searing defense minister. bombing. high ranking officials to have been killed so far. from the capital damascus. and of russia's foreign minister says the policy of supporting the opposition will lead to an impasse as the turkish prime minister visits moscow he's right here now trying to convince russia to get the. u.s. agents to bolster security at the london olympics as the british with guarding the

games apologizes for a company. flight from moscow this is r t thanks for joining us today syria's defense minister and his deputy have been killed in a suicide bombing in damascus the minister is the most senior official within the syrian government to have been killed since the conflict began last year the attack adds to the violence that's been rocking the syrian capital for days now joining us live now from the center of the city but also let's get the latest on this good to see you maria can you update us on the latest developments from where you are. well it already is suicide bombing that killed syrian defense minister and his deputy who's also been the president brother in law and former. chief deputy chief of staff has happened on wednesday in the very heart of damascus just less than

five kilometers from where we are we have been able to hear the sound of this explosion and we have to say we have to meet that has been very intense and massive last reports are that a suicide bomber had attacked and national security building. here in damascus at a time when. of cabinet ministers and security officials has been a go you know there have to say the area where this last happened is known to be very safe and very calm is actually a luxury area we've been there many times and there are many restaurants that it's home to many a free show buildings such as the old building of foreign ministry or culture ministry of course security has been very. specifically in this area so this is why right now there are many concerns on

security situation here in damascus obviously free syrian army has already claimed responsibility for what happened but we're also hearing that some world news agencies are saying that the man who carried out the said tag has been one of president bashar al assad's bodyguards of course given how massive the loss was we can understand that they have been many people killed but so far we only have information on six people all of them security syrian security leadership and also been here in that there's been many civilians killed and many many damages caused by these blasts of the buildings and cars around well. this is actually all we have for the time being now our memory if i may just say as the violence is heating up in damascus and surrounding areas where you are there in syria so if the international community is responding in kind of certainly just got

a statement here just in the past few moments from the u.k. foreign secretary william hague he saying quote that today's bombing in damascus confirms the urgent need for the u.n. security council to implement chapter seven article seven ultimately permitting foreign venture in as we also know we're getting more details on this in a few minutes the turkish prime minister out of the one is here for talks in moscow to try and resolve the conflict in neighboring syria so if you will for the meantime just bring us up to speed on what's been happening in damascus certainly in the build up to today's massive explosion. well the syrian capital has been going for really tough times in the last seventy two dollars in the last full day we've been going through what free syrian army and opposition and all forces trying to bring in assad regime down has dogged as final battle and the decisive

battle for damascus we've been hearing shootings in very different parts of the capital we've been seeing in black smoke drifting over the city skyline and we've also been hearing helicopter is not only flying over. the oldest continuously inhabited capitals in the war but also firing so it's been a very dramatic picture actually here on the ground and people here those who we been able to speak to. say the surprised actually the couldn't imagine this to happen all just they didn't want to believe this may happen in their home they have seen clashes reported in a least five areas in damascus all in southern part of the city. and. recently we've been hearing that the heaviest clashes have been taken in there a known as. it's been the center of the opposition since the beginning of the

uprising it's been seen for many anti governmental demonstrations that the free syrian army has claimed today that they now control the area while government. denying this information well as i just told this is a very dramatic picture here and on the ground but actually damascus is a very big city with a population of around two million people and we can see that just go to different damascus depending on where we go in there or where we are right now. we can see the life is going on normally and people. take in their launching at the raster ends and there are cars on the roads and it all looks like nothing happened just five kilometers away from here and this is happening and they like this obviously because the syrian people has nowhere to run the war has come to their doorstep

stab and they have to organize their life they say my life must go on and this is exactly what they're trying to do to continue leave without a summary for national life in a basket thank you. but meantime the u.k. based the middle east affairs expert christopher marston he says there's a much broader geo political agenda behind the escalating conflict in syria but one would assume that this is a major military set but for us and for the security services but more importantly i think the specifics of political setbacks along with a very deliberate intent the free syrian army has conducted this come in order to prove that the assad government is the stabilized that syria is in the midst of a civil war and to back its call for intervention by the western powers the free syrian army is made up of. pro-american elements islam ists

