dozens are killed in the syrian capital. damascus and the rebels both blaming each other for the next. only a few one hundred meters separate rescue teams from the crash site of a russian airliner. as authorities say it's unlikely any survivors will be found. just too busy. to join the g eight next week hosted by the u.s. . demanding work.

it is a pleasure to have you with us here on today. live in moscow two massive bomb blasts have ripped through the syrian capital this rush hour at least fifty people have been killed nearly two hundred have been wounded and the government and the opposition have all been quick to blame each other for the attacks let's now get the latest. for us live. this is the latest blow to the ongoing u.n. observer mission in the country one of them. on what's transpired today. well they condemned the site saying that he's responsible for this step the action that they're taking stop killing the syrian people and the message is really find another way say call the nation from the u.n.

it's a mission. to mask if they went straight to the scene of these two explosions it was a huge huge explosion they really shook the entire city everyone here felt it and we've been speaking to people today we've just been down at the blast site as the devastation is cause is just immense at the moment the cleanup operations underway and with the people that because there were a lot of civilian homes that were also destroyed a lot of civilian lives have been lost this is the largest of the explosions that have happened in recent times of course you see in this space recently of these types of attacks in damascus as it was the capital was launched the view for a long while as having remained relatively sheltered from the ongoing conflict throughout the rest of the country but we've seen these at these types of attacks really cranking up in recent times and a huge amount of damage is being done more than annoying

a thousand people are sort of being killed in syria since last march how were the civilians coping with the call for you look at today's double twin blasts i mean that's major carnage going on in the capital. really really a sense that there's just this huge number of people in the country course in the crossfire it's very very hard when you're in the country because you do it turns from the different sides like freedom fights protect is this sort of testing really sit well assessing not in a situation like this where you see a huge loss of life to this cause a huge loss of people's homes people's families their jobs have gone i mean it's really something when i say today that this loss shook this city and everyone felt it they felt it literally but you know people are feeling this and a very very very literal sense there as well their lives being completely changed by the violence in the cockpit really serves to highlight just how important this u.n. observer mission is here and there are concerns that these types of attack because

yesterday you saw the u.n. getting past the checkpoint and an explosion happening very very close to that and so there's real concerns that this type of violence and these type of attacks again to undermine that u.n. mission and we have seen an increase in recent times i mean it's no secret anymore that there are foreign nationals operating in the country that there are armed gangs operating in the country and of these terrorist acts are being carried out over parts of the worst always at these things is the fact that you've had from the beginning of the conflict very strong rhetoric from both sides playing the blame game and that's really sort of confused not just because the situation here is much more calm complex than that and people are really feeling very very much like they're caught in the middle of speaking to some people down at the bomb sites and you know this really is senseless the u.n. observer mission said to try and bring peace that this could be just the beginning of this type of our restenosis you know this is really a major dilemma for the syrians the actions of the regime over the past year and

a half have left the country on a situation that's why they put in this sort of interference to these sort of acts to be carried out and so really i mean there's a sense amongst the people and. that if something isn't done you can see it's getting worse and as you said this year it is seven if you really view it as the best this country has right now getting stability back in what the year to save enough. people the different sides the different different factions to give the syrian people a chance to get the going to be in this country. life in damascus thank you. as always we love it when you get involved the stories we cover we are curious about what you think regarding the ongoing violence in syria if you had to our website r.t. dot com you can participate in our latest web poll let's bring up the numbers for this hour see how you're voting today we are asking you who wins most of syria slides into a full scale civil war. if you believe it's the u.s. and israel who get rid of iran's closest ally almost a quarter think it's

a radical islamists who will take over the country fourteen percent syrian people when the most because they will eventually get a democratic government and the minority claim it's the syrian bandits who can plunder their own country you can log onto our t. dot com get involved have you vote. and the situation in syria is high on the agenda for russia and china here is why beijing and moscow must work together on the issue why the whole world benefit from stability in the middle east. indonesian rescuers claim there's no hope for survivors after a russian airliner smashed into a mountain face the teams are now trying to tackle challenging terrain to reach the wreckage of the sukhoi superjet one hundred which went down on one 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. of the passenger is that many of the indonesians on that airplane have been 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 a. 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 as twenty minutes after it took off there was talk that perhaps even behind because the emergency beacon that should have gone out if the airplane had crashed into a mountain and didn't go off this plane is equipped with the latest technology on its very height path so many people thought that. it was to have some sort of

