at least fifty five people and wounding nearly four hundred others the government and the opposition to being quick to blame each other for the attacks and russia says there could be a foreign hand in the bombings as the latest from damascus. well the russian foreign ministers 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 of. this is a big blow for the syrian people pull the nation from the u.n. it's a 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 at schools is just and metals at the moment the cleanup operations underway and with 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 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 at these types of attacks really cranking up in recent times and a huge amount of damage is being done it will cause the worst 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 masses because the situation here is much more calm complex than that and people are really feeling very very much like they're caught in the middle of speaking to the people down at the bomb sites and you know this really is senseless the u.n. observer mission is here 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 holiday 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 so really i mean there's a huge sense amongst the. people and i see that if something isn't done you can see it's getting less and it's unicef mission. as the best this country has right now getting back in what the usa 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. and not just a crew of the director of the conflicts forum thinks the u.n. peace if it is being undermined by foreign meddling in 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 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 call 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 watch out. for both sides in. the peace process is not what they're wanting to see they want to see the ball and to overthrow the assad regime. indonesian rescuers claim there's no hope for survivors after

a russian airliner crashed into a mountain the teams are now trying to tackle challenging terrain to reach the wreckage of the sukhoi superjet one hundred which went down on wednesday. 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. of the passenger is that many of the indonesians on that airplane forms 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. 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. that there was

talk that perhaps it could have even been hijacked because the emergency beacon that should have gone on if the airplane had crashed into a mountain this plane is equipped with the latest technology very high. many people. who have some sort of emergency 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. speak to a russian flogger who was supposed to be on the airplane yesterday and did not part on the hike in several flights on the russians 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 russian sukhoi superjet one hundred so i'll continue to bring you the latest information. and you can get the latest updates on that plane crash in indonesia on our website dot com here's what else is there for you right now a strange. nuclear site find out just what iran is up to online. a

move she believes could tip the eurozone over the edge into economic. downfall watched the spectacular victory parade dedicated to the event. took place in moscow and while you're there check out the other videos that we have for you. of the g. eight summit due to take place in the u.s. state of maryland next friday russia's president says he's too busy appointing his new cabinet to me to me even if he's now prime minister will be sent to america to cover for him. more on this. 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 harajuku bomber and explained 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 dmitri medvedev 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 and welcoming prime minister made yet of to camp david so the issue of key cabinet appointments being listed as the reason for britain is not in attendance 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 being 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 a mooching economies in the world countries like brazil china india russia does an

awful lot of trade with no also the president has said that he is committed to continuing the restart of relations 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 and particularly the united states is stance on syria washington's treatment of tehran and the arabian nuclear program as well as the american missile defense shield that's proposed to eastern europe. reporting there from central station with missiles russia tries to. nailed down legal guarantees from the u.s. on its defense system ahead of next week's summit. russia's committee says it does fold a major plot targeting the upcoming winter olympics in sochi russian security

forces seized an entire arsenal of weapons in the caucasian country and arrested three militant leaders tom barton has the details. 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 but 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 plans don't call maher off as 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 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 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. political parties in greece is struggling to come up with a power sharing coalition deal sending the crisis hit 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 bailout funds but several eurozone countries were reluctant to for this money because of the political instability as part of the bailout terms athens was passed fourteen point five billion euros worth of austerity measures june but financial chaos has led to public mistrust of the party's financial expert peter green says even if greece ditches a euro it'll still be dependent on its european neighbors. will oh it's very difficult

to escape if your money people want them back and basically what is what has happened is that greece's administration so to save the european commission if so it's very hard for greece to escape have to 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 they have agreed no sanity of they can escape the euro and say ok we exit and simply default on i was saying but after that they were still need to have new lending so they would still be dependent on the european mates it is an illusion to try to make new agreements it would be better to fold it will cost

a fortune for europe but for greece there will come more green shots in a faster way if they default and exit to. the us is tested a rocket in hawaii intended to natives future missile defense shield in europe the answer is holding a summit in chicago later in may as expected to give the green light for interceptor missiles in poland but is there a report washington's reluctance to cooperate could force moscow to take action 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 the u.s. wants to build european support for its missile defense system the russians on the other hand are very mistrustful of the us global agenda and want to use this issue to just lock the us you not clients if you can you personally go that we should respond. and i symmetrical for that. 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 yes they would that 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 and security cannot be divided and that's one of the principles of the start treaty signed between moscow and washington that the u.s. delegation again played down talks of a possible threat to russia now do you understand chinese. actions which you're. going to be interest just so you hear.

