the un's observer mission in syria comes under attack in a damascus suburb we are live with the r.t. news crew are following the monitors for a firsthand account of the incident. convicted of illegal trafficking and facing twenty five years in a maximum security u.s. jail but russian businessman victor boot calls the case against him which in an exclusive interview with us. plus economic tension erupts across the e.u. as political deadlock in greece once again threatens to want to rival the fragile stability in the euro zone. and hopes of finding survivors from the plane crash in indonesia start to fade as a rescue team discovers the first victims from the demo flight by the russians.

j.p. morgan shares plummets on friday morning in new york off the loaf is reported a true to the long money using twitter. just after seven pm on friday here in moscow. with twenty four hour life in years a convoy of u.n. observers in syria has been attacked by a gang in the suburb of the capital damascus it was witnessed by a news crew that don't believe at this point that anyone was badly hurt it all comes less than a day after the city was rocked by a blast in front of the country's intelligence services which killed fifty five people. now joins us on the line with the latest sara thanks for coming on such short notice i've got you on the telephone can you tell us more about what you saw

with the attack on the u.n. convoy just in the damascus suburb. absolutely i will we. cannot it's rather go. on with meaning. for the day keep going here and. under control and what. i think we can talk again and to look to the area of security that what i've done and get it working for our security can then i don't want to cook in front of me everything i suppose. could get we can't like it quite logical i think. he would need greek were talking about the current potential world but he made it very well i think it's a good degree of cooperation cannot escape please click on we didn't know anything until full well i must admit it wasn't very good i'm thinking much. of what we can only create more of a very good feeling

a good look at him to make sure we get a lot from the point. i promise you got along with you that i'd be glad to get you take you and me and will like you and it's good because you take your need for it like you. got script support i know that if you cook and if it can work you'll be content with a week each one changes a little bit so if he can just keep going to ration and he will get in for a guy who to declare. very likely are a lot of people are very unwell on. any clear evidence of the play all pointing in the far away it that the people call up and talk a detail or two going on what they're going to need security for it i did i think that you are. popular actually i'm going. to be cutting on the con or picking weapon taking in clothing. that they could i forget to get rid of

them o'keefe well that's good that you can get lots of good stuff when you go out on the current. i think. people need. to be like. the breaking. out of. the sound of gunfire and heavy artillery brings out in it lipsky line with the u.n.

observers in it live and there's been some pretty heavy gunfire. throughout the night. now we'll see government seemingly has very tight control of the century area. and the fighting is continuing is they cease fire here both sides we're told of violating the peace plan. the u.n. observers into it live on the way through homs and hama other areas monitors it based and there is that a scene some of the destructive fighting as we passed through homes we have a brief an emotional conversation with the residents after. the safety. people who are still fighting the. war but it's clear. that he tries hard not to show perfectly encapsulate the level of devastation that has been on people's lives here throughout the course of the conflict is on to it

and a stretch of road this name for being extremely dangerous it's a journey that would have been near impossible without the u.n. presence and with the volatile situation criminal gangs thought to operate in this area. we find it live under siege like conditions a quiet and intimidated city i don't know since a year and a half ago no one knows what's happening we go to sleep and wake up with fear some say the government and other states armed groups we don't know who's doing that last we get a chance to me to governor and ask him about the situation here. even if there is a little unrest in some areas 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 your monitors are making small steps on the ground

but it's going to be a slow process throughout the course of the conflict it's been hard to come to some of the areas where the fiercest fighting is happening and get a gauge of exactly what the situation is on the ground the u.n. observers traveling to some of these areas have given them access to what we see is a frightened population and the city symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace is right now a city at civil war sara firth. and still plenty more for you ahead this hour here on r.t. including that of not seizing three young children in law get a lesson from men in uniforms a country already notorious for its problems with glorifying prison. missiles on the rooftops some people from london's olympics altogether criticism of . paranoia over the u.k.'s security for the games. you're

watching r.t. a russian businessman viktor booth has compared the american justice system to a medieval inquisition he gave a rare and exclusive interview to r.t. after being convicted of oms trafficking in the united states is the first time he's spoken to any english speaking channel since being detained in thailand by the federal bureau of prisons ruled he'll serve his twenty five year term in a super maximum security jail in colorado boots lawyer at this point has already filed an appeal and now the russian is awaiting a decision while in his new york prison details on ts and i still see a truckin. 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 trying to. you know. you don't every shot trial. where you know your mom. has a few. things marker of actually showing you completion of american draft of. american comic relief and 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 as members met with viktor boot and then arrested him in

thailand in two thousand and eight two years later regardless of the fact that thai courts found him not guilty twice in what was called arm twisting by the united states victor boot was extradited into u.s. territory to face charges of international arms trafficking victim but himself has always maintained his innocence and believes his case to be political theaetetus also asked him if he has a message for the president of the united states as well as a u.s. official in general who are behind the operation in luring in victor boot. which will use. these products. drug enforcement. i'm very we're going to grant a crime this will not only not help america really solve the problem of the drug war and you were convicted of going through the real problem from the real problem they just invent the crime for a group of criminals then your program go through somebody who goes through all

kinds of goodies create the inference that people are the corner people the real problem now which of loot 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. what you can catch of the full interview with viktor bhutto that'll be on a sunday here on alt. live

from moscow this is r.t. violent austerity protests have erupted in the italian city of naples after enraged demonstrators attempted to storm a local tax office protesters threw paint and rocks at police who then charged crowds and beat them with battens the demonstration began after the tax office refused to shut down for a period of mourning in the wake of a man's suicide after a visit by. this as europe experiences new tensions stemming from a deadlocked government in greece germany though is already guarding against any possible fallout saying the euro could survive with or without greece financial journalist peter build is skeptical of bourbons apparent confidence. i'm not so sure that germany is really that confident i mean mr schauble is perhaps whistling

