the u.n. security council can damns deadly terrorist attacks near a military intelligence complex in the syrian capital damascus which killed fifty five zero calls for measures against foreign powers supporting terrorism. russian businessmen and arms dealers sentenced to twenty five years behind bars in the us speaks exclusively to our team as a picture book prepares to be sounds to a super max security prison against the recommendation obvious trial judge. and two days after the deadly savoy's super jet crash an emergency team is battling to reach the scene in a remote mountainous region in dreadful weather conditions but are just metres from the made disaster zone it already found ten bodies and are not expected any

survivors. this is r.t. live from moscow eleven am in the russian capital the u.n. security council has unanimously and strongly condemned terrorist blast that killed at least 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 r t is marina port now i have 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 a number of regional air powers of sponsoring terrorism to undermine the

ceasefire and in syria the syrian ambassador. 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 gold states joint special envoy kofi annan did address also the media just this week saying that right now has syria can be descending into a full scale civil war if the ceasefire does not hold parties our firm is in syria and has been speaking to all those that have been living through the uprisings and through the ongoing violence and she brings us their story. this sound of gunfire heavy artillery rings out. with the u.n. observers in in there's been some pretty heavy going. throughout the night.

no will to go to the scene as for the type of control. and the fist fighting is continuing. here both sides with violating the peace plan we've fully the un observers into it all the way pulsing through homes and hama of the areas and it is that based there is that is seen some of the destructive fighting as we passed through homes we have a brief an emotional conversation with the residents of to. safety. people who still fighting the. war but it's clear. that he tries hard not to show perfectly encapsulate the level of devastation that has been on people's lives here throughout the course of the conflict is on to it live on a stretch of road this name for 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 on groups we don't know who's doing that last we get a chance to me to the 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 you're 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 civil. and it with fear syria will slide back into full scale violence are no website we've been asking for your thoughts on who might benefit most from such a scenario so far the vast majority of you think it's the us and israel who would eventually get rid of iran suppose it's now if syria plunges into a civil war less than twenty percent believe that it's radical as long as we're looking to take over the country six percent say syrian bad it's our most interested in chaos as they will be able to plunder at their leisure

a little fewer believe the syrian people will be the winners because they'll eventually get a fully democratic government. now coming up later this hour locked in deadlock great political parties are still struggling to form a government as fears mount the country is closer to leaving the viewer than ever with chaotic consequences. plus a raft of new laws and rules for the olympic games in london are leading to accusations of a police state say to find out why the hardline regulations are drumming 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 in an exclusive interview with r.t. the first one is given to an english language channel since his extradition from thailand now he's 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 struggle dogged alcatraz of the rockies the supermax jail house of some of america's most dangerous criminals the russians lawyer has filed a motion asking for the decision to be stalled board is still in new york prison where he spoke exclusively to our correspondent and us as he tells us more. this was victor brute's 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. you know. you don't know. where you know your mom

except if you have if you. think the marker of. completion of american justice and. of course his case has been like a hollywood blockbuster picture buddhas 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 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 by the united states victor boot was extradited into u.s. territory to face charges of international arms trafficking victim but himself has

always maintained his innocence and believes his case to be political theaetetus 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 luring in victor boot. which will use. these products. drug enforcement. i'm very we're going to grammar crime. not only don't help america really solve the problem of the iraq war and you know where. there's a going to be a real problem for the real problem they just invent the grunts the group of soldiers you're full who go through somebody who goes through all kinds of good grief. for the people or the corner the real problem 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. to suit your kind of reporting there and again castle for interview victor borge has given us this sunday here on our t.v. . days after the deadly so holy super jet crash in indonesia the first rescue team are expected to shortly reach the side of the wreckage and remote mountains no

survivors have been found yet but as the 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 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 tore 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 doli who has been following the super jet during the tour could have predicted this outcome we couldn't believe because. one of the best for this in russia so we can believe anything. to the plane because we were absolutely confident in the believe 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 to you good news about watching the news means good news i

still have hope to find my wife we get what you. preassure either our teach a car to indonesia. paul you can find the timeline of the tragedy on our website dot com and we have plenty more on the story online including these when and photos of the crew and others who were on board just before with disaster to fall last in an hour afterwards well for more log onto r.t. dot com that's our website. one of the secrets of soviet history solved declassified archives open the lid on mysterious death of stalin's oldest son the details are at our t.v. dot com.

greece may see new elections if political parties fail to form a government following sunday's inconclusive poll talks and forming a coalition will continue on friday political turmoil is already threatening the country's bailout agreements with the e.u. and the international monetary fund euro zone governments have held back part of the scheduled financing where greece receiving one billion euro less than planned the countries that did run out of cash in june and comic analyst michael ross thinks the eurozone needs to split to limit the damage of the crisis. what we see is a programmed crisis it's very sad to see these things developing but it was more or less planned within the euro because so different 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 we have violence on the street it is not possible to realize everybody knows this the whole problem that we have

in the eurozone cannot be solved by rescue packages cannot be solved by more debt cannot be solved anywhere it can only be solved by a break up of the euro or that means that germany pulls out and the worst of the countries in the us who are in there with the new rules on will devalue their money then they are again competitive against the world then they can breath. great political deadlock and the storm is causing in the eurozone is up for debate and people of else crossed up the whole program is coming up later this hour. does anybody. but the greeks outside the eurozone will do but look at the moment. the value of the drachma before. the euro would argue in my view on a number of occasions the problems i was probably my body mind in place if you have an unruly 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 extreme as we can't just screw around we have to actually get our act together and do something productive. and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov is in beijing setting the stage for the first visit abroad by a lot of important of his third presidential term the russian leader had to china next months as many see the global power balance shifting east towards well for more on the significance of the russia china partnership i'm now joined by professor of fashion and chinese expert on russia in shanghai thanks very much indeed for being with us on the program professor first stop love rob's visit is seen as preparation for president putin's trip to china in june so his first