emergency landing somewhere is just was part of. around asia that was meant to promote it made it just it just done several tests in kazakhstan pockets done in myanmar and was. not on this plane it 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 the impact this will have on the selling of this airplane and 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 flew. and she speaks to a russian of logger who was supposed to be on the airplane yesterday and did not

work on the hike taken several flights on the russians to play superjet in the other locations during this airshow on he's been easy logger 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. and of course you can get the latest updates on the plane crash in indonesia on our website dot com here's what else is there for you this. strange i have a theater suspected nuclear site just what iran is up to you want to a web site. also at all to call most some celebrate the pasta others protest the future hundreds of opposition activists are gathered in central moscow to show their discontent over the some of the movements leading to.

and the sixty seven year anniversary of nazi germany's downfall of course the spectacular victory parade dedicated to the event. well i mean putin has snubbed the g. eight summit due to take place in the u.s. state of maryland next friday russia's president says he's just too busy appointing his new cabinet dmitri medvedev who's now prime minister will be sent to america to cover for him with details. of. well this 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 pall of and undone wednesday he was poss of the annual victory day parade here in moscow so the president called for bomber and explained 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 now 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 brazil china india that russia does an awful lot of trade with. also the president has said that he is committed to continuing to restart of relations with

between russia and the united states through his began under the presidency of dmitri medvedev 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 terror ron and the arabian nuclear program as well as the american antti missile defense shield that's proposed for eastern europe. staying with missiles here on our russia tries to nail down legal guarantee. from the u.s. on his defense system ahead of next week's nato summit. and when foreclosures in turn fatal find out why a growing number of u.s. homeowners are making deadly decisions when faced with a picture. this is r.t. russia's anti terror committee says it is for oil the major plot targeting the upcoming winter olympics in sochi russian security forces seized an entire

arsenal of weapons in the country and arrested three militant leaders are now joins us with all the details and hello to you tom what we know about this foiled terrorist plot at this point. a joint operation by our cars in russian special forces found caches of weapons in our cars here including guns ammunition explosives and even portable anti aircraft missiles russia's national antiterrorism committee has told the interfax news agency that they believe those weapons were destined for a terrorist attack on the winter olympics in sochi in two thousand and fourteen more than that. the infamous islam ist militant leader is behind the plan they say. has been connected to numerous gun and bomb attacks in russia's north caucasus in past years but he's so far managed to evade security services

have also said that dr maher has been in contact with georgian special services but they haven't said whether that is related to this particular find. there might be some of the say this is there's no surprise really the doc who is allegedly involved here you've given us some background on the guy here any more details that you know if you can you can shed shed some light on regarding this tomorrow. regarding this actual case they've they've kept rather tight lipped the. security services so far they haven't said very much about how they think that plan might actually have worked or why they think that sort she was the target but it was a large cache of weapons in more than one stockpile and there's some certainly some very familiar ball work in re in there some of the portable anti-aircraft missiles very powerful weapons indeed. has been linked they say to this plan and to many

other plans so this may give credence to their view that this was a plan for a major a time. there lived in central moscow thank you. our political parties in greece struggle to come up with a power sharing coalition deal sending the crisis hit country only further into turmoil general elections on sunday failed to produce an outright winner with leading parties so far failing to form a government without an agreement fresh elections would have to be held now on thursday athens is due to receive a five point two billion euros in belle out funds but several euro zone countries were reluctant to forward this money because of the political instability as part of the bailout terms athens must pass a fourteen point five billion euros worth of austerity measures in june but financial chaos has led to public mistrust of pro austerity parties experts now warned of the cuts implemented so far have already driven the greek people all the

way to the brink. abandoning the bailout that mean does not necessarily mean that greece would have to quit the euro zone. this is the thread that is being used by the prosperity party sent by the europeans but the left party which is very dim or from and is betting on the fact that a. domino effect would be so large that for the rest of europe if greece word to be exacted that ultimately the europeans would have to negotiate a solution that is more viable and more socially. for greeks unemployment over twenty percent and you know really a desperation growing and this recipe has not worked for greece so the alternative is to try something different or spirit is not the solution is is part

