dozens are killed and hundreds injured in the syrian capital by a pair of massive bomb blasts it's the deadliest attack since the conflict began more than a year ago. only a few hundred metres now separating rescue teams from the crash site of a russian airliner in indonesia as authorities say it is unlikely that any survivors will be found. i'm just too busy. says he can join the party next week hosted by the u.s. all of this studio is demanding work. the business news twenty minutes.

worldwide news live on r.t. . two massive bomb blasts have ripped through the syrian capital this during rush hour killing at least fifty five now and wounding up to four hundred the government and the opposition both being 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 sara. well the russian foreign minister commented on the events today saying the foreign interference in syria is unacceptable now it is widely acknowledged that there are foreign nationals operating in the ground that all criminal it is a big dilemma for the syrian people pull the nation from the units of the mission and to mask as 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 schools is just and mends at the moment the cleanup operations underway and we found the people dead because they were loaded 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 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 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 enough that the kids a situation here is much more calm complex than that and people were really feeling very very much like they caught in the middle of speaking since the people down in 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 few status. amongst the people and he says that if something isn't done you can see it's getting worse and worse yet he said mission. has the best chance this country has right now getting stability back in what the units have been asking for is so people the different sides the different groups different factions to give the syrian people a chance to get stability in this country. are putting right there from damascus well meantime i lost

a crook director of the ngo conflicts forum with things that the un peace effort is being undermined by foreign meddling in science syria having militarily experienced 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 a con deal 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 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. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today indonesian rescuers claim that 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 that went down on wednesday reporting from jakarta artie's press freedom. 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 as 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 off if the airplane had crashed into a mountain plane is equipped with the latest technology on its very high path so many people thought. it was a good. landing somewhere it is just was part of. around asia that was meant to promote 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 of 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 flew. speak to a russian logger who was supposed to be on the airplane yesterday and did not work on the hike in several flights on the russian place your bridge not in the other locations during this now on he's been eased

a 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 always get the latest updates on the plane crash in indonesia on our web site so you've got to call them up so have a look at some of the other items are standing by for you there right now for example the strange activity at a suspected nuclear site and find out just what iran is up to you can do so. also warns she will not let you or a blue soon as a bell one that not much move she believes could tip the eurozone over the edge into the economic doom. on the sixty seven year anniversary of nazi germany's down you can watch the spectacular victory parade dedicated to be event. you tube channel i want you to check out the other videos that we have for you as

well. a lot of me 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 meantime it to me treatment for deaf who is now prime minister will be sent to america to cover for him. reports. 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 paula meant until wednesday he was poss of the annual 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 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 it putin's 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 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 who is began under the presidency of dmitri medvedev during his campaigning for the presidency flood to 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 uranium nuclear program as well as the american antti missile defense shield that's proposed to eastern europe. talking about reporting right there are staying with my style so russia tries to now. down the legal guarantees from the u.s. one of them of this all ahead of next week's nato summit. russia's anti terror committee says it has filed a major plot targeting the upcoming winter olympics in sochi russian security forces seized an entire arsenal of weapons in the asian country and arrested three militant leaders with details artie's tom barton. a joint operation by our cars in 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 on the i did that the infamous islam is to militant leader darfur maroth was behind the plans to go to morrow 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 trained 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 save the tomorrow has been in contact with georgian special services they don't say whether that's related to this particular find. reporting right there well this is r.t. live from moscow where political parties in greece are struggling to come up with

a power sharing coalition deal sending the crisis to a country into further 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 on thursday athens is due to receive five point two billion euros in belle out funds but several eurozone countries were reluctant to forward this money because of the ongoing political instability as part of the bailout terms are things 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 financial expert peter lund green says even if greece does ditch the euro it will still be dependent on its european neighbors. we all owe. it's very difficult to escape if you owe money to people that want them back and then basically what is what has happened is that greece's administration so to say the european commission if so it's very

