capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie the u.n. security council has unanimously and strongly condemned terrorist blast that killed at least a fifty five people and wounded almost four hundred in the syrian capital damascus on thursday the twenty explosions near a government intelligence complex are the worst terror attacks in syria since the start of the uprising last year are just more important brings us the latest from u.n. headquarters in new york. all fifteen members of the security council have recognized that terrorist networks are working in side of syria it was only just on tuesday when the syrian envoy to the united nations had accused number of regional air powers of sponsoring terrorism to undermine this ceasefire in syria currently being carried out in a very fragile state the syrian ambassador fahri said the syrian government has been facing a surge of terrorist threats including suicide bombings he even held up a d.v.d.

claiming that on that d.v.d. was confessions of dozens of individuals that were involved in terrorist activities upon the order of what he said were states joint special envoy kofi annan did address also the media just this week saying that right now syria can be descending into a full scale civil war if the cease fire does not hold our first is in syria and has been speaking to all those that have lived been living through the uprisings and through the ongoing violence and she brings us their story the sound of gunfire and heavy artillery rings out. with the u.n. observers in there's been some pretty heavy going. throughout the. nobles to go to the scene of this for me to control the century their. lives and

the fierce fighting is continuing. here both sides we're told of violating the peace plan we fully the u.n. observers into it live on the way passing through homes and hama of the areas mon it is that based on there is that is seen some of the most destructive fighting. as we pass through homes we have a brief and emotional conversation with a resident of. safety. people who are still fighting. that is he tries hard not to show perfectly encapsulate the level of devastation that has been wreaks on people's lives here throughout the course of the conflict is on to it live on a stretch of road this names are being extremely dangerous it's a journey that would have been near impossible without the u.n.

presence and with the volatile situation criminal gangs thought to operate in this area. we find it live under siege like conditions a quiet and intimidated city i don't know since a year and a half ago no one knows what's happening we go to sleep and wake up with fear some say the government and other states armed groups we don't know who's doing that last we get a chance to me to governor and ask him about the situation here. even if there is a little unrest in some areas or in a few spots it's due to people who are breaking the. checkpoint after checkpoint then we enter into an area outside of government control and it's a unique chance to see the u.n. monitors in action almost a month into the peace plan and u.n. monitors are making small steps on the ground but it's going to be a slow process throughout the course of the conflict it's been hard to come to some of the areas where the fiercest fighting is happening and get

a gauge of exactly what the situation is on the ground the u.n. observers traveling to some of these areas have given them access to what we see is a frightened population and the city symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace is right now a city at civil war sara furth r.t. . how was fear syria will slide back into full scale violence on our website we've been asking for your thoughts on who might benefit most from such a scenario well let's take a look at the site now in the picture that we have there as you can see so far the vast majority of the viewers which is over seventy percent think it's the u.s. and israel who would eventually get rid of iran's closest ally if syria plunges into a civil war. well less than twenty percent believe that it's radical islamists who are looking to take over the country and seven percent say syrian bandits are i'm

most interested in chaos as the old would then be able to plunder at their leisure on little fewer believe that syrian people will be the winners because they eventually get a fully democratic government i can participate in the site vote by logging on to r.t. dot com let us know what you think. now coming up later this hour here on r t locked in deadlock greek political parties and talks still struggling to form a government as fear is about the country's closer to leaving the euro than ever with chaotic consequences. plus around the new laws and rules for the olympic games in london are leading to accusations of a police state stay tuned to find out why the hardline regulations are drawing up discontent. russian businessman victor borge has slammed the american justice system after being convicted of arms trafficking in the u.s. he compared it to a medieval style inquisition and an exclusive interview with r.t. the first one is given to an english language channel since his extradition from

thailand well he is now preparing to be sent to a super maximum security prison to serve his twenty five year term against the recommendations of the judge in his trial dubbed the alcatraz of the rockies the supermax jail house us some of america's most dangerous criminals russians lawyer has filled a motion filed a motion rather asking for the decision to beast. but it is still in a new york prison word spoke exclusively to our t.v. correspondent i see it tells us more. 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 coronas.

were you know. through that. trial. where you know your mom accepted. as if you were. a marker of. completion of american draft. and reach american comic relief i'm not. sure of course his case has been like a hollywood blockbuster picture book is a russian air cargo business man 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 of course we know that u.s. agents posing as far as members met with viktor 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 by the united states victor boot was extradited into u.s.

