it is good to have you with us here on r t today. live in moscow the un security council has unanimously and strongly condemned terrorist blasts that killed at least fifty five people and wounded almost four hundred in 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 now. brings us the latest from u.n. 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 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 goals steeds joint special envoy kofi annan did address also the media just this week saying that right now by syria can be descending into a full scale civil war if the ceasefire does not hold our t.v.'s 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. nobles to go to the scene and he has fairly tight control of the central area and the. 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 passing through homes and hama of the areas and it 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. would. fighting . the tos 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 it's 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 with the volatile situation criminal gangs thought to operate in this area

. we find it 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 he's the government and other states armed groups we don't know who's doing that last we get a chance to me to govern 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 u.n. monitors are making small steps on the ground that is 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 some 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 at civil. and still to come for you just a bit later this hour that of a locked in deadlock and a greek political parties in talks are 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 and leading to accusations of a police state and stay here to find out why the hardliner regulations are drumming up discontent. russian businessman victor boot has the american justice system after being convicted of arms trafficking in the u.s.

he compared it to a medieval style inquisition this during an exclusive interview to r.t. the first one is 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 years this going against the recommendations of the judge in his trial dubbed the alcatraz of the rockies supermax jail houses some of america's most dangerous criminals the russians lawyer has filed a motion asking for the decision to be stalled often although booth is still in a new york prison it's where he spoke exclusively to us our correspondent. tells us more. this was viktor booths 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 kind of. very you know. you don't know. where. no your mom accepted. that you were. recruited marker of actually showing them the real condition of american justice and real confusion to reach an american comic as a police state and nothing short of dictatorship of course his case has been like a hollywood blockbuster week to boot is a russian air cargo business man in his forty's he's been dubbed the merchant of death in the united states the u.s. has spent years and tens of millions of dollars in an operation to hunt this man down of course we know that u.s. agents posing as far as members met with viktor boot and then arrested him in

thailand in two thousand and eight two years later regardless of the fact that thai courts found him not guilty twice in what was called arm twisting by the united states victor boot was extradited into u.s. territory to face charges of international arms trafficking victim 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. message for you as president kerry will keep using the park. the truck and force majeure to very well be rampant crime this will not only not helpful federico really solve the problem of the drug war and you were. victims of going through the real problem for the real problem. the drug for close to your program go through

somebody. provokes. thirty three different people for the border 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. 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 if. you can watch the entire interview with you could be that will be on sunday here on.

it's a ten minutes past the hour here in moscow good of you to join us today so teams of so far found twelve a body just as they struggle to reach the wreckage of the sukhoi superjet crash in indonesia despite harsh weather and treacherous mountain terrain no survivors have been discovered yet but as aunties pre-history to reports some relatives continue to cling to 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 god 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 no idea. the super jet was performing that demonstration for airline executives and potential buyers as part of an asian toy or 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 pros in russia so we can 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 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. and you can find the timeline of the tragedy on our website www dot com we also have a plenty more of the story online including these poignant last photographs of the pilots and some of the others who were on board taken just before the ill fated flight details all got about seat dot com. room was spreading like wildfire on the internet about russian police allegedly beating up a pregnant woman at last weekend's opposition demonstration these turn out to be

full it's revealed the person in question is a man and investigation into the offices of behavior is under way more details about this rather strange case of. height fifty two meters. more than eight thousand tons. skin thickness thirty centimeters. the guinness record. commemorating the battle of stalingrad. the mother than called us on our team. wealthy british science.

market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser reports . now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital you. could deal with a greek exit that's according to the german finance minister as greece struggles to form a new government new elections may be needed if political parties fail to agree on a coalition following sunday's inconclusive poll political turmoil has already threatening the country's bailout agreement with the e.u. and the international monetary fund eurozone governments of held back part of the show jewels financing with greece receiving one billion euros less than planned the

country though is set or run out of cash in june economic analyst michael moore of thinks the eurozone needs to split in order 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 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 is 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 be solved by more debt cannot be solved anywhere it can only be solved by a break up of the euro all that means that germany pulls out and the worst of the countries in the us who are in the new rules on will devalue it their money then

they are again competitive against the world then there can be. one of the great political deadlock in the storm and scorching of the eurozone that's up for debate with people cross talk or that is coming your way shortly here on r.t. in fact excuse me about fifteen minutes time. is it seriously suggesting that the greece outside the eurozone would do but there look at the he studio for the economic you say. the value of the drachma before opting for the euro is arguing my view on a number of occasions the problems cause the problem have remained in place if you haven't done really a teenager who's really lazy and doesn't do anything and is is draining your bank account what do you do you kick them out of the house and generally get his act together so that's the same kind of approach that could be taken to greece and i think they without this this safety net that the eurozone provides they might actually get around to realizing oh my goodness we have an issue here and we can't

