a cease fire under a song fresh terror attacks in syria claimed more lives as the u.n. wants it to oversee a peace plan unless it's implemented by all sides. accuses the european union of parking back to the cold war as brussels moves to boycott the euro championship in ukraine and poland over the case of jailed ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko more details to follow in a few minutes. the founder of wiki leaks prepares to take center stage once again as the host to be very old interview show right here on our. quiz is the new president. who was swept to power by a popular uprising all the details just ahead. international

news and comment live from the russian capital this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day in syria a third bomb blast has reportedly rocked the city just hours after nine people were killed and around one hundred wounded in twin explosions that the government and the opposition of blaming each other for orchestrating the attacks. the united nations warns the ongoing violence threatens the peace plan it helped broker ahead of the expanding u.n. observer mission to syria says the roadmap is futile unless all sides observe a cease fire meanwhile damascus is preparing to hold nationwide parliamentary elections in just a week's time let's get some reaction from police i mean this couple was any another head of the u.n. observer mission says the effort alone won't solve the conflict but nevertheless

we're hearing that opposition activists are saying that the actual presence all of those monitors in cities is actually helping prevent violence now if that is the case why is the u.n. taking so long to deploy more. well obviously the u.n. is trying to implement the peace and the ceasefire but the opposition is actually. planting bombs and it's a bloated and today was a horrific day in syria because explosion had. a lot of casualties a lot of people killed a lot of people injured and there was a lot of destruction and so to be frank with you i think the one thing smuggling still going on yesterday was a major incident where the lebanese forces shipment of arms going into syria was a heavy weapon on it so if you look at the direction of the opposition the

countries that support the opposition from turkey to. qatar to the united states those. those forces are not really looking for a peace process in syria they looking for ask elation of the violence as collation of the killing and we witnessed a lot of killing today and that issue it's correctly said by the spokesman of the u.n. that they need a process where everybody here to the principle of the healing and i think at this point. qatar is and turkey's and the united states are heading the other way and we saw that. taking place in syria so that it's a systematic killing. taking place when you mention that the shipment which was discovered you saying that actually indicates to mask is his positions

because of course damascus is claiming that this is a foreign funded insurgency was that symbolically a very interesting indication from the point of view of damascus. oh obviously the smuggling weapon hasn't stopped from the day one and it's all we know that's how these been funded by by syrian live ensued uribe and we know the money is coming from saudi arabia and from qatar and from other entities and they're coming through lebanon one of the route is through love anon and this is this one chip ben actually ben ben stop but there are a lot of ben that have been used and smuggle into syria and that tell you the real story when the foreign minister of studio arabia say we have to arm the opposition that he's saying let's keep killing continue and terrorism taking place hold on syria even the american the western eyes the western world know that there is

a lot of terrorism taking place in syria al qaeda been moved into syria from out of country funded by some government in the arab countries and they know all about it but obviously for the united states they're using all these. terrorists to cause instability and it's fine with them at this point but the syrian been right all along that there is somebody is digging their big hole in that country and they wanted the destruction of this syria more than anything and nobody is looking for genuine resolution and peaceful resolution where the healing will take place at this point i see a lot of destruction taking the place and a lot of assassination and this is actually embraced by saudi arabia by qatar by the united states and probably you will hear more from mr feldman when he comes

tomorrow because they probably have a lot of things to say how he's actually causing or having a hand on what is taking place in syria coming just just briefly what are your thoughts about these parliamentary elections which are due to be held what effect if any would that have on the situation in syria and indeed will actually the opposition and other elements of the country support this parliamentary election in which it be valid. well i think at one point the president of syria wanted change for the for the bast he wanted to reform to be implemented and he's actually been listening to that rush to the chinese to start the reform this is part of the reform but at this point i think it's very difficult to have that election where the opposition they use. their systematic killing it's going to be very hard for see that election but one cannot stop it has to keep the process

of change going and i think reform is what is needed and i think the president is working and implementing that reform and the election is the beginning of that reform but that constitution was put into force what back in february and you're saying president assad is doing his best to introduce some form of. some form of. obviously change in the country but people don't seem to be listening to it as actually much change since fabriano is no longer a lot of time but has much changed. well obviously he's trying very hard but when you have every country around the globe are trying to instigate violence and killing and bombing and the south and nation you have to give the man a break because when you have the united states and the western world and so you have a.b.m. qatar and turkey against you they put in all the monies all the resources all the weapon and they say go and kill in syria then you will have