supporters of the saudi and. the gulf monarchies the aim is to depose assad you know the to weaken the position of russia and china in the middle east region secure the germany of the united states and the gulf allies. well meantime russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says the policy of supporting the opposition will ultimately lead to an impasse this comes as the turkish prime minister visits russia to talk moscow out of voting against the latest upcoming u.n. resolution which does propose sanctions on damascus a more on this not wattis sean thomas. this is a visit by ed one is seen as a last ditch effort to try and swing at russia over to the side of a lot of the international community who want to go for this it boots on the ground option with the un security council resolution coming up now russia is against

sanctions of russia is it more so against the idea of no foreign military intervention in to syria in fact if you look at article seven in this resolution there is a cause a clause rather on the table that states as a last resort that foreign intervention it could be used in the syrian case is something that russia certainly does not want which is foreign minister sergey lavrov has actually come out and propose another meeting that to correct to the flaws of the original geneva agreement more specifically he wants to bring iran to the table and to saudi arabia to the table who were not there before he also in the meeting today is that sergey lavrov and he came out just a little bit ago with some statements supporting just one side in the conflict will draw syria into civil war this is something that russia does not want to see happen he also says statements that assad must leave is really a sign of weakness from the international community also sanctions mean supporting only one side of the revolutionary movement and that's not fair to all parties

involved and that also russia does not support the assad regime but russia does believe that they are sure he will not believe by himself but also the policy of supporting only one side in the conflict is going to lead to nowhere so coming out saying those statements giving the statements and the fact that russia is stalwart against this article seven it doesn't look like any minds will be changed today on a june twenty second syria shot down a turkish a fighter plane and things that have progressive like gotten worse since then now they are bordering countries and so turkey does have a very important stake in the outcome of this. conflict in syria. still to come for you on the program british scandals raging on with the added twist of drugs and terror the countries of biggest bank h.s.b.c. is accused of laundering drug cartel money on helping saudi arabian organizations

funded terrorism those details are coming your way in just a couple of. the gloves come off in georgia a report on how the government tightens its grip on power oppressing the opposition ahead of parliamentary elections. now the boss of a british security firm has admitted the company's reputation is in tatters after failing to provide enough staff to guard the olympics however he still wants to claim the fifty seven million pound management fee saying it's all part of the contract. smith reports olympic security concerns are now extending all the way across the atlantic. as athletes and guests start to arrive here at heathrow airport for london's olympic games they'll be met by all the usual sites including loan that immigration as u.k. border officials struggle to cope with the sheer numbers involved but it won't be just a u.k. official felt come across some may be surprised to see american agents operating on

british soil the u.s. transport administration or thorazine has reportedly been allowed to bring in its agents in a move aimed at helping british authorities to secure american flights in and out of the u.k. the agents apparently won't be allowed past boarding gates or the u.k. aircraft but them if presidents could prove controversial in the u.s. they've been accused of performing intrusive pat down it's just the latest confession that britain's been forced to make to the u.s. which doesn't believe the olympic host has done enough to ensure the security of the games the american team will reportedly bring with it five hundred f.b.i. agents to protect its athletes and diplomats plus of five hundred security staff all of whom will be operating on british soil raising questions about so princie

american on the follows a catalogue of failures on behalf of the security company that won the contract for the games g four s. . it's admitted it couldn't provide the number of security staff it had promised that meant that three and a half thousand soldiers and hundreds of police have had to be drafted in at the very last minute to plug the store full. i let's get to the antiwar dapo for you now we'll start with at least fourteen people dying in northwest pakistan it's as are many of us carrying shiite muslims hit an anti tank landmine and none of the militant groups of claimed responsibility for the blast which police described as a sectarian attack is the latest in a series of violent incidents targeting the shiite minority in the mostly sunni state. and staying in the volatile region or over twenty nato fuel tankers have been destroyed in a bomb attack in northern afghanistan an explosive device was planted on one of the

