four hundred dollars the government on the opposition been quick to blame each other for the attacks from russia says they could be a foreign hand in the bombings or the sort of the latest from the mass because. the russian foreign ministers commented on the events today saying that foreign interference in syria is unacceptable now it is widely acknowledged that there are foreign nationals operating in the ground that. this is a big blow to the syrian people pulled the nation from the un it says the mission. to mask is they went straight to the scene of these two explosions it was a huge huge explosion they really shook the entire city everyone hit felt it and we've been speaking to people today we've just been down at the blast site as the devastation is cause 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 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 really 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. it's a commission said to try and bring peace that this could be just the beginning of this type of progress the next you know this is a pretty amazing dilemma for the syrians the actions of the. for the past year and

a half have left the country now in a situation that's why they do this sort of interference to the sort of back to be carried out it's a very i mean there's a huge sense amongst the people. that if something isn't done you can see it's getting worse and it's unicef mission. as the best this country has right now getting back in what the u.n. it serves. its people the different sides different groups different factions to give the syrian people a chance to get in this country. that's now cross to london for some reaction from patrick he's a reporter for u.k. based online magazine spite of the un brokered cease fire in syria is clearly not working patrick how much is this due to that foreign involvement that some are claiming is coming from the gulf states and other countries. well i think it's important to just point out from the start that the u.n. broken peace deal is foreign involvement starts off with this isn't a case of the syrian people sitting down and negotiating by themselves this is

a very sufficient was coming in and imposing you know peace and the treaty of the syrian people so i mean from the start it's important to point out that you know foreign intervention is happening already in syria do you do you need to mediate between these two factions though the time has come for some mediation hasn't there and that's exactly what you're trying to do getting a balance reaction balance point play from both sides there in syria. i think one of the problems with the peace plan from the start is that. peace over really trying to allow the syrian people to resolve the issue in many ways in the u.n. coming in in this way is distorted the conflict. a lot of tensions you know often do have to try and result of themselves in some quite unpleasant ways sometimes it is unfortunately as we've seen in the arab spring last year only for

the struggle of the people in those countries. can really bring about lasting change necessary a battle of ideas about how syrian society should take place you can't always just sit with policies around the table in particular you can't in syria because it's very hard to know exactly what constitutes the opposition and it's a very fragmented opposition and i think that's one of the reasons why it's very hard to pin down what happened with these explosions and who's responsible for them it's you know what we are seeing here is a very messy increasingly complicated kind of civil war and unfortunately the plan is distorting that rather than actually i think making things better. also the u.s. is saying that al qaeda militants are operating in syria all of you see the u.s. has been stirring up your side sentiment saying that they would like to see

a regime change there do you think in fact washington actually playing in the hands of al qaida with this. well in some ways they. haven't had a history really of terrorist attacks in syria i think america likes to use the kind of the bogeyman will the specter of al qaida. and interests to a certain extent it's a kind of played out so whatever and all that is the case in this situation it's a little bit hard to tell and certainly there's a tendency from a cell which you know you can understand now these situations very much terrorist attacks. all the individuals the trying to fight the civil war all for democracy and freedom in syria it's very as i said it's very hard to understand exactly who this opposition is exactly what about these attacks the blame game is going on at the moment there's a lot of fingers being pointed and i think actually in many ways the response is

about who is likely to be to blame for this we're going to solve. some people suggested it's al qaeda whatever else is a breakout group in the free syrian army tends to say more about the people commenting on the issue necessarily to us about the situation on the ground he said earlier this is a way for the story you said earlier this is a matter for the syrians to sort out and there's no excuse for this sort of foreign intervention we're seeing at the moment but we all see you know we know a humanitarian crisis unfolding very similar to what we saw in libya and not of course prompted that nato led. intervention why are we seeing the same now based on that humanitarian reason. well i mean one of the reasons why it shouldn't be the case is the fear is no better off now than it was under gadhafi if what effectively had got in libya now is a vacuum with a cherry picked government by the west and splintering off into city states and it's you know you know closer towards being able to determine their own futures and

really have a free society in libya than they did you know a year or so ago i think you know people know that syria's much larger country there's much more kind of warring factions and it could become internationalized far more than the libya and trying to have a nato intervention in there would be very messy i think that's why there's a lot of feet face being placed in the sorry in kofi annan plan even though from the outset it was very much seen to be you know just a pragmatic attempt of what else can we do i mean as a noun said from the start if we take the peace plan off the table what else could we replace it with just the aussie's always. briefly sadies introduced reforms he's managed to stay on in power so far how do you assess his position could he actually survive all of this and remain at the helm. i think one of the things now we have the monitors on the ground the u.n. monitors on the ground in syria effectively getting much better building up