in the. rain but above all he's due. to go ahead and try and reopen. the terms of the bailout deal and that is what the germans at the moment. i'm sorry you can't do that if you prefer to leave rather than to accept the terms of already been agreed then although we regret it we can't stop you but the real problem is that nobody actually knows how much debt is if you like dependent on greece staying in the in the eurozone and therefore greek debts that are interlinked with other european counterparts. to what extent that debt is repayable nobody actually knows and that is the real danger it's not a question of whether you are in or out but it's a question of getting out that is the danger. i know the greek crisis and the tidal wave of water you it's causing for europe are all up for discussion and peter lavelle's cross-talk are the two sides of the single currency debate make their

cases in. fifteen minutes time here not say. french people for example 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 great you know we don't we don't have people going hungry in europe in big numbers no no come on that's not there times are hard now really people are unable to find jobs the reason there's nobody there's nobody research issues there's no email really if you're willing to tell these anybody that there's nobody going hungry you're saying there's nobody in greeley this who is but we are not back into the 1930's no no i really you know

you're going to say you know what was the reason that greece or the bar you were in trouble if you were in trouble would be trading lower than the dollar. we're not far from the world update here but for now in tunisia 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 demo flight the rescue operation has been halted overnight until saturday morning . that everybody on board may have perished. from the families and friends 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 and 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 add in all its glory no one including bloggers sergei doli who has been following the super during the tour could have predicted

this outcome we couldn't believe this. one of the best for this in russia so we can believe that anything can happen. to the plane because we were the political for 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 new news means good news i still have hope to find my wife we get what you. preassure either our teach a car to indonesia. you can find all the details about this flight as well as more about the sukhoi superjet one hundred or so online you can see. members of the crew looking. in the fatal hour before the flight took place.

plus gender politics while the russian. views of a plane to police a pregnant woman videos reveal the woman was actually. controversial video footage has surfaced showing men in a waffen s.s. uniforms teaching children in a latvian kindergarten this in a country which holds annual parades to nazi veterans with cheers widely seen as an attempt to twist on historical truth about the second world war correspondent in eastern europe. as more. we understand that this incident happened on the march the sixteenth in the lobby in kindergarten we see two men wearing s.s. uniforms waffen s.s. uniforms walking into a kindergarten or two before and what they describe as apache or to a bringing less than two three four year old kids they tell stories about the lothian s.s. legion which was fighting back in the 1940's on the german side against the allied

forces but not only they were wearing s.s. uniforms but they also brought weapons from the nine hundred forty s. the ones which were used by the s.s. legion a lot in the war machine guns and even grenades and they even let the kids play with these weapons this incident is not a one off for this baltic states certainly every year on march the sixteenth they are organizing marches of the former s.s. the s.s. veterans certainly this has been causing widespread condemnation in russia and in many states because of the attempts of the baltic states to rewrite history to glorify nazis and certainly this new incident adds new more fuel to this fire and it's interesting to see whether they will be any reaction coming from the european union which a lot is certainly a member of because just as in russia and in the post soviet space everything related to nazis is outlawed in europe interesting to see whether this incident in

the kindergarten which has already outraged many critics in russia will cause some controversy across the european continent. the right there in a moment is daniel with the business for now the artsy world update will start with . two election front runners who have now squared off in the country's first ever presidential debate mubarak era foreign minister. and moderate islamist abdel moneim abul faso both challenge each other in a four hour debate over religion and its role in a democracy the two are among thirteen candidates running in the election egyptian ex-pats have already begun casting their votes with the rest of the country going to the polls on may twenty third. the former chief executive of news international has told a british inquiry into media ethics about her 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 use of the world had hacked into the phone of a murdered british schoolgirl. the u.k. has been branded a police state by civil liberty campaigners over heavy handed security measures ahead of the limpid games plans include high velocity missiles being stationed on buildings close to him picked park some people have even been banned from the games altogether as artie's laura smith reports. 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 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. 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 them across the koran

popular. furthermore. these are just this legislation won't prevent people from disrupting the games the wall it will do is it will give the ability of the authorities to punish people more severely i think it's insane i think that it shows the prevailing. consciousness in our government 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 we're 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 it's discipline as it is not secure enough so 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 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 put is 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. and some of the business there is daniel bushell good to see you again i understand an extraordinary admission from germany's finance minister yes greece could quit the euro. but he insists the single currency will survive it comes as

greeks move ever closer to a euro exit they voted overwhelmingly against the e.u. bailout in recent elections but the country will go past injury lawyer if the e.u. blocks its next aid package european markets have back a little after a poor day following games in the us j.p. morgan has slumped eight percent of the trader reportedly lost two billion dollars that's more than otherwise adequate start over here in new york if we can get that up there both the dow and the nasdaq are creeping up in the last hour now and here in moscow the markets closed in the red cross is really reflecting the oil price falls russian market saw two hundred fifty one million dollars outflows in the week as well the biggest loss this year one of the world's top steel makers that will lift this profit hole called one close sale of its shares to china's changed on and utility s.k. may be taken over by the federal grid company they want to currencies the euro is prior to the dollar this is the ruble finished mixed against the main currencies

lost a little to the greenback but gained a bit to the euro bourses newly built gasoline to europe bypassing transit states like ukraine may get a further capacity boost the shareholders of north stream say they will look at building one or even two additional lines to the project the subsidy pipe is already carrying gas to an existing line while another is complete and expected to be running by the end of the year job today more news and interviews on our website thanks very much you'll be dealing with bill dodd next hour right here in just a moment headlines and then there will be people of oil and crosstalk.

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