territory to face charges of international arms trafficking victim himself has always maintained his innocence and believes his case to be political also asked him if he has a message for the president of the united states as well as a u.s. official in general who are behind the operation in in luring. victor boot well. message for use program and it will keep you moving these products have been able to view drug enforcement and i'm very we're going to grant a crime this will not only not help america really for all the problem of the drug war and you were convicted of going to the real problem for the real problem there just isn't the crime for a group there's no danger for him go to somebody who built it for a walk through the car and it was a good trick the inference that people in federal court are people the real problem now the 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 this is it you're going to reporting there while you can catch the full interview victor borge has given us this sunday here on r.t. . days after the deadly so horse super jet crash in indonesia the first rescue teams

are expected to shortly reach the side of the wreckage in remote mountains no survivors have been found yet but as to reports some relatives are still holding out desperate hope. chaos at jakarta's domestic airport where hundreds gathered after russian superjet sukhoi one hundred went missing from radars on wednesday early thursday their worst fears were realized as air force helicopters found the remains of the plane on a mountainside thirty miles outside indonesia's capital city. ever since the plane disappeared off the radar members of the media and family members of those who were on the plane have been gathering here at the crisis center hoping for any word as to what could have happened to their loved ones and what caused the plane to go down. did the mad has been at the airport since he found out that his wife was on board the missing plane she has been a flight attendant for twenty years and didn't think it was necessary to tell her

husband about the quick thirty minute demo so when they got to she didn't tell me she was going on the plane i had no idea. the super jet was performing that demonstration for airline executives and potential buyers as part of an asian tour a plane billed as state of the art with cutting edge technology the multibillion dollar project involved investors from around the world and tuesday's flight was expected to show the super rich in all its glory no one including blogger sergei dholakia who has been following the super judge hearing the tour could have predicted this outcome and we can believe this is. one of the best for this in russia so we can believe anything. into the blue because we were absolutely confident in the most aviation experts believe that the treacherous terrain and poor visibility probably contributed to the plane going down on wednesday details that offer devastated relatives little comfort i'm wishing for

a miracle to happen and to the good news about i think so far the new news means good news i still have hope to find my wife. preassure either our teacher car to indonesia or you can find a timeline of the tragedy on our website r t v dot com we have plenty more on the story online as well including the point in photos of the crew and others who were on board. just before takeoff with disaster to follow less than an hour after wards off the more you can no longer on. so you are today. plus one of the secrets of soviet history solved declassified archives and opened the lid on the mysterious death of stalin's although the sun details are at r.t. dot com.

greece may see new elections if political parties fail to form a government following sunday's inconclusive poll talks on forming a coalition will continue on friday political turmoil is already threatening the country's bailout agreements with you and your national monetary fund eurozone governments have held back part of their scheduled financing with greece receiving one billion euro less than planned the country is set to run out of cash in june economic analyst michael ross thinks the eurozone needs to split to limit the damage of the crisis. what we see is a program to crisis it's very sad to see these things developing but it was more planned within the euro because different countries like greece and germany are not fitting into one currency and if they end of the day you will have

this is what we have now we have violence on the street it is not possible to really. everybody knows this the whole problem that we have in the eurozone cannot be solved by rescue packages cannot be solved by more debts cannot be solved anywhere it can only be solved by a break up of the euro or that means to germany pulls out and the worst of the countries in the in the rhythm eurozone will devalue their money then their again competitive against the world then they can bring. we feel a little deadlock and a storm it's causing in the eurozone is up for debate and peter lavelle's crossed off for the full program is coming out later today. is anybody seriously suggesting that greece outside the eurozone would do but there look at the. moment. the value of the drachma before. the euro or argue in my view on

a number of occasions the problems the problem have remained in place if you haven't done really a teenager who's really lazy and doesn't do anything and is is draining your bank account what do you do you kick him out of the house and generally get his act together so that's the same kind of approach that could be taken to greece and i think they without this this safety net that the eurozone provides they might actually get around to realizing oh my goodness we have an issue here and we can't just elect experiments we can't just screw around we have to actually get our act together and do something productive. as london prepares for the olympics bureaucrats and lawmakers have been busy to enact in a range of rules and regulations draconian measures are already excluding some people from the country while a number of residents have been banned from the games simply because they've objected to the construction of olympic facilities near their homes arches laura smith explains. philippic torch is lit and on its journey to london

accompanying it fear uncertainty and code red level security impinging on the lives of people from london to las vegas that's where tim larkin lives he's supposed to be in the u.k. training martial arts enthusiastic but as he was boarding his flight he discovered the home office had excluded him from the country on the grounds that his self defense course might incite vigilanteism being that i have a fifteen year history of coming to the u.k. training thousands of people from the u.k. and also european clients coming into london and had no incidents whatsoever in and the rhetoric that's being used is absolutely inconsistent with what i teach it's a level of paranoia that increases the closer the olympics gets but london a simon mall won't get anywhere near the games he protested the building of basketball courts on a green space near the olympics and was slapped with

a control order that forbids him from going near the olympics or any other celebration taking place this summer he faces five years in prison if he disobeys these that legislation is being used to prevent. lawful and understandable protest to aspects of the games which are on democratic or unpopular . furthermore these are just this legislation won't prevent people from disrupting the games the wall it will do is it will give the ability of the authorities to to punish people more severely i think it's insane i think that it shows the prevailing. consciousness in all governments and on the world which is one of the ultimately we're in control luckily for simon he doesn't. live near the stadium but. anyone who does this building's less than

