the un security council. deadly terrorist attacks near a military intelligence complex in the syrian capital fifty five killed syria calls for measures against foreign powers supporting terrorists. a russian businessman sentenced to twenty five years behind bars in the us speaks exclusively to r.t. as prepared to be sent to a. security prison against the recommendation of his trial judge. and rescuers have found twelve bodies battling dreadful weather conditions and treacherous terrain to reach the scene of the sukhoi superjet crash in.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here. the security council has unanimously and strongly condemned the terrorist blasts that killed at least fifty five and wounded almost four hundred. twenty explosions near a government intelligence complex are the worst terror attacks in the country since the start of the uprising last year. and now has the latest from un headquarters in new york. all fifteen members of the security council have to recognize 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 steeds 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 heavy hillary brings out. with the u.n. and in it live in there's been some pretty heavy going. throughout the night.

now wolf to go from the scene as from a tight control of the century. and the fist fighting is continuing. here both sides we're told of violating the peace plan we fully the u.n. observers into it all the way pulsing through homes and hama other areas mon it is a base and there is that is seeing some of the destructive fighting as we pull through homes we have a brief an emotional conversation with the residents of. safety. we would want people who still about the fighting that happened to see. the tis he tries hard not to show as perfectly encapsulate the level of devastation that has been wreaks on people's lives here throughout the course of the conflict it's on to it live on

a stretch of road this name for being extremely dangerous it's a journey that would have been never possible without the u.n. presence with the volatile situation criminal gangs thoughts 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 is the government and others say it's on groups we don't know who's doing that we lost to get a chance to meet it let's 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 law. 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 humanity is making small steps on the ground it's going to be very. throughout the course of the conflict it's been hard to come to

some of the areas where the fiercest fighting 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. now it is coming to you live from moscow as could have you with us today still to come later this hour about of locked in deadlock greek political parties in talks still struggling to form a government as for years mount the country is closer to leaving the euro than ever with possibly chaotic consequences. plus a raft of new laws and rules for the olympic games in london leading to accusations of a police state i stay here to find out why the hardline regulations are drumming up

discontent. russian a businessman victor boot 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. of the first one he's given to any english language channel since his extradition from thailand and he's now preparing to be sent to a super maximum security prison to serve his twenty five year term against the recommendations of the judge of his trial dubbed the alcatraz of the rockies the supermarket jailhouses some of america's most dangerous criminals russians lawyer has filed a motion asking for the. to be stalled for now is still in a new york prison that's where he spoke exclusively to laci a correspondent on the stasi a truck and tells us. 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 crown. were you know. you don't always try trial. where you know your mom. i'm kind of with you. but i think the marker is actually showing you completion of american justice and. american comic as opposed to a nonfunctional dictatorship of course his case has been like a hollywood blockbuster picture buddhas 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 of course we know that u.s. agents posing as far camembert has met with viktor boot and then of 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. well i have message for you as president kerry will keep you moving these folks have been able to be a drug enforcement to them and they would give a gram to crime this will not only not help america really solve the problem of the

drug and you were victims of going to the real problem from the real problem they just invented the crime for coke there's no danger for somebody who felt sorry for of all kinds over thirty three different people at the border 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. and you can watch the full interview with picked a buddha you can do so well on sunday here on say. ten

minutes past the hour here in moscow days after the deadly sue hoist super jet crash in indonesia the first rescue team is soon expected to reach the site of the wreckage in remote mountains no survivors have been found yet but as our teams preassure to reports some relatives are still holding out hope. chaos of 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 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 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 that anything can happen 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 good news about i think so far that new news means good news i still have hope to find my wife we get what you are. priya sri there are teach a car to indonesia. and you can find a timeline of the tragedy on our website authors who thought to call now we also have plenty more of the story online thank looting a poignant photos of the crew and others who on board just before takeoff disaster to follow in less than that one hour afterwards more on that of on c dot com. plus

criminal charges have been filed against a members of the russian security forces he reportedly beat up pregnant women injuring on an opposition rally here in moscow those details for you on line.

culture is that so much of me is going to make you a lot of people here you look at what is happening in europe french voters appear to be moving to the left while priest is leaning hard to the right what is causing the collapse of the political scene. in the desert sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robots which on secretly doesn't give a dollar amount anything tim's mission. to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on dot com. live from moscow this is r.t. now the eurozone could deal with

a greek exit that's according to the german finance minister as greece continues to struggle to form a new government a new elections in may be needed if political parties fail to agree on a coalition following sunday's inconclusive poll political turmoil is a really ready threatening of the country's bailout agreement with the e.u. and the international monetary fund eurozone governments have held back part of the show george financing with greece receiving one billion euros less than planned the country is set to run out of cash in june and economic analyst michael worlds thinks the eurozone needs to split in order to limit the damage of the crisis. what we see is the program 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 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 euro zone cannot be solved by rescue packages cannot. cannot be solved anywhere it can only be solved by a break up of the euro or means that germany pulls out and the worst of the countries in the us who are in the very new rules on will devalue their money then they are again competitive against the world then there can be. now in the greek political deadlock in the storm it's causing in the eurozone all up for debate in pittsburgh fellas cross-talk full program coming your way that'll be next hour here on what's he. isn't about usually suggesting that greece outside the eurozone would do but there are look at the history or for the economic you say this was the value of the drachma before opting for the euro but arguing my view on

