he's trying sincere as consul damascus just in front of the hotel where the yuan observer mission is staying. ecuador stomps out rumors of it already granting julian assange just silent as the whistle blows quest for refuge and as it seemingly final but no less perilous day. and more violence in afghanistan while revelations surface of peripheral conditions in american to run hospitals something at the top is general trying to say we've come to the carpet. the russian markets open up in negative territory following on from the losses made in asia as oil prices also take a plunge join me in about twenty minutes time i'll have a breakdown all that they get is a little later. this

is all see live from moscow and we start with breaking news this hour a bomb blast has rocked the syrian capital damascus the explosion took place just meters from the hotel where the u.n. monitoring mission is located on a boy who has arrived there and we managed to catch up with. here's a relatively calm of the past few days but as you can see the time was very deceptive very sharply. it was a very very loud bang that was followed by a series of smaller explosions that sounded like shooting situation the whole munition the explosion itself took place at a close to farm the facility that adjacent to the hotel and at this point we have

no confirmation but it blew pliability vice what you wanted on the one of the hard part of the thing to keep from our where i am at the moment i can turn hard to be substantial parts of the track. because religion where the explosion took place the closure also leaving general public so whoever carried out the. blasts was probably working for the very facilities. now in addition to the army planes houses also some sort of government institution and the building where the government offices are located also caught fire now the firefighters are working on the scene it looks like they have a fire under control the u.n. observers amanda davies expiring in some four days and just a few days ago when they had a few minutes or a mission here of

a cargo here was giving an east conference he was very very skeptical about the way the situation in this country is developing probably now they don't even have to go and patrols because they can see examples of that violence from that very photos and those. proposes without borders have sent an open letter to the syrian rebels of raising the lawnmower an increasing number of the tunks against journalists on the ground the group which advocates freedom of information says government correspondents are prime targets while foreign journalists are also receiving death threats from the opposition and that's being taken as father proof nothing is black and white in syria as. there has been finding out. january eleventh two thousand and twelve the first western journalist was killed in homs frenchmen. well the initial reaction from france and many french journalists were that of anger and condemnation over here in france elevation to speak to jackie's colleague

who was with him in syria when he was killed. christophe can't show does with used to be now there's only a black and white picture of. the hope and he was a great friend he was always smiling he was hard b. always wanted to go places who is curious he loved his job he was also someone who was very friendly who would go filming we were happy to do together because we would be able to leave new adventures when we needed to syria he really had this need in his body to tell what's happening on the other side of the world with his camera with my camera we were always together because i lost a friend christoph says his initial thoughts were that the syrian government was behind the attack however the week after. the journalist from this newspaper published an article stating the possibility that he might have been killed by fire from the opposition clearly information that went against the dominant narrative in the media but he did find that he wasn't alone in coming to that conclusion i met

by mistake by random french intelligence guy who asked me i don't understand why your report didn't pick up. the news that they are because it was. our conclusion included in services and friends good grades the conclusion that the u. was killed by a mortar eighty one millimeters coming shooting from the rubble area by mistake i published a story it was denied of course by i used to refer to finance ministry appeal of foreign affairs of the because it's not really politically correct little correctness that's playing into what has increasingly become an information war as much as it is a civil war where the villain is usually the heavy handed regime and the rebels are shown as advocates of freedom and democracy but the reality is not so clear cut alex thomson chief correspondent for britain's channel four news wrote how he believed he was led into

a death trap by the syrian rebels i'm quite clear the rebels deliberately set us up to be shot by the syrian army and in a life phone interview he told r.t. my point is did joran was our dad for damascus you don't have to be very clever to work out that the deaths of any journalist at the hands of the syrian army are going to be in a powering blow again for president asad the motivation for the rebels to pull a stunt like that seems to be very obvious i'm not angry about it i'm not upset about it this is a war and these things will be done both sides are involved in very dirty tactics in this war this is a nasty and dirty war on both sides and nasty war we're truth is a small victim as those who've lost their lives what sue sue so lucky i feel for me it's most important to know who did what when this becomes clear that we can go on with our lives but now we're still mourning every day we will every day twenty two

tests are still you r.t. paris to see how much the pentagon chief has said his confidence the u.s. could successfully enforce a no fly zone over syria leon panetta however as the. this would require a major policy decision which hasn't been made yet and he also accused iran of training syria pro-government militias saying to iran's involvement in the conflict quote could aggravate the situation and eric draitser job political analyst full stop imperatives and home from washington's latest threat trick once again reveals its double standard policy towards syria. the united states is the pot calling the kettle black essentially doing whatever it can to foment the chaos to to turn sunni's against shiites to turn al the whites against kurds and so forth and try to destroy the syrian state in that way and then they'll turn around and say that the iranians are doing the same thing by forming pro assad militias this is unbridled

