our top story two massive bomb blast tore through the syrian capital during rush hour killing at least fifty five people wounding nearly four hundred others the government and opposition have been quick to blame each other for the attacks russia says there could be a foreign role in the bombings r.t. sara firth has the latest from damascus. condemnation from the u.n. observer mission here and. they went straight to the same of these two explosions. explosion they should be and. everyone else and you've been speaking to people today just being down at the. devastation is cause is just and. the cleanup operations are 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 explosions that have happened in recent times because you see this recently over 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 a huge amount of damage has been. 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 sort of he's not at 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 said to try and bring peace that this could be just the beginning of this type of rest and 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 as they really i mean there's a huge sense amongst the people and 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 are criminal gangs who anyone saying the u.n. observer mission to syria is 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 to serve mission will be viewed 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 the bullets in this country. director of the end conflicts forum things the u.n. peace efforts being undermined by outside interference 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 at least bring this thing and maybe possibly will contribute to stabilizing it of course military observers any sort of observers. with a few determined. who wish to infiltrate the country and place explosives from the

middle of a town 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 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 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 rescuers in indonesia every each the wreckage of the russian sukhoi superjet that crashed into a remote mountain site a spokesman for the search team said a number of bodies have been found and there is no hope of finding survivors at the site or his prius rita has the details from jakarta. i was just at the domestic

airport where the russian sukhoi superjet one hundred took off on wednesday for more of 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 now this region that the airplane actually crashed in is very treacherous it's almost considered a vertical track 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 our happened before in tunisia 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 this has 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 recovering the bodies and finding out exactly what happened. the latest updates on the sukhoi jet crash in indonesia at our website or to dot com there is plenty more to put away right now putting this strange activity at a suspected nuclear site to find out just what iran could be up to. was. a war in the she will not let your of like loosen its belt one notch saying it could tip the eurozone in. an economic abyss. and the sixty seventh anniversary

of nazi germany's downfall watch moscow's victory day parade commemorating the event on are you to travel why are there you can check out all the other videos we have for you right now. russian president vladimir putin will sit out the g eight summit due to take place in the u.s. state of maryland next friday putin says he's too busy appointing his new cabinet dmitri medvedev russia's new prime minister will be sent to cover for him or he's peter all for has more. speed a very busy week for vladimir putin on monday he was sworn in as president on choose day how to deal with the election of a new prime minister in the pall of and on don't wednesday he was pause of the annual victory day parade here in moscow so the president called for bomber 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 to each image get of the prime minister who will be attending the g. eight representing russia in stead now the white house issued a statement saying that they understood the position of president putin in welcoming the prime minister made yet of to camp david so the issue of key cabinet appointments being listed as the reason for putin is no attendance at the g eight however it has left some wondering if they could be and not the 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 russia does an awful lot of trade with. old so the president has said that he is committed to continuing to restart sort of relate.

with between russia and the united states that was begun under the presidency of dimitri made get it during his campaigning for the presidency to me a putin was very critical of some aspects of u.s. foreign policy and particularly the united states is stand still in 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 to me train train in director of the moscow carnegie center says that the g. eight a side the main issues between russia and the u.s. will be thrashed out by the presidents themselves. obama will still be handled by putin. made a video of today so that diplomatic john kerry and i believe that in the future mr putin will be sending to 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 with a system that is capable against the radio and missiles that 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 progress to really nation between moscow and washington.

russian businessmen victor boot sentenced to twenty five years behind bars for conspiring to kill sell weapons and kill americans spoke exclusively to our team from his new york prison. 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 ground. where you know. you've you know now reached high ground. where you know your mom accepted. that you are now thanks mark you are truly showing you a completion of the american dream and real completion can reach america great comic i've repeatedly i'm not. sure but speaking in one of the six languages that

victor good speak fluently in english there we also got 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 victor boot 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 the fish were used you keep using very dark variables here you truckin for smokers and i'm very we're going to grant a crime that is true or not probably not to help america really solve the problem rather. than you were convicted of a growing group of the real problem solve the real problem they just inventing that drug for groups but there is no danger for him go to somebody who don't hard for

a walk through the car and do with it dirty tricks and frame to people in there are 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 has at this point spent four years behind bars and serving a twenty five year sentence the man has always maintained his innocence russia has called his extradition to the united states illegally 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 you can see the exclusive interview with boot in fall sunday here are three. political parties in greece struggling to come up with a power sharing coalition deal sending the crisis hit country deeper into turmoil general elections on sunday failed to produce a a right winger with leading parties so far failing to form a government without an agreement greece will need to hold fresh elections thursday athens is due to get five point two billion euros bailout funds from several euro zone countries were reluctant to forward this money because of the political instability as part of the bailout terms are things must pass fourteen point five billion euros worth of austerity measures in june but financial chaos has led to public distrust of pro austerity parties economic analyst michael moss thinks heroes of the eurozone it needs to break up to survive the crisis. what we see is the program crisis it's very soon it to see these things developing

