a very warm welcome to you from from all of us here at r.t. moscow research showing that security council has unanimously and strongly condemned the terrorist blasts that killed at least fifty five and wounded almost four hundred in damascus on thursday 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 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 at the hillary brings out. with the u.n. observers in it live in there's been some pretty heavy going. throughout the night . now wolf to go from the scene in the hands from the tight control at the center there in the video and the face fighting is continuing. here

both sides we're told of violating the peace plan we fully the un observers into all the way through homes and hama of the areas and it is based on 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. we were. fighting. the tos he tries hard not to show perfectly encapsulate the level of devastation that has been wreaks on people's lives throughout the course of the conflict its own two had lived 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 drips we don't know who's doing that we lost to get a chance to me to govern 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 we enter into an area outside of. it's unique chance to see the u.n. monitors in action almost a month into the peace plan and yemen it 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 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 symbol of peace right now. it. is coming to life from moscow as could have you with us today still to come later this hour of locked in deadlock greek political parties in talks still struggling to form a government as fears 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 stay here to find out why the hardline regulations are drumming up discontent . russian businessman victor boot has slammed the american

justice system after being convicted of trafficking in the u.s. he compared it to a medieval style inquisition in an exclusive interview with our 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 maximum security prison to surface twenty five years against the recommendations of the judge of his trial. of the rockies the supermarket jailhouses some of america's most dangerous criminals russians lawyer has filed a motion asking for the decision. 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. through the. hard trial. where you know your mom accepted i'm kind of if you. think the marker of. completion of american justice and completion to reach an american comic. i'm not. sure of course this case has been like a hollywood blockbuster which of 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 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. well i have message for you as president kerry will keep you moving the markets have been able to view drug enforcement very working with rampant crime this will not only not help america really solve the problem of the drug war and you were victims of going through the real problem from the real problem they just invent the crime

for growth their soldier for help go through some pretty horrible horrible crime to create the inference that people are the corner of the real problem 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 that debate you can do so well on sunday here on say.

now at ten minutes past the hour here in moscow days after the 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 it's on teams preassure reports some relatives are still holding out 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 their 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 a surrogate bollea who has been following the super jet during the tour could have predicted this outcome we couldn't believe because oprah was. one of the best for this in russia so we couldn't believe anything. into 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. priya sri there are teach a car to indonesia. and you can find a timeline of the tragedy on our website. plenty more of the story online including these poignant photos of the crew and all those who on board just before takeoff disaster followed less than that one hour afterwards. plus criminal charges have been filed against a members of the russian security forces who reportedly beat up

a pregnant woman on opposition rally here in moscow those details for you on line.

culture is that so much of you give me a lot of people a serious look at what is happening in french voters appear to be moving to the left one priest is leaning hard to the right what is causing the collapse of the political. good lumber tour. was able to build the most sophisticated. we jointly doesn't give a dog amount anything. to teach creation or why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only on the 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 that may be needed if political parties fail to agree on a coalition following sunday's inconclusive poll political turmoil is a really threatening the country's bailout agreement with the e.u. and the international monetary fund eurozone governments have held back part of the shuttle 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 world's thinks the eurozone needs to split in order to limit the damage of the crisis. what we see is a 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 the end of the day you will have this what we have now we have violence on the street it is not possible to realize authority 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 germany pulls out and the worst of the countries in the us who are in the new rules on will be very they are 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 the greece outside the eurozone would do but there look at the he studio for the economic you say greece greece was the value of the drachma before. the euro would argue in 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. or in just a moment here on out so you will get to the world updates but for now as the london prepares 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 or a number of residents have been banned from the games simply because they've object to the construction of a lympics facilities near with the explanation as artie's laura smith.

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 sweaty milk and 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 mole 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 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. 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 doubts 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 the 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 the effect the property values some people think would make the building a target for terrorists some people think that it's this plan is not secure enough so people don't want to be turned into some sort of military base. will really affect the quality of life. my big argument is. nobody consultants 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 people are asking is if it's like this already what's

it going to be night when the lympics circus finally rolls into town north me. try to afghanistan to kick off the world for you now and nato soldiers being shot dead. in uniform the incident in the east of the country follows an attack on a local government office yesterday where a group also disguised as afghan army troops killed five people in taliban who carried out both assaults similar recent attacks have intensified mistrust between u.s. led forces on the 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 of officers who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. 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 frontrunners 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 abdullah more name a moderate islamist challenge each other all about the really the role of religion in democracy televised debate last 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 that 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 u.s. invasion in two thousand and three later today on 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 is a regime has 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. 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 six hundred million dollars to fund a 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 is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriots takes the unpopular caress that helps their country of origin stakes and even if they come this way at least from 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.

let's cross over there you are in across the river at the business desk 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 russia they knows that i went softly and to the right but since then it seems investors have had time to adjust and digest the news that we've got them basically investors are reacting to a number of data first we have downbeat reports coming out from china if we take a look at europe and now we'll see that they're losing about a third of a percent now to solve and that's our reactance down the results coming up in china also we have this stack only trade and also in three to morgan chase with i'll get to a bit later on and also we have news coming out from spain that reportedly it 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. because they're going on with the markets here in russia as i said first of all they nose dived almost three percent and now they're slowly making a comeback we can see that they're both yards yes and the my sets are loose in under two percent this hour and aside from the factors i mentioned earlier the european investors here we also have lower prices of course there are some economies very dependent on that and also this will we're seeing as the result of gas from going x. dividend every can see that gas and there's an over four percent this hour it's natural this happens every year that we have greater m.c.s.

one of the worst performers over they are losing over seven percent and financials are doing that great either we have is for a bad news or under two percent this hour now moving on to take a look at the exchange writes the euro it is amusing against the dollar when it comes to the ruble still a mix picture losing against the greenback again and against the euro now from an ounce of crude prices as i mentioned earlier heading south in fact they're headed for their second weekly drop and that's in the rise and u.s. stocks also on thursday old type of group called a major oil exporting country said that they're producing almost ten percent more crude than is necessary and this tends to drive prices lower when the u.s. markets are closed so we'll see in that picture a year from thursday it was a mixed trading session although most of the u.s. troops managed to escape their longest losing streak in nine months and that's followed at different jobless claims this was some signs all this the bullet seen in europe five in the last few hours all recession who saw their friends negative

territory and that was after a certain drop in the cisco systems they're now also saying you would think 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 all soon. billion dollars and is drove it says that six percent after these. but more that's what i have for you this hour and i think we will see you in about an hour's time cheers marina. and just over here a lot see we do have you can stay with us so the headlines in just a circuit that will be followed by a special edition of moscow. height

fifty two meters. weights more than eight thousand tonnes of. skin thickness thirty centimeters the guinness record. commemorating the battle of stalingrad. the mother than caught us on our team.

flight from moscow this is our rule research right here you have winds now the u.n. security council condemns deadly terrorist attacks near a military intelligence complex in damascus which kills fifty five syria is meantime demanding measures against foreign powers supporting terrorism. a russian business one sentenced to twenty five years behind bars in america speaks to artsy as he prepares to be sent to a supermax security prison holding some of the country's most dangerous criminals and that's against the recommendation of his trial judge asked for medium security confinement. and rescuers have found twelve bodies while battling weather conditions on treacherous terrain to reach the scene of a super jet crash in indonesia.