tv [untitled] May 10, 2012 7:00am-7:30am EDT
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two massive explosions rocked damascus with dozens reported dead and injured. could put its observer mission in jeopardy. russia's president tells his american counterpart he's pulling out of next week's g. eight summit in the u.s. just days after. the country's seat of power. and rescue teams are still trying to reach the crash site of a russian. airliner. so the grim task of recovering bodies and begin.
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a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow. two large explosions have shaken damascus more than forty killed one hundred seventy injured these terrible. spate of violence in syria. now reports. it happened on a very very busy road that leads to the airport from damascus near a government intelligence building near the faculty of engineering it's an area where there would have been security and soldiers but also highly populated civilian area as well and unfortunately we've seen that high number of casualties and these injured as well as a result of these plots twin car bombs one going off a few moments after the first last had occurred as the u.n. monitors who of course here in the country at the moment to even see the implementation of the peace plan have been at the see. the general the head of the
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mission here jim over that made he gave a statement he said he was very sorry for the families to be affected by this and that what these people are doing this is what he said what these people are doing is not helpful and they should find another solution without killing civilians so of course this is exactly what the u.n. observer mission is here in the country to see to be implementing the peace funds is exactly the kind of thing that they're going to be looking at very very closely and trying to stop where there are deep consensus that have been from the very beginning of this mission that there are going to be attempts to undermine it the actions in the course of this conflict have left the country why date into this kind of instability and you know all across the country right now you've got such large areas of us who travel to homes we travel to hama we travel to recently i mean it really is a huge struggle but of course even now here in damascus which for a long time remained largely sheltered from the ongoing conflict you're seeing it
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becoming a target now we've seen this forming campaign stepped up and certainly it is not really a secret anymore it's common knowledge that you have foreign nationals operating in the country that you have armed groups that are carrying out some of these terrorist acts there is a lot of concern here that was. the international community has been applying a huge amount of pressure quite rightly so a lot of people would say on the regime to end the violence and the crackdown on the civilian populations even demonstrating they've had economic sanctions put on the. amount of rhetoric coming from the west aimed at that side of it but there hasn't been the same pressure applied to the armed opposition in fact in complete contrast you've had some of the gulf countries you have the u.s. calling for more arms to be sent to the opposition and the country has been quite open about calling for that and that funding is happening now got a situation in a country where people have absolutely lost all sense of security and stability and
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peace plan fails and you could see the country descending into civil war which is already happening in some parts of syria right now. to surface right meantime brian becker from the anti war coalition says until rebels stop receiving weapons from abroad the violence will continue unabated. you have to look at the bombing and see who is the material beneficiary from the continued. violence and i would have to say it's not the syrian government but those who are for mental and civil war in syria that would be parts of the armed opposition and that armed opposition is getting arms from turkey from other arab regimes in particular saudi arabia and the gulf states and of course the backing of the nato powers they're not seeking reconciliation they're now seeking a brokered peace every effort by the syrian government to enforce a cease fire or to make concessions is met with armed opposition groups who are
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having weapons funneled to them from the outside we know this not only from the syrian ambassador but even from kofi annan u.n. delegation which is acknowledging the flow of arms from outside into syria who would do that and why well the only ones who would do it would be those who don't want to settlement don't want to negotiated peace want in fact a civil war leading to the eventual overthrow of this current independent government in syria. and that was the war coalition activist our brian becker talking to us a bit earlier from washington d.c. say. vladimir putin has unexpectedly pulled out from the g eight summit in the u.s. state of maryland that starts next week instead he's sending prime minister dmitry medvedev with all the details on this rather sudden move is he's pretty hot. being a very busy week for vladimir putin on monday he was sworn in as president on tuesday how to deal with the election of a new prime minister in the pala meant until wednesday he was poss of the annual
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victory day parade here in moscow so the president called for bomber and explaining that he couldn't get attend the g. eight next week he had to remain in moscow to finalize key cabinet appointments while the two leaders will instead meet next month in mexico the g twenty meeting to each image get of the prime minister who will be attending the g. eight representing russia instead though the white house issued a statement saying that they understood the position of president putin and welcoming prime minister made yet have to camp david so the issue of key cabinet appointments being listed as the reason for putin's nonattendance at the g eight however it has left some wondering if they could be another motive for i'm not going but to me a putin has never really been the biggest fan of the g. eight in fact he's said that he finds it somewhat outdated much prefer in the g. twenty which includes more of the mooching economies in the world countries like
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brazil china india that russia does an awful lot of trade with. old so the president has said that he is committed to continuing to restart of relations with between russia and the united states that was begun under the presidency of dimitri made good if during his campaigning for the presidency flooded me a putin was very critical of some aspects of u.s. foreign policy and particularly the united states is stance on syria washington's treatment of tehran and the iranian nuclear program as well as the american antti missile defense shield it's proposed to eastern europe. meantime the missile defense plan in europe will be up for the. by nato later this month the alliance is holding a summit in chicago with six specter to give the green light for the activation of interceptor missiles in poland but as r.t.