affectively a dossier of information about what it is doing i think that could some point down the line lead to he says for intervention but the powdering only three hundred observers at the moment only three hundred not all of them that meant to be deployed by the end of the month three hundred that's too little too late isn't it just briefly. no it's three hundred too many i don't think the u.n. observers should be meddling in the. business of syria whatsoever so no i disagree with that point i think in terms of the future of. what these peace plan today in fish i think pete over a resolution of the conflicts they are effectively saying you know we need stability even if it means assad can remain in power and i think that's problematic patrick days thanks very much indeed for your thoughts reporter for a live british magazine spiked live in london thank you time. indonesian rescuers

say there's no hope for survivors after a russian and it 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 the 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 have been informed of the fate of the plane that the plane actually crashed into a mountain where there was a dormant volcano and so obviously there's a lot of grieving at crisis center that's been set up in the airport where the russian jet one hundred took off obviously yesterday everyone was wondering what happened to this airplane when it disappeared off the radar twenty minutes after it took off there was talk that perhaps it could have even been hijacked because

the emergency beacon that should have gone if the airplane had crashed into a mountain and didn't go off the plane is equipped with the latest technology it's very high it's had so many people thought that perhaps it was set to have some sort of emergency landing somewhere is just was. around that was meant to promote. it just done several tests in kazakhstan pockets done in myanmar and was said to go to laos vietnam on this plane it was the first commercial airplane built in russia after the soviet union in two thousand and seven there have been around one hundred seventy orders placed for this airplane around the world this was a multibillion dollar project that had many countries involved time will tell. business impact this will have on the selling of this airplane 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 having to the airport right now we've planted. the a russian blogger who was supposed to be on the airplane yesterday and did not. hide in several flights on the russian jet in the other locations during this era. he's been blogger and he's been tweeting pictures. and also other information regarding the russian sukhoi superjet one hundred so i'll continue to bring you the latest information as. and you can get the latest updates on the. website com here's what else is there for you right now strange activity at a suspected nuclear side find out just what is.

going to. europe loosen its. economic abyss. from the sixty seven year anniversary of nazi germany. spectacular victory parade dedicated to the event on a you tube channel check out the other videos that we have. political parties in greece are 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 the parties so far failing to form a government while without an agreement fresh elections would have to be held and on thursday athens is due to receive five point two billion euros in bailout funds but several eurozone countries are reluctant to forward this money because of the political instability as part of the. fourteen point five billion euros worth of

sturdy measures. but financial chaos is in the public mistrust of pro austerity political parties well for more on this let's now talk to economic analyst mark he joins me live from berlin. clearly mark strong sentiment in greece wishing perhaps almost turning its back on austerity measures and reject the bailout plan that coalition was formed the weekend what would be the implications for the greeks if that indeed did happen. then the days of the euro were counted if this happened and this is what many people here in germany predicted already at the beginning of the establishing of the euro what we see is a programmed crisis it's very sad to see these things developing but it was more planned within the euro because different countries like greece and germany are not fitting into one currency and it in the end of the day you will have this what we have now we have violence on the street it is not possible to

realize everybody knows this so at the end of the day maybe greece is only not able to fulfill the plans that are promised and also this we talked a lot about this was already clear right from the beginning no country is able to realize authority measurements because this means that people go to the street because there's more violence more political insecurity. that the country also becomes impossible to govern but what is the alternative growth has been suggested but how can a country boost its economy when it's in such a mess how does growth happen. well this is a totally contradiction if you. economic if you have to cut down how can you spend money then how can you create labor for example this is

a totally economical contradiction because. of course a stroop you have to spend money you have to make in order to get some growth into your country but under the euro system and with germany together this is never possible not only for greece we will see also a domino effect which will spread into spain into portugal also italy at the end and this will be then. the final nail in the euro coffin do you mean the final nail meaning that that's the end of the euro. yes i mean the euro never could work everybody who looks at it on an economical way knows that the eurozone just was not ripe in this situation also we have many difficulties with france for example all these countries need devaluation devaluation in order to become competitive the market you're there in germany is not there in germany angela

merkel does not want to see the eurozone collapse she would say that that would lead europe into economic gloom into an abacus is there a danger perhaps she's going to be isolated when we see the sentiment from not just greece but also france now with its new president saying we don't want to be in france we're looking at growth. i mean angela merkel does not have any. will in order to make the situation in europe around the year or more stable but at the end of the day i mean it's economical a lot that is developing here with the euro it's not working and especially with the situation that we have now in france can somebody promise to make more debts to make a growth pact and so on and so on this only means more debt at the end of the day and this is at the moment not possible i mean the holes situation the whole problem that we have in the eurozone cannot be solved by rescue packages cannot be solved

by more debt cannot be solved anywhere it can only be solved by a break up of the euro or that means that germany pulls out and the rest of the countries in the use of within the euro zone will devaluate their money then they are again competitive. some would say if they all bail out of the euro zone they're still going to end up maybe when their own currencies but still owing a huge amount of money. how will they pay those debts off will they not start turning to their neighbors again in order to fund the debts that clearly they can't have got rid of just by leaving the euro could they. i mean of course people have more problems and at this moment a break never is easy but the only thing that i can tell you is if you don't do it by yourself and don't do it oddly then the economical facts the economical forces will force the break of the rules on and when you look into the economical