trucks transporting fuel into the country from neighboring uzbekistan this comes only weeks after pakistan reopened alliance supply routes into afghanistan a seven month blockade was caused by a two thousand and eleven nato attack which claimed the lives of twenty seven pakistani soldiers. the world's most wanted nazi war crimes suspect detained for questioning in budapest has pleaded not guilty ninety seven year old last llosa tardy had previously been sentenced to death and censure for the assisted murder of almost sixteen thousand jews during world war two so tare escaped to canada after the war however he was stripped of his citizenship and has been in hiding since one thousand nine hundred ninety seven. and in libya a liberal bloc the national forces alliance is celebrating success in the parliamentary election held earlier this month the group claimed almost half the seats reserved for political parties the muslim brotherhood fared worse with just

over twenty percent of party places little making bodies to to appoint a transitional government and oversee the drafting of a new constitution coming up there were r.t.o. we interviewed journalist patrick hayes on libya should be coming up for you next hour for now though a preview. were it not for nato intervention last year i think these elections should really have been something to celebrate the election itself has been administered by the national transitional council which was effectively cherry picked by the west rather than than actually selected by the libyan people it's an unelected body and there have been a lot of disagreements there's been a lot of protests over the past nine ten months by the libyan people who are unhappy with the lack of transparency from this government's their own happy with the fact that the transitional council does not represent their views or the people that they want to be in power.

for it is so good to have you with us here in our to you today london based bank h.s.b.c. it's under fire after a report found it had laundered drug cartel cash and helped saudi arabian organizations finance terrorism a us government report claims the banks branches moved billions of dollars without even checking where the money was coming from my colleague bill dodd spoke to middle east affairs expert our legal risk who believes this news will cause some countries to reconsider their alliances. i think this proves what many people have said all along that it is saudi arabia which is the main export of radical all this religious extremism of the radical elements and i think how they handled it explains what underwater guys under what guys we're talking about what sort of terrorist groups are we talking about here well we're talking about you know for example the extremism those people who are now are for example of causing violence

in syria or those who were sent to chechnya are the pay people of groups it was pakistan even our car there as well we have to have to say here that some elements of the royal firmly do also have their contacts have contributed as well to our car but more importantly i think that this report. sheds light on the. lions between the saudi family the saudi royal family and some western countries what this will do is put more pressure on the western governments to try and change their policy here now of course saudi arabia is considered to be an ally for how long could this continue in many people are speculating that maybe the western governments might reconsider might soon reconsider their alliance why. would they be doing that first of all because we have the uprisings currently happening which puts more pressure on the on the u.s.

government on the british government the saudi arabia until now hasn't taken any steps towards political reform and the other reason is that saudi arabia when it becomes more known that saudi arabia is the main source of this extremism that were laid to a popular vigilance for example in the u.s. in countries like britain i believe that this report and more similar developments would put more pressure on the on the u.s. and all of these western countries. now israel's coalition government has been weakened after the country's largest party pulled out of the move came in response to a vote drafting ultra orthodox jews into the military and could be more official say they'll leave the political opposition that leaves prime minister benjamin netanyahu working alongside hardliners who ultimately oppose concessions over the middle east peace process as artie's paula slater reports the crisis comes during troubled times for israel it could trigger the withdrawal of other political

parties it makes from this on yahoo that much more vulnerable to pressure far far right wing political groupings and the religious parties and at the same time it also no longer allows him to claim that he presides over a government of national unity because he certainly doesn't it is making him that much more weak at both domestically and internationally and it comes at a time when israel is trying to deal with its worsening public image in light of a number of issues not least of all the social protest this past weekend that saw an israeli city himself on fire and this has provoked anger and frustration throughout the country certainly also in the international community there is the possibility that the government might have to go for early elections the question being asked is why did not only are not foreseen this development and if indeed he did why did he choose to ignore it because it comes at such

a vulnerable time it comes at a time when the country is having to deal with a very unstable neighbors who are going through their own political apathy evil and also with the whole question of the rand the question of whether or not israel will strike you round is still very much looming over the reputation of this government policy our team tel aviv. you can always get many more details and analysis on this story on our website. where you can also check out some other features that we have lined up for you as well at the b.b.c.'s for the right to show a fictional film about last year's london riots after the program was suddenly stopped by u.k. . also practice what you preach are european copyright with stealing music for that. story and much more.

