we wanted to present. something else. the bombings which killed fifty five people in syria's capital while the regime takes a stand against arab states backing opposition extremists. convicted of illegal arms trafficking and facing twenty five years in a maximum security u.s. jail of a russian a businessman a victim who calls the case against a witch exclusive interview with. hopes of finding survivors from the plane crash in indonesia as a rescue team discovers the first victims from the demo flight.

it is good to have you with us today here on r.t. . live in moscow the un security council has unanimously condemned to terrorist blasts which ripped through the syrian capital damascus killing fifty five and injuring almost four hundred on thursday the bombs went off in a military intelligence building becoming the worst attack since the start of the unrest last year. now reports from the un headquarters in new york. all fifteen members of the security council have recognized that terrorist networks are working in side of syria it was only just on tuesday when the syrian envoy to the united nations had accused a number of regional air powers of sponsoring terrorism to undermine the ceasefire and in syria the syrian ambassador. held up a d.v.d.

claiming that on that d.v.d. was confessions of dozens of individuals that were involved in terrorist activities upon the order of what he said were 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 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 night . no will to go to the scene as for the tight control of the century there.

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 on the way pulsing through homes and other areas mon it is that based and there is that is seen some of the most destructive fighting as we passed through homes we have a brief an emotional conversation with the residents of to. safety. what the people who still fighting the. war but it's clear. that it is he tries hard not to show as perfectly encapsulate the level of devastation that has been wreaked on people's lives here throughout the course of the conflict is on to it live on a stretch of road this known 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 others say it's on groups we don't know who's doing that last we get a chance to meet it lives governor and ask him about the situation here. even if there is a little unrest in some areas or in a few spots it's due to people who are breaking the. checkpoint after checkpoint then we enter into an area outside of government control and it's a unique chance to see the u.n. monitors in action almost a month into the peace plan and you're monitors are making small steps on the ground but it's going to be a slow process throughout the course of the conflict it's been hard to come to some of the areas where the fiercest fighting is happening and get

a gauge of exactly what the situation is on the ground the u.n. observers traveling to some of these areas have given them access to what we see is a frightened population and the city symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace is right now a city civil. r.t. . and there's still plenty more ahead for you this hour here on including a look at reigniting euro crisis europe's. faces a new election with a unbridgeable division. preventing the greek parliament from forming a government coalition. troops some people from london's olympics altogether criticism of. noise over the security for the game. russian businessman victor boot has compared the american justice system to a medieval inquisition he gave

a rare and exclusive interview to r.t. after being convicted of arms trafficking in america it's the first time he's spoken to an english speaking channel since being detained in thailand the federal bureau of prisons ruled he will serve his twenty five year term in a supermax some security jail in colorado a boots lawyer has already fallen appeal the russian is awaiting a decision in his in new york prison for the time being with details. 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 corona.

where you know. through the. trial. where you know your mom accepted. but you. think the marker is actually showing them to you conditional format or can jump to. conclusion you reach an american comic relief and nonfunctional dictatorship of course his case has been like a hollywood blockbuster picture book is 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 forked 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 himself has always maintained his innocence and believes his case to be political theatrics 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 were used. to keep using these products. drug enforcement. if they were going to grant a crime this will not only not help america really solve the problem of. course and you were but it's that of going to the real problem from the real problem they just inventing the crime for growth there to no danger for him go to somebody who don't hide for a walk through the kind of the good to trick your friends with people in federal corner of the fold the real problem now the 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 catch the full interview with victor that will be on sunday here on. ten minutes past the hour here in moscow in indonesia

a search team has found at least twelve bodies on the slopes of a volcano where a new russian airliner crashed on wednesday during a show flight the rescue operation has been halted overnight and till saturday morning as fears mount that everyone on board might be dead pretty straight ahead from the family and friends who are still holding out hope. chaos at jakarta's domestic airport where hundreds gathered after russian superjet sukhoi one hundred went missing from radars 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 of the got a 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 sergei doli who has been following the super during the tour could have predicted this outcome we can believe because. one of the best for this in russia so we can believe anything. to clean with the political from 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 we get what you. preassure either our teach a car to indonesia. remember. you can find all the details about this flight as well as more about russia's sukhoi superjet. see photos of the crew before the fatal flight. hours before the tragedy. plus the politics blog. claims the. latest video is revealed of the woman. for a third time this week greece's deadlocked parliament is desperately trying to form

a coalition government but hopes of a deal remain slim with the country now facing the possibility it may have to hold new elections polls however suggest the parties would suffer even more losses this time around. in sunday's election. billion euros germany is already. saying the euro could survive with or without greece but economic. needs to split in order to limit the damage. what we see is a programmed crisis it's very sad to see these things developing but it was more or less planned within the euro because so difficult 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. this the whole problem that we have in the euro zone cannot be solved by rescue packages cannot be solved by modi it cannot be solved anywhere it can only be solved by a break up of the euro that means that germany pulls out and the worst of the countries in the us who are in the within the euro zone will devalue it their money then they are again competitive against the world then they can bridge. well the greek crisis and the tidal wave of why are you causing for europe are up for discussion and people love else cross-talk program of the two sides of the single currency debate make their cases here on r t. fifteen thirty g.m.t. . i think the french people for example are already tired of paying for the problems in greece and i think that's the general concept of the eurozone is now everybody's frustrated paying for everyone else's mismanagement the euro was

