six am in moscow très a good to have you with us here on r t it's been called the deadliest attack since the conflict started in syria the united nations has denounced the latest twin explosions in damascus as a terrorist act saying all parties should work together to implement kofi annan peace plan the two suicide car bombs went off in the city killing fifty five and injuring hundreds r.t. sarah ferguson has the latest from the masses. condemnation from the u.n. observer mission here and. they went straight to the scene of these two explosions . explosion they were. everyone else and we've been speaking to people it's just been down at the. devastation is cause is just and. the cleanup operations underway. and we found the people that 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 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 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 confused most of the kids a situation here is much more complex than that and people feeling very very much so they caught in the middle of speaking to the people on the side and you know there's really a sense of the u.n. observer mission said to try and bring peace that this could be just the beginning of this part of the rest and you know this is really a major dilemma for 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 the 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 it's 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. 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 year 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 committee in this country. current director of the energy conflicts forum thinks 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 because of course military observers any sort of observers qandil with a few determined saboteurs who wish to infiltrate the country and place explosives from the middle of a time the head of american intelligence assessment james clapper himself said that americans believe that the earlier bombings were done by groups infiltrating from iraq into syria to places 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 have reached the wreckage of the russian sukhoi

superjet that crashed into a remote mountainside 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. has more 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 amid it 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 one 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 have been 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 what that the business aspect of the soup or a superjet one hundred i think for now most people are concerned with recovering the bodies and finding out exactly what happened. you can find the latest updates on the sukhoi plane crash an advantage on our website our team. extended review of the aircraft and the incidence of full time wide arise cremation also waiting for

you there while you're on line don't forget to check how many of your stories you got wind of for you including this with western powers moving deisel later on from the international oil markets of lots. as the turkey could be undermining their efforts how. come to find out. 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 now russia's prime minister will be sent to cover for artie's peter all over reports from moscow. 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 pall of and on don't 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 get of the prime minister who will be attending the g. eight representing russia instead now 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 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 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 in particular the united states is standing still in syria washington's treatment of tehran and the arabian nuclear program as well as the american antti missile defense shield that's proposed to eastern europe dmitri trenin 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 you may send me the video of that diplomatic and if you 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 could talk about the interests the tensions. the issues and i think that the biggest issue weighing in on the russian relations in the next couple of years will be the 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 and 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 progress and really nation between moscow and washington russian businessmen victor boot who was sentenced to twenty five years behind bars for conspiring to sell weapons and kill americans spoke exclusively with our team from his new york prison archy's anastasio churkin has been. this was victor boots first interview to an english language t.v. news outlet not only since his sentencing but also since his extradition and speaking in one in six languages he's fluent in english he seemed quite candid generally we know that victor boot is quite positive considering the circumstances with personally seen him winking at his wife inside the courtroom today too he was quite calm and really shared his personal take on his case and kind of. were you know. through that. trial. where you know your

mom. if you. think the markers are true and showing them you can be sure of american democracy and. american comic every. day for sure this case has been like a hollywood blockbuster we've even seen a movie made about victor boot starring nicolas cage picture blue told us today that he did in fact see the movie and he said he feels sorry that nicolas cage had to be part of less than mediocre film like that which according to victor boot has nothing to do with reality victor boot is a russian air cargo businessman in his forty's he's been dubbed the merchant of death in the united states the u.s. has spent years and tens of millions of dollars in an operation to hunt this man down u.s. agents posing as far as members met with victor boot and then arrested him in thailand in two thousand and eight two years later regardless of the fact that thai

courts found him not guilty twice in what was called arm twisting victor good was extradited into u.s. territory to face charges of international arms trafficking himself has always maintained his innocence and believes his case to be political theatrics. which were used to group. it will keep you moving very far haven't been able to do you drug enforcement there's a very we're going to grant a crime that is true not only not to help america really solve the problem of the drug war and you were convicted of going through a real problem solve the real problem they just inventing that drug because there is no danger for him go to somebody who don't hard for a walk through the crime to go to trick your favorite people and they're going to solve the real problem now that to boot is appealing his twenty five year sentence behind bars and says he continues to keep on fighting until he gets

a chance to return back home to russia we know that he has filed an official request for the russian state duma to file a complaint against the united states and thailand victor boot himself says because he knows he's innocent he's hoping that he will not end up serving the entire twenty five years that he's been sentenced to but whether or not that's going to be the case we're going to have to wait and see. the full interview with victor boot will be airing here on sunday on r t. the political parties in greece struggling to come up with a power sharing coalition deal sending the crisis hit country into further turmoil general elections sunday failed to produce a downright winner with leading party 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 in bailout funds but several euro zone countries are reluctant to forward the cash because of the political instability as part of the bailout terms athens must pass fourteen point five

