the un's observer mission in syria comes under attack in a damascus suburb with artie's news crew which followed the monitors also caught up in the trouble. convicted of illegal arms trafficking and facing twenty five years in a maximum security u.s. jail but russian businessman victor boot calls the case against him a witch hunt in an exclusive interview with r.t. . plus austerity anger flares again in italy as protesters attempt to storm a local tax office while political deadlock in greece threatens new financial chaos in the eurozone. and hopes of finding survivors from a plane crash in indonesia fade as a rescue team discovers the first victims from the fatal russian superjet demo flight.

online on screen this is r.t. live from moscow with the twenty four hours a day a convoy of u.n. observers in syria has been attacked in a suburb of the capital damascus news crew was also there following the monitors it's believed that no one's been badly hurt this comes less than a day after the city was rocked by blasts in front of the country's intelligence services h.q. which killed fifty five people of first reports now from damascus. this happened today as the u.n. commission travelled to a suburb of damascus al mir and as we dented there they done the will stop and check with the security and the armed forces who were there and they told us they hadn't got control of the area that it was in a secure area so we sort of followed them in very very slowly and you saw hundreds

of people as you entered this town coming out and flanking the cars waiting we've seen this before a number of times in a visit these towns and villages people absolutely desperate to speak and we had the same thing the t. un cars were just up ahead of us and our car was surrounded by people the u.n. cars went off up ahead and went down towards the city center and our car was completely surrounded and we managed to maneuver our way out of that town had quite an anxious wait for them when they came out we saw the damage that was done to one of the wing mirrors and the back of the car looked like it was bullet holes but actually on closer inspection there's it's heavy lead glass and the second layers weren't broken so we think it was probably more likely to be rocks at the u.n. speak i've actually been talking to you just recently and he said they're not commenting on this incident specifically and he also reminded me that the observer mission today is how the numbers bolstered it's around one hundred seventy at the moment i think that that number is going to increase and they're also going to be

too loyal receiving and more armored vehicles and more equipment and we've had reports today the security forces have stopped another suicide bombing attempts in aleppo really goes to highlight on the back of yesterday's explosion just how volatile the situation here is and we've been visiting some of these areas where in the other day and as we saw there you know the observer mission absolutely vital because even now fierce fighting is continuing. the sound of gunfire heavy artillery brings out lipsky learn who with the u.n. observers in it live in there's been some pretty heavy gunfire. throughout the night. the seemingly has very tight control of the century area in the area. and the fighting is continuing there's no ceasefire here both sides were told of violating the peace plan we followed the un observers into it on the way passing through homs and hama other areas monitors that based under areas that have seen

some of the base destructive fighting as we passed three homes we have a brief an emotional conversation with a resident of. safety. people who are still fighting. but this clear. that is 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 live 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 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 he's the government and other states armed groups we don't know who's doing that. to get a chance to meet it let's governor and ask him about the situation here. even if there is a little unrest in some areas here 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 on making small steps on the ground it 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 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 has symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace right now

a city at civil war sara for. still plenty more ahead for you this hour including nazis in the three young children in that lesson from. a country already notorious for its problems with glorifying naziism. and thousands are still tortured in secret rebel prisons but the head of the u.n. support group insists the country is on its way to democracy. russian businessman victor 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 the u.s. 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 . security jail in colorado. has filed an appeal the russian is awaiting a decision in his new york prison and has the 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 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 trial in a very you know. trial. where you know your mom. has let you. think marker of. completion of american draft of an. american comic. and nonfunctional dictatorship of course his case has been like

a hollywood blockbuster which of buddhism 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 members met with victor 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. 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 realities 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 think it would be rampant crime. not only not to help america really solve the problem of. anywhere but that there's not going to be a real problem for the real problem they just invented the crime for growth there is no danger for him go to somebody who don't hide or walk through the kind of creeks and streams of people and they're going to solve the real problem now which a boot is appealing his twenty five year sentence behind bars and says he continues to keep on fighting until he gets a chance to return back home to russia we know that he has filed an official request for the russian state duma to file a complaint against the united states and thailand victor boot himself says because he knows he's innocent he's hoping that he will not end up serving the entire twenty five years that he's been sentenced to but whether or not that's going to be the case we're going to have to wait and see. and you can watch the full interview