founded on a pie in the sky idea that ended up being an economic straight jacket and nobody can escape at this point that's the problem and working against the economy for political reasons just because everyone has a great political will i'm not sure how long that can last when people aren't working there are going hungry you know i think we're seeing it already with some of the election results that the people of just how do you know we don't we don't have people going hungry in europe in big numbers no no couple that's not there times are hard and we're really people are unable to find jobs the reason there is nobody there is you know the research issues there's no e-mail you really if you're willing to tell these to believe that there's nobody going hungry you're saying there's nobody and really this use but we're not buying into the 1930's no no i really you know you're going to say no it was a reason not greece of the value we were in trouble if the euro were in trouble it would be trading lower than the dollar.

we will get to the aussie world shortly but for now the u.k. has been branded as a police state by a symbol of the party campaigners a heavy handed security measures ahead of the games plans include high velocity missiles being stationed on buildings close to the olympic park some people have been banned from the games altogether and saudi's laura smith reports. 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's where tim larkin lives he's supposed to be in the u.k. training martial arts enthusiastic but as he was boarding his flight he discovered the home office had excluded him from the country on the grounds that his self-defense course might incite vigilanteism being that i have a fifteen year history of coming to the u.k.

training thousands of people from the u.k. and also european clients coming 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 the necrotic or 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 thirty's to to punish people more severely i think it's insane i think that it shows the prevailing state of consciousness in our 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 tight anyone who does this building's less than a kilometer from the olympic park the plan is to station a battery of high velocity missiles on the roof of this block of flats for two months over the olympics a proposal that's already triggered an explosive reaction resident brian whelan learned of the plans from a leaflet pushed through his door late one night some people are worried about the effect the property values some people think would make the building a target for terrorists some people think that it's discipline and 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 consulted on the mit 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 r t. r let's go to some other international news in brief for you the r.t. was now we'll start with egypt where the two election front runners have squared off in the country's first ever presidential debate former mubarak era foreign minister. and moderate islamist abdel moneim aboul fotouh all challenge each other about religion is rolling democracy the four hour debate was closely watched by

egyptians after nearly thirty years of authoritarian rule the two are among the thirteen candidates running in the election due to begin may twenty third. the former chief executive of news international has told a british inquiry into media ethics about herbert friendship with the country's prime minister david cameron rebecca brooks said she received messages of support from him after stepping down from rupert murdoch's company in the wake of the phone hacking scandal cameron set up the ethics inquiry last year in response to revelations the news of the world had hacked into the phone of a murdered british schoolgirl. clashes have continued in bolivia for a second day as medical students battle riot police in the nation's capital as the protesters threw rocks and firecrackers at officers who returned with tear gas and rubber bullets one of the country's largest unions call for three days of

demonstrations after rejecting a salary increase offered by the government has joined doctors and workers at public hospitals who are protesting at an increase in working hours and cutbacks. 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 shows how bogus assertions were used in order to start a full scale conflict with heavy consequences for now a preview for you. 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 there are let there. this were just being carried out under 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 you have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets of the intelligence community and 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 you have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraqi 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 that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others. those daniel bushell with you know waiting for you this off reality business update us good to see you but i do want to stand on a typically bad news from you the year i go. from bad to worse well the top story is the pot calling the kettle black but other news spain is now looking to brussels to bail out its fourth biggest banker angering taxpayers in europe to keep having to pay up for others' mistakes it's all pushing europe sells let's have a look now european commission says eurozone economies will contract this year sending both the foot in the tax around half a percent lower. nosedive both the old c.s. and my stick shedding over two percent of the yesterday's gains among the factors

lower crude prices let's have a look at individual share movers heavyweight gas monopoly gazprom is losing more than four percent on lower energy prices mobile operators m.t.s. over seven percent down after its use this as they call get on to the internet through the m.t.s. online system and great holding emeralds case among the main retreats is on rumors of the company's liquidation the currencies the euro is gaining to the dollar this sell some believe off the bad news in previous days when it comes to the ruble it's retreating against the greenback and gaining against the euro crude prices or heading for a second weekly drop amid rising u.s. stockpiles the group of major oil exporting countries opec said they're producing almost ten percent more crude than necessary and europe today more stories as always on our website dot com such business tell you many things to see you next hour. just a moment the headlines with me rory sushi and then go out. you

know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. from.

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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 weapons there. this work is being carried out into the direction of dr david kay a respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart you 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 you 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 course but helps the country and for the stakes and even if they come this way at least from tonight 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 that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other. download the official ante up location to i phone or i pod touch from the i.q. zaps to. one jonty life on the go. video on demand parties in mind bold colors and r.s.s.

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