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as i like to see reports washington's reluctance to cooperate could force moscow to take action. scared distrustful and even hostile these are only some of the labels moscow has received in the west for expressing concerns over washington's controversial european anti-missile shield plans that u.s. wants to build european support for this missile defense system the washington the other hand are very mistrustful of the us global agenda and want to use this issue to issue up the u.s. you know why and if you could post like that we should respond. and some rhetoric of that for you would be to make russia's position clear the defense ministry organized a special conference in moscow visualizing its warriors in a graphic clip experts say that by the year twenty twenty when the final phase of the shield will be ready nato bases in europe will be able to shoot down russian intercontinental missiles this moscow says violates the principles of nuclear
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containment and would dramatically shift the balance of global power. it would have no objections to the will of the u.s. to strengthen security in europe but it cannot be done at the expense of our security security cannot be divided and that's one of the principles of the start treaty signed between moscow and washington the u.s. delegation again played down talks of a possible threat to russia now due respect. to. security. interest if you. strike. but words do not match actions according to moscow with washington unwilling to rubber stamp of those promises in a legal document until it does russia defense ministry says it will continue to grow military potential on its borders ready to act against america's a.m.d. ambitions even preemptively sujoy them just. taking into account the
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destabilizing nature of the missile. defense systems and in particular creating an illusion punishable strike the decision about a preemptive use of force will be made in a period of heightened tension the deployment of new offensive ons in the southern and northwestern russia including its come to missiles in the callinan grab region provided to the destruction of the european missile defense infrastructure. this scenario is clearly seen as a last resort however moscow is standing strong in its position sending the ball firmly into washington's court moskos conference happened just two weeks before the nato summit in chicago where the alliance is expected to officially launch the first phase of the year m d and while nobody has any doubts that the points made here will not change the summits agenda they may eventually urge washington to provide legal guarantees that this system will never be used against russia something moscow has been demanding for the past several years let's see reporting
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from moscow it's ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital loss still to come with this program of the financial crisis a budget cuts in the u.s. force people to leave their homes and even seek and leave the solution those details in just a few. rescue teams are struggling to reach the record of a russian airliner on a steep mountainside in indonesia the next generation sukhoi superjet went down on wednesday and rescuers say there are no survivors. reports from jakarta. the authorities have said that there is no sign of any survivors but it's been extremely confusing the search operation because it's taking place thirty miles outside of jakarta in a very mountainous treacherous region so actually at one point people in the rescue had quarters were hearing that the searchers had found bodies but that's not
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the case that's not what we're hearing anymore so there's been a lot of confusion. as of the passenger is that many of the indonesians on that airplane and informed of the fate of the plane that the plane actually crashed into a mountain where there was a dormant volcano and so obviously there's a lot of. crisis center that's been set up in the airport where the russian jet one hundred took off obviously yesterday everyone was wondering what hop into this airplane when it disappeared off the radar twenty minutes after it took off there was talk that perhaps even behind because the emergency beacon that should have gone off if the airplane had crashed into a mountain and didn't go off this plane is equipped with the latest technology on its very high path so many people thought that. it was. sort of emergency landing somewhere is just was part of. around asia that was meant to
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remote it it just it just done several tests in kazakhstan pockets done in myanmar and was. on this was the first commercial airplane built in russia after the soviet union in two thousand and seven there have been around one hundred seventy orders placed for this airplane around the world this was a multibillion dollar project that had many countries involved time will tell. business this will have on the selling. this airplane many people many pilots that we've spoken to have said that perhaps this was human error off usually the visibility was not that great yesterday there was fog and there was raining we're actually heading to the airport right now we plan to speak to a russian blogger who was supposed to be on the airplane yesterday and did not i
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mean had taken several flights on the russian your voice you brigette in the other locations during this air show he's been a blogger and he's been tweeting pictures from the crash site and also other information regarding the russian sukhoi superjet one hundred so i'll continue to bring you the latest information as i receive it. course you can always go stories that are. on line you can find out how for example the ukraine. is no longer on hunger strike she's removed from prison hospital after ninety day protest after claims of abuse from prison guards. thousands of troops the latest military hardware and lots of helicopters rolled out all the stops. sixty seven years since victory over the nazis a spectacular parade was staged on red square you can watch all the action on our
