dozens are killed in the syrian capital by a pair of bomb blasts with damascus and the rebels both play me each other for the attacks. just a few hundred meters separate rescue teams from the crash site. in indonesia as authorities say it is unlikely that any survivors will be found. just too busy a lot of. join the g eight party next week hosted by the us this studio is demanding . just after five pm here in moscow this is arts he lives with me rule research

showing two massive bomb blasts have ripped through the syrian capital during rush hour killing at least fifty five and wounding nearly four hundred the government and the opposition have been very quick to blame each other for the attacks as though there could be a foreign hand in the bombings in damascus with the latest ati sarath. well the russian foreign minister commented on the events today saying the foreign into faris in syria is unacceptable now it is widely acknowledged that there are foreign nationals operating in the ground that are criminal gangs it is a big dilemma for the syrian people of the nation from the units of the mission here and at the mosque is 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 block

site as the devastation is cause is just and mends at the moment the cleanup operations underway and we found 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 well as the capital was launched these years for a long while as having remained relatively sheltered from the ongoing conflict throughout the rest of the country but we've seen these in these types of attacks really cranking up in recent times and a huge amount of damage has been done over parts of the war so wasted these things is the fact that you've had from the beginning of the conflict a very strong rhetoric from both sides playing the blame game and that's where it sort of confused most of the kids a situation here is much more calm complex than that and people are really feeling very very much like they caught in the middle of speaking to the people down at the

bomb sites and you know this is really a senseless the u.n. observer mission said to try and bring peace that this could be just the beginning of this type of progress the next 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 say really i mean there's a sense amongst the. people and a huge fear that if something isn't done you can see it's getting worse and it's you know it's a mission really as the best chance that this country has right now getting stability back in what the year the service has been asking for is for people the different sides the different groups different factions to give the syrian people a chance to get stability in this country. for through their let's get some more reaction now from dallas to cook director of the ngo conflicts forum are joining us live here on our team from beirut good to see you today with the government and the rebels both very quick to blame each other for the violence do tell us this how

does the u.n. observers how are they supposed to carry out their mission when they can't even make out exactly what's going on. but well i think that is precisely one of the purposes of having monitors in conflict and i've been a part of this myself in the palestinian case it does make a difference actually to have people on the ground to have witnesses because one of the things that has been so difficult in the whole story of syria has been this disparate narrative it's the very different narratives that have come out on the one hand one people claim the other hand somebody else says something different so having militarily experience witnesses on the ground who can tell what is a mortar shell and what is a burning tar being fired on the top of the roof more than an ordinary journalist can does help but please bring this thing and maybe possibly will contribute to stabilizing it of course military observers any sort of observers can deal with

a few determined. who wish to infiltrate the country and place explosives from the middle of a town no state can really protect itself against that now certainly at this point when it comes to the recent or bombings or this morning during rush hour some reports saying that the bombings were looking as though they were targeting military or police establishments or headquarters if that was the case then why would the rebels accuse the assad government of going after his own hardware areas his own police headquarters. i think you can see the opposition have invariably claimed every incident the takes place is being instigated by the government and of course that is highly unlikely to be the truth and fact we know the americans have said very plainly that they believe some of the earlier bombings that took place in aleppo and damascus where the works of groups

that were coming from. the provinces in iraq which is associated with al qaeda type of radical sunni islam and i think people will be looking very closely in this case neither at the ordinary opposition nor at the syrian government that's most unlikely but rather at the front from the organization which has claimed responsibility for both the bombings in aleppo and damascus both in march and earlier and this group has a profile the way it speaks the language all of that has a ring of. the fact they don't call it syria per se but. syria their refusal to accept the idea of boundaries all of these things tend to tie it into that type of thinking that was from iraq and no one has actually claimed it formally yet but it seems very likely it will have come from the nostra front while

it might seem easy to some to quickly say all terrorists or involved or more specifically al qaida is involved at the very beginning in libya before nato got directly in on the ground there even could after you were saying all those on the streets it's terrorist but you know it's a blame for all this however according to russia russia are saying that some foreign forces could be to blame for the latest bombings in which countries in your eyes could be involved in what's their agenda. well i think as i say when i describe when i'm talking about the nuts or affront they are clearly groups the americans the head of american intelligence assessment james clapper himself said that americans believe that the earlier bombings were done by groups infiltrating from iraq into syria to places who is behind them we are not quite sure but it's most likely those that are sponsoring these groups will be in the gulf states will be gulf states who will be by the funding it or stimulating these

sort of attacks i think it's fairly plain the reason why it doesn't take a great deal of investigation to work out. for both sides. the peace process is not what they're wanting to see they want to see the violent overthrow of the regime so clearly there are external factors in it and i think russia is quite right in suggesting that there has been quite markedly campaign an external campaign really to deal with here to my true undermine the whole u.n. process that kofi annan process and indeed to undermine the political process. self started through the referendum on the constitution and sunday's parliamentary elections most of those have been dismissed as frauds as frederick's even really before the process was started it is very interesting how you bring in that idea