a difficult time i think and despite of all that difficulty i think the president of syria bashar al assad is listening for the advice that was given to him by the russian by the chinese because i think russia is a plane a very constructive role and trying to mediate this this crisis with a lot of vision for. the middle east and building syria because we know if things doesn't go very well this is going to be devastating not only for syria this is going to bring a regional war that nobody wants now or in the future ok live from by rote political analysts coming was me thank you very much indeed for your thoughts good to hear from you here on r.t. thank you well still ahead for you this calls for the. bling to be heard amidst the capitol hill with the military strike still firmly on the agenda.

that's still to come but first a new war of words has flared up between the e.u. and ukraine over the case of unity the former ukrainian prime minister is serving a prison term for abusing power brussels claims the case was politically motivated to mission is currently on hunger strike now here's the latest from our kids correspondent. what seems to be a purely domestic case has received very serious international reactions with presidents of germany the czech republic the head of the euro commission as well as german chancellor angela merkel all saying they will boy called their plans trips to ukraine in particular for the euro twenty twelve football period as if to protest against the treatment. former prime minister now even called on the german national football team to boy call it their participation in this tournament the idea which was even supported by the president of the champions league final this club byron munich now also reactions came from moscow with president medvedev raising his eyebrows over the treatment of saying that this these actions to throw

serious shade on ukraine's reputation and are unacceptable for a democratic country now all these reactions come after you get emotional reported to have been abused by prison guards and photos of her bruises were made public on the internet as well as understand that team of medical experts was dispatched by ukraine's own woman to the prison and they confirmed the fact of the physical attack from the prison guards on. this raise the tension dramatically and key is also already reacted with indignation to all the statements coming from europe saying that such rhetoric puts the countries back into the times of the cold war well the war of words continues certainly but everyone all experts now understand that keith is under severe pressure especially with less than forty days before the start of the you were twenty eight well football championship last friday's terrorist attack seemed to put it off with serious concerns about the security during the tournament now definitely the developments in the situation are creating

serious political implications the world's number one returns to screens on tuesday with the latest in his controversial series june on the sunday shows already interviewed the head of hezbollah and then brought together two political extremes from both sides of the atlantic wealthy or smith previews the next program. well this is the third episode of the program and the guest this week is the first president of the 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 shamisen government told president ben ali who's been in power since one thousand eight hundred seven

and that was the first really hard evidence in documentation that the people of tunisia had seen that their government was so corrupt the government couldn't suppress that information months have most uki is cut from 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 that there will be no more talk during the program he recalls a 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 a writer. to talk about human rights in tunisia.

i was a very. important. dealing with. issues of this is 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 if you can to take seriously somebody awards ticket in torture in his own country and 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 well tomorrow on choose day at eleven thirty g.m.t. techniques it.

has the six world powers prepare for a new round of nuclear talks with iran next month the hawks on capitol hill don't seem to be quite ready for change the u.s. congress has voted down a bill which was aiming at direct diplomacy with tehran he's got a chart explains why the motion didn't stick your thirty six and 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 he says the old approach when washington wants to resolve differences with iran through not talking to them is unsustainable we're being told 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 view among their 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 official 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 but says look we don't have to talk to you we don't have to

negotiate with you will 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 lifts its own ban on negotiating with the 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 say 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 are rich i just want to make money and if they can push the us and 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 government american lawmakers are building break by break a legislative wall which makes the prospect of ever having normal relations with iran virtually impossible they also see many ukrainians in their view that it's not their nuclear program that washington after the regime change a proposition that could only leads to further escalation i'm kind of stuck now reporting from washington r.t. . spain is plunged into a second recession and with government measures to rein in the country's debt

