more deadly blasts in syria killer at least eight in a city near the turkish border un observers urging both sides to lay down their weapons. the world's top whistleblower presents his next explosive interview on r t this choose to. quiz is the new president as. it was swept to power by a popular uprising just ahead or wage war i mean if you don't do our do our bidding that's not how you treat people the few pro dialogue voices struggle to be heard above the war chorus in the u.s. congress with a strike on iran is still firmly on the agenda. a

very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow rory solution syria's fragile cease fire has taken another blow as two massive blasts of rocked the country and the bombs detonated next to the state intelligence headquarters in the city of lib at least eight people have been killed almost one hundred injured most of them being security forces personnel and the government blames terrorists for the attacks the latest in a series of explosions to undermine the u.n. backed peace plan syria's officials claim rebels have stepped up their offensive with of assaults on the country's central bank and a police patrol in the capital this as the u.n. observer mission chief now in damascus urged an immediate halt to the violence however one of the country's ethnic groups the kurds called on president assad to

go long before the unrest they are staying out of the conflict banking on stability and reforms instead with the latest report is dante's oxana boyo. a cause pursued for decades now accomplished in just a few months just a year ago even speaking kurdish and public could have got these people in trouble but now they can proudly was side what some hope will become them with their futures they'd. largest ethnic group without a nation kurds have long felt outsiders in their own lands in syria where they make up around ten percent of the population kurds have for decades complained of tacit discrimination by the authorities in fact they called on president bashar al assad to step down years before it became the rallying cry of the syrian opposition

despite the long running grievances against the assad family syrian kurds have largely stayed out of this conflict in fact if there is any group that benefited from the instability in syria. over the past year a syrian kurds one more concessions from their services then in two decades before that. this kurdish language school is one of about a dozen that have opened their doors in syria over the past few months here a grandmother shared desks with grandchildren and a determined attempt to learn the classic version of their mother tongue. the school's principal sas just a year ago it had to be done in secret. the state didn't allow any instruction in kurdish we used to be told that since we were living in an arab country we should speak arabic. even songs in kurdish were all forbidden but nowadays it all has changed it's not only syria where kurds felt pressured and turkey iraq and iran

where the majority of about fourteen million kurds now leave their thought and she's had long seen them as a threat to national security especially after they embraced guerrilla warfare to achieve the creation of a sovereign kurdish state and in syria these days it seems this goal has been realized at least for now about a month ago kurds living in aleppo opened their own version of a city hall here in the portraits of july on the face of the kurdish independence struggle hangs where you would usually expect a picture of the president. of the kurds there with the government nor with the opposition we stand alone the syrian state has bigger problems so we're taking charge of our areas and tried to govern ourselves for the time being syrian kurds claim that self governance and equal rights are all they want some say and autonomy within syria similar to the couldst and region of iraq would be

a more realistic alternative to full fledged independence. syrian kurds don't want to separate state we want to live in syria in peace with the arabs and everybody else but we do want to be treated equally and to be recognised as the kurds on our ideas not syrian arabs. yes dozens of kurdish settlements within syria have already become defacto mini sovereign states they're not only self-governed but self police this well they're well defined borders like these checkpoints separating kurdish an arab part of town and volunteer border guards the regime is now distracted with its own struggle so we seize the opportunity patience is bitter but it bears sweet fruit this old kurdish proverb is frequently cited in syria these days but what's unclear is how long this newfound independence may last a little boy car thi aleppo syria and i we are coming to you live from the heart of

moscow where the world's most famous secret spill are here again to unleash further controversy with his next show the next episode is airing here on a c on tuesday of course julian assange has already spoken to the hezbollah leader in his first international individual in over six years and he brought together two political extremes from both sides of the atlantic now r.t. is laura smith has the details of the upcoming installment. well this is the third episode of the program and the guest this week is the first president of the new to new president. of course is where the arab spring first really kicked off and the jasmine revolution as it's come to be known was ok but one of the most successful revelations that the arab spring has caused it was prompted of course and this is why this is this program is so interesting the revolution was prompted at least in part by revelations from wiki leaks the wiki leaks released some cables

at the time about corruption in the she was in government told then president ben ali who's been in power since one thousand eight hundred seven and that was the first really hard evidence documentation that the people of tunisia had seen that their government was so corrupt in the government couldn't suppress that information months of months uki is cut from in an entirely different cloth from his predecessor he's a doctor and he's also a human rights activist and in fact during the reign of the previous president ben ali he was exiled and imprisoned and so he is seen to have some of the greatest moral authority of all the arab leaders at the moment during his imprisonment he was kept in solitary confinement which he considers to be torture he talks quite a lot about that during the program and he's determined there will be no more torture during the program he recalls time when he was invited to the u.s.

