terror returns to brock the country is rocked by the worst violence since the u.s. withdrawal as a wave of bomb attacks in the more than one hundred death after al qaeda its resurgence. of syria in the syrian chemical weapons won't be used in its internal conflict create media scare stories but the hype on the other stockpiles might be deployed against foreign aggression. as one of the world's top credit agencies says that they are confident in germany's financial situation there's concern the eurozone crisis contagion could be reaching europe's economic powerhouse.

it's three pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live i'm an isa now with our top story and a string of coordinated bomb attacks in iraq have hit more than a dozen cities and killed over a hundred people the worst violence in the country since the u.s. troop withdraw all in the blasts were mainly targeting security forces government officials and shiite neighborhoods the offensive occurred only days after i announced a major comeback in iraq are two going to cannes now looks at what this means for the country and the whole region. the self-appointed leader of the iraqi branch of al qaida abu barker all baghdad he has announced the resurgence of terror in the country and clearly indicated there is more to come he dedicated more than half of his online speech to the uprising in syria they happen to be staunch supporters of the rebels they are various organizations are pointing at the expansion of terrorist networks in syria which effectively fuels civil war there so this iraqi based al-qaeda leader also warned the syrian right. balls quote not to accept

a new rule or constitution but god's will and shari'a islamic law otherwise quote you will lose your blast revolution end of quote also in his message of support to the syrian rebels he says quote we taught the world lessons of courage and jihad and proved that injustice could only be removed by force and of quote to talk a little bit more about the lessons of iraq i'm joined by michael o'brien author of the book called america's failure in iraq sir you were based in baghdad at the height of the insurgency there so with the u.s. invasion in iraq six tarion war blossomed rampant insurgency terror which still continues to kill iraqis on a regular basis in june alone nearly two hundred people were killed in similar attacks across iraq when the u.s. decided to go in do you think they they didn't know how divided iraq was that what consequences the regime change would lead to it was never really seriously consider

. and i say this because of the very simplistic attitude the very cavalier attitude of the bush administration of which i was in the bush administration for two years so the nobody know they knew about it they just i don't they really don't think they factored it in at all everything the united states did lead to where we are where they are erected a it was totally destabilized. and then you get the tension between the sunni and the shia saddam was a sunni which is a minority of the population al qaida all they want to do al qaida in iraq is they'll kill sunni's so that the shiites take the blame bill kill shiites so that the sunni will take the blame they really don't care all they want to do is kill people and foment unrest do you think those world powers that call for a military intervention in syria know how divided syria is i certainly hope. that

the take these things these factors like that into consideration here for the lessons of iraq the lessons of iraq are there for the world to see michael o'brien thank you sir. there's terrible violence going on in syria and it is now an all out civil war those who are against military intervention there remind how divided syria is between different ethnic groups where we just communities it's a powder keg essentially in many war and if a solution is forced on them from outside from out of syria the powder keg could blow into a never ending civil war in iraq is an example for the u.s. carried out regime change their civil war broke out and killed more than a hundred thousand civilians not to mention millions of refugees as the recent attacks iraq still remains a hotbed of terror in washington i'm kind of. well the obvious presence of terror groups linked to al qaeda in syria has led to major fears that the country's chemical weapons might end up in the wrong hands the syrian government insists

stockpiles are secure and they've never been never been used to be used i should say in the u.-turn current internal conflict or is it from a boy brings those details from to mask. monday's news conference here in damascus foreign ministry spokesman did mean that syria indeed possesses chemical weapons something that nonproliferation experts have suggested all along and that the syrian authorities have a number forwardly deny damascus has never signed the chemical weapons convention so technically its admitting to having those chemical stockpiles is not a while ration of any international treaty which all of that syrian officials have long suggested that they need some sort of deterrent against israel's similarly non admitted nuclear weapons program in terms of keep abilities syria is believed to possess as nervous agents and mustard gas as well as the missile capabilities to deliver those weapons those chemicals are believed to be produced at five

facilities around the country including two locations in hans and home of those c.d.'s as you will have seen major fighting between the opposition forces and the army. several israeli and western officials over the past few months have raised concerns that if bashar assad's regime indeed falls those chemicals would fall into terrorist hands and while the syrian authorities hausler to downplay this they're saying that all the weapons including chemical weapons are now under direct supervision and control of the syrian army despite those. statements it is believed to be a considerable threat and the western policy makers should consider that as one of the negative of concert of support for the opposition forces now over the past few weeks. speculations in western media suggesting that.