ratings agencies started them pauses downgraded nine of spain's banks many of which a ball down in bad loans it was it comes to spain's unemployment rate is sort of almost twenty five percent the highest in europe and sweeping cuts to health care and education of seeing thousands take to the streets and get the government austerity measures professor of economics philip has told me that the situation in spain may get even worse in the younger generation has no choice but to move the country. but of course is very very bad position and if they fail this bit of course directly effect other european banks but it is the most effective spanish government will try to pay the spanish banks out and the government is not a new person is the position either so that in the spanish government my might not be able to below their banks it might default in these devoted and directed the effect of course the european banking system and the e.c.b. this government is suffering because it's doing some some small reforms. but it

actually is not doing enough last year was the first year that there was a net outflow. yes for far longer than any of the mc. courses in school overbooked those sorts of people. who fought for our country and young people because this is their perspective because the spanish. it's still too inflexible. there's a quick look now at some other world news this very nearly twenty minutes an explosion has rocked an area near government buildings in nigeria's to rather state commission level people and injuring twelve it comes less than a day after coordinated attacks on christian worshipers on the university campus and in a chapel in the country's north left at least twenty one dead lebanese claim responsibility but the islamist group boko haram is active in the area having killed one hundred fifty people in the blast in january. attacks various capsized in northeastern

india leaving thirty five people dead and more than one hundred sixty five missing around two hundred passengers were on board when the boat got into difficulties in the west dhubri district of the country strong winds and rain are thought of course the accident police and soldiers have been sent to help with the rescue effort. in bahraini government activists will be retried along with twenty other opposition members a military court sentenced. to life in prison in june for plotting to overthrow the state rulers he began a hunger strike three months ago reportedly bring himself close to death government protests first began in bahrain in february last year up to sixty people are said to have died in clashes since. russian engineers seem to have found a way of making science fiction science fact creating androids that can not only imitate real people but also see and respond to objects and faces and as peter all of about the development can also help those with limited abilities. 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 surroundings obstacles and faces underneath the latex lies a complex system of motors and electronics the designers hope 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 make it as a. scientist or 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 and so 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 here sound like they'd come straight out of

a movie so why history. but it actually being used to help people that have lost limbs. this definitely can be used to help the disabled people will read or in 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 a team. the dream of one day having a humanoid robot that can be controlled remotely is shared by more than just the scientific community sharmila back teves suffers from cerebral palsy highly educated driven and creative his condition leaves him trapped in his own body. and this technology would enable people like me to do the things most people take for granted because whole chores doing the laundry cooking moreover if this made it possible for us to go out to live. 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 our party. committees next with the business update i'll be back with a look at our headlines after that day which is with us after a short break stay with us wealthy british style that. is not on. the. markets why now scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars a report on our. would

be soon which right if you move. from violence to pressure these. stunts on t.v. don't come. i don't know welcome to the business update here on r.t. was me to meet him at that anchor we first look at what's going on the u.s. markets they are slightly down within half a percent as you can see there but there's one stock which is doing remarkably well and that bonds are no rules and it's up more than sixty percent so on the back of microsoft investing three hundred million dollars into the company in order to develop its e-books business over in spain the concerns about the country.

descending into recession its g.d.p. is down point three percent compared to the previous quarter in the first quarter and stamp orders downgraded sixteen banks therefore we are seeing a negative picture at the close on the commodities markets investors are also out to impress in april we have seen the narrowest margin for trading over the past seventeen years this is because of a stabilization of supplies and the fact that investors have come to terms with the fact that. economic recovery notably in the u.s. is taking quite a while on the currency is market the euro is not showing much of a big dynamic versus the dollar it's declining steadily all day by just a notch whereas the brutal was down in the last session on that last session was on saturday was a working saturday monday is a day off we are in a period of a. long extended may holidays and therefore the russian market was not trading this

monday were you seeing is also saturday's closed the markets will resume trading on wednesday. two of russia's businessmen have ended up in the top a rich list for the united kingdom in fact the first three positions were cute by people who actually made their fortunes outside of the u.k. in the developing markets take a look well first of all our share of smart of his in second place is worth more than twelve billion pounds of face book holder and he owns metal invest and i want to leverage comes in third with his nine and a half billion pounds he owns russia's largest steelmaker your hours and topping the list as an indian born owner of the world's biggest steel producer asked a lot midsole overall britain's richest people achieved record levels of wealth last year despite the country's slipping back towards recession why business r.t. we'll be back next hour with an update the headlines are next and i think you say with us.

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