to talk about the human rights situation in tunisia and he says that that reveals a complete set of double standards four years ago i was right to. talk about human rights and. i was a very. important. dealing with human issues no i'm not going to meet this person because it would be ridiculous to talk with this guy. knowing very well you know that he was probably be implicated in the want to know more problem you can to talk it you can to take seriously somebody who was catered in torture in his own country and then this guy is going to give you some lesson about how to promote human rights in tunisia this is why i didn't accept to meet him that's just a tiny bit of this program you can catch the whole third episode of the world tomorrow on choose day at eleven thirty g.m.t. missed it.

you're watching r t it's good to have you with us today still ahead for you in this hour but have b.b.c. bias you know done a fantastic job if you're in the propaganda business you know how to them are all the time we investigative britain's biggest broadcaster is ignoring the stories that matter to its viewers the most of all in response to government pressure. and this is not a scene from a hollywood sign by a movie these robots are being brought to life in a russian lab with far reaching ambitions so. just turning ten minutes past the hour here toronto is where really welcomed

a recent report that the u.s. could allow iran to continue enriching uranium if the islamic republic agrees to and were strict inspections this comes after talks resume between tehran and world powers now some on capitol hill have been calling for a directing gauge went with iran but as artie's guy nature kind of reports the cry of a conflict remains louder your thirty six the number of u.s. lawmakers have proposed a bill to end the no contact policy between the u.s. and iran after three decades of diplomatic silence congressman dennis kucinich is one of them which he says the old approach when washington wants to resolve differences with iran through not talking to them is unsustainable we're being tall we should have any contact with them we're being told that we shouldn't be negotiating with them we're being told. to get ready for war all of that is wrong what we need to do is to have direct negotiations we need to be talking with

iran and we need to stop this vainglorious notion that somehow we can settle our differences with iran through war how many people share your views among door colleagues eleven. ten eleven that's how many votes. out of four hundred thirty five members the house of representatives has recently voted four hundred eleven to ten in support of the bill which would make it illegal for any american official to make contacts with a new radio. without congress' approval so in light of the numbers dennis kucinich is counter efforts seem more symbolic than real if congress is a message to the world that says look we don't have to talk to you we don't have to

negotiate with you wage war on you if you don't do our do our bidding that's not how you treat people imagine for a moment if at the height of the cuban missile crisis if. nikita khrushchev and john f. kennedy were not speaking to each other opponents of direct talks with iran or argue why the u.s. should do it before iran lift its own ban on negotiating with us are the iranians ready for direct talks i don't see the iranians lifting their ban before the u.s. does that's because the iranians are in a much weaker position than the united states and so it does take more capital for them to agree to such steps opinion polls show the majority of americans seven out of ten saying yes to diplomacy with iran but is that a message their representatives want to hear so the voices of. arms merchants

of war contractors. but people who just make money off a war don't care where the war is or who it hurts i just want to make money and if they can push the us and do spawning another war they'll do it and members of congress have to be wise as to when they're being played by interest groups who may want them to vote in one way but it would be a way that would be adverse to the interests of the american people with a decision to outlaw any contact with the iranian government american lawmakers are building brick by brick a legislative wall which makes the prospect of ever having normal relations with iran virtually impossible they also cement you when you see their view that it's not their nuclear program that washington is after the regime change a proposition that would only lead to further escalation i'm kind of stuck now reporting from washington. well the dramatic austerity cuts all necessary savings some bloggers have accused britain's main broadcaster of using misleading

language to subtly change your view as perceptions all in the favor of the government but investigates why critics believe the b.b.c. is failing the very people who allow it to exist. new prim and proper speech may be on the way out but the message is still the same impartial reporting is the top priority is the b.b.c. television does britain's public broadcaster really represent those who run the. b.b.c. and in my mind has a duty to challenge the government in power and they are failing to do that and they are not representing the people they really need to listen to the public because at the end of the day we are paying their wages the b.b.c. gets three billion pounds from the public every year in the form of license fees so if you own

