t. live from moscow with you twenty four hours a day two massive bomb blasts a rip through the syrian capital during rush hour killing at least fifty five people and wounding nearly four hundred others the government and the opposition have been quick to blame each other for the attacks and russia says there could be a foreign hand behind the bombings of first has the latest from damascus. condemnation from the u.n. observer mission here and. they went straight to the scene of these two explosions . shook the entire city everyone else and you've been speaking to people just pinned down at the. devastation is cause is just and. the cleanup operations underway. with the people there because there were a lot of civilian homes were also destroyed a lot of civilian lives have been lost this is the largest explosion that has happened in recent times because you see this recent these types of attacks in

damascus as it was because it's always longed for a long while as having remained relatively sheltered from the ongoing conflict throughout the rest of the country but we've seen these types of attacks really cranking up in recent times and huge amount of damage has been so good. operating in our country conducting terrorist attacks and these acts cannot be carried out without funding and weapons from abroad we have a list of foreign terrorists killed in syria including one french citizen one british citizen and one belgian citizen some arab countries are also supporting these acts of terrorism weapons are being smuggled into the country every day the u.n. security council must act to put an end to all of this. from the beginning of the conflict the very strong rhetoric from both sides playing the blame game and that's where it sort of turns he's not with the kids a situation here is much more calm complex than people feeling very very much so

they caught in the middle of speaking to the people down at the bomb sites and you know there's really a sense of the u.n. mission to try and bring peace that this could be just the beginning of this type of progress you know this is really amazing the syrians the actions of the regime over the past year and a half. have left the country know the situation that's why they put in this sort of interference to these sort of acts to be carried out so really i mean there's a few sense amongst the people and a huge fear that if something isn't done you can see this is getting worse the russian foreign minister has 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 there are criminal gangs or anyone saying the u.n. observer mission to syria's doomed to fail is only making things worse unfortunately some of our international partners are doing even more than that they're taking steps to ignite the situation both figuratively and very directly as the latest

explosions demonstrate this year to serve mission will be viewed as the best chance that this country has right now getting stability back and what the u.n. observers have been asking for is for people the different sides the different groups different factions to give the syrian people a chance to get the vanity in this country. and honest a crook the director of the ngo conflicts forum thinks the u.n. peace effort 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 tire being fired on the top of the roof more than an ordinary journalist can does help at least bring this thing and maybe possibly will contribute to stabilizing it of course military observers any sort of observers can deal with a few determined. who wish to infiltrate the country and place explosives in the

middle of a time for 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. indonesian rescuers say there's no hope of finding survivors after a russian airliner crashed into a mountain the teams are now trying to tackle challenging terrain to reach the wreckage of the so-called super jet one hundred which went down on wednesday as the

latest from jakarta. i was just at the domestic airport where the russian sukhoi superjet one hundred took off on wednesday for a thirty minute demonstration flight as part of an asian tour or made an already done one demonstration flight that day but it went off the radars about twenty minutes into the flight and no one was able to track it down and the last that anyone heard from the plane was that the crew wanted to descend and no one was able to hear from that plane for a day and then early this morning many people's worst fears here in jakarta did come true when four helicopters that were filled with indonesian air force found the plane on top of the mountain near a dormant volcano this region that the airplane actually crashed in is very treacherous it's almost considered a vertical track though rescue teams have actually been able to make it to the site

so while authorities are saying that there are no signs of survivors they actually haven't even be able to recover any of the bodies yet and there has just been mass chaos here in jakarta many families gathering at the airport hoping for some word on their loved ones and hoping to find some bodies that this search is really not able to happen at night time so it will resume once again in the morning it's a very new plane it was the first commercial plane built by russia since the end of the soviet union the first plane was built in two thousand and seven and nothing like this is after happened before indonesia actually made a deal to buy a three hundred eighty million dollars deal this past august to buy several of the aircraft which is one of the reasons that it was here doing this sort of task to determine its performance here in jakarta so it's a little bit too early to tell at this point how it's going to that the business aspect of the super super jet one hundred i think for now most people are concerned

with we're covering the bodies and finding out exactly what happened. and you can get the latest updates on the plane crash in indonesia from a website you don't comment on all the time here's what else is there for you right now should you log on strange activity at a suspected nuclear sites find out just what iran is up to online. also are going to merkel warn she will not let europe loosen its belt one launch she believes that could tip the eurozone into an economic abyss. and the sixty seven ton of us did not see jodi's downfall watch tank to victory day parade commemorating the event on our you tube channel and while you're there check out the elevator news that we have for you. but i'm a 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 too busy appointing his

new cabinet dmitri medvedev who's now prime minister will be sent to america to cover for him one of the has more. speed 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 and on wednesday he was part of the annual victory day parade here in moscow so the president called barack obama and explained this 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 in welcoming the prime minister made good of to camp david so the issue of key cabinet