the government may use those chemicals in its fight against armed groups. the suggestion was to goree can we deny these press conference in damascus and monday the foreign ministry spokesman says that no chemical or biological weapons will ever be used during the crisis in syria no matter what developments inside syria he also said that all these speculations were part of a major media can be to prepare international public opinion of course military intervention in syria how did it falls pretext of weapons of mass destruction similar to the one that toppled saddam hussein. american author and radio talk show host dr kevin barrett bret believes the international media is hyping up the issue of chemical weapons to pave the way possible external action. this does remind us

so the bogus accusations that were floating around prior to the unprovoked invasion of iraq there have been all sorts of stories and rumors over the past couple of months about the syrian opposition training with chemical weapons in turkey with the intention of having a false flag events in syria to be blamed the assad government and it seems that perhaps that's what's in the car it's it may be that there is a and attempt to pave the way for this by preparing public for the idea that this evil syrian regime uses chemical weapons. and don't forget that you can always get updates on the situation in syria by following the tweets of our news team on the ground our correspondent on a boy who we heard from just a few minutes ago in damascus says that among i think things there she shares sharing are the details of the difficulties faced by journalists and she's talking

about how locals are more afraid of cameras there than rifles because people have been targeted for carrying on t.v. we continue to follow her at a fun a boy underscore our. in other news a fresh blow it to the struggling eurozone moody's rating agency has lowered the outlook for its most stable economies including germany the netherlands and luxemburg also have a negative forecast with rising fears over the debt crisis cited as the reason behind the move now it adds to already existing uncertainty around spain after its borrowing costs reach new your or heights artie's peter oliver reports now from berlin. it's worth noting that this doesn't affect germany's aaa rating as it stands at the moment this is the outlook. it is being downgraded to negative however that does suggest that in the future we could see germany follow the likes of france and italy who have lost their triple a ratings moody's believe that

a greek exit from the euro zone would affect germany so much also the fact that spain as it looks at the moment may need a full bailout that it isn't just the banking set sector that needs help that would also have a knock on effect to germany so that is really that contagion it would be speaking about for so long does seem like it's going to see the end to europe's largest economy it was not looking good in germany it's really not looking good in spain they've just released figures that show that they have the highest cost of borrowing since the eurozone was created and we're talking here far higher than the cost they were posted for the likes of portugal even greece. that of course doesn't suggest that the future is looking bright in spain we've seen protests on the streets of violent people very unhappy at the austerity measures that are coming in there and it's not just in spain that people are unhappy about. today in italy mayors from across the country gathering in rome in the capital to protest

against austerity measures there so you've got the government protesting against the government people upset these are the measures the question has to be asked what is the future should we be cutting these budgets and how do these countries deal with the crippling financial crisis that they see themselves in. now our business bulletin is certainly on the way here on our two with news of a possible deal between two major oil companies. the team k b p drama is reaching its finale as we head for the state run oil giant robots that is until to be paid to buy state full details in about ten minutes time and all business but as a. first egypt is allowing palestinians free entry to its territory in a landmark move ending part of a long time blockade on gaza it was imposed by israel with the help of egypt five years ago after hamas took control of the palestinian territory but with

a president from the muslim brotherhood now leading egypt the move is widely seen as a friendly gesture to hamas an offshoot of the brotherhood which operates independently from it is correspondent paul of clear has more. cairo is allowing palestinians free entry into egypt effectively ending a five year blockade on the gaza strip what this means is that palestinians cannot leave gaza with the same law applying to palestinians in the west bank and jerusalem this unprecedented move effectively lifts travel restrictions that have been imposed on gazans for the past five years they've been penned into this tiny mediterranean coastal city by a blockade imposed by israel but also assisted by the egyptian authorities egypt's interest was because of its feel for hamas and the spread of islamic militancy but what we've seen now is a change largely in part because of separate meetings that were held in the past few days between the palestinian president mahmoud abbas the new egypt president dr

mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood as well as the leader of hamas which controls the gaza strip khaled mashal so this certainly is a gesture of support by the egyptians to the palestinians in a separate and unrelated move israel has just announced that it is demolishing eight palestinian villages in the south hebron hills now the announcement says that the land is needed for training by the israeli defense forces by exercises there and everything else what we understand is that the forms we still have access to the land to work the land when the soldiers are not there so this would be on the weekend and on jewish holidays but the rest of the time the land used by the idea of so you are seeing this almost parallel but completely opposing effort by cairo and to leverage on the one hand the egyptians extending a hand of friendship while these rabies for that is strange in themselves and

isolating themselves not only from the region but from the egyptian neighbors paullus there are two tel aviv. well remember there's always more news and comment of vailable anytime you want on our website including a grim discovery in russia's year old almost two hundred fifty human embryos were dumped in a forest and later discovered by horowitz full details that are teed. off we've got pictures of a stunning sculpture based on a one of one of the most famous icons just days before the city holds the olympics and they can't even do pushups. a staple of america's wars abroad unmanned drones might soon be used to spy on the

country's own citizens by twenty fifteen the computer controlled jets will have access to airspace usually reserved for piloted planes now a director from a u.s. drone training company supporting their increased use says that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear but trevor tim an activist at the electronic frontier foundation says that argument no longer hold water. this is been used countless times in the past to justify a warrantless e-mail surveillance or g.p.s. location on your phone cops getting it without a warrant and it's all actually just of the kind of a false use of an idea that we have about privacy and you know i'm sure if we asked the head of this drone industry whether he would like a law enforcement drone following him around twenty four seven or if we would like him to give up his password to his email address to to us so that we can reuse e-mails or cameras in his home he would be very uncomfortable with that and that's

the real problem with this argument because he's using it to try to deflect criticism that these surveillance drones are going inflict on people's privacy which they are because there's actually no laws that really cover this type of surveillance and you know it's not that people are arguing that drones shouldn't be used at all that's that's not at all the case he's using kind of a straw man to hold it up but all we want our privacy safeguards to prevent americans from being spied on without a warrant or without court oversight. back to one of our top stories and mayors of italian cities have gathered to protest against budget cuts of course this goes on are high entire coverage of the euro crisis we can now cross live to rome where mayor mayor sylvia outré now joins us mayor of the town of money thank you for being with us live on the line from rome proposed cuts are being described as lethal for many of tell you in cities i assume yours as well can you elaborate

on how severe the plan measures are. well lethally is strong but i think that these measures can be really serious because they offset the balance our municipal it is managing to to keep in order specially to ground social services the point is that people go to the municipalities to obtain especially in these times when we have difficulties and then when people are losing their jobs their homes people are . trying to find an answer in their municipalities and the cuts proposed by government. deeply affected the finances of our municipalities so we are not able to offer these services and also general services for elderly for

young for for the children so this is the main problem but of course nobody likes cards when budgets are reduced do you have anything just since for the italian government. to an alternative of how you can make cuts without having i mean do you think another alternative are you making proposals. yes. we have just had the is. this the most ration because we wanted to tell the government exactly what we want we don't want. in discriminate. small municipalities have different problems from the from the from the larger ones and above all there are a lot of waste in the even the government spending a lot of the well where is the municipality is try not to.

the west and waste money so i think that what we are suggesting is just to listen to the advice of the mayors who know exactly what the system how the system has has not developed. enough accordance to what today's society. in the economic situation has developed recently. certainly a new form of public anger and protest we're seeing in italy you obviously part of it local government against the national government do you think this kind of protests can be ignored how far do you think you'll get. well of course i don't think they should ignore the is a type of proposal that's because this this is not a harsh demonstration it is a mind demonstration but it is a firm demonstration we want to do we want to say exactly what we think of the

happening in the in the periphery of our country we have always had idea that to this date the central government doesn't know exactly what happens in our towns and so we are trying to explain to make them understand what is really happening and so i think they will listen at least to some of our proposals the focus of course of the eurozone debt crisis that the whole is in spain at the moment would be borrowing costs reaching our warming levels really the italian calls have also risen steadily do you think your country will eventually have to ask her about. well i really hope no because i think that it's only in a certain way has us stronger. position than spain i think that our