a television in britain and you have to pay almost one hundred fifty pounds just to watch it that's spent on programming as well as news that many don't feel they're getting their money's worth. on twitter for example b.b.c. bias is a hot topic the channel reporting of the government's controversial health and welfare reforms have stoked recent debates. that many still fiercely opposed the bills passed in parliament claiming they've been ignored not just by the government but by the broadcaster to die i truly believe had our national broadcaster accurately reflected everything that was taking place in terms of the welfare reform bill on the n.h.s. they wouldn't of com three parliament you will notice that when they talk about austerity measures they don't necessarily refer to cuts they refer to savings and that's a manipulation of words opposition party labor made an official complaint over the wording it's a keys the broadcaster buckling on the government pressure to get on side when

challenged on this the b.b.c. gave us this statement b.b.c. news provides impartial and balanced coverage across all output and we believe we have a food in the n.h.s. reform bill the appropriate level of coverage across radio eighty. in online after new programs and bulletins reported extensively on a wide range of opposition views from politicians health workers and members of the public with coverage on other thorny topics like scottish independence has been heavily criticised too with doubts recently cast over the impartiality of senior correspondents these b.b.c. training videos posted on you tube show its reporters attacking scotland's pro independence stance the stance distinctly unpopular down south the b.b.c. again it denies bias but some say it will always pander to whoever's in power here the b.b.c. is guilty of gross journalistic irresponsibility m.e.p.

gerard batten risk to prosecution for publicly refusing to pay his t.v. license fee his protest against the b.b.c.'s coverage of the two thousand and nine european elections he claims it plucked a pro europe government fed line the bay they say does things with propaganda now that. marvel at their subtle use of language the way they present stories the way they try to make you think something based on their presentation you know then i've done a fantastic job if you're in the propaganda business you know you have to admire what they've done what really makes me angry is they're doing it with our money and this is my reason for being opposed to the license judging by the growing dissent on twitter others could soon follow suit our bennett r.t. london. and of course you can always get much more from marty on our web site twenty four seven online for you at the moment thought of irreconcilable differences find out why a saudi arabian man decided to divorce his wife but he did so on

a live radio program. google street view cars drive into trouble exposed over the collection of private data from wife by networks so she joins engineers say snooping was always the intention for those details also it on t.v. dot com. i know for a from the world update here on r t but for now going ballistic the rooftops of london homes could soon play host to a deadly deterrent the british ministry of defense is considering placing surface to air missiles on residential buildings during the upcoming olympic games officials say the rockets would be a last resort but residents are alarmed that they could become targets for terrorists investigative journalist paul last mob believes the drastic measures are meant to scare off potential attackers. there's a bit of psychological warfare going on here that they're i think they're letting anybody who is thinking all the terrorists know that these extensive preparations

have been made it's all a bit james bond the idea that that you know the terrorists are going to send small aircraft over some of the same time sent a team of operatives to eliminate the ember you know the army on the top of that particular tile it all it's all pushing things quite a long white and it's all part of a mountain air of his theory i think that sort of sweep in london a bit that you've got this huge events occur and there is this salumi in nine eleven threats about it i mean it's just because everybody realizes that it's a sort of it's a terrorist sort of ideal situation to have a big a bad like that i think the london public. twitchy because they it's what it's saying is you're in a lot of your a lot potential danger it's not the people on the links the route it's people within five kilometers of the real day if you know if those those rockets are fired it's going to come down somewhere and they they explode so you know anybody in a five clubs or range of that is at risk if it's followed. now before we get to

marina with the business there let's jump into the world update starting with spain but the eurozone largest economy back in recession the assessment by spain's top statistics office comes only days after ratings giant standard and poor's cut the country's debt by two notches the government is imposing more cuts with thousands walking out in protest on sunday against slashes to education health care the country has the highest unemployment rate in the eurozone with nearly half of all young people out of work. a three week campaign so will voters has begun in egypt ahead of the presidential election and thirteen names will be on the ballot including mubarak era officials and islamists front runner is armory muso mubarak's former minister and former secretary general of the arab league expected there will be a second and decisive round between him and the candidate from the muslim brotherhood