to boot has given us this sunday here on. volatile story the protests have erupted in the italian city of naples after enraged demonstrators attempted to storm a local tax office protesters threw painted rocks at police who then charged crowds and beat them with batons the demonstration began in the wake of a man suicide apparently the result of a visit by terms connected to this is europe experiences new tensions stemming from a dead not government in greece germany though is already guarding against any possible fallout so the euro could survive with or without greece but some including financial writer peter build are skeptical of bowman's apparent

confidence. i'm not so sure that germany is really that confident i mean mr schauble is perhaps whistling in the wind or singing in the rain but above all he's daring greece to go ahead and try and reopen. the terms of the bailout deal and that is what the germans at the moment are saying i'm sorry you can't do that and if you prefer to leave rather than 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 euro zone and therefore greek debts that are into all the 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 of the greek crisis and the tidal wave the worry is causing for europe are up for discussion and peter levels cross-talk the two sides of the single currency debate make their cases coming up at nineteen 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 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 they really people are unable to find jobs go to the scene there's nobody there

there's nobody agrees with issues there's no what you mean really if you're willing to tell the jury to believe that there's nobody going hungry you're saying there's nobody in greeley this who's but we're not back into the 1930's no no i really wanted to say no it was the reason that greece is a failure we were in trouble if the euro were in trouble it would be trading lower than the dollar. cross talk a little easier and. team has found that these twelve bodies on the slopes of a volcano with a new russian crashed on wednesday during a demonstration flight the rescue operation is being stopped overnight until saturday morning as fears mount that everyone on board might be dead pretty good from the family and friends still holding out hope. chaos to 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 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 that 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 judge hearing the tour could have predicted this outcome we couldn't believe because oprah winfrey's overload was. one of the best for those in russia so we couldn't believe anything having to. do with blue 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 waiting for a miracle to happen to hear good news about her i think so far that new news means good news i still have hope to find my wife. priya sri there are t.v. jakarta indonesia. remember at r.t. dot com our web site you can find all the details about this flight as well as more about russia's superjet also there you can see photos of some of the crew cheering

before the faithful like taken less than an hour before the tragedy. plus gender politics while the russian blogosphere fuz over claims the police have beaten a pregnant woman at a recent opposition protests in moscow they says videos reveal that the woman was actually a murderer. controversial video footage just surfaced showing men in waffen s.s. uniform teaching children in a lab in kindergarten this in a country which holds annual parades to on a nazi veterans which is widely seen as an attempt to twist the historical truth about the second world war what is correspondent in eastern europe lexie a chef ski has 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 to be four and what they describe as apache or to bringing less than two three four year old kids they tell stories about the law to be an 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 one nine hundred forty s. the ones which were used by the s.s. legion a lot in the war those were 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. fighters the s.s. veterans certainly this has been causing widespread condemnation in russia and in many post soviet 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 there will be any reaction coming from the european union which a lot of it is certainly a member of because just as in russia and in the post soviet space everything related to naziism is outlawed in europe so it is 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. or to live here most has to come of the program missiles on roofs one of them even a band from london's olympic gold together criticism a full blown paranoia over the u.k. security for the games. that story come but first the un says that thousands of former pro going to be loyalists are still being held in secret prisons with some of them being tortured up to four thousand more detainees remain in the hands of uncontrolled rebel forces this is a consequence of the nato back revolution so says lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine who fears liber is great increasingly divided this is a major disaster which was caused by the west and president obama's invasion regime change policy under the guise of humanitarian intervention