of the problem. here watching our team the u.s. has tested a rocket in hawaii tended to the nato's future of missile defense shield in europe and the alliance is holding a summit in chicago later in may that's expected to give the green light for interceptor missiles in poland but as r.t. is aleksey out a chef he reports washington's reluctance to cooperate could force moscow to take action scared distrustful and even hostile these are only some of the labels more school has received in the west for expressing concerns over washington's controversial european anti-missile shield plans the u.s. wants to build you support for this missile defense system the russians on the other hand are very mistrustful of the us global agenda and want to use this issue up to us you know why and. we should respond.

and recover it. 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 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 were here in.

the street. 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 of them used to be as usual taking into account the destabilizing nature of the missile defense system 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 arms in southern and northwestern russia including its canned 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 euro 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 russia ski r.t. reporting from moscow. and the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says he cannot rule out foreign involvement in today's devastating bomb blasts in damascus he added that outside interference is unacceptable in syria his statement comes during his official two day visit to china to talk up common interests and cooperation i mean time jang is sweet sin from peking university says it makes sense for both sides to continue working together towards to ban it. every major global power

really benefits the most 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 riyadh so both countries benefit from each other i would say if you would say it's more than what was said but it's certainly 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 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 rising in influence and i think that's the way it ought to be for too long we've been a huge you know pull the world and that has created a lot of issues and we're going towards a multi

a world which i think is all to me more reasonable and more sustainable. look at the business news with daniel shortly but for now i'm more than two point five million houses in the united states have been repossessed by banks since the economic crisis struck struck the country but the impact isn't only financial many forced out of their homes are taking drastic measures some even choosing to take their own lives when faced with a fiction but in a culture of reports. dozens of police and swat teams sworn in on the small central california town not what you'd 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 equity loan he could

no longer afford to pay the condo was salted an option for a knock down price and ferrero was handed an eviction notice it proved to be the last straw for the former security guard who barricaded himself inside his home and refused to walk out alive and worryingly such an extreme act hasn't been an isolated incident in this area public safety as a whole has been affected by the economy just like everybody else live 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 a one in after a nine thousand 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 for close town house on fire these deaths by foreclosure killings have been going on quietly around the country average since the financial crisis threaten 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 give it up and i think it brings on. desperation when you when you with no sign of any recovery in california's economy and stubborn unemployment it means the body count looks set to only grow in the months ahead x. prayed for it caused a huge surge in home foreclosures this year while the threat of a shadow inventory of 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 and my you know question archie reporting from california. all right a time for our early versions of those daniel good to see you certainly it's been a while or you've had a long public holiday here in russia but i understand there were probably the euro could now be affecting people's rights to holidays what started all of this right because look church was born portugal suspending the corpus christi and all saints days holidays the government says the euro crisis is so bad people can't afford to take a break but traders say even this won't help more than call for investors think at least one state will quit the single currency this year according to a new poll out today let's check those e.u. markets because they're recovering but all those struggling straight portugal

greece spain remain heavily down for the year to date driven by big he's down eighteen percent since january was one of its top banks gets part nationalized and all attempts to form a coalition increase of failed so far the euro zone risky fund says it will transfer four billion euros to greece on thursday as part of its rescue package that's one billion less than planned currencies in the euro is shedding as expected against the dollar near a three month lows now the single currency the ruble is retreating to the main currencies as well which has gone into the black in the last hour but it remains flat for the day oil a major factor for russian equities that check those here in russia the markets all trading. higher offer a mixed start to the trading session when the news driving the markets high is the central bank decision to keep the refinancing rate on change let's have a look at some individual share movers on the minus six financials on the rise both p.t.b. and sperm bank again in bush's biggest lender posted a fourteen percent increase in net for the first four months of the year by russian

accounting standards are also british all frantic a.b.c. is down its first quarter and that was down the year on the year and you're up to date will read more stories on our website dot com slash business because often you'll see you next hour. well you stay with us here on r t what could be coming back in about me with the headlines and i want all stay with the euro crisis and introspective look at where it's really going could it be going down the toilet.

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