for the run up to the vote has been marred by disqualifications of leading candidates and mass rallies against the ruling military. the body of libya's former oil minister has been found floating under a bridge in vienna police reported no signs of violence although an autopsy is planned sure could be gun him that he was also a prime minister under colonel gadhafi defected to the rebels during last year's uprising the sixty nine year old is believed to have lived in europe with his family since june and worked in it will be. now a society where robots exist alongside humans it's a common theme in these sites but with russian engineers creating androids that can see and remember objects and faces the future is looking less like fiction and the development is not only a huge step for the scientific community it also helps people as artie's peter oliver discovered. all over the world scientists are making leaps and bounds in

robotic technology in a small lab just outside of moscow a team believe that they are on the cusp of creating a robot body that can be controlled remotely with a human brain. itself i think in the next few months we will make a robot that will be able to move around on wheels the next step is to make a robot that can walk controlled by the movements of a human operator which we hope to do by next year if you want to see what our ultimate goal is you can watch movies like avatar are surrogates robots controlled by human thought. this is the team's current prototype it was designed to test the robot's eyesight each is an individual camera which observes and remembers the surroundings obstacles and faces underneath the latex lines a complex system of motors and electronics the design is hoped that this robotic skeleton could be the first step towards creating the next generation of artificial

intelligence perhaps even robots that think for themselves. exciting stuff however there are those that are asking the question just because we can does that mean we should. also. scientists are not always able to answer these questions clearly these projects are on the borderline between science and human morals but a scientist is always tempted to play god to create a symbol inside themselves an artificial human and as far as i know projects of that sort have all failed questions of morality are of little worry to vladimir and his team their only concern is the advancement of science. i don't think there are any serious issues of morality here we are trying to create life only further our knowledge and understanding of what is capable we're not all the projects being developed to sound like they've come straight out of a movie so. arm actually being used to help people that have lost limbs.

this definitely can be used to help the disabled people will read some experiments the subject without hands tried this technology he said the hand was working for him all it takes is to teach electrodes to the undamaged part of the arm so they can read the must look to the team. the dream of warm day having a humanoid robot that can be controlled remotely is shared by more than just the scientific community share meal but t.v. suffers from cerebral palsy highly educated driven and creative his condition leaves him trapped in his own body. this technology would enable people like me to do the things most people take for granted it was called jaws doing the laundry moreover this made it possible for us to go out. on these would be astounding progress for people like me. it's hope the first fully automated robot bodies

will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all of a party. are thought out to a cross over to marina who is standing by the r.t. go for the markets for us summer in the last hour you made a prediction about the dax well you're right that a slip into the red. was completely wrong rory for once i have to say i like this for the actions ever come out right not first time but then i get i am sure that and not give it an hour or two and or definitely slip into negative territory but for now it is still adding a point or one of five let's take a look at the latest figures for you that's surprising actually because we're going to spring on the negative they're coming from spain as we were reporting earlier spain's first quarter g.d.p. drop point three percent or so and downgraded sixteen spanish banks are not. a lot

of positive sentiment going on there but still. the fly on the dax at least the footsie is dropping this hour but not by much all right let's move on and take a look at crude oil prices are headed south and in fact trading range has been for a month in seventeen years and analysts say that's because of concerns about the structure loans as well as reports saying here that there is a slower economic growth in the u.s. and analysts say that in order to escape that range we will have to see some more significant news going on current season a second if anything change there as you can see the euro is losing against the dollar pretty much similar as we've been seeing for the past couple of hours when it comes to the ruble and lost against both major currencies here in russia it is a public holiday so what you're seeing here are the figures from saturday which was a trading day and it was pretty much a lackluster performance there because investors didn't have much to react to as there wasn't much news coming out from the europe or in the u.s.

now and all the news we know about two russians made it to the u.k. is a rich list of the one the only ones who weren't originally from the u.k. and also they made most of their fortunes in emerging economies now the list was published by the sunday times and the second richest person on it is on the show small enough who's a shareholder of facebook as well and his fortune is worth around twelve billion pounds to. now and he comes third with his line in the have billion pounds he also has the largest deal maker you have ross and top in the list as locksmiths all that you can see right now and he's an indian born owner of the world's biggest your producer arcelor mittal and overall i have to say britain's richest people who record levels of wealth last year the spite the country slipping back towards recession. and already i have to say my name is nowhere near that list as you have . beyond it and you can ask him next hour when you think so.

considering he writes or trying to work. at home and always a pleasure to see you sir. try to stay with us here on r.t. it's going to be a cross talk after the headlines in just a moment. culture is that so much different and there's a huge musician apparently trying to come to markland little over

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