industrial development has a longer tradition as against the spanish one and i think we haven't offset to much the balance between although the situation is of course difficult so i hope really that we will manage and i am also. i am also convinced that mr monti is in a certain way doing a good job so i think that he will manage right mayor of the town of silver outright lie with us on the line from the capital room thanks for that. well look now at some other stories making headlines around the world british police brought charges against eight people in connection with the phone hacking scandal at a top paper owned by rupert murdoch among them are m.p. for later became the prime minister's media chief and former news international chief executive rebecca brooks the charges relate to illegally accessing the voice

mail for thousands of people including that of a missing school girl who was later found murdered. the man accused of a massacre at a screening of the new batman film in the u.s. has made his first court appearance james holmes was charged with the killing of twelve people and injuring fifty eight more in the shooting in aurora colorado the twenty four year old didn't speak at any point during the hearing prosecutors said holmes could face the death penalty if found guilty. over one hundred people have been injured by the most powerful typhoon in over a decade to hit hong kong many flights were canceled and main transport services were suspended or have been reduced to compare reduced or running i should say at reduced capacity hong kong stock exchange was also postponed during the storm. let's not get the latest at the business desk with katie and another major player

joins russia as high oil stakes tell us more about just oh my dear ross now they've expressed their interest in buying baby's health and be paying down the state company says it's already agreed to commence negotiations with the british that all seems to know if he has. the mystery around who's going to get these shares in the d. and t.v. joint venture is now becoming bigger since russia's largest oil company has announced that it's a looking at buying it in fact both of those the afghan b b have confirmed that they've signed this agreement marking the start of negotiations which are going to be kept confidential for the next few months with itself says that this doesn't guarantee anything since the russian shareholders off the end of course i mean. they're already in the process of negotiations with b.p. on the same issue and they do have. rights now here you have been in the spotlight for quite some time there's

a lot of speculation that there are rules in the joint ventures management around which side has more influence it is a very attractive project and well definitely the russian shareholders are very keen on getting their hands on the b.b.c. shares the british energy giant and were also in the spotlight some time ago and i mean in january two thousand and eleven when they signed the deal aiming to jointly develop the arctic shelf that deal was basically blocked a again by our flags assuming off the plane that it violated the initial t m p b p agreement they didn't include them so that deal was basically cancelled by the stockholm board now it's estimated that these shares in the g.m. p.b.b. joint venture is worth around twenty five billion dollars but analysts say that this price could become much higher has the negotiations gone on for more analysis on the topic and today i got speak to an oil and gas as i see almost saying that

b.p. is unlikely to be leaving last at any time saying. the pm. sees bush as the first the chicken little took place. it is hard to imagine that there will be such the experience major relief so we do seem to be in the russian government would be we would find some mutual interests. let's check out the russian market since our way it's been a choppy day of trying to believe we're going to look at the kleins now the l.c.s. is around just one basis point for the my system no point is dissolved all these will see if they can manage to pull themselves up in the us and trade here most that is dance moves and shakers we've been talking about the company is just now so we'll see ross nast gamey around a third of that t. and pave the hobbit six tens of percent down such as the already feeling the pressure to still make up is something some of the mines in the us about taking its

toll on my head into the russian ruble and see how that is before going for the forex trader is out but just the whole of the americas yes we've got it declining now again the choppy session all round red a we've got it now decline against the us dollar. cost of the common currency one twenty nine hundred six radians of pressure can be said for the european markets as well i did say they were demonstrating resilience all that was going on and as you can see again they seem to have dipped into red territory we had to move is the investment company really picking gold in germany in the netherlands and luxembourg putting them on negative outlook so because of all what's going on the sovereign debt crisis because of the rest of asia we have a mix performs in the asian session if we get into the all markets will be able to see that a lot of this committee justify why the russian markets are in negative territory as well with the declines just a very choppy session of the day now russia's energy regulator is all considering

a project of the century was twenty billion dollars the country tensing think it's your pain. baryonic grid systems which is sort of place separated russia into two energy markets the move is aimed to increase competition between power companies and lower consumer prices meanwhile as well the implementation won't be false to the high prices on the scale of the projects itself i came he's that's all for me today don't you push oh he'll be taken over the reins and give you all the latest on the. story come out boy all right katie thanks for about update and more financial news but from a very different perspective coming up in the kaiser report after the headline.

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