mission to teach creation and why you should care about. why you should care only. top syrian security officials including the defense minister and his deputy have been killed in a suicide blast in damascus the deadliest opposition from high ranking assad government members since the syria conflict began. russia says the policy of supporting the opposition will lead to an impasse as the turkish prime minister visits moscow to decide the next step towards the conflict in syria. also reporting the sound explosion carrying israeli tourists of an airport in the city of budgets getting up to seven people the country's interior ministry believes a terrorist attack was the cause of the blast.

live from our new center here in central moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day top level syrian security officials including the defense minister and his deputy have been killed in a massive bomb blast right in the capital damascus some reports say the attack also claimed the life of the interior minister although officials rejected those claims here's our correspondent. with more. that's killed syrian defense minister and his deputy who's also been present brother in law and former deputy chief of staal for has happened on wednesday in the very heart of damascus just less than five kilometers from where 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 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 in all that 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 the foreign ministry of culture ministry of course security has been very specifically in the area so this is why right now there are many concerns on security situation here in damascus all visibly free syrian army has already claimed responsibility for what happened but we're also hearing the. news agencies a say that the man who carried out the said tag has been one of president bashar assad's gods. given how massive the last will so we can understand

that there's been many civilians killed and many many damages caused by these blasts the buildings and cars around the syrian capital has been going through a really tough times in the last seventy two dollars in the last full day as we've been going through was free syrian army and opposition and old forces trying to bring. assad regime down as dogged as final battle. the decisive battle for damascus we've been hearing in a very different parts of the capital we've been seeing in black smoke drifting over the city. 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've

been able to speak to. say they are surprised actually the couldn't imagine this to happen all just they didn't want to believe this may happen in their home. and you can follow me on twitter to get live updates and even photos from the heart of the conflict there she's been at the scene of today's blasts that devastated the country security leaders go to maria's twitter feed for her up close coverage. and u.k. based middle east affairs expert christopher martin says there's a broader geo political agenda behind the conflict in syria. but one would assume that this is a major military setback for assad and for the security services but more importantly i think the specifics of political setback but with a very deliberate intent the free syrian army has conducted this campaign 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 in the midst of the proles assad in order to weaken the position of russia and china in the middle east region and to secure her germany of the united states and its gulf allies. ankara says it wants to see an end to the bloodshed in syria so people can decide their own fate but only after by shot assad is gone the turkish prime minister made the statement in moscow at a news conference with president putin russia is adamant it will not support any u.n. sanctions against syria r.t. if you are putting off as this report. on one hand the turkish prime minister was a fierce critic of the assad regime he said that the agreements previously

reshooting geneva on syria are very important a road map which could lead to more dialogue and possibly even agreements in the u.n. security council but at the same time he said it's up to the syrian people to decide what they want to see in power in syria after president assad is gone while the document which was signed in geneva does not actually imply that assad has to go it implies that it's up to the syrian people to decide if they want to see him gone or not so these are the different interpretations which could really be a problem in the u.n. security council especially with great britain and the united states there trying to push article seven through into the new resolution on syria which doesn't rule out foreign military intervention which russia and china are still strongly against just have to see how it goes of course there is still time for more dialogue and communication but also on the wednesday russia's foreign minister silvio off once again stressed that moscow will not support any sanctions on syria since it will be a one sided approach pressuring one side of the conflict or the authorities and

moscow things that will only lead to more violence in the country. he got a piece of reporting there from central. london based bank h.s.b.c. is under fire after a report found it had laundered drug cartel cash and help to saudi arabian organizations finance terrorism and u.s. government report claims the bank's branches move billions of dollars without checking where the money came from when i spoke to middle east affairs expert ali 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 of this religious extremism of the radical elements and i think how they handle it just it just explains what underwater guys under what guys we're talking about what sort of terrorist groups are we talking about here while we're talking about you know for example the extremists those

people who are now 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. that sheds light on the. whole lie and say 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 annoyed that saudi arabia is the main source of this extremism there will a through 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. lawyers for the b.b.c. a planning to appeal a court order that banned the broadcaster from showing a documentary about last summer's riots in the u.k. the film was due to be aired on monday but has now been shelved until further order by the judge it explains. the bonds program is the two parts to huge draw involving actors reading excerpts from interviews with two hundred seventy people involved in last august's riots in titled the riot in the woods the interviews were

originally done for a project aimed at understanding the causes of the disturbances as to why it's been fans this is an extremely opaque unusual case legally we are not allowed to name the judge who handed down the order because he was missing in all the case the decision referred to we understand this kind of order is sometimes made in case of the breach of privacy but at the moment there's absolutely no indication what's legislation has been applied. as far as reaction goes the b.b.c. itself doesn't seem to be able to talk about it either just putting out a statement confirming the cool and that is unable to add anything meanwhile press freedom groups have cooled the move to a big and indicated they feel this is the shit just to remind you that riots broke out from the oft who visit the sick following the shooting of mock duggan by