twenty one minutes past the hour here in moscow with the parliamentary elections in georgia that just three months away now but with political tensions on foul play already dominating the run in three opposition activists have already been arrested this one chews day for allegedly violating party funding rules the saudis are going to go to school reports some fear president mikheil saakashvili is ruling party will cling to power by any means necessary. where was my friends who were kidnapped by the by george imposed by the kind of groups which we accompanied by georgian polis like many of the outspoken critics of the regime of president saakashvili who go is used to this kind of treatment but now as parliamentary elections draw closer the authorities are trying to derail any opposition momentum on top of the tried

and trusted methods of shutting down the opposition where there are three things but it is a circus really seems to have switched his attention to their wallets now all donors are subjected to thorough investigations and the recent parties themselves are usually slapped with have to find a new law imposed earlier this year bans corporate donors and puts a rigid cap on donations made by individuals who incidentally it came into effect shortly after georgia's wealthiest businessmen billionaire businessman she really founded his own political party georgian dream. after even if she only became the new face of the georgia opposition saakashvili became seriously worried and began hampering our efforts the first his trip to be even issuing of his georgian citizenship and is now trying to take away his business under this new law even his release party has already been fined more than a million dollars for allegedly receiving illegal donations opposition parties with

smaller budgets aren't overlooked by the government either party was trying to buy two hundred used or two hundred dollars in the u.s. dollar and it's a huge amount of. budget over two months so these fighters show sanchez it means that position parties are prohibitive in georgia cutting cash flow appears to be the latest weapon in. with the opposition and with only three months before the elections it seems the playing field is becoming increasingly on. in tbilisi georgia. r t. all right it's time to join katie over the spillway in the business section good to see you again today so the u.s. markets will be opening shortly other than you what's what else is on the minds of investors oh i wish they were thinking about maybe i'm right good but they're not

is actually the second day of the congressional testimony will re-arm us by the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke a sense what investors are really. out for they're looking for some clues on any potential stimulus and a flow of corporate earnings are expected as well so we check out the european markets and in the meantime we'll be able to see that they're looking pretty flat really we've got one game there though credit suisse jumped over five percent that's after announcing a higher cost cutting target what ericsson though the phone company is one of the biggest losers in the session missing things expectations so let's get on to the exchange rate then with the ever see the ruble is still managing to get you to get both the u.s. dollar and the euro while the common core is there one twenty two thirty seven now talking about currency pat it's now trading around two year lows to the dollar as you can see the elephants are taking a hit by the eurozone debt problems and concerns over the future of its junia now the latest report by stock so bank one of the main for right back to late is they

said the forces themselves are holding help to stabilize the situation in r.t. tomball to discuss the issue with the head of the bank's strategy john holiday. the only way the year is going to stay together two things need to have first dream is to become more involved and be more generous that it's going to be so for in the equation and as well we need to see a restructuring of the debt is too much to prefer we can't keep the step in the current solutions that germany is offering saving austerity that's not the way solution. no way to save our way out solution that requires that somebody takes a loss and that the debt is written off to a certain extent to allow it to be sustainable if you talk to the electorate and they want to hear from bankers too they don't just want to just do you say to them ok point the system you've been badly mistreated by bankers by people like yourself

or do you turn around and say to them you have to shut up now stop protesting all have to realize as a society that it's not about throwing one party out and bringing another party and it's about realizing this loss has to be taken your pension is not worth as much as you think it is because some of this needs to be written down so that realization that is an important step towards towards real change towards a restructuring taking a loss realizing that the upfront pain is actually better because it creates a sustainable system going through painful reforms now unneeded in the past has to be gone through there's no way to escape it although it may be too late to go on exactly unfortunately the longer it goes on the bigger the system or the pilot that builds up so it becomes just more painful in the long run it's better to take the hit now rather than later in the year is going to be the first place to take a hit because of its fragile political fiscal framework. but check out the markets here most as you can see it's a mixed performance as we and as we near the end of the trading session the hair is

lost guy now do you think of the new batman hollywood blockbuster adult light rises the republican nominee mitt romney may not be the first i think all of us maybe think again because the right wing u.s. colman data rush limbaugh reckons the character of brain in the movie is a sly reference to the bang the character himself now brain is the baddies so whether you enjoy the movie all mods a little about to write to christopher nolan's political agenda that is the business for ray i will join you about fifteen minutes to see them are very good see that thanks kate. our just a moment here a recap of our top stories do stay with us if you cannot say.

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