a number of occasions the problems cause the problem have remained in place if you haven't done really teenager who's really lazy and doesn't do anything and is is draining your bank account what do you do you kick them out of the house and generally get its 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. for it in just a moment here on r.t. will get to the world updates but for now as the london propose for the olympics bureaucrats and lawmakers have been busy as well in acting a range of rules and regulations draconian measures already excluding some people from the country on a number of residents have been banned from the games simply because they've object to the construction of

a lympics facilities near their homes with the explanation as artist laura smith. the olympic 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 enthusiasm 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 the legislation is being used to prevent. law for an understandable protest to aspects of the games which are on the macross ticker on 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 betide anyone who does this buildings 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 affect the property values some people think that make the building a target for terrorists some people think that it's discipline and it is not secure enough some people don't want to be turned into some sort of military base. they'll really affect the quality of life. my big argument is. nobody consulted us the m.r.d. 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. try to afghanistan to kick off the r t world update for you now and nato soldier has been shot dead by a man described in army uniform the incident in the east of the come. follows an attack on a local government office yesterday where an armed group also disguised as afghan army troops killed five people the taliban has said it carried out both assaults similar recent attacks have intensified mistrust between u.s. led forces and their afghan partners with western allies due to leave in two years time. clashes have continued in bolivia for a second day running as medical students battle riot police in the nation's capital

. the protesters threw rocks and firecrackers at officers who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets and one of the country's largest unions called for three days of demonstrations to rejecting a salary increase offered by the government it's also joined with doctors are workers at public hospitals who are protesting at an increase in working hours and cutbacks. two of 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 abdel moneim aboul fotouh a moderate islamist challenge each other all about the really the role of religion in democracy the televised debate lasted for hours with supporters of both candidates watching closely an outdoor cafes around cairo are the two are among thirteen candidates running in the election is due to begin on may twenty third. but before we get some arena with the business for now claims that iraq had weapons

of mass destruction of course led to the us invasion in two thousand and three later today on r.t. our special report uncovered the war on iraq shows how bogus assertions were used to start a full scale conflict with catastrophic consequences for a preview. the people of the united states and their 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 we know for a fact that there are weapons there. this were 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 can provide. david cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund the continuing search 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 most disturbing. sometimes the true patriot takes the unpopular course but helps a country where the stakes and even if they can't persuade at least they tried 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 but i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others. let's cross over there you are in a quarter of a. business that's good to see you i do want to study over the past hour or so the markets have managed to cool off a bit yes they have rory of course when they first opened i was all about markets in europe and they knows that there was a softly end to the ride but since then it seems investors have had time to adjust and digest the news that we've got and basically investors are reacting to a number of data first we have downbeat reports coming out from china if we take a look at that now will see that they're losing about a third of a percent now itself and that's so reactance down the results coming up in china also we have this stack only to say i'm also going to morgan chase with i'll get to a bit later on and also we have news coming out from spain that reportedly in may

need to ask for three hundred billion dollars now talking about spain the government there is said to the sky ways to clean up its banking system and one of the ways proposed is to force banks to set aside extra money to cover the cost of loans going bad the figure would be around thirty nine billion dollars but some analysts doubt the country to inject the money the amount of capital required and will eventually have to get outside help. now consider that on with the markets here in russia as i said first of all they know sides are almost three percent on the other slowly making a comeback we can see that they're both the arts yes and the my sets are lose in under two percent this hour and aside from the factors i mentioned earlier that the european investors here will also have lower prices of course russian economy is very dependent on that and also this will we're seeing as a result of gas from going x. dividend every can see that gas and there's now over four percent this hour it's

natural this happens every year that we have greater and yes one of the worst performers of the day losing over seven percent and financials are doing that great either we have is for a bad loser under two percent this hour now moving on to take a look at the exchange rights the euro area is amazing against the dollar when it comes to the ruble still a mixed picture losing against the greenback but again and against the euro now not to prices as i mentioned earlier they're heading south in fact they're headed for their second weekly drop and that's the rise in the stockpiles also on thursday old type of group called the major oil exporting countries said that they're producing almost ten percent more crude than is necessary and this tends to drive prices lower now when the u.s. markets are closed so we're seeing that picture in your book thursday it was and the next trading session although most of the u.s. moves have some managed to escape their longest losing streak in nine months and

that's followed at different jobless claims this was some signs of this the bullet seen in europe and the last few hours of recession who saw their friends negative territory and that was after a sudden drop in the system since then they're now saying you would bring us the biggest bank there is i mentioned earlier j.p. morgan chase has revealed some significant along says the bank says that due to complex investments made by its traders they saw a trading loss soon. a billion dollars and there's drove it says that six percent after the news came out. that more that's what i have for you this hour now i think we will see you in about an hour's time cheers maria. i just want to hear a lot see we do have you can stay with us of the headlines in just a sec or that'll be followed out by a special edition of moscow. night

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