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on the dot com. we are not to far off the world but for now all attempts to form a coalition have so far failed in greece. rejected proposals by the bailout. this comes after sunday's parliamentary elections in which no party or an overall majority without the deal greece will be forced to hold a new. election in june german chancellor angela merkel has said that any new greek government must adhere to the austerity plan while also stressing the cuts and structural reforms of the only way out of the crisis economic experts warn that her demands on athens are unrealistic. he says merkel is speaking as if. the implementation of the fiscal adjustment program that these i agreed to between government and the european union. is a matter of will that if greece wanted to implement it then you would be able to do
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to do it. this is a very profound error greece cannot implement this plan because this plan cannot be implemented by anyone it flies in the face of economic reality. if greece doesn't try to implement it as it has been doing over the last year and a half or so all that will happen is that the dead is going to get worse there is a deep and it is often gone and he's going to enter more into its current coma so what mrs merkel is asking the greeks to do is mission impossible. this is r.t. now russia and china have been singing from the same song sheet quite a lot recently now sort of rauf is the latest to join the charm offensive the russian foreign ministers in the region to talk up common interests jang sin from the peking university says it makes sense for both sides to continue working
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closely together. every major global power really benefits from us from global stability both countries but entire world stands to benefit from a peaceful resolution to the crises in syria and what's happening right now between israel and i riyadh so both countries sent about it from each other i would say if you were to say who but it's more than what was said but it's actually china because you could argue that russia the russian economy is self-sufficient whereas china very much is it its economic growth it's very much dependent on global stability and global economic growth you could argue that after the fall of the berlin wall the united states start to attain. just proportionate and really under reasonable and ultimately unsustainable amount of global wealth and power and now what we're seeing basically is that we don't see where russia china and the brics countries are slowly rising in influence and i think that's the way it ought to be
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for too long we've been you you know pull the world and that has great a lot of issues more soil moving towards a multi over world which i think is all to me more reasonable and more sustainable . straight to spain for the r.t. world out there now for you and our football fans clashed with police in the banished capital overnight thousands poured onto the streets celebrating athletico madrid victory in the europa league final violence erupted when a small group of fans started throwing bottles and stones at police to try to push back the crowds several arrests were made. for libyan riot police have fired tear gas at anti government demonstrators in la clashes broke out when thousands of workers protested over pay and work conditions the laborers that were joined by union members united in their opposition to the president it was though a very different scene in the city of cochabamba people gathered to show their support and solidarity with the government. the flame for the london twenty twelve
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olympic torch has been lit by the sun's rays in greece the ceremony took place in front of the ruins of the temple of hara the birthplace of the ancient olympics dressed in robes the so-called high priest the beacon by placing it in a parabolic mirror the flame will now set off on a seven day journey across the country before it leaves for britain on may the eighteenth. more shortly will see natasha with a business but for now more than two point five million homes in america have been repossessed by banks since the financial crisis struck the country anger over the crippled economy is deepening as people struggle to find work pay their bills and keep hold of their houses that meantime is forcing increasing numbers to turn to lethal ways out but the story is artie's medina cochon of. dozens of police and swat teams sworn in on the small central california town not what you'd
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expect for what was supposed to be a routine foreclosure but at this point we believe the suspect is barricaded inside of the apartment complex we don't know anything about him we don't know what the motive is behind this shooting all we know is that we have two people dead apparently forty five year all jim richard ferrero had his motives he was losing his condominium because of her fifteen thousand dollars home and with the loan he could no longer afford to pay the condo was salted an option for a knock down price and ferrero was handed end of action notice it proved to be the last straw for the former security guard who barricaded himself inside his home and refused to walk out to live without and worryingly such an extreme act it hasn't been an isolated incident in this area and public safety as a whole has been affected by the economy just like everybody else i have there isn't anybody in the community that hasn't been affected by this economy last year the town's foreclosure rate was the third highest in the country with