hard for greece to escape so they have two opportunities they can try the way that . they 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 sir not if they can escape the euro and say ok we exit and simply default on 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 to 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 exit to europe it's just turning a quarter past the hour here in moscow turkey has sharply increased its oil imports

from iran according to turkey's statistical institute the country imported well over a million tonnes of iranian crude this march that is the highest monthly purchase since last july however new u.s. sanctions are now harming relations between ankara and tehran let's talk about this a bit further now i'm joined by political analyst chris bambery from london our good to see you thank you for coming on r.t. today trade between iran and turkey has increased sharply over the past month or peaking in march how much of a problem are u.s. and the e.u. sanctions on iran for ankara. i well they were putting pressure on ankara to stop buying iranian oil but the americans and the europeans have less sway or anchor they would have had twenty years ago at the top until the end of the cold war tokyo was a very close ally of america in the front line of the cold war with the former soviet

soviet union and generally take on the war behind american needs since those days we've seen two things happening first at the end of the cold war we've also seen europe do european union reject i think a century reeses growth groans and changes that we said inside turkey the turkish military are no longer the dominant force the world inside turkey politics and the turkish economy is expanding its becoming a real player in the region and therefore has got its own interests in having a good relationship with iran another expanding country in that region there are problem areas within iran and over the question of syria over the question of the talks citing the missile defense shield which is aimed very much around as well as at russia on its territory but there are good reasons for the two countries to cooperate and we've seen grueling economic ties between the two it's not just a question of oil there's been an increase in turkish sales of jewels and gold and other precious metals to iran numerous exchanges between the countries so it's not

just simply a question no of wonder washington or paris. calling the shots in turkey they are operating in their own way in their own interests and the fact that we've seen this huge expansion of oil iranian oil being bought by tolkien march i think reflects that and shows they're not going to jump to the heel of the beck and call of the americans or the european union or certainly it does seem to be that and certainly some analysts might see that as well that are turkey taking unilateral steps to increase iranian oil imports where america is bullying other countries to reduce their army and oil imports i mean so it is in your eyes you think that turkey will not succumb to the bullying of washington d.c. that is it is basically trying to penalize countries for still buying certain amounts of iranian crude. why they are trying to penalize it the problem is they are incapable of getting india china russia to jump to jump when the show and it

was so and therefore the sanctions to me don't seem to be working and you know the russian the iranian foreign minister made the point today that the sheer quality of around a crude oil means that countries want to buy it it is you know it is in demand in terms of that and we've seen the european union. lessening the sanctions ten european states when told they can have economic relationships around so i don't really see and i think you'll start to question why the sanctions still in place there are no talks going on over the whole issue of the iranian nuclear program iran is bending over backwards as far as i can see to make to go along with those talks therefore there are negotiations and this is the precise time and rather than trying to increase sanctions on iran maybe they should be westing sanctions assure a good faith going to go see asians by what about as you as you were talking about the u.s. all sanctions the actual true or oil baron is due to come into effect in july do you think turkey will be able to get by without iranian oil do you see turkey

giving up iranian oil and actually at some point perhaps in july doing exactly what washington is demanding of it but i could see turkey actually say no we'll keep buying it iran is supplying virtue the majority of their own needs if they weren't buying a reunion all the dividing iraqi oil and that opens up another number of issues there over a number of questions i don't think the iraqis. keen on being dependent on iraq at the moment and i think also has to be seen in a wider and wider ballpark that really is exerting its own influence in the region and it doesn't actually come into conflict with iran talkies into interested in the caucuses in other other parts of the world it doesn't feel itself pitched against iran certainly not in the way that saudi arabia and the guy. states too who are desperate for someone to attack iran because they feel really in the in the region they feel that really an influence in that region and really the never have lightly