but it was more or less planned within the euro because different countries like greece and germany are not fitting into one currency and they do end of the day. you will have this what we have now people go to the street because we can guess more violence more political insecurity and 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 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 west of the countries in the us who are in there with a new euro zone would evaluate their money. hundreds of opposition activists took

to the streets of central moscow in what authorities say is an un sanctioned demonstration they're angry over putin's return to office so the mood is now light hearted with singing and cooking in a field in field kitchens as they move around the city rallies started in the capital wednesday after the presidential inauguration demonstrators had earlier turned violent with authorities claiming clashes were provoked by protesters around four hundred people were detained since the action started with several opposition leaders still behind bars. tonight as some other stories making headlines across the globe one thousand people killed across afghanistan thursday this continues along a series of violent attacks by taliban militants in the volatile country an armed group in the afghan police uniforms have killed a five in clashes in the country's east while apparently trying to attack a local government office all the insurgents died in a shoot out with troops to further a roadside blast killed several civilians and a member of the militia in the set. a new wave of u.s.

air strikes has left seven al qaeda militants dead in southern yemen meanwhile another ten were killed by yemeni soldiers in a separate security operation the u.s. and yemen resumed their cooperation in the fight against terrorists which was suspended nearly a year ago amid the country's popular uprising. in the u.k. hundreds of thousands of public sector workers and police officers took part in marchers protesting spending cuts and pension plan changes the government says current pension schemes are on affordable because people are now living longer but unions say members are being rod working longer for less money downing street eventually planning planning store plans to raise the compulsory retirement age from sixty five to sixty eight. russia's anti-gay terror committee says it's foiled a major plot targeting the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi russia and security forces seized an entire arsenal of weapons in the caucasian country and arrested three militant leaders. barton as. 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 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 morrow is behind the closed door kumar of his being connected to numerous ghonim bomb attacks in russia's north caucasus in previous years but he 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 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 you back with our top stories in about ten minutes first though we speak with nobel economics prize winner karen. gives his view on how the eurozone debt crisis could be tackled.

kenneth arrow professor outspoken omics america's at stanford university you're also the youngest nobel laureates to have been deported 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 in. the european debt crisis is not being thoroughly results i am disturbed about the tendency of torture austerity when we have.

a condition of 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 you're absolutely right the recession fears are actually the highest among the european union countries what. future do you see for creates it has defaulted here weeks ago so it really that that ever was so scared of it obviously creates problems for greece and that lenders may say well they defaulted once they have the fault again. you have there's not much evidence that countries default on the go ahead to quite a nice recovery asked. people be difficult for greece to borrow money but maybe that's a good thing. 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 cells a little bit troubled. by overspending it 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 in these are but these are real problems not financial problems but they fit into the financial problems we have rigid labor laws we have moved 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 the recent tax recovery is going to collect its axis 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 the dog but the big price to pay it is going to pay to be dealing he was interesting of greece had had not been in the euro they 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 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 the greek economy has been allowed to run down badly there were some periods but twenty or thirty years ago it looked like it was going off but in the short term political advantage led to conceding this one and see 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 reforms painful as they are because rich people the privileges of poor people 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're not running b.b.s.'s they're 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 conditions in spain really have a hurdle to do with these euro problems i've always their credit rating is the same as just looked at an economy which is hobbled they have 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. there is having a currency without being of a single state it's got a lot of problems. the if of united states if. essentially there is a central government giving out money to different to poor part if 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 and if you're in europe than is the united states even apart from law professor ara thank you very much for this interview frederick. fifty two meters. more than eight thousand tons of. skin thickness thirty centimeters. the guinness record. commemorating the battle of stalingrad. other than. on our team.

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 active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact there are that there. is we're just being carried out at the direction dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was lead. 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 and provide. david 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 six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search have not yet failed 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 patriot takes the unpopular course but helps the country and for the stakes and even if they come this way at least from 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.

two thirty am in moscow the zero r.t. headlines the united nations condemns the violence in syria calling it a terrorist act urging all parties to implement kofi anon speace plan this after dozens were killed hundreds injured in twin suicide car bombs rocking damascus and what's been dubbed the deadliest attack since the conflict started more than a year ago. search and rescue teams have reached the site where a russian airliner crashed wednesday morning with forty five passengers aboard rescuers say they found no signs of survivors among the debris scattered along the side of an indonesian volcano. jelled russian businessman victor boot speaks exclusively with r.t. from his new york prison giving his take on his case which he says is politically motivated who was sentenced to a quarter century behind bars for.