chanting 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 border ready to act against america's a.m.d. ambitions even brienne tivoli sujoy them just the resume issue could taking into account the destabilizing nature of the missile defense system and in particular creating an illusion of a non punishable strike the decision about a preemptive use of force will be made in a period of heightened tension the deployment of new offensive ons in the southern and north western russia including its coming day 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's court. 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 moscow has been demanding for the past several years. reporting from moscow. now time to have a quick look at some other stories from around the world in. strike in yemen has killed five all kind of militants in the country south the attack leveled a house in the town of the members staying. in 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. eighteen mutilated bodies dumped into in the. suggested they were victims of

a gang killing. 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. the event took place in front of the temple of. professional. athletics the flame will be taken to the u.k. in a week's time for a seventy day relay around the country. from the international. between the two countries. carrying out a bombing campaign. claiming it's the victim of aggression from its. between two states resulted in. independence loss of

a million people in. the conflict. if. turkey has shop increased its oil imports from iran according to the institute the country imported. crude the highest monthly purchase since last july. u.s. sanctions harming relations between iran political analyst chris bambery says the u.s. should actually focus their energy on lessening sanctions when it comes to iran. 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 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 we can have economic relationships with

iran and i think you'll start to question why the sanctions still in place there are no talks going on over the whole new course 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 precisely the time and rather trying to increase sanctions on iran maybe there should be westing sanctions assure of good faith going into those negotiations. more than two and a half million houses in the united states have been repossessed by banks since the economic crisis struck the country in two thousand and eight but the impact isn't only financial many forced out of their homes are taking drastic measures with some even choosing to take their own lives when faced with an action or he's been in a culture of i reports. dozens of police and swat teams sworn in on the small central california town not what you'd expect for what was supposed to be a routine for closure at this point we believe the suspect is barricaded inside of

the apartment complex we don't know anything about him we don't know what the motive is behind this shooting all we know is that we have two people dead apparently forty five year all jim richard for agrarian had his motives he was losing his condominium because of her fifteen thousand dollars home equity loan he could no longer afford to pay the condo was salted an option for a knock down price and ferrero was handed an eviction notice it proved to be the last straw for the former security guard who barricaded himself inside his home and refused to walk out alive and worryingly such an extreme act hasn't been an isolated incident in this area public safety as a whole has been affected by the economy just like everybody else live there isn't anybody in the community that hasn't been affected by this economy last year the town's foreclosure rate was the third highest in the country with a one in after a nineteen properties reposed by the banks the entire region is ravished by

unemployment and budget cuts and it's a story being repeated nationwide with equally 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 to. and are very reluctant to

give it up and i think it brings on. desperation when you win. was no sign of any recovery in california's economy and stubborn unemployment it means the body count looks to only grow in the months ahead x. prayed for because a huge church in home foreclosures this year while the threat of a shadow inventory of soon to be foreclosed homes continues to hound housing markets there was the question how many more depressed people forced from their own homes and with nowhere else to go are pushed to the very edge determined to do anything it takes to stand by their property till the bitter end question archie reporting from california. time now for the business and daniels there are you looking at the financial implications of the. crash in the media yes. richard aboulafia says the accident in indonesia's mountains won't damage sales as long as the investigation is quick and clear the plane maker wants to sell

a hundred units by twenty twenty nine taking fifteen percent of the regional jet market worldwide. could it be that it was. your. which means. something wrong it's all about perception it's all about how the marketplace appreciates. quality so they can clear it out i don't think. any question any over. and on the markets the l.t.s. hit almost fifteen hundred today a first day of gains in seven investors like the central bank called to keep the brief financing rate on change let's see major movers on the my six almost double digit growth of the gold price group today after

a terrible twenty twelve back in december business altie for cross gold rates will fall this year. to a twenty eleven profit co-producer also announce that profits grew washington says jobless claims fell a little bit america's trade deficit jumped again in march and all that's left wall street struggling for directions but more pain for portugal the vatican has held talks with its government over lisbon's decision to suspend the corpus christi and all saints day holidays portugal says the euro crisis is so bad people can't afford to take that break but traders say even that won't help mold and 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 have failed so far the eurozone rescue fund says it will transfer four billion euros to greece on thursday as part of its rescue package but that's one billion less than planned and struggling southern europe members

portugal greece and spain all this year's. markets madrid's down eighteen percent since january on the exchange rates the euro's further against the dollar it's now near three months. and the ruble is retreating to the main chorus is today funny loyce wheat is edging back up to one hundred dollars off the morning but brant has gone back to hold near one hundred thirteen dollars a barrel bill and that's the business you're up to date now daniel thanks very much indeed more from you later. coming up. tretton to europe we also an american economic pundit if there is a way out after the headlines stay with us live this is r.t. in moscow.

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this is all take good have you with the top stories now dozens are killed and hundreds injured in the syrian capital by. two bomb blasts the deadliest attack since the conflict in the country began more than a year ago. the bombings were orchestrated by foreign forces in order to destabilize syria and undermine the u.n. mission. only a few hundred metres separate rescue teams from the crash site of a russian in indonesia authorities say it's unlikely any survivors will be found the plane crashed into the side of a mountain on wednesday with forty five people on. just too busy says he cannot join the g eight party next week hosted by the us due to his.