a police officer in north london they then spread countrywide and over the next three days cities across england were terrorized by violence looting and often since then a lot of studies and programs have been made looking into the causes and it's very unclear why this particular one has school and out of the pool although it does come close to be on a bus three and also a place to be would call to the lympics the b.b.c. the lawyers are considering appealing the decision and promise to show you the programme at a later date perhaps only then will it become clear why this highly unusual decision to ban the programme was made in the first place. mr should say reporting there from london with some other stories making headlines around the world in brief least fourteen people died in northwestern pakistan as a minibus carrying shiite muslims hit an antitank landmine none of the militant groups have claimed responsibility for the blast which police described as

a sectarian attack this is the latest in a series of violent incidents targeting the shiite minority in the mostly sunny state. and staying in the volatile region 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 for several months blockade was caused by a nato attack which claimed the lives of twenty seven pakistani soldiers last year . in libya a liberal bloc the national forces alliance is celebrating success in the parliamentary election held earlier this month a group claimed almost half the seats reserved for political parties the muslim brotherhood fared worst with just over twenty percent. since the war making bodies due to avoid a transitional government and oversee the drafting of a new constitution a british journalist patrick says

a foreign hand has in fact robbed libyans of a free choice here's a preview of the full interview coming up a little later here on r.t. . 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 that 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 governments there are unhappy with the fact that the transitional council does not represent their views or the people that they want to be in power. and you can see that interview in full in over an hour from now here in r.t. the parliamentary elections in georgia are just three months away with political tensions and foul play already dominating the run in three opposition activists

were arrested on tuesday for allegedly violating party funding rules and as artie's of the negotiator reports some fear that president nicolas sarkozy 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 do a dimple is like many of the outspoken critics of the regime of president saakashvili 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 researching 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 coincidentally 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 and used or and it's a huge amount. budget of two months so these fighters show sanctions it means that position parties are prohibited 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 an even in tbilisi georgia even r.t. . and you can get more details and analysis on this story in our website dot com and one of their check out some other features that we've lined up for you at the moment transparent faith top experts on money laundering say the vatican must fulfill several reforms if it wants to make a financial white list. also practice what you preach a european copyright firm is slapped with a fine after stealing music from anti-piracy at details on the story much more at r.t. dot com. what

used to be known as the land of opportunity slowly becomes a place where many have little to look forward to for the first time since the great depression people no longer have prospects to do better than their previous generation. reports and what the economic crisis has left of the american dream. they are likely story that is america. there has never been anything. about help. hope has always been central to the national myth known as the american dream the problem is today's harsh reality of economic inequality leaves the promised land offering less opportunity for a better life depending on who you are and what your objectives are and what your resources are america may not be the best choice anymore according to reports germany canada and the scandinavian countries all have better social mobility than

the us this means citizens living in those nations have a greater chance of increasing their income and status through hard work everyone in the countries you mention have systems that are focused on giving people maximum opportunity education mostly free in those societies medical care generally available and free childcare generally available and free when you add up all those conditions you're facilitating every person's ability to find a career to get an education to get the skill training that will allow them to do better than they are in their parents' generation america's current landscape is a bit different for the first time since the great depression american men are earning less than their fathers did. not more than fifty percent of recent u.s. college graduates are unemployed or working low wage jobs this as the an affordable

cost of higher education in america has produced a national student debt bubble topping one trillion dollars teachers meanwhile are among the seven hundred thousand federal and state public workers who have reportedly been laid off since the crisis hit the u.s. a country where sixteen million are reported to be without full time jobs and approximately fifty million people are living without medical insurance and now we've reached a point where the middle class is shrinking. and sighs and what is growing is the distinction between the people who have the american dream the people who don't and the people who will never get it as millions of americans are sliding down the economic ladder median household income has it moved up in more than a decade americans are making less now than when bill clinton was in the white house while the top one percent have nearly tripled their fortune since the eighty's we have a. deeper pool of poor people than ever before and

unlike before experts say it's more likely that poor americans will remain in familiar waters we're not growing we haven't grown in this economy in a significant way for almost six or seven years now and so there isn't the expansion in a company that means we need to hire forty more people we don't have that we're laying off everywhere we're cutting back everywhere. also being slashed is the muscle behind america's labor force over the decades the number of u.s. unions has declined those left standing are being stripped of bargaining rights and existing benefits the elevator for people at the bottom to get up and out we're trade unions and once america went on the warpath against trade unions and the realization of a kind of went along with it that that blocked the pads for low income people to get decent jobs stagnant reality american dreamers are now forced to reckon with

