictate just to get to write the document now just a year since the revolution hopes for change of all but evaporated as artists are

going to go to score points how diliman could be 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. we were in against mubarak as a person we were against the whole system against oppression and injustice along the scarcer they were programmed lucian their actions sure they're applying the same techniques used here. 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 scarce policies unveiled a situation eerily similar if not worse now you get proctors that are suspended with live ammunition instead of rubber bullets as was the case in the past you get

labeled strikers or get a fertile military buglers of the courts in the last year you have more than thirteen thousand egyptian citizens who are processed in the military wants that's where you more than what one of the during this thirty years of all the streets of cairo teeming with tourists before their revolution are now considered dunseath even by those who have lived in the egyptian capital all their lives you can't find the police in the street and even if they are there we don't really help and you know it's like a kind of and they are punishing the people because the the of done the revolution so they're not going there and there are work where they don't care about what happens and the deliberately neglecting their every single crime that is happening and they just they chose to turn their back and some believe

revolutionary parties choose to turn their backs on the military councils questionable policies seemingly comfortable with the way things are. and a lot of revolutionary forces sided with the military council and started making deals and for evolution was 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 them. a real possibility now is the revolution entering 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 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 or there are families and these people are really there are going to lead to the sky and. the wave of revolution if you want to call it like

a second wave of evolution but it's going to be really really aggressive and really really violent and bloody these days that are here square is filled with vendors to the nearest sellers i don't know you know the few turns but from time to time things get heated up again those who have spend their days and nights here just a little over a year ago toppling the regime say their job is far from over and the revolution continues in those courts here cairo and i talked with jamal sultan from the center of political studies in cairo says the still a lot of uncertainty in the future ahead for egypt. nineteenth of march. i think it was a big mistake there is richard people been denied the end of a clear road map to democracy is it in a lot of political manipulation i think the scare of the military counts in ruling the country right out smart to everybody manipulating the different political forces not the irony of it here i'm on the losing end of the usually more

democratic forces also came with the living into this and only the muslim brothers in the cellar is. at the winning side but on the other hand there is still strong forces and voices within the military itself who have doubts and private eye strain that in power to the muslim brothers as a seller fees but they have not stepped in about what kind of moves at this point so there is still a lot of us have been. waiting for us here it's ok to have you with us today this is our still to come in the program for the academics questioning the right to life professors come under fire in the u.k. for advocating the use of what they call after birth abortion. and india's silent killer how the use of us press tossin the country's home poses the threat of disease which can cost lives. u.s.

police are investigating the death threats they received via twitter after hundreds of protesters mocking occupy wall street's six month anniversary clashed with offices in new york are scenes of police brutality towards peaceful demonstrators made many question america's image as the guardian of democratic values and freedoms and as artie's marina or explains recently expanded restrictions on the protests are only fueling the criticism. it's a country that extols the virtues of liberty unlike 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 made people realise it's the kind of devastating states oh

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 very aware of 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 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 up to ten years in jail the federal restricted buildings and grounds improvement act known as h r three four seven is a lot 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.

demonstrations and they've been arrested by the police detained held on twenty five thousand dollars bail in terms of felonies with nato and protest posters popping up nationwide u.s. lawmakers are tightening up recent active men's include push hitting 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 attacked and you know like. transforming the political landscape katie davison was arrested twice last year while taking power in legal nonviolent occupy wall street demos in new york i feel like we are living in interplanetary 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 clear that just about any american engaging in political protests. can be

prosecuted i mean start rages out 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 it's for us we don't for it's bickering 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 homeless there on the scene each when it comes to how to handle all those citizens flooding the streets to demand change and accountability. artsy new york. what i do very much you can always i head to our web site for any features you may have missed stuff plus the latest on the world's top stories i hear some of what we've got. right now for

example a nato that failed to investigate schools of civilian deaths during its military campaign in libya this according to huge human rights group amnesty international is satisfied by endless apologies from their life. plus chaos and violence erupts in greece so once again though this time it's not about the economy as enraged football fans set fire to a stadium and see that exclusive footage. in a few moments is the r.t. world out there but for now two professors have created a public storm in the u.k. that all of us over an article advocating the use of so-called after birth abortions they say it's merely an academic discussion with a medical journal which published the article defending the debate but for some

with the idea is a step too far as artie's either bennett reports. surely three 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 from puter. up malice he actually i was treated as if i was just stupid. it is very sad to think that they are the people who are giving advice. they have a duty to everyone taking an eye to preserve life and a day in a lot of them i think i still don't feel that our children know where preserving