the certainly the regional implications of saudi arabia they're quite quite so i suppose that they would like to see the assad government just absolutely toppled if i may i'm running very low on time i do apologize but the syrians are saying many of them are saying the presence of u.n. observers helps to tone down the violence so why if that's the case why is the world body taking its time to deploy all three hundred observers. i think you're short of time so i will say very briefly i think it's quite clearly that the un at the un at the highest level is not rushing to place the observers and i think part of a political agenda by some in the west who really don't want to see this process work who would prefer to see it fail and then return the whole issue to the security council so they could have another go at bringing down the assad government. the director of the ngo conflicts forum thanks so much for coming on

today. thank you very much thank you well as always here at our we love it when you get involved with our stories or today we are curious about what you think regarding the ongoing violence in syria if you head to our website dot com you can right now dissipate in our latest worldwide web poll today we're asking who wins the most if syria slides back into full scale violence there are the numbers for the hour so far over half of you believe it's the u.s. and israel who get rid of iran's closest ally almost a quarter thinks its radical islamists who want to take over the country down to ten percent now saying it's the syrian bandits who can plunder at their own leisure and just to the minority claiming that the syrian people with them because they will eventually get a democratic government and want to r.t. dot com right now and have your say. indonesian rescuers claim there's no hope for survivors after a russian airliner smashed into

a mountain face other teams are now trying to tackle challenging terrain to reach the wreckage of the sukhoi superjet one hundred which went down on wednesday from jakarta reporting as artie's preassure. 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 and the family members of the passengers that many of the indonesians on that airplane had 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 mourning and grieving at crisis center that's been set up in the airport where the russian jet one hundred took off obviously yesterday everyone was wondering what happened to this airplane when it disappeared off the radar twenty minutes after it took off there was talk that perhaps it could have even been hiding. because the emergency beacon that should have gone out if the airplane had

crashed into a mountain and didn't go off the plane is equipped with the latest technology on its very high path so many people thought that perhaps it was to have some sort of emergency landing somewhere is just was part of. around asia that was meant to promote it i made it just it just done several tests in kazakhstan pockets done in myanmar and was set to go to laos vietnam 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 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 obviously 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. she speaks to a russian blogger who was supposed to be on the airplane yesterday and did not. hide to take in several flights on the russian jet in the other locations during this era show he's been he's 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. of course you can get the latest updates on the plane crash in indonesia on our website on the dot com here's what else is waiting for you there right now strange i typically get a suspected nuclear site find out just what iran is up to on our website.

also hundreds of opposition activists gathered in central moscow to show their discontent tokio rest of some of the movement some leading think it's. on the sixty seven year old anniversary of nazi germany's downfall you can watch the spectacular victory parade dedicated to the event on our see you tube channel. political parties in greece are struggling to come up with a power sharing coalition deal sending the crisis a country only further into turmoil general elections on sunday failed to produce an outright winner with leading parties so far failing to form a new government without an agreement fresh elections would have to be held on thursday athens is due to receive five point two billion euros in bailout funds but several eurozone countries were reluctant to forward this money because of the political instability as part of the bailout terms athens must pass fourteen point five billion euros worth of austerity measures in june but financial chaos has led

to public mistrust of pro austerity parties let's get some more details on this now and talk to financial expert. joining us now live from copenhagen thank you for coming out today it is a up to the leaders of the sensor right and radical left parties to form a coalition government it's crucial for greece at this point can you explain to us what is it that is stopping the main parties from agreeing on a power sharing deal. afternoon. the formally explanation that the lift socialists have basically all of all the time being against the bailout packets that was agreed with the european commission and if and then on the other side we have the biggest country biggest party in greece new democracy whois parts of the former coalition and basically have supported the bailout package so we have a formally basically formally disagreement between the two. these two blocs but of

course this is what i'm what seeing these acts is the real politics behind and as you mentioned a new elections very likely so it means there no actually paying it playing the game of not being the party to blame for not being able to point to form a coalition so it's sort of a blame game they're preparing and this is basically what i'm looking at as as as the most important factor who can try to escape and with more will just next time so that so both both political parties have both both sides of the fence are trying to play the blame game as you say in other words or also as you were saying a moment ago agreeing to disagree but you know one question i have for you is this that regardless of who's at the top in greece it seems that is driven by decisions from brussels anyway how much to how much truth is there in that. well it's we all oh it's very difficult to escape if you owe money to people who want them back

and then basically what is what has happened is that greece's administration so to say that it's a european commission and if. so it's very hard for greece to escape or they have two opportunities they can try the way that. have been tried for some two years now and this is what i call a economic walk in the desert that they will continue to basically to continue with the budget cuts and try to to save more money and come back to repay their debts that they have agreed no. it's sort of an endless walk in that this sort of sanity of they can escape the euro and say ok we exit and simply default on everything but after that they will still need to have new lending so they will still be dependent on the european mates so it's certain sounds like a vicious circle even if they did as some are saying if they did leave the eurozone