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a one in average nineteen properties reposed by the banks the entire region is ravished by unemployment and budget cuts and it's a story being repeated nationwide with a quickly bloody consequences in phoenix a man opened fire on police when he refused to leave his house in ohio an old married couple killed themselves when the faced with a vexation while in florida and then was gunned down by police after he said his recently foreclosed tom house on fire these doubts by foreclosure killings have been going on quietly around the country average since the financial crisis threatened to pull the rock from those only surviving on credit i think people get desperate and they don't. the light at the end of the tunnel that you know it's ok if i lose my home and i move somewhere that i can afford and i can rent and i just think we really get attached to home and. and are very reluctant to
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give it up and i think it brings on. desperation when you. was no sign of any recovery in california's economy and stubborn unemployment it means the body count looks to only grow in the months ahead x. prayed for because the huge through home foreclosures this year while the threat of a shadowy invent trio soon to be foreclosed homes continues to hound housing markets there is a question how many more depressed people forced from their own homes and with nowhere else to go are pushed to the very edge determined to do anything it takes to stand by their property till the bitter end. archie reporting from california. and over to natasha now as i promised the business desk oh good to see you again although the news isn't entirely positive i know for the past twenty four hours we've been discussing the unfortunate crash of a sukhoi superjet just out of jakarta what are the chances of this new aircraft
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actually hitting record highs when it comes to sales after wednesday's tragedy while experts say that the potential clients will certainly wait to see the results of the crash investigation before they make their decisions a bit more on that story later in the program but first european financial crisis has been the main focus for the equity markets over the past week especially after france and greece chose to not to elect the leaders that supported the tight austerity measures let's now see how the equity markets are performing in europe at the moment the footsie and the dax a trading mix the third sees actually losing value standing the previous day's losses but in germany traders see that as a buying opportunity and really there are a lot of problems in europe itself and one of the main stories we're looking at two days of course grief that really worries investors after all attempts to form
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a coalition government there failed so far there are concerns that it might actually drop out of. the eurozone on wednesday the eurozone rescue fund said it will transfer four point two billion euro to greece on thursday but that's one the billion euro less than planned the european financial stability facility explained his decision by saying there are amazing one billion that's not needed right now and it will be dispersed depending on the financial needs of greece that definitely adds to the uncertainty and that's obviously affecting the european currency the euro and let's now see how the euro is performing at the moment and as you see there the result of actually shedding of value against the greenback and the brush and the move will is also retreating against both the euro and the dollar and the oil market of course is also shedding value today both brands and the w t i are trading lower this hour and of course oil is one of the major factors for the russian equity market so let's see how that's performing at the moment and as you
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see the markets are mixed the r.t.s. is losing value at the moment more than a quarter percent down in the my sex is more than three quarters of a percent in the block and that's after russia's central bank left the refinancing rate unchanged on thursday let's now check out the biggest movers on the my six they include the financials and that's the t.v. and russia's biggest lender is a very bank very bank actually post that a fourteen percent rise in net profit for the first four months of the year but that's according to the russian accounting standards and. he is down after its first quarter net profit disappointed and best years and the trash of the soup always super jets one hundred and denise has really put into doubt russia's ambitions to be part of the global aircraft industry it's the most significant new plane from the country's aircraft maker for two decades spent
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a total of one billion dollars on. the jets producers aim to sell eight hundred units by two thousand and twenty nine and they plan to take fifteen percent of the global regional jet market they still hope the accident will not affect sales but analysts say potential clients will certainly wait for the results of an investigation today there are eight super jets in service worldwide most of them used by russia's air flight so far it has no plans of grounding its suit boys superjet fleet and that's the latest from the business desperate i'll be back in about fifteen minutes or so you that it's always a pleasure many thanks indeed. well do stay with us if you can a recap of the headlines and then that will be backed up by the concert report.
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