the responsibility to protect and i think the country is in terrible shape some people tell me in africa that the country may be on the verge of splitting up and was so it's created massive instability of course all over the psyche or in northern africa you have a tribal society you don't have a nationalistic clear direction mission for the country so once you overthrew qaddafi who was no good no question about it but you did it in the way that the west did including the killing of. then you are setting up various tribal groups to vie for control and right now those tribal groups or all of on their own competing with one another including attacks on the national transitional government itself. it's a look at some other stories now making headlines around the world in our world update this hour algeria's national liberation front of swept to victory in the country's parliamentary elections they want to enlist hof of the four hundred sixty two seats

of parliament with their sister party the national democratic rally winning sixty eight the three islamist parties making up the green alliance or their number of seats drop despite widespread expectation they would do well since accuse authorities of widespread fraud. the trial of mass murder anders breivik has been interrupted after the brother of one of his victims threw a shoe at him to shoot missed the defendant and hit his lawyer instead people in the public gallery applauded the incident with the relative being the first to express feelings of anger towards break in the courtroom the self-confessed terrorist facing charges for last year's twin attacks in norway that left seventy seven people dead and a hundred fifty one people injured. relatives of palestinians who are in hunger strike in israeli prisons of held a number of mass rallies out of solidarity some protesters threw rocks at israeli troops in the demonstration north of jerusalem responded with tear gas rubber

bullets and water cannon at least sixteen hundred jailed palestinians have been on hunger strike for better treatment since mid april condemning israel for its policy of indefinite detention without trial. the u.k. has been branded a police state by civil liberties campaigners are heavy handed security measures ahead of the olympic games plans include high velocity missiles being stationed on buildings close to the olympic park some people live even being banned from the games altogether a smith explains. feelin picked torch is lit and on its journey to london accompanying it fear uncertainty and code red level security impinging on the lives of people from london to las vegas that's where tim larkin lives he's supposed to be in the u.k. training martial arts enthusiasm but as he was boarding his flight he discovered the home office had excluded him from the country on the grounds that his self

defense course might incite vigilanteism being that i have a fifteen year history of coming to the u.k. training thousands of people from the u.k. and also european clients coming 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. 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 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 whoa betide anyone who doubts 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 how

affect the property values some people think that make the building a target for terrorists some people think that it's discipline and it is not secure enough so people don't want to be turned into some sort of military base. they'll really affect the quality of life. might my big argument just. nobody consulted us the m.r.d. 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 british people are asking is if it's like this already what's it going to be like when the lympics circus finally rolls into town laura smith r t london. time now for business and daniel it seems that traders have that friday feeling that it's been a choppy day and week in fact but markets are closing off nicely the u.s. is now out of the may consumer sentiment rose to its highest in four years longer

than frank foer grew on the back of the u.s. in the final out there though the greek stock market had another girl losing five percent of the germany's finance minister said greece could quit the euro it comes as the country moves ever closer to a single currency exit greeks voted overwhelmingly against the e.u. bailout in recent elections but the country will go bust in july if the e.u. blocks its next aid package. lost some of yesterday's games russian markets saw the biggest outflows of the year fortunately gas producing overtake was expected to announce poor results today but it's just posted a strong quarter one of the trading flows president putin wants to speed up the sale of the main phone operator telecom and called titan mitchell says it's selling low profit as it's known to the currency of the euro's higher to the dollar this hour the ruble finished mixed because the main chorus is the last of the greenback gained a bit to the euro and russia's newly built just linked to europe by forcing transit

states may get a further capacity boost shareholders of nord stream say they will look at building one or even two additional lines to the project so if the pipes already carrying gas to an existing line another is complete and expected to be running by the end of the year and you're up to date more news and interviews are on the website thanks very much indeed that's daniel there with all our business more than done a little later and stay with financial and money matters capital account our program from washington is just ahead after the headlines.

question is that so much i'm afraid we're going to make a lot of people here are you not but look at what is happening in here 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 scene. the people of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder his regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact that there are limits there. this work is being carried out under 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. david cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search have not yet 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 their country of origin stakes and

even if they come this way that these three track patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation but i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other.