reunions are not very pretty so i do apologize for the we're running low on time here but turkey is not the only country heavily dependent on iranian oil let's look at one of the biggest fastest growing economies in the world india another country for whom it's crucial how much of this is connected with the us geo politics in the region. i think it's very much connected with that what we're seeing is those rising a color me and since the days of the call war a lessening of their alliance or if you like their allegiance to the united states of america and we are seeing you know countries like india begin to adopt the rules for a new some of our foreign policy and reflect in their own new economic power therefore i don't think india which has very important links with tehran is just simply going to jump and impose sanctions and in fact he's not done that china is certainly not going to do that and russia is not going to do that and other countries like indonesia which is another expanding country i don't think will do that either therefore the sanctions are is a big hole in the sanctions which the west is trying to impose on to iran and to me

as if they're not going to work in terms of what the regime that which is certainly what the americans the british wanted to do was you sanctions on really an oil to try and bigger the iranian a consummate and undermine the islamic republic of iran i don't think that is going to happen and therefore there is a real problem for the west though in imposing those sanctions on iran it's certainly a conversation that requires more time than we have available here in r.t. today but i from london political analyst chris bambery thank you very much thank you. let's get some other international global news for you now here on r.t. the r.t. world update will kick it off with yemen an airstrike there is killed five al qaeda militants in the country's south the attack on level the house in the town of jaar where the men were staying as you are has been held by al-qaeda militants for the past year the u.s. has been using drones to strike insurgents in yemen all the way to remains unclear exactly who is behind the 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. blame for the twenty twelve games has been lit in the birthplace of the olympics the event took place in olympia in front of the famous temple of hara next to the ancient stadium professional actors stage the entire ceremony where priestesses darndest and men dressed as heralds put on a display symbolizing their athletic strength the frame will be taken to the u.k. in a week's time for a seventy day relay around the country. are not far off from daniel with the business but for now the u.s. has tested a rocket in hawaii intended to arm nato its future missile defense shield in europe

the alliance is holding a summit in chicago later in may that's expected to give the green light for the interceptor missiles in poland but as artie's allowed the reports washington's reluctance to cooperate could ultimately force moscow to retaliate. 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 russians on the other hand are very mistrustful of the u.s. global agenda and want to use this issue to disrupt the u.s. you know why and if you could be persuaded that we should respond. and some ethical for you to make russia's position clear the defense ministry organized a special conference in moscow visualizing its worries 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 us 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 them just. taking into account the destabilizing nature of the missile. systems and in particular creating an illusion of an 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 the southern and northwestern russia including its come the 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 for a time to talk money on r.t. that's a cross over to our teaser daniel bush will be business good to see you again daniel at this hour i understand you've spoken to a banker who wants more from russia's new president yes the vladimir putin got the job on monday and. thinks he should help more minority shareholders in big public companies. and the important thing as i said the actual was the new economy policy and our friendly this policy will be towards minority investors take a simple example gazprom put in says that investment program at no point should be threatened by those arrest will basically be taken in texas why not imagine you're a minority investor so some money will be spent for infrastructure projects investment program and the other minor overpaid in taxes so what are you getting as

a minority investor in a sense there's a tendency to treat as a whole russian economy as belonging to the state and that has to serve the interest of the state which is true which is right and probably is good for the russian economy but this way we're moving it's a bit left just more food if you understand you know it's kind of we're moving toward situation slightly towards socialism. let's check the markets here in moscow because the earth years edged closer to fifteen hundred points in the last hour of trade investors like the central bank called to keep the refinancing rate on change this chick share moves corporate results came out in moscow today truck making cameras swung to a twenty eleven profit accelerating shares five percent and mitchell also announce net gains washington says jobless claims fell a little america's trade deficit jumped again in march and all that's left wall street scratching his head as to how its economy is doing more pain for portugal the vatican has held talks with its government over lisbon its decision to suspend

two religious public holidays portugal says the euro crisis is so bad people cannot afford to take that break but traders say even this won't help more than hold 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 of the eurozone risk you fund says it will transfer four billion euro to greece on thursday as part of its rescue package but that's one billion less than the planned drop today more news and interviews on the web site of the dot com slash business i don't know many thanks indeed. still to come here and also you know the headlines that we backed up by the kaiser report.

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