syrian capital this during rush hour at least fifty five killed upwards of four hundred people being wounded the government and the opposition both quick to blame each other for the attacks and russia says there could be a foreign hand in the bombings with the latest from damascus artie's sara for. well the russian foreign ministers commented on the events today saying the forward into fairness in syria is unacceptable it is widely acknowledged that there are foreign nationals operating in the ground that are criminal gangs is a big dilemma for the syrian people pull the nation from the un assess the mission here in damascus 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 schools is just and mends at the moment the cleanup operations underway and with the people dead because they were loaded

civilian homes it will 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 as these types of attacks in damascus as soon as 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 types of attacks really cranking up in recent times and a huge amount of damage has been done over parts of the war so why is it 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 massive because the 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 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 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 you know the 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 huge sense amongst the. i know he says that if something isn't done you can see it's getting worse and it's your to save mission. as the best this country has right now getting stability back in what the years of service 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. reporting now meantime alister director of the ngo conflicts forum he thinks the un peace effort is being undermined by foreign meddling inside syria having militarily experienced witnesses on the ground who can tell what is a mortar shell and what is

a burning 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 a contrail with a few determined. who wish to infiltrate the country and place explosives in the middle of a time 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 all 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. this is it's good to have your company today now indonesian rescuers claim there's just no hope for survivors after a russian airliner smashed into the side of a mountain other teams are now trying to tackle challenging terrain to reach the wreckage of the sukhoi superjet one hundred which went down on wednesday. to 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 that 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 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 twenty minutes after it took off there was talk that perhaps it could have even been hijacked 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 high path so many people thought. it was a good. landing somewhere is just was part of. around asia that was meant to remote i made 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 of this airplane 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. speaks to a russian flogger who was supposed to be on the airplane yesterday and did not start on the hike in several flights on the russians to place your child in the other locations during this era shout on he's been easy logger and he's been tweeting pictures from the crash site and also other information regarding the russian. 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 standing by for you there right now for example a strange activity at a suspected nuclear site find out just what iran is up to at r.t. dot com. also warns that she will not let europe loosen its belt on north a move she believes could tip the eurozone over the edge into the economic. side of the sixty seven year anniversary of nazi germany's downfall and watch the spectacular victory day parade dedicated to the event that can be found on our you tube channel. a lot of you put in the house snubbed the g. eight summit 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 meantime i do retreatment now prime minister will be sent to america to cover for him with details auntie's peter all of. 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 parliament on the wednesday he was paul so of the victory day parade here in moscow so the president called it explaining this he couldn't attend the g. eight next week he had to remain in moscow to finalize key cabinet appointments well the to leave. leaders will instead meet next month in mexico the g. twenty meeting of 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 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 not attendance at the g eight however it has left some wondering if there could be another motive for i'm not

going to be 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 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 sort of relations with between russia and the united states who has 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 the arena of nuclear program as well as the american missile defense shield that's proposed to eastern europe. and staying with missiles are russia tries to legal counties from the u.s.

on his defense system just ahead of next week's nato summit. russia. says it has foiled a major plot targeting the upcoming winter olympics in sochi russian security forces seized an entire arsenal of weapons in the country and arrested three men as leaders with details on. a joint operation by abkhazian and russian special forces found numerous caches of weapons in our cars 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 doing tomorrow of his being connected to numerous gun and bomb attacks in

russia's north caucasus in previous years but he so far managed to evade security services he and his group also train responsibility for the forming of the moscow metro in two thousand and ten and for the bombing of the moscow airport in two thousand and eleven the national antiterrorism committee also sais that tomorrow has been in contact with georgian special services they don't say whether that's related to this particular find. there in just a moment here on the program or get to the r.t. world updater but for now the political parties in greece are struggling to come up with a power sharing coalition deal sending the crisis hit country even further into turmoil general elections on sunday failed to produce an outright winner with leading parties so far failing to form a government now 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 one point fourteen and a half billion euros worth of austerity measures in june but financial chaos has led to a public mistrust of pro austerity parties financial expert peter green says even if greece diffuse the euro it will still be dependent on its european neighbors. we all know it's very difficult to to escape if you owe money to people that want them back and then basically what is what has happened is that greece is on the administration so to say that it's a european commission and the i.m.f. so it's very hard for greece to escape have to opportunity as they can try the way that. have been tried for some two years now this is what i call a economic walk in the desert. continue to basically continue with the

budget cuts and try to to save more money and come back to repay their debts no sir not if they can escape the euro and say ok we exit and simply default when there is ing but after that they will still need to have new lending so they will still be dependent on the european mates it is an illusion true try to make new agreements it would be better to default it will cost a fortune for europe but for greece there will come more green shorts in a faster way if they default and except if you. and the economic and financial turmoil has not stopped greeks from honoring their ancient traditions as we report now in our world update the flame for the twenty twelve games has been lit in the birthplace of the olympics as you can see right here the event took place in a limpia in front of the temple hara next to the ancient stadium professional actors stage the entire ceremony priestesses dance ten men dressed as heralds put

on a display symbolizing athletic strength of frame will be taken to the u.k. in a week's time for a seventy day relay around the country. an air strike in yemen has killed five al-qaeda militants in the country's south of the attack leveled a 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 does remain unclear who was behind this attack. police in mexico have 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 the 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.