their not worth saving and that were happening and that really isn't the case that stereotypes just been taken a whole lot further by two ethicists who argue 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 normal prenatal abortion but critics branded infanticide it was a speculative case and this particle has been defended on the grounds of free speech but would we except for example an article advocating that jews or blacks were not persons only potential persons and they could also be clear all those sort of ask the question is a newborn child or any less of equal member of the human family don't remember 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 lie in the journals editors defend our progress to publish arguments for and in. so that people. in the long run and so. all these issues are very complex. for example i don't agree with. the conclusions of the pin or i would like to defend people's right to express. 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 huge because it was horrible they definitely seems to be a trend now is to say that. in a piece children shouldn't be here it's not something terrible it's not awful just because it's not what you imagine doesn't mean it's not something fantastic because having famine and 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 could say his life would be a burden i think bennett see london. starting with france time for the r.t. world update here on a man has opened fire outside a jewish school in the french city of toulouse he killed four people three of them children and injured one fled the scene on a scooter the tragedy comes just days after three paratroopers were shot dead in the area. evacuation centers are opened in northern parts of new zealand readying

for heavy flooding but more than two months worth of rain fell in two days cutting off communications and covering the area of water several stranded residents have already been rescued more severe weather is in the forecast. well india could have a solid epidemic on its hands because of the use of a dangerous chemical in people's homes or specialists is still widely used to the country for an important script to offer supplies as aussies preassure to reports the consequences because. the residents of this slum in south delhi have no idea that the roots they live are there are contaminated with the toxic mineral called spats joe's once widely 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. posed by why this was posed by both cause.

lung diseases. and then cancer in fact one of the word there isn't as this supposed this is beginning. 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 those but the importing in 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 versus the prakash is one of the three million people involved in the eight hundred fifty million dollar a year business in india he's been selling as best as roofing for twenty five years and says he's aware that it could become one of the country's biggest killers. i knew it is harmful to assume that because i have to support my family. while

activists campaigning to ban his fastow's 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 five canada the north american country is one of the world's largest export as advice about stowe's even though it's illegal for it to be used inside its own borders. to standards is quite many faced when the one head of the court did manage to get a house of commons well yes. this is a human. activist there trying to inform indians about the danger is that they start stows 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 poor people are leaving whether we're living in a healthy second room and. using the toxic chemical ship from the west to make their livelihood even though it might cost them their lives. there are

a key new delhi india. and at times you are check the money markets with dan you also want to tell us how is wall street started the day they're looking for direction at the moment in the first hour of trade this quarterly earnings time and traders are waiting for results from the likes of fed ex and night before making moves through the figures in early trade united parcel service or u.b.s. is up two percent off to agreeing to buy european rival t. and t. in a six billion dollars deal paul has confirmed it will pay a quarterly dividend in the first in the fourth quarter this year boosting its shares one percent you markets leave almost to raise losses from the day they're still slightly down from eight montoya's b.m.w. lost almost two percent of the goldman sachs to join performer list of the german economy because all suffering in turn has also gone into the red after a good start this morning but trading is pretty light on the first day of the week let's check on some main movers nails burbank is shipping. rumors of

a privatization road show in april all deals are also in the red of the revealing worse than expected net profit for last year is the top gainer on the my six that's up to the ante monopoly watched a lot of the ten percent plus one share in the russian truck maker crude prices the mix of worrying still to the day a production hike announcement from saudi arabia has growing fears of a u.s. military strike on iran quick check on the currency rates now the euro's higher against the dollar shedding further against russia's currency the ruble also gaining against the greenback in other news expanding partnerships with e.u. companies the energy giant plans to swap russian energy assets with germany's top oil and gas producer winters help in return gaining access to north sea deposits. over reports. on top. to plot a plot for me in the north sea the developer of this field is german is easy

moiling gas producer with his whole wish is for planning to pass a small russians castro. get up to twenty five per cent share in some of russia's gas projects in the in my opinion somehow with an option for fifty per cent while castro wire and i share in the just holes all share a project like this one. special. person. is very interested. to see. the two companies have been caught racing for decades they jointly build the world's trade and now intensifying efforts to construct the south stream routes they turn to 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 this brave is a producer from also holding the means of supply gas bill which invests billions of dollars and pipelines loans to keep control of the rapidly changing rules mean that . the local auto races may be the best way for gastro to axis customers in europe's new liberalize gas market that's going to. artsy from the north sea. fifty minutes.

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