worldwide news live on r.t. real research show you in moscow two massive bomb blasts have ripped through the syrian capital this during rush hour killing at least forty 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 artie's serve. 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 are criminal it is a big dilemma for the syrian people pulled the nation from the un it's a mission. to mask as they went straight to the scene of these two explosions i know 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 there were a lot of the civilian head of the 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 largely viewed 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 always at 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 must it 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 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 cents. amongst the people and he says that if something isn't done you can see it's getting worse and it's your to serve mission. as the best this country has right now getting stability back in what the unit serves has been asking for. people to different sides to different groups different factions to give the syrian people a chance to get stability in this country. they're putting right there from damascus well meantime a crook director of the ngo conflicts forum thinks 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. few determined. who wish to infiltrate the country and place explosives from 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 fun to get 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 assad regime. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today internees in rescuers claim that there's no hope for survivors software 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 pressure into. 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 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 us today everyone was wondering what hop into this airplane when it disappeared off the radars twenty minutes after. 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 promote it i mean 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. just speaks to a russian blogger who was supposed to be on the airplane yesterday and did not work 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 eased a logger and he's been tweeting pictures from the crash site and also other information regarding the russians my superjet 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 website our go to call that so have a look at some of the other items are standing by through there right now for example strange activity at a suspected nuclear site to find out just what iran is up to you can do so. or so i'm going to warm to she will not let you or a blue soon as a bell one that knowledge i mean 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 the event on our. channel i want you to check out the other videos that we have for you as well. 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

a new cabinet meantime into me treatment for death who's now prime minister will be sent to america to cover for him. reports. 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 until wednesday he was poss of the annual victory day parade here in moscow so the president called and explained he couldn't go 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 is not attendance at the g eight however it has left some wondering if there could be another motive for i'm not going 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 russia does an awful lot of trade with. old to the president has said that he is committed to continuing to restart sort of relations between russia and the united states he was 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 in particular the unite. states syria washington's treatment of tehran. nuclear program as well as the american.

proposed in europe. reporting right there are staying with russia tries to nail down the legal guarantees from the u.s. on a system of this all ahead of next week's nato summit. 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 country. militant leaders details are. a joint operation was 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 and the added that the infamous islam ist militant leader darfur maroth is behind the plans don't kumar of his being connected to numerous gone in bomb attacks in russia's north caucasus in previous years but he's 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. 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 the eurozone countries were reluctant to forward this money because of the ongoing 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 a 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 or they have two opportunities they can try the way that

. they have been tried for some two years now that is what i call a can only walk in the desert that they will continue to basically be 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 certainty of they can escape the euro and say ok we exit and simply default on iras 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 would cost a fortune for europe but for greece there would 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 a 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 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 turkey 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 rhesus growth groans and changes that we said inside turkey the turkish military are no longer the dominant force they work inside turkey politics and the turkish economy is expanding its becoming a real player in the region and therefore it 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 exciting the missile defense shield which is aimed very much at the iran as well as that 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 tour around numerous exchanges between the countries so it's not just simply a question know of one washington or paris when 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 all 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 be don't seem to be working and. russia the iranian foreign minister made the point today that the sheer quality of iranian

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 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 isn't a precise time and rather than trying to increase sanctions on iran maybe they should be westing sanctions are sure of good faith going into those negotiations right now what about as you as you were talking about the u.s. all sanctions the actual true. 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 greenie and 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 are. keen on being dependent on iraq at the moment and i think it 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 in 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 in my boot desperate for someone to attack iran because they fear really and again many in the region who feel that really an influence in that region and the really the never have lately reunions are now very briefly so i do apologize for the 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 of color me and since the days of the cold war a lessening of their alliance or if you like their allegiance to the united states of america and we will see 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 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 expanded country i don't think will do that only that they are for the sanctions there is a big hole in the sanctions which the west is trying to impose on tehran and to me as if they're not going to work in terms of what their aim that which is certainly what the americans the british wanted to do was you sanctions on really an oil to

try and beggarly are really in a corner me 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 and 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. flame 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 staged the entire ceremony where. 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 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 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 just blow up the u.s. you know why and if you could be persuaded that we should respond. and some ethical threat. 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 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 do you understand trying. to. push here. would be interested if you hear it. straight. 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 just as usual taking into account the

destabilizing nature of the missile defense. 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 to missiles in the callinan grab region provided to the destruction of the european missile defense infrastructure. this scenario is clearly seen as a last resort however moscow is standing strong in its position sending the ball firmly into washington's court moskos conference happened just two weeks before the nato summit in chicago where the alliance is expected to officially launch the first phase of the 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 see

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 there was a new economy policy and. friendly this policy will be towards minority investors take a simple example of gazprom which and says that investment program at no point should be threatened but those arrest will be 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 will be paid in taxes so what are you getting as a minority investor in a sense there's a tendency to treat the whole russian economy as belonging to the state and the

past 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 a situation slightly towards socialism. let's check the markets here in moscow because the old sears 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 movers corporate results came out in moscow today trying to make a song to a twenty eleven profit accelerating shares five percent and mitchell also announced nit games 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's 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 planned drop today more news in interviews on the web site of the dot com slash business i don't know many thanks indeed. still to come here on r.t. other headlines that we backed up by the kaiser report.

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now seven thirty pm here in moscow this is our t.v. time for you have some a dozen killed and hundreds injured in the syrian capital by a pair of bomb blasts or the deadliest attack since the conflict began in the country more than a year ago russia will not rule out the bombing as well orchestrated by foreign forces in order to destabilize syria and the end of the day to undermine. the u.n. observer mission. now just a few hundred meters separating rescue teams from the crash site of a russian airliner in indonesia as authorities say it's unlikely any survivors will be found but the plane smashed into the side of a mountain on wednesday with forty five on board. sorry i'm just too busy a lot of me putin says he can join the g. eight party next.