appointments being listed as the reason for putin's not attendance at the g. eight. however it has left some wondering if they could be another motive for i'm not going but 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 that russia does an awful lot of trade with. also the president has said that he is committed to continuing to restart of relations with between russia and the united states he was began under the presidency of dmitri medvedev during his campaigning for the presidency the to me a putin was very critical of some aspects of u.s. foreign policy in particular the united states is standing still in syria washington's treatment of tehran and the arabia nuclear program as well as the

american antti missile defense shield that's proposed to eastern europe and dmitri trenin director of the moscow carnegie center says that the g. eight aside the main problems between russia and america will be solved by the president's themselves. obama will still be handled by putin you may see video of that diplomatic and i believe in the future mr putin will be sending to 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 could talk about the interests. and i think that the biggest issue weighing in on the u.s. russian relations in the next couple of years will be issue of ballistic missile defense in europe. find

a way that would. leave the united states where the system that is capable against the radio and missiles. assuredly harmless toward the russian in the continental ballistic missiles then we'll have a deal and then we'll have but brighter future for the relationship if that deal for whatever reason is not reached then i think we can expect a period of progress. between moscow and washington. russian businessman who was sentenced to twenty five years behind bars for conspiring to sell weapons and kill americans has spoken exclusively to. his new york prison correspondent started spoke to money. this is the first interview that victor boot gives to an english language t.v.

news outlet not just since he was sentenced but also since his extradition two years ago to the united states and this was a rare opportunity to get his personal take on his case that by now has definitely become the toy kind of crowded world where you know. you don't overreach. where you know your mom could come if you are. going through the market actually showing you a completion of american. completion to reach america great comic i've repeatedly and now for that very question speaking in one of the six languages that victor good speaks fluent in english there we also get a chance to discuss with him what it feels like to be sentenced to an entire quarter of a century whether or not there is something he would do differently if he knew she would be sentenced to twenty five years the answer to which was absolutely not

because her blood continues to maintain his innocence and says he has never done anything wrong in his life we also got a chance to listen to his message to the united states president as well as the dea agents that framed him in a sting operation where. fish were used for the very very wealthy if you would think a very dark. beer you can record for smokers of very wealthy ranter crime there's a group of not probably not help america really folder problem whether. you were convicted of growing to the real problem solve the real problem they just inventing a driver group but there is no danger for him go to somebody who don't hard for a walk through the corridor with the tricks and frame the people in there they're going to solve the real problem which include as a russian businessman air cargo businessman in his forty's who was basically lured in by u.s. agents in thailand in two thousand. eight and a leader even though thai courts found him not guilty of international arms

trafficking twice he would still extradited to the u.s. and the reason this case is controversial in the tories is because many say the united states basically arm twisted thailand intro extraditing boot and of course he is at this point spent four years behind bars he is serving a twenty five years sentence and the man has always maintained his innocence russia has called his extradition to the united states illegal and meanwhile in this operation conducted entirely by drug enforcement agency agents who believes that he is a victim of a political case and continues fighting for his release whether or not that's going to happen we're going to have to wait and see but he's definitely made it clear that he has no plans of giving up. and you can see this exclusive interview with to boot in full on sunday here on r.t. . rushes out to terra committee says it is for all the major plot targeting the

twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi russia because in security forces seized in talk of weapons in the caucasian country and arrested three militant leaders tom barton has the details. a joint operation cause in russian special forces found numerous caches of weapons in our cars including guns ammunition explosives 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 when the i did that the infamous islam is to militant leader darfur is behind the closed door kumar of his being connected to numerous gone in 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 coming of the moscow metro. broke in two thousand and ten 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 though they don't say whether that's related to this particular point. in their 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 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 are reluctant to forward this money because of the political instability as part of the bailout terms athens must pass fourteen point five billion euros worth of austerity measures. but financial chaos has led to public mistrust of prosperity party's economic analyst michael ross told me earlier that the eurozone has to break up in order to survive this crisis. what we see

is a program to crisis it's very sad to see these things developing but it was more or less planned within the euro because so difficult different countries like greece and germany are not fitting into one currency and it is the end of the day you will have this is what we have now people go to disagreed because you can guess more violent more political insecurity. that the country also becomes impossible to govern the euro never could work everybody who looks at it on an economical way knows that the eurozone just was not right 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 us who are in there with the new rules on will devalue it their

money. economic and financial turmoil has not stopped greeks from honoring their ancient traditions that was reported in world update the frame for the twenty twelve games has been lit in the birthplace of the lympics the event took place in the limpia in front of the temple of hara next to the ancient stadium professional act to stage the entire ceremony where. men dressed as heralds put on a display symbolizing a kinetic process the flame will be taking to the u.k. and it's time for a seventy day relay around the country. other news in an update this air strike in yemen has killed five al qaeda militants in the country the attack level the health of the teller where the member state sure has been held by al-qaeda militants for the past year the u.s. has been using drones to strike insurgents in yemen although remains unclear who was behind the attack. police in mexico have found eighteen mutilated bodies

dumped in two cars in the western state of. and left with the body suggested they were victims of a gang killing mexican drug cartels often dismember their victims and leave 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. will be about with some of our top stories for in about ten minutes from now in the meantime we talked to the nobel economics prize winner kenneth joseph arrow who gives his view on how the eurozone debt crisis should be tackled that's in our special interview next here on alt.