they're still have to come back to borrowers to try and start a new all over again i mean it does seem it does seem a bit a bit unfair indeed i mean you know greece relies heavily on bailouts from the euro zone it must come up with more cuts to qualify the funds when it comes to paying back these massive high interest austerity loans i mean does that does the greek economy have what it takes to actually try and pay back these loans or is it a case of of continuing to put of water in a bucket that has a big gaping hole in the bottom of it. we continue to have the view that it is impossible for greece to repay the debt basically it's on our house view since two thousand and ten there's no reason to change that view so that actually basically replies you on your question. and there's no it is an illusion to try to make new agreements it would be better to default it would cost a fortune for europe but for greece there would come more green shorts in

a faster way if they default and accepted you all right peter lundgren a c.e.o. of island greens capital live in copenhagen many thanks indeed for coming on. such a pleasure. meantime as we continue to come to you live from the heart of the russian capital vladimir 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 to retrieve medvedev who is now prime minister and he will be sent to america to cover for him the details artie's peter oliver. 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 palm and undone wednesday he was poss of the annual victory day parade here in moscow so the president called barack obama 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 at 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 in welcoming the prime minister made yet of 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 of putin's never really be 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. old who is 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 dmitri medvedev during his campaigning for the presidency flooded me a putin was very critical of some aspects of u.s. foreign policy in particular the united states is stance on syria washington's treatment of tehran and be a rainy and nuclear program as well as the american antti missile defense shield its proposed to eastern europe. operator or porting back from central moscow i mean time a rushers anti terror. committee says it's foiled a major plot targeting the upcoming winter olympics in sochi russian security forces seized an entire arsenal of weapons in the cook asian country and arrested three militant leaders but let's get to what is tom back now for details on this hello tom so what we know about the foiled terrorist plot at this point. well rory a joint operation by abkhazian and russian special forces found numerous caches of

weapons in our cars here including guns ammunition explosives and portable anti aircraft missiles russia's national antiterrorism committee 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 and the added that the infamous islam ist militant leader darfur maroth was behind the plan so what about this. tom can you give us some background on him. dr morrow of his being connected to numerous gun and bomb attacks in russia's north caucasus in previous years he and his group also claimed responsibility for the bombing of the moscow metro in two thousand and ten and for the bombing of the moscow airport in two thousand and eleven the national into terrorism committee also saves the tomorrow has been in contact with georgian special services though

they don't say whether that's related to this particular find neither do they say why they believe saatchi is the target. of his top bottom up in moscow thank you. check out some other international news for you in brief the r.t. world update now an air strike in yemen has killed five al qaeda militants in the country's south and the attack level the house in the town of jaar where the men were staying a jar has been held by al-qaeda militants for the past year the u.s. has been using drones to strike insurgents in yemen although it remains unclear who was behind the attack. police in mexico found eighteen mutilated bodies dumped into cars in the western state of journalists go left with the bodies suggested they were victims of a gang killing mexican drug cartels often dismember their victims and place them in vehicles around fifty thousand people have been killed in drug related violence

since president felipe calderon came to power in two thousand and six. and the flame for the two thousand and twelve games has been lit in the birthplace of the olympics the event took place in a limpia in front of the temple of hara next to the ancient stadium professional actors staged the entire ceremony where priestesses dark men dressed as heralds put on a display symbolizing athletic strings and the flame will be taken to the u.k. in a week's time for a seventy day relay around the country. after the world of business we go there daniel bushell our understand rusher is the silver lining among the emerging market clouds to the poor chinese export data pushed most developing stocks down but not russia here in moscow they're up for the first serve and after the victory day break yesterday investors loike the central bank decision to keep the refinancing rate change lets the share move was on the my six because. a fourteen percent jump in it for the first twenty twelve other lenders like the t.v.

of boosted by that called make a michalis also revealing higher profits. recovering but struggling still these days portugal greece spain remain heavily down for the year which is eighteen percent lower since january is one of its top banks get nationalized the catholic church meanwhile talks with portugal's government over its decision to suspend the corpus christi and also holidays lisbon says the euro crisis. people can't afford to take a break but traders say even this world of hole for investors think at least. one member will quit the single currency this year according to a new poll out today and all attempts to form a coalition in greece a failed so for the eurozone rescue fund says it will transfer four billion euro to greece on thursday as part of its rescue package but there's one billion lists and currencies and the euro is shedding not unexpectedly against the dollar near three

months lows now the ruble is retreating to the main chorus is today light sweet is edging back up to a hundred dollars though off the morning brant as you can see there is up in the black has gone into the black in the last hour and you're up to date more stories on our website dot com slash business see you next hour. and i just a few minutes here on r.t. other headlines and then we'll be checkmate our documentary traditions still to come here on our team.

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