indicators and parking meters that we have on the boards for example in the financial markets they are all on record they are all on alert they are all in the red zone so i ask well sort of what can happen i mean i don't see any other solution if i had this solution all this europe could work on we would all be happy to say ok we put this solution on the table because we like the euro but if it is not economical the market working so it's better to face the facts than to follow a green and then awake and then awake in a nightmare some pessimistic words for your own thank you very much indeed michael moore also talking to us live from berlin always interesting to hear your thoughts thank you. thank you. let me put it in his slump to the g eight summit in june 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 move it if he's now prime minister will be sent to america to

cover for him peter all of it has more. 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 bomber and explained that he couldn't get attend the g eight next week he had to remain in moscow to finalize key cabinet appointments while the two leaders will instead meet next month in mexico the g twenty meeting dmitri medvedev the prime minister who will be attending the g. eight representing russia instead of 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'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 a mooching economies in the world countries like brazil china india russia does an awful lot of trade with no old who the president has said that he is committed to continuing the restart of relations with between russia and the united states that was begun under the presidency of dmitri medvedev during his campaigning for the presidency flooded me a putin was very critical of some aspects of u.s. foreign policy and particularly the united states is stance on syria washington's treatment of tehran and the uranium nuclear program as well as the american missile defense shield that's proposed to eastern europe. and dmitri trenin director of the

moscow carnegie center says that the g eight inside the main problems between russia and america will be solved by the president's themselves. obama will still be handled by putin you may send me the video of today so that diplomatic john barry and i believe that in the future mr putin will be sending the did it through a lot of diplomatic diplomatic functions around the world where he would not want to go where he could where he could not go for different reasons you can talk about the interests the intentions and the issues and i think that the biggest issue weighing in on the u.s. russian relations in the next couple of years will be the issue of ballistic missile defense in europe if putin and obama find a way that would. leave the united states where the system that is

capable against you raney and missiles and yet assuredly harmless toward the russian and in the continental ballistic missiles then we'll have a deal and then will have. a brighter future for their relationship if that deal for whatever reason is not reached then i think we can expect a period of progress of alienation and money between moscow and washington. twenty three health policy in the russian capital it's time to take a look at some of the world news in brief an asteroid in yemen is killed five minutes in the country south the attack level the house in the town where the man was staying is being held by al-qaeda militants for the past year the u.s. has been using drones to strike insurgents in yemen although it remains unclear who was behind the attack. police in mexico found eighteen mutilated bodies dumped. in

the western states of. a note left with the bodies suggested they were victims of a gang mexican drug cartels often dismember their victims and place them in vehicles around fifty thousand people have been killed in drug related violence since president felipe calderon came to power in two thousand and six. the flame for the twenty twelve games has been in place of the olympics event took place in front of the temple of next to the ancient stadium professional. men dressed as heralds put on the displays symbolizing a strength the flame will be taken to the can a week's time for a seventy day relay around the country. to check into the world of money down what will the super jet crash mean for sales of that aircraft industry expose it won't damage sales as long as the investigation is transparent the plane

make. a hundred. twenty twenty nine so you can fifteen percent of the global regional jet market. they have to create is a very could be that it was whatever could have been a new number of other factors. which means there's no reason to believe something wrong with it it's all about perception it's all about how the market. safety and quality so they can clear it out i don't think. there's any question any over. there's going to be a problem. on the markets the most states went over fourteen hundred points to their first games in seven investors like the central bank called to keep the refinancing rate on changeless the major movers now almost double digit growth of polluters the goalpost grew today after a terrible twenty twelve truck make it come as swung to

a twenty eleven profit coproducer also announced that group washington says jobless claims fell a little bit america's trade deficit jumped again in march and that's left wall street struggling for direction but more painful portugal the vatican has held talks with its government over lisbon his decision to suspend to believe just bank holidays portugal says the euro crisis is so bad people called to fall to take those breaks but traders say even that won't help more than hold 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 a failed so for the eurozone rescue fund says it will transfer four billion euro to greece on thursday as part of its risky package but there's one billion less than planned and troubled greece portugal as well as spain's stock markets of all this year's rises in london frankfurt madrid is down eighteen percent since january on the exchange of the euro's just one up against the dollar after an awful run where

it hit near three month lows the ruble shared on the made currencies today. edging back up to one hundred dollars of the poor morning but brant has gone back on the one hundred thirteenth and europe today more news and interviews on the web site and more from you a little later during the day thanks a lot indeed daniel and a bushel there in the business news room now coming up we're going to stay with money matters financial and economic matters the e.u. economy after the latest elections capital account would be discussing that after the headlines.

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top stories this 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. only a few hundred metres separate rescue teams from the crash site of a russian and on it in indonesia the philippines say it's unlikely any survivors will be found. just too busy a lot of improvements as you call and join the g. eight party next week by the u.s. due to his demanding work. so that's it from the news team to the moment will for most of the financial show come account from our washington studios. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for may ninth two thousand and twelve it's europe day happy europe day at a time.