just elect experiments we can't just screw around we have to actually get our act together and do something productive. or i will get to the altar you will drop it shortly for you but as for now london prepares for the olympics bureaucrats and lawmakers have been busy as well this time they were not getting a range of rules and regulations draconian measures are already excluding some people from the country and the number of residents have been banned from the games simply because they objected to the construction of a live picture still if he's near homes he's laura smith investigates. 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 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 undemocratic or unpopular . furthermore these are just this legislation won't prevent people from disrupting the games the wall it will do is it will give the ability of the authorities to to punish people more severely i think it's insane i think that it shows the prevailing. consciousness in all governments and on the world which is one of the ultimately we're in control luckily for simon he doesn't. live near the stadium but. anyone who does this building's less than a kilometer from the live picture talk 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 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. my big argument is. nobody consulted us 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 pritish 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. under strict afghanistan for the now nato soldier has been shot dead by a man disguised in army uniform the incident in the east of the country follows

a local government office yesterday where the group also disguised as afghan army troops killed five people the taliban has already claimed responsibility similar recent attacks have intensified mistrust between the us led forces and their partners in the western allies due to leave in two years time. clashes have continued in for a second day running as medical students battle riot police in the nation's capital . protesters threw rocks and firecrackers at officers who then returned with tear gas and rubber bullets. one of the country's largest unions called for three days of demonstrations after rejecting a salary increase offered by the government. joint doctors and workers at public hospitals who are protesting at an increase in working hours and cutbacks. and 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 abdel moneim aboul fotouh a moderate islamist challenged each other about religions role in democracy a televised debate last four hours with supporters of both candidates watching closely in outdoor cafes the other two are among thirteen candidates running in the election due to begin may twenty third. now claims that iraq had weapons of mass destruction led to the us invasion in two thousand and three late today on artsy special report called covered the war in iraq shows how bogus assertions were used to start a full scale conflict with catastrophic consequences a preview for you now. 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 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 let us 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 we have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment.

and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriot takes the unpopular course but helps the country and for the 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. ok straight to folks is out there we all good to see you again marina before we get into your business up there for the hour i do want to stand though the your pinky. mission made a prediction about the region's economy for this year good news or are you going to be the usual harbinger of doom and give us bad news. this time i actually have

a mixture i do have good and bad let's start with the bad though first we will see a contraction this year according to the european commission and this is for the euro zone it will contract zero point three percent this year and this is for the seventeen countries that use the euro but for next year we will see growth for one percent so when it comes to all twenty seven countries in the that growth will be one point three percent so a bit of good news there let's take a look at the european markets and see how their take in these news and if we can see there are still in the red so the news there really ever back to investors there but investors are reacting to a mixture of data first we had downbeat with boys coming out from china then we had the staggering trading loss of a good morgan chase and i'll get into that a little bit later and also we had news coming out from spain that every quarter at me will ask four hundred billion dollars saying it's back it's bank of a more and faculty now is that the government there is set to discuss ways later

today to clean up its banking system one of the ways proposed is to force banks to set aside extra money to cover the cost of loans going bad that figure would be around thirty nine billion dollars but some analysts doubt the country can even afford to inject the amount of capital required and will eventually have to get outside help. well consider you know where the markets here in russia of course after the markets nosedive so most three percent in the red have been slowly making a comeback going deeper into the red it's been one a volatile session as you can see the arts yes it is still losing over at supersonic and aside from the fact as i mentioned earlier affecting your investors we also have decline in oil prices and i'll talk about those a little bit later and also we have gas which went eggs there were that his own ways of facts the markets here we could see gas for as news of the sun this hour among the worst performers is greater and so yes that it's reason over seven

percent and financials aren't doing that great either the sperm bank in the red as well now moving on to exchange rates the euro is a flat against the dollar when it comes to the ruble a mixed picture there it's losing the against the greenback by gaining the euro and as i mentioned crude prices are heading south in fact they're almost heading to their second week in the wall but not so many rising u.s. stockpiles also not on thursday old by the group of major oil exporting countries that say that they have their produce in almost ten percent more through that than they need of course higher demand always leads to lower prices and then move in the we have the markets are closed but it's important to mention that on thursday most vigorous blue chips managed to xscape the longest losing streak in the bout the nine months but then that was of course many due to a big job loss claims unless some signs of the bullets in europe. did slip into

negative territory in the last hours of trading and that was because there was this the decline in cisco systems will stay with us as i met with the biggest bank j.p. morgan chase there has revealed some significant losses the bank says that it's a complex investments made by its traders they saw a trading loss of billion dollars and after that it shares fell six percent. so to come as a surprise we're really. all that safe from the war and. take over and give you the latest. thanks very much and enjoy the weather outside it's a beautiful day here. still to come here and i'll see the headlines are backed up by the usual people going after the doom and gloom the death of the eurozone cross-talk in just a moment. the

u.n. security council condemned quote terrorist attack. which killed fifty five syria meantime is demanding that measures against a foreign power supporting terrorism take. a russian businessman sentenced to twenty five years behind bars in america speaks. as he prepares to be sent to a supermax security prison holding some of the country's most dangerous criminals. the recommendation of a trial judge. and rescuers have found twelve.