sudan has reportedly resumed of bombarding its southern neighbor from the violating international demands to cease the violence between both countries khartoum has repeatedly denied it carrying out a bombing campaign over southern territory claiming it is the victim of aggression from its southern neighbor the decades long civil war between two states resulted in south sudan proclaiming independence last july over one point five million people have died in the conflict. the u.s. has tested a rocket in hawaii intended to nato's future missile defense shield in europe the alliance is holding a summit in chicago later in may that is expected to give the green light for interceptor missiles in poland but as artie's reports washington's reluctance to cooperate could ultimately force moscow to retaliate 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 that u.s. wants to build you support for its missile defense system the russians and the other here are very mistrustful the u.s. global agenda and want to use this issue to just blow up the u.s. you know why aren't. we sure that it's. 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. that 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 dearest chairs. here. would be interest if you were here in. the street. but words do not match actions according to moscow with washington unwilling to rubber stamp 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 is the reason you are taking into account the destabilizing nature of the missile defense system and in particular creating an illusion on 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 kind missiles in the callinan grab region provides for the destruction of the european missile defense infrastructure. as the this scenario is clearly seen as a last resort however moscow is standing strong in its position sending the ball firmly into washington scored. 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 summit's agenda they may eventually urge washington to provide legal guarantees that this system will never be used against russia something more school has been demanding for the past several years. reporting from moscow it's twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital in a few moments daniel with reality business but for now

a more than two point five million houses in the united states have been repossessed by banks since the economic crisis struck in two thousand and eight but the impact is not only financial many forced out of their homes are taking drastic measures some even choosing to take their own lives when faced with fiction. 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 richardson agrarian had his motives he was losing his condominium because of her fifteen thousand dollar home and with the loan he could no longer afford to pay the condo was sold to the auction for a knock down price and ferrero was handed an objection 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 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 are 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 the nineteen properties reposed by the banks the entire region is ravished by unemployment and budget cuts and it's a story being repeated nash and wide 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 vacation while in florida and then was gunned down by police after he said his recently for close time house on fire these doubts 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 see. 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. and are very reluctant to give it up and i think it brings on. desperation. was 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 to live better and my question archie reporting from california. i was about that time here on our team head on over to the business department to argue that daniel bushell good to see you daniel you've been keeping your eyes on the numbers all day now any good news to report for us yes the u.s. government just said job loss claims fell open wall street higher the big growing off the yesterday eight shares but not much on news the u.s. trade deficit its job now the all ts is edging closer to fifteen hundred in the last hour of trade here in moscow investors look at the central bank called to keep the refinancing rate on change this chick share move the corporate results suggest the russian economy is healthy make it come to a twenty eleven profits accelerating shares five percent and also announce net

gains of more painful portugal the vatican has held talks with the government over lisbon his decision to suspend the corpus cristi and also holidays portugal says the euro crisis is people called to forward to take a break but try to say even this won't help more than hope of 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 of the eurozone risk you fund says it will transfer four billion euros to greece on thursday as part of its rescue package but there's one billion less. planned and struggling members portugal greece and spain all part of this year's prize on e.u. markets madrid saw a big is down eighteen percent since january on the exchange rate the poor euro shedding further against the dollar is now only of three months lows today the ruble is retreating to the main chorus is today and blood sweet is edging back up one hundred dollars after a morning book printers gone by itself in the last hour and europe today more

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the people of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder is regime as an actor program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact that there are limits there. this were just being carried out into the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart you have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets

of the intelligence community can provide. data cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says if you. take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more are six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search have not yet shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment. and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriot takes the unpopular caress that helps the country and wooden stakes and even if they come this way at least for tonight patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in

a terrible international security situation that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others.

it's. going to be soo much brighter if you move out soon from funds to freshen. up some cheap don't come.

from moscow this is artsy just in time for your headlines now. dozens of killed hundreds injured in the syrian capital by a pair of massive bomb blasts goes down as the deadliest attack since the conflict in the country began more than a year ago. the bombings who orchestrated by foreign forces in order to destabilize syria and the end of the day undermined the u.n. observer mission. only a few hundred meters now separated rescue teams from the crash site of a russian airliner in indonesia both already say it's unlikely any survivors will be found the plane smashed into the side of a mountain on wednesday with forty five on board. i'm just too busy.