official trip abroad after he's inauguration so how significant in your opinion is the destination choice for this visit. i think as the foreign minister the this for this child i think it's important for the issue for not only for biological what issues or because today we said oh slow prepare for a visit to presidents of the me put in next the months sink. to them and she said we were prepared very many that argument and if you choose to play and how we can develop not only about our children i should but also we discuss many things on regionally local nobody ever so i think the main issues we should discuss ok well russia and china see i do why on many issues but what's their primary common focus in terms of world affairs about other i'm sorry

what i'm saying that russia and china have been enjoying strong ties but still you know politics is not as it's ever but what's their primary common focus on account when it comes to world affairs. a sink for amp a when seen. on the global issue that we can find that the mini the common position for the pows not only the. has issues but also see the process i think of the russian the china the host of the call and the position that is a very very important position for the future to changing and also on the regional level cinco we will also support each other. in order to stabilizing the situation in a ship i think your region but also for you asian continent. of course i think.

not only we consider about the current summit situation but also we prepare it appear for the for the future of the international agenda how china and russia both sides that we would join that that kind of process and supporting we can and tenney the justice and also more home and i death situation in future toward all right mr rangel a thanks very much indeed for providing this insight. watching on to live from moscow as london prepares for the olympics bureaucrats and lawmakers have been busy to enacting a range of rules and regulations draconian measures are already schooling some people from the country while a number of reitman's have been banned from the games simply because they've objected to the construction of a lympics a cell is near their homes i think laura smith explains. lympics 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 in to 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 more 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. law for an understandable protest to aspects of the games which are on them across the koran popular. 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 punish people more severely i think it's insane i think that it shows the prevailing. consciousness in our governments and in the world which is one of the ultimately we're in control luckily for simon he doesn't live near the stadium but whoa betide anyone who does

this building's less than a kilometer from the olympic 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 effect the property values some people think that make the building a target for terrorists some people think that it's discipline is not secure enough so people don't want to be turned into some sort of military base they will really affect the quality of life. 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 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 lympics circus finally rolls into town laura smith r.t. london. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world clashes have continued in for a second day running as medical students battled riot police nation's capital protesters threw rocks and firecrackers at officers who fired tear gas and rubber bullets one of the country's largest for three days of demonstrations and a salary increase offered by the government students joined doctors and workers at public hospitals who are protesting at an increase in working hours and called. to the front runners for top job have gone head to head in the country's first presidential debate a former foreign minister under hosni mubarak and abdel moneim. a moderate islamist challenge each other about religion's role in democracy televised debate lasted for hours with supporters of both candidates watching closely an outdoor cafes around

cairo the two are among thirteen candidates running in the election due to begin on may the twenty thirty. nine people have been killed across afghanistan a series of violent attacks by taliban militants continue as an armed group where again 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 to the roadside bombs killed several civilians including five children and a police officer in the south. and it's time for the business update the sour while marina last hour was a sea of red over there on the market so has anything changed this hour what's going on really noble just saying it's all good in warsaw i should say you're just open the latest figures there point south as well if would take a look and see what the footsie and. that immediately after they opened we saw

them go in the red straight away as you can see on this tour right now that that says over. after her son both the flexi and the dioxins by and we have a number of factors a factor in that first of all we have downbeat they are coming out from china as one of the biggest banks in the us which is of course j.p. morgan chase showed some staggering trading losses now going to all of a little bit later also we have a space which will be going to be asked for over three hundred million dollars more to fund its banks so all of the all of these factors off course know how big boost investor confidence that if we take a look at the russian markets will see that they have nosedive near losing the more than almost two and that half percent each there and of course another factor which is the fact that the russian investors is really low crude prices which will take a look at his second but first let's look at some of those will share moves on the my side of course needless to say gas bomb is a losing one percent and lots of mainly due to lower energy prices and we have

among the worst performers losing almost seven percent this hour small ball brighter and see as i'm financials are not doing great there we have this for a bad news and over a one percent of this hour well moving on to the exchange rates the euro is the loser against the dollar when it comes to the ruble it's consumers who truth against of both major currencies oil prices as i've been saying they're heading for second weekly drop and that's amid rising the stockpiles also on thursday opec that group of major oil exporting countries that say that is producing almost ten percent more crude than is necessary and of course we're seeing that affect the prices as they're heading south now when it comes to asia mentioned some downbeat results from china that basically we have that inflation slowed more than a month of april and that's after a surprise again in march we also have that industrial output rose nine point three percent retail sales were up fourteen point one percent and wholesale prices and

were lower in japan and we had to use their earnings report out to help some investors and also gains on the gross that overnight that they're now. investors and then build their confidence also sony says art's home for over seven her sons and that's the lowest level in more than three decades that's after the company reported its. loss amounts and five point seven billion dollars and the company has been of course struggling with its loss making television business. in the u.s. markets are close it was in the picture here from burns then after the longest losing streak in nine months most of the u.s. groups managed to its current of things around that was following a dip in jobless claims and some signs of stabilization in europe but we saw the nasdaq drop into negative territory after a sting absolved for cisco systems there and it's the same with the u.s. talking about the biggest bank in the u.s. which is j.p. morgan chase has revealed staggering losses the bank says that it's

a complex investment made by its traders they saw actually even last amounting to a billion dollars and needless to say its shares fell about six percent after this so not many positive news here as always i have to say well as they say every cloud has a silver lining who knows maybe the next hour the situation will change fingers crossed thanks very much marina to you for this and of course there's plenty more to come your way our debate show crosstalk is coming up in just a few minutes right after a minor off the top stories.

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