online and on screen this is r t live from moscow with the twenty four hours a day two massive bomb blast to 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. has the latest from damascus. condemnation from the u.n. observer mission here and. they went straight to the same of these two explosions. shook the entire city everyone else and you've been speaking to people just beamed down at the. devastation is cause is just. the cleanup operations. 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 in this recent these types of attacks in damascus as it was because it's always long 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 is being. played is 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 they sort of confused most of the kids

a situation here is much more common complex than that and people feeling very very much so they caught in the middle i was speaking to some people down at the bomb sites and you know there's really a sense of the u.n. observer mission said to time bring peace that this could be just the beginning of this type of arrest and you know this is really amazing the serious 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 as they really i mean there's a huge sense amongst the people in the future 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 that. 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 you know serve mission. as the best chance for this country has right now getting stability back in 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 stability in this country. that is to croak 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 but please bring this thing and maybe possibly will contribute to stabilizing it though of course military observers any sort of observers can deal

with a few determined saboteurs who wish to infiltrate the country and place explosives in the middle of a time the head of american intelligence assessment james clapper himself said that americans believe that the earlier bombings were done by groups infiltrating from iraq into syria to places who is behind them we are not quite sure but it's most likely those that are sponsoring these groups will be in the gulf states will be gulf states who will be either 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 assad 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 superjet one hundred which went down on wednesday. has 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 to our 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 average 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. when you get the latest updates on the plane crash in indonesia from a website you don't comment on line all the time here's what else is there for you right now strange activity at a suspected nuclear side find out just what iran is up to online. and also. she will europe loosen its belt she believes that could tip the eurozone into an economic abyss. the sixty seventh anniversary of nazi germany. victory day parade commemorating the event on you tube channel when you're there check out the other videos that we have for you. russia's president vladimir putin has ignored the g eight summit jus to take place

in the u.s. state of maryland next friday that he says he's too busy appointing his new cabinet to me to be vetted who's now prime minister will be sent to america to cover for him on his patrol of a small. feat 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 pall of and undone wednesday he was poss of the annual victory day parade here in moscow so the president called barack obama 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 at the g. twenty meeting to each image the head of 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 the head 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 a putin has never really been the biggest fan of the g. eight in fact he's said that he finds it somewhat outdated much prefer in the g. twenty which includes more of the mooching economies in the world countries like brazil china india 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 through his 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 united states's stands. on syria washington's

treatment of tehran and the arabian nuclear program as well as the american un team missile defense shield it'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 said made a video of the diplomatic john kerry and i believe that in the future mr putin will be sending. a lot of diplomat 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 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 ukrainian missiles yet assuredly harmless toward the russian in the continental ballistic missiles then we'll have a deal and then we'll have. a brighter future for the relationship if that deal for whatever reason is not reached then i think we can expect a period of progressive alienation 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 r.t. it from his new york present a correspondent and a stars which i cannot speak to him at. 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 crown. where you know. do you feel you know. where you know you're my character if you. let your own people think through mark you're actually showing them you can be sure of american. and real confusion can reach america great comic i've repeatedly i'm not for don't think barry fisher is speaking in one of 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 he

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 no. fish were used for you will keep you moving very dark i haven't been able to hear you correctly for a period of time very we're going to grant a crime that is true not only not to help america really solve the problem of. course and you were convicted of going through the real problem solve the real problem very just inventing of a crime because look there is no danger for him go to somebody who don't cry for a walk through the corridor with it go to tricks and frame to people and they're going to solve the real problem which a boot is 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 into extraditing boot and of course he is at this point spent four years behind bars he is serving a twenty five year sentence 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. 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 victor boot in full this coming sunday here on r.t. . the. 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 euro zone countries are reluctant to forward this money because of the political instability as part of the bailout terms athens must pass fourteen and a half billion euros worth of a sturdy measures in june 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 programmed crisis it's very sad to see these things developing but it was more planned within the euro because so difficult different countries like greece and germany are not fitting into one currency and it is