marina port r.t. new york. an explosion this hit a ball scaring israeli tourists at an airport in the ball guarantee a bug a saw in the black sea and the seven people killed and twenty injured in the blast well for more details on this let's cross live to our tease paula. paula what's the latest on this tragedy. i mean just because we have that seven. people have been killed twenty five people have been injured of which side are in a critical condition and i will screw up i have about two hundred israeli tourists have just arrived in barbaria most of them are youngsters they haven't actually left the packing lot of the airport when one of the busses exploded and the other two went up in flames israel is in a state of emergency right now every government has cornered an emergency meeting they're planning to send a plane to about garia to m.f. to bring back the survivors we're hearing almost by most reports of people phoning

and crying and screaming somewhere approaching about rubys israelis currently are being held they say that there are bad is lying everywhere they say the people's clothes have been twelve apart or saying that they are too frightened to open me some cases certainly the mood here in israel is one of panic people who are saying that the country has gone into the same mode that it does when ever there was a bus bombing in the past as a body or as interior ministry claims the blast was in fact a terrorist attack or any news on who could be behind it. mr putin the same reports here in israel the security establishment here is saying that this was the work of in a suicide bomb in fact we've heard one eyewitness report that somebody climbed onto their backs and when most immediately afterwards the best exploded there is speculation that it could be the roof. and it's not his but then perhaps. israeli

government is assuming a team of experts to barbaria to ascertain the devices and the kind of materials that were used in the bomb and in that way they will be able to determine who was behind it at the same time there's a lot of criticism being leveled at the airport security. we're hearing this from eyewitnesses that there simply was very airport security we're seeing it now from israeli government blaming both bad and european security there is certainly a mood of panic and mood of a lot of anguish at the moment as an emergency line has been set up families trying to israel so mean so i'm trying to find out what happened to mad ones and friends who were on that pain and on their best policy thanks very much indeed for that mark report there from nazareth and of course we'll keep you up to date with developments of that story throughout the day this is all to live here in moscow told not to deal with the world of business with katie. in the business newsroom optimism on the markets i don't believe it was going on i know exactly bill it's

hard to believe you sell ties but we are looking gains on wall street that's for a second day of the housing starts increased the falses right in almost four years received a boost after federal reserve chairman ben but i reiterated remarks to congress but the central bike was already that when they were asked to inject more stimulus into the economy but he did say they were ready to do so should the situation. companies from honeywell international intel the report of profit which beat expectations now meanwhile the european markets then our. say the lenders including switzerland second biggest bank credit suisse profits betakes by patients as well as that we have minutes the bank of england may wait consider the case full and interest costs as well as the rate of unemployment fell for the second time this is well if we get those income a car is the missing how about is responding for those who say that the dollar held on to slim gains against the euro just along with the u.s.

stocks rising is wild mirroring that that kind of sense not really as to the ruble though it's going to stop trading at modification to give us a lot of others talk about the euro some more because the kamikaze is now trading at around two year lows that all they can say is that like you hit by the eurozone debt problems and concerns of the future of the union itself the latest report by sachs about one of the main part speculators they say the forces themselves already helping the situation that someone else sees somebody else and he discussed the issue with the head of the bank i think starts to do john. the only way the year is going to stay together two things need to happen first during this to become more involved before we can be more generous that is going to be so far in the equation and as well we need to see a restructuring of the debt is too much the periphery we can't keep the stead alive in the current solutions that germany is offering saving austerity that is not the

way a solution is no way to save our way and solution requires that somebody takes a loss and with the debts written off to a certain extent to allow it to be sustainable if you were talking to the electorate some day want to hear from bankers to they don't just want a picture to change do you say to them ok point the system you've been badly mistreated by bankers by people who hurt 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 a. lising 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 realisation that is an important step towards towards real change towards a restructuring taking that loss realizing that the upfront pain is actually better because that creates a sustainable system going to pay the reforms now unneeded and 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 it builds up so it becomes more painful in the long run it's better to take the that hit now rather than later and the e.u. is going to be the first place to take the hit because of its fragile political fiscal framework. let's head on into the russian markets then as we can see that was the that was the end of the day there was a lack of direction for the russian markets and really we had to make spanish. prices we know how they affect the markets here in moscow very important indeed the thought of all those people to go yes and see how that particular stock got on today because of us would suppose that the top man has been in the company could be changing soon is there some rumors quarter of a percent down there we've got gas prom yes that was around but really perhaps positive the firm is considering privatizing a cruise producer in albania as well as that goes because well they're four tenths

of a friend they've apparently joined the club of the world's twenty biggest lenders by market capitalisation so i mentioned or let's have a look. at it don't really have a case really had a choppy day it must be said it's been up down day long we got it mixed up the moment so it's really falling from a seven week high and that's really in big concerns for fuel demand will fall after china signaled more economic weakness and cut their profit forecast for european companies at the fastest rate since two thousand i said so playing into those or prices at the moment i was back in just under two hours time now. in a moment here in our tree. with. a new story still with us live here in moscow.