a kilometer from the eleven pick park the plan is to station a battery of high velocity missiles on the roof of this block of flats for two months over the olympics a proposal that's already triggered an explosive reaction resident brian whelan learned of the plans from a leaflet pushed through his door late one night some people are worried about how affect the property values some people think it might be building a target for terrorists some people think that it's discipline and is not secure enough so people don't want to be turned into some sort of military base you know really affect the quality of life. might my big argument is. nobody consulted us the mit never spoke to us the two thousand and twelve games have spawned a level of security that's unprecedented seen by many as overwhelming and repressive the question many british people are asking is if it's like this already what's it going to be like when the olympics circus finally rolls into town laura

smith london let's take a look at other news from around the world this hour now. clashes have continued in believe for a second day running as medical students battle drive police in the nation's capital protesters threw rocks and firecrackers at officers who fired tear gas and rubber bullets one of the country's largest unions called for three days of demonstrations after rejecting a salary increase offered by the government students join doctors and workers at public hospitals who are protesting at an increase in working hours and cutbacks. to the front runners for egypt's top job have gone head to head in the country's first presidential debate a former foreign minister under hosni mubarak and of delmon aim of all thought of moderate islamist challenge to each other about religion role in democracy the televised debate to last for hours with supporters of both candidates watching closely in our door cafes around cairo all the two are among thirteen candidates

running in the u. action due to begin on may twenty third. nineteen people have been killed across afghanistan as a series of violent attacks by taliban militants continues an armed group wearing afghan police uniforms killed five in the country's east while apparently trying to attack a local government office of the insurgents died in a firefight with troops and two other roadside bombs killed several civilians including five children and a police officer in the south. claims that iraq had weapons of mass destruction led to the us invasion in two thousand and three later today in our special report on covered the war on iraq shows how bogus assertions were used to start a full scale conflict with catastrophic consequences for here's a preview. the people of the. will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with

weapons of mass murder regime as an act your 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 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 and 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 hundred million dollars to fund the continuing search we 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 patriot takes the unpopular course but helps the country avoid the stakes and even if they come this way at least for the time that 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. well crossing to the world of business marina hello again so what's happening this hour hammering the wall first of all i have some significant losses for japanese as well as some american companies fall get to that and the second first and second look at the only markets which at slate are right now and they are course in the news always started off with pretty much

a mixed picture but since then they came has let this negative side story and that stay in there in fact they're extending their losses a look at the latest that this was the. behind sanger is dropping over one percent there and that's the spy latest reports showing that china's inflation slowed in april which of course came after a surprising gain in the march also when all the wholesale prices are heading lower but that's not really helping investors when it comes to japan we saw earnings reports boost in some shares and also an overnight strong overnight performance on wall street boosting investor confidence there but then of course it went south and we see in bread there in age of also so many shares are tumbling in fact they're losing over seven percent and that's their lowest level in more than three decades that's after the company reported its fourth straight agnel loss amounts in to five point seven billion dollars sony has been of course struggling with its loss making television business. well as moved back to the markets take

a look at what happened in the u.s. this is the closer picture from a thursday a mixed picture there basically we saw u.s. blue chips finally and scape in their longest losing streak in mine months and i was partly due to follow in their pretty jobless claims and signs of civilization in the plot when it comes to the nasdaq that slipped into negative territory and that's after the drop in cisco systems they're all right will stay with us the biggest bank there which is j.p. morgan chase has revealed some significant losses as well and the bank says that due to cold looks investments made by its traders. two billion dollars needless to say its shares fell six percent after this. look at what's happening with crude prices they're heading for their second the weekly drop and that's made rise in the stock also on thursday when heard that opec the group of major oil exporting

country say that they have it's almost ten percent more crude than necessary and that's of course drive the prices down as we can see why it's. ninety six dollars per barrel roughly this hour when it comes to the bread blood is headed towards one hundred dollars a barrel for moving on to the extreme franks the euro still moves in against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble rich with a glance both of major currencies on thursday will be up if it's about when the russian markets will open which is less than an hour from now on thursday there are some markets and the trade in session was the territory if we take a look at the russian markets we see that picture and basically we have investors come back from a long holiday celebration of you here come in with a victory day parade may day and all of those days we see it was the first proper trading session bad the figures were all and. see what happens later on today when the markets go up and i'll have that for you marina next hour absolutely marina

looking forward to that as always and next hour a special report sheds light on the real reasons behind the iraq invasion over nine years ago stay with us for that if you can and i'll bring you the headlines shortly .

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back here with our t.l.'s take a look at the top stories a russian businessman an arms dealer sentenced twenty five years behind bars in u.s. speaks to our team as he prepares to be sent to supermax security prisons holding some of america's most dangerous criminals that's against presentation of this trial judge who asked for a medium security confinement. the u.n. security council condemns deadly terrorist attacks near a military intelligence complex in the syrian capital damascus which killed fifty five syria's demanding measures against foreign powers supporting terrorism. and two days after the deadly so boys superjet crash rescuers in indonesia are battling to reach the scene in a remote mountainous region in dreadful weather conditions but are just metres from the disaster zone they say there's no chance and.