a end of the day you will have this what we have now people good to see because you instead because there is more violence more political insecurity. that the country 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 a model that cannot be solved anywhere it can only be solved by a break up of the euro 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 their money . russia's anti terror committee says it's foiled a major plot targeting the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi russian security forces seized an entire arsenal of weapons in the caucasian country and arrested three militant leaders tom barton as the details 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 that they believe those weapons were destined for a terrorist attack on the winter olympics in sochi in two thousand and fourteen and they added that the infamous islam is to militant leader darfur morrow is behind the plan to go to morrow has been connected to numerous gun and 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 claim responsibility for the bombing of the moscow metro in two thousand and ten and the bombing of the moscow airport in two thousand and eleven i'm not sure on terrorism 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 find. tom bot reporting there are some more international news making headlines this hour nineteen people have been killed across afghanistan on thursday this continues a long series of violent attacks by taliban militants in the volatile country an armed group in afghan police uniforms killed five in clashes in the country's east when apparently trying to attack a local government office all of the insurgents died in the firefight with troops to further roadside blast killed several city the civilians a member of the militia in the south. a new wave of u.s. airstrikes has left seven al qaeda militants dead in southern yemen meanwhile another ten were killed by yemeni soldiers in a separate security operation u.s. and yemen have resumed their corp the fight against terrorists which was suspended nearly a year ago amid the country's popular uprising. or so our world update this hour

hundreds of thousands of public sector workers and police officers took part in marches protesting against spending cuts and pension plan changes in the u.k. the government says current pension schemes are affordable because people are now living longer but union members are being robbed working longer for less money downing street eventually plans to raise the compulsory retirement age from sixty five to sixty eight. well it brings up so that for a moment i'll be back in the summer of our top stories in around ten minutes from now thanks to our team would talk to the nobel economics prize were not joseph gives his view on how the eurozone debt crisis should be tackled.

kenneth arrow professor makes americas at stanford university you're also the youngest nobel laureates to have been to port edwarda at that price in economics and ninety seven it's really great to have you with us today are driving your 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. we believe 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 thoroughly resolved i am disturbed about the tendency of torture austerity. when we have. a condition of the fish and demand as of unemployment i think 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 defaulted once they'll be fault again. there's not much evidence that countries default than we go ahead to quite a nice recovery in the past. people 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 make up of cells into bad trouble. by overspending it was no i think as any conceivable course they ran up with a deficit that was. during times of prosperity that was not sustainable goes back to the olympics to a for which they probably should never have undertaken it was too costly now but there are also fundamental long run problems with the with the greece as there is with a couple of other economies there they have rigidities in 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 they have a problem a recent tax recovery is 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 it is going to be paid media like you see 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 they would demand a high interest rate so they would have been much worse off well we were 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. like 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 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 the privileges of poor people vote do you think they may be don't know if that could we see is hilly in 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 office as their problems entirely different they have very rigid labor laws and these labor laws have led to high unemployment during periods of prosperity so i think the condition of spain really a hurdle to do with these euro problems i've always their credit rating is at stake is just the got an economy which is hobbled by bad labor laws but you are 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 the united states. essentially there is a central government giving out money to the 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 the language is a problem with language that is much much harder to move in. europe than does the united states even apart from professor thank you very much for this interview pleasure. wealthy british style.

market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kinds of reports. 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 regime as an actor program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about it we know for a fact there are limits there. this were just being carried out under 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 you 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. ok wants more time and he says you 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 found 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 caress and helps the country avoid mistakes and even if they come this way at least patriotism is 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 and i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others.

ulti live here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day top stories this hour 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 b. bombings were orchestrated by foreign forces in order to destabilize syria and undermine the u.n. observer mission. search and rescue teams have reached the site where the russian airliner crashed on wednesday morning with forty five passengers on board rescuers have said they found no signs of survivors among the debris on the side of an indonesian volcano. jailed russian businessman victor boot talks exclusively to r.t. from his new york prison shouting for the margin is key.