kenneth arrow professor of folk nomics americas at stanford university you're also the youngest nobel laureates to have been to portray ward at that price in economics and one hundred seventy two it's really great to have you with us today. enjoy being here the global economy is still not fully recovered from the recent financial crisis so now we have an economy saying that we're going to go to another global recession another round or we're going to have another way for of crisis hit us what's your take on that i think the answer is we don't know. leave it at that

the american economy seems to be recovering on a fairly solid basis slow but i don't see any any particular obvious instability you know. the european debt crisis is not being thoroughly resolve i am disturbed about the tendency of torture austerity. when we have. a condition of deep deficient demand and some appointment i think of the idea that you want to stimulate the economy. through government spending or some other good way here absolutely right the recession fears are actually the highest among the european union countries what. future do you see for it creates it has defaulted a few weeks ago it really that bad ever was so scared of it obviously creates problems for greece and that lenders may say well they default at what they have

the fall to get. there's not much evidence that countries default and we go ahead to quite a nice recovery the best. people will be difficult for greece to borrow money but maybe that's a good thing that will maintain discipline now i think i think they made a mistake by not the forty year earlier do you think that would have saved them the look because of sells a little bit of trouble but you could buy overspend that was no i think is any conceivable course they ran up with a deficit that was. during times of prosperity that was not sustainable goes back to the olympics for which they probably should never have undertaken it was too costly now but there are also fundamental long run problems with the greece as there is with a couple of other economies there they have rigidities these are but these are real problems not financial problems but they fit into the financial problems they have

rigid labor laws resampled for greece has what seemed to be an extraordinarily generous social security system in far more generous the united states which could afford it there are people retiring very early then of course the you have a problem of recent tax recoveries going to collect its taxes it's going to be big problems but you don't think that the greece will leave the euro i don't think so maybe they should by the way but i don't think they. prove the euro is that it's very difficult to break away from it can be done but the big price to pay is going to be paid to be dealing it was interesting of greece had had not been in the euro it probably would have been able to borrow the money that it. that was going to lead to drachmas because they were the. nobody but the demand on my interest rate so they would have been much worse off well we're better off actually because they've been disciplined i think we tell him he's been allowed to run down badly there were some periods with dark twenty or thirty years ago when it looked like it was going off but in the short term political advantage led to conceding this one

and seeing that one and then of course the corruption and the lack of have to have adequate tax collection which is my impression is enormous and i'm not at all sure it's been thirty rectified by the current reformers painful as they are because rich people get privileges of poor people vote do you think they maybe don't know the fact that we see is hilly and spain default right after greece spain not only the problems of spain really are for school at all they have been very prudent they've not run a big emphasis their problems entirely different they have very rigid labor laws and these labor laws lead to high unemployment during periods of prosperity so i think the condition of spain really a hurdle to do with these euro problems i don't use their credit rating is at stake is just look at an economy which is hobbled by a bad labor laws but you are is still under question because of countries like italy spain portugal greece where do you see the time well i think you know there is an argument that you was a big mistake to begin with what do you think is it

a because i think it was probably premature. having a currency without being of a single state it's got a lot of problems. the if if you're in the united states it would essentially there is a central government giving out money to different to poor part of the there's a problem if you have money for poor parts people can move one place to another of course they can move in the european union but language is a problem with language that is much much harder to move in. europe than does the united states even apart from professor eric thank you very much for this interview frederick. fifty two meters. more than eight thousand tons.

skin thickness thirty centimeters the guinness record. commemorating the battle of stalingrad. other than. on our teeth. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the fool source material is for soaps he journalism honest.

we want to present. something else. the people of the united states and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder is a regime as an actor program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about it we know for a fact that there are limits there. this we're just being carried out into the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart we have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets of the intelligence community can provide. data cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more

are six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search have not yet shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment. and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriots takes the unpopular course but helps the country and for the stakes and even if they come this way at least from patriot. it was the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others.

live from the studios here in central moscow this is aleksey top stories not huff poss the 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 russia won't rule out the bombings were orchestrated by foreign forces in order to destabilize syria and undermine the u.n. observer mission. and if you wanted me to separate rescue teams from the crash site of a russian airliner in indonesia as 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. killed russian businessman and victim who talks exclusively to all t. from his new york prison chanting for the life of these case which he says is pretty much of a he was sentenced to.