billion euros worth of austerity cuts by june financial chaos has led to the public mistrust of prosperity party's economic analyst michael moss thinks the eurozone needs to break up to survive the crisis. what we see is a program crisis it's very sad to see these things developing but it was mall is 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 is what we have no people good to speak to gives more myal and 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 drive the whole problem that we have in the eurozone cannot be solved by rescue packages cannot be solved by mon

debts cannot be solved any way it can only be solved by a break up of the year rule and that means that germany pull its own and the rest of the countries in the u.s. who ended with the new rules on would evaluate their money. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe nineteen people were killed across afghanistan thursday this continues along a series of violent attacks by taliban militants in the volatile country and an armed group in afghan police uniforms killed five in the clashes in the country's east while apparently trying to attack a local government office all the insurgents died in the shoot out with troops to further roadside blast killed several civilians and a member of the militia in the south. at least four thousand former comrades of late moammar gadhafi are still in prison in libya subjected to torture and abuse this according to the u.n. special representative ian martin he also mentioned most of the prisons are run by

the so-called revolutionary teams martin point out the libyan government ought to immediately take control and demanded an investigation. seven police officers were killed seventeen injured after be ambushed by the fark or revolutionary armed forces of colombia police officials say the guerrillas attacked the drug squad with explosives before opening fire this in response to a series of police raids on known drug dealers in which one gorilla was killed and five others captured. in the u.k. hundreds of thousands of public sector workers and police officers took part in marches protesting spending cuts and pension plan changes the government says the current pension schemes are an affordable because people now live longer but unions say members are being rob working longer for less money downing street eventually plans to raise the compulsory retirement age from sixty five to sixty eight.

russia's anti terror committee says it's foiled a major plot targeting the two thousand and fourteen winter games in sochi russia and kazi in security forces seized an arsenal of weapons in the caucasian country and arrested three militant leaders or he's tom barton has the latest. i 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 on the i did that the infamous islam is to militant leader darfur morrow is behind the plan to go to morrow of his being connected to numerous gun and bomb attacks in russia's north caucasus in previous years but he so far managed to evade security services he and his group also 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 the national anti-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 me back with a recap of the headlines in about ten minutes but first we speak with a noble economics prize winner kenneth arrow who gives his view on how the eurozone debt crisis should be tackled stay with us.

kenneth arrow professor nomics emeritus at stanford university you're also the youngest nobel laureates to have been deported awarded the prize in economics in ninety seven at you it's really great to have you with us today great to her enjoyed 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 that's. the european debt crisis is not being thoroughly resolve i am disturbed about the tendency of too much austerity. when we have. a condition of deficient demand massive 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 a crease it has defaulted p. weeks ago it really that bad and it was so scared of it obviously creates problems for greece and that lenders may say well they defaulted what's the fault again. you have there's not much evidence that countries default we go ahead to quite

a nice recovery in the past. 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. 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 a result 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 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 media you see it 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. a 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 with like twenty or thirty years ago when it looked like it was going out 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 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 the 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 have 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 conditions in spain really have a hurdle to do with these euro bond problems i think it's their credit rating is at stake is just look at 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 and there is there is having

a currency without being of a single state it's got a lot of problems. the if the united states if 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 from one place to another of course they can move in the european union but the language is a problem of language is a much much harder to move in. europe than does the united states even apart from professor thank you very much for this interview the president. hasn't been seen on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the source material is what he journalism.

we want to present. something. 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 his regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about it we know for a fact that there are there. this we're 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 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. the chain is not going to be done with

this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take a. there are six to nine months to make a definitive fighting ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more are the two 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 patriots takes the unpopular course but helps their country of origin stakes and even if they come this way at least from tonight 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 that i think is perilous so they're

attacking the patriotism of other. wealthy british scientists i said it's not time to let surprise find. their. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on our.

six thirty am in moscow these here are the headlines united nation condemns the violence in syria calling it a terrorist act urging all parties to implement kofi annan peace plan this afternoon dozens were killed and hundreds injured as twin suicide car bombs rocks damascus in 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 russian airliner crashed wednesday morning with forty five passengers aboard rescuers said they found no signs of survivors among the debris on the side of an indonesian volcano. jail the russian businessman victor good talks exclusively to our t.v. from his new york prison getting his take on his case which he says is politically motivated boot who was sentenced to twenty five.