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 twin explosions near a government intelligence complex are the worst terror attacks in syria since the start of the uprising last year r.t. has made up 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 farid 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 goals 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 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 and heavy artillery rings out. with the u.n. observers in it live in there's been some pretty heavy going. throughout the night . no will to go to the scene as for the tight control of the central area.

and the fist fighting is continuing. here both sides we're told of violating the peace plan we've fully the un observers into it all the way through homes and hama areas mona's is that based on 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. safety. the fighting. that is 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 two had lived 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 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 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 your 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 right now a city. well and it with fear syria will slide back into full scale violence or no website we've been asking for your thoughts on who might benefit most from such a scenario so far as 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 islamics were looking to take over the country six percent saying syrian bad it's are 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 stay tuned 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 twenty five year term against the recommendations of the judge in his trial dog to alcatraz of the rockies the supermax jail houses 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 in essence he tells us more. this was victor boots first interview to him in. lish 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 proud of. where you know. you don't care. where you know your mom except if you can kind of if you. think marker of actually

showing them to completion of american justice and. coming out as recalled. for gold no of course his case has been like a hollywood blockbuster which of buddhism 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 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 to very well be rampant crime. not to. regional help america. called the problem of the iraq war and where. there's a growing group of real problem for the real problem. the grunts the group of soldiers you're full who go through some pretty horrible horrible. truth. for the people are the real problem now but 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 on a situation of reporting there and again cashel for interview victor aboard has given us this here on our. days after the deadly so 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 to 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 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 a surrogate bollea 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 queen 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 good news about watching the news means good news i still have hope to find my wife. preassure either our teach a car to indonesia. well you can find the timeline of the tragedy on our website

dot com and we have plenty more on the story online including these photos of the crew and others who were on board just before takeoff with disaster in the fall last in an hour afterwards well for more log onto r.t. dot com that's our website. plus one of the secrets of soviet history solved declassified archives open the lid on mysterious death style and all the sun the details are at our t.v. dot com. greece may see new elections if a little party's failed 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 agreement with the e.u. and the international monetary fund euro zone governments have held back part of their scheduled financing where greece receiving one billion euro less than planned the country said 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 crisis it's very soon to see things developing but it was more planned within the euro because different countries like greece and germany are not fitting into one currency and they do end up to do. what we have no. violence on the wheat it is not possible to really. everybody knows there's the whole problem that we have in the eurozone cannot be used by rescue packages cannot be solved by a mall dad's cannot be solved anywhere. it can only be solved by

a break up of the year all that means to germany pulls out and the rest of the countries in the us who are in the new rules on will devalue their money then they are again competitive against a wall then there can be. great political deadlock and the storm is causing in the eurozone is out for debate and peter krause stop the full program is coming up later this hour. is anybody seriously suggesting that greece outside the eurozone would 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 of the problem have remained 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 ekstrom 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 a 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 of choice

for this visit. i think as the foreign minister the this has to china i think it's important for the issue for not only for by a larger donations because today we said oh slay prepare for a visit to the presidents of the me put in next the months sink. to them and she said we were prepared very many that argument and that is if you choose to play and how we can to vela. not only about you know what i should but also discuss many things on regionally local obledo so i think the main issue is what we should discuss ok well russia and china see i do i on many issues but what's their primary common focus in terms of world affairs. i'm sorry well 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 their primary common focus want to come when it comes to world affairs. for amp a when seen. on the global issue that we can find the mini the common position for the poem not only the. has issues but also see the process i think of the russian the china the host the call of the position that is very very important position for the future to change it and also on the regional level cinco we will also support each other. in order to stabilizing the situation in a ship as if your region but also for you a continent. of course i think. not only we consider about the kind of the summit situation but also we prepare it the pill for the for the

future of the international agenda how china and russia both side that we will join that that kind of process and supporting we can and tenney that justice and also more home and i that situation in future is water all right mr how shall a thanks very much indeed for providing this insight. what tonight you live from moscow as london prepares for the olympics there grass and lawmakers have been busy to enacting a range of rules and regulations draconian measures are already excluding 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 the limbic system and he's 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 suerte millikan 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 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 to punish people more severely i think it's insane i think that it shows the prevailing state of 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 live picture hawk 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 looks already triggered an explosive reaction resident brian whelan learned of the plans from a leaflet push through his door late one night some people are worried about the effect the property values have because they could make the building a target for terrorists some people think that it's discipline as it is not secure enough so people don't want to be turned into some sort of military base where they really affect the quality of life. my big argument is. nobody consulted in the n.y.t. 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 north smith london

. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world clashes have continued in the media for a second day running as medical students battled riot police nation's capital protests and fire crackers and officers who fired tear gas and rubber bullets one of the country's largest call for three days of demonstrations and the introduction the salary increase offered by the government students joined doctors and workers at public hospitals are protesting at an increase in working hours and combat. to the front runners for egyptians top job have gone head to head in the country's first presidential debate our most former foreign minister under hosni mubarak and abdel moneim. a moderate islamist challenge each other about religion in democracy televised debate last of the. for hours with supporters of both candidates watching closely in outdoor cafes around cairo the two are monks thirteen candidates running in the election due to begin on may the twenty thirty.

nine hundred people have been killed across afghanistan a series of violent attacks by taliban militants continue as an armed group wearing out 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. it's all good in warsaw i should say europe just opened and the latest figures there point south as well if would take a look and see what the footsie and. we'll see that immediately after they open that we saw them go in the red straightaway as you can see on this thing right now

that that says over a half a percent both the flexi and the dikes and we have a number of factors affecting the first of all we have down there you know coming out of china as one of the biggest banks in the u.s. which is of course j.p. morgan chase showed some staggering trading losses and i'll go into all of a little bit later also we have space which will be one of the ask for over three hundred billion dollars more to its banks so all of that all of these factors of course not helping groups the 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. each there and of course another factor which is in fact the russian investors is really the low crude prices which will take a look at this second but first let's look at some of those will share moves on the my side of course leads us to say gas is a loser. well presented lots of mainly due to lower energy prices and we have among the worst performers losing almost seven percent this hour in small ball breaker

and see as i'm fine answers are not doing great there we have this for a bad news and over a one percent of the sour well moving on to the exchange place 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 or weekly drop and that's on the horizon the us stock piles also on thursday over at that group of major oil exporting countries that say that it's producing almost ten percent more crude than is necessary and of course we're seeing that effect the prices as they're heading south now when it comes to an asia i mentioned some downbeat results from china that basically we have that inflation slowed more the 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 that helped some investors and also gains on the gross and overnight but that didn't help investors

and didn't build their confidence also as so many shares are it's humbling over seven through science and that's the lowest level in more than three decades that's after the company reported its. loss amounts in to 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 byrne's then after the longest losing streak and nine months most of the u.s. moved serviceman or suits turned of things around that was following a dip in jobless claims and some signs of stabilization in europe but we saw the nasdaq jump into the negative territory after a sting absolved for cisco systems there and the same with the u.s. as well talking about the biggest bank in the u.s. which is j.p. more. and chase has really staggering losses the bank says that it's a complex investment made by its traders they so it's laden loss amounting to two

billion dollars and needless to say its shares fell about six percent after this. so not many positive news here maria that as always i have this is 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 obviate and of course there is plenty more to come your way our debate show cross stock is coming up in just a few minutes right after reminder of the top stories.

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on the back you are with your a minor the top stories of this join us now yes go to council can dance deadly terrorist attacks near a military intelligence complex in the syrian capital damascus fifty five syria's demanding measures. against foreign powers supporting terrorism. and russian businessmen an arms dealer sentenced to twenty five years behind bars in the us speaks to our team as he prepares to be sent to a super max security prison holding some of america's most dangerous criminals that's against that recommendation trial judge asked for medium security confinement. and rescuers have found twelve bodies while battling dreadful weather conditions and treacherous terrain to reach the sea.