hypocrisy as i already mentioned but i think we could take it one step further to show that this really demonstrates the u.s. is desperation in syria they know that they're outmatched diplomatically they're outmatched in terms of the foreign policy and so what the only thing they can do is use syria as an issue to demonize the arabians which is the ultimate enemy in the region for the u.s. establishment. and do not forget that you can find all the stories you and i missed on our website coleman has a taste of all that for you right now the continuing victims of the fukushima disaster a gruesome discovery reveals bought supplies a living at japan's a tsunami crippled nuclear plant have genetic mutations sparking fears the elite raising nation might still effect. and high power support for internet freedom oxidized says apple co-founder steve wozniak he's still with some of wiki leaks. and controversial web regular bells you can watch his exclusive interview to

see online. jude and a song just fate isn't quite yet with acquittals present day debunking mazie of rumors the whistleblower had been granted asylum in the south american country instead president. says he hopes to make the decision they said this week. remains and i quote it was on the scene in london they sold refuge bag gainst his extradition to sweden which many of his supporters fear would be only a short stop before he'd be handed to the united states to face political field charges more now in a song just plied with. has been in touch with the ecuador president's press office . we put in a call to the presidential administration in ecuador who said that he denied that there has been a decision any made on whether to grant. asylum in ecuador now that of course is not to say that he won't be granted asylum just a denial of any decision having already been made and what was being recorded

earlier with an unnamed official. would you all saying that a decision had been made in that the decision was to grant refuge to julian i thought we heard television address by president rafael correa that he would be making a decision about this plea this week that on wednesday he would be taking advice from various people and that following that he would be making is that we are expecting a final decision to be announced on thursday or friday later on this week so we do know that and we also know that ecuador sees this as a humanitarian act the president or a minister in ecuador have said that they see this as an act that would protect his right to life and freedom and official working on the case and the ecuador says a person wouldn't have been less than enthusiastic to negotiate with the launch an american state regarding asylum bid and kevin zeese antiwar activist on the bradley

manning support network says even of the whistleblower against the green light from ecuador they'll be plenty more challenges ahead. he needs to get safe passage out of great britain you know england has to agree that they have negotiate their good or it sounds like you're woodward's been trying to negotiate a great deal prior to making this decision so maybe that's already been done but if not that would be the next challenge save. you know it doesn't solve all the problems charges are still outstanding and once he's in the air you have to rework the u.s. military are they going to surround the plane and bring him down sweden and bring him down united states or some land and outside record or so this is not a done deal it's a big step and it's a good sign that a country will stand up with julius homage and say that we recognize that you're being mistreated that this which our news and and and pushes for to try to find a political forum is there's only one thing a soldier's story doesn't lock it's plot twists for every a secret that there was

a blood shed light on it has found himself a growing crowd of enemies all more and more desperate to bring him down from buying state governments and even public figures openly calling to him to back killed all his christine for now with more on just how far it has or less collected . we first met julian assange on here in washington in two thousand and ten where he unveiled the collateral murder video at the national press club and on. it showed it to u.s. army pilots treating war like a video game killing countless civilians in the process including two journalists a songe appeared in our studios later that night to talk more about wiki leaks and what he hopes to achieve with his website the first step in the fourth state is to get information out about the real world and the second step is to comment on it and to think about it but sources can get. out to the

public in the weeks following a song and wiki leaks were everywhere with leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks but it wasn't long before publications that originally partnered with wiki leaks like the guardian der spiegel in the new york times turned against a saw much as did many others who said he should be killed to get her for the american people the way to deal with and they were in the end the nashik your united states will deal with this is pretty simple we got special ops forces i mean the dead man can't leaks that this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law of the united states he was then accused of sexual assault by two women in sweden a sign says the sex was consensual and denies any wrongdoing the founder of wiki leaks arrested by british police this morning after turning himself in he's now facing rape charges in sweden to a british judge has granted wiki leaks founder julian assange bail julia saunders appealing against an order to extradite him to sweden he spent much of the last two

years on house arrest in london julian assange also had a show on our t.v. well equipped. the can change the world tomorrow where he interviewed hezbollah leaders saeed has on those rollo come as well as ecuadorian president. rafael correa. dorrian people think about the united states and its involvement in latin america and in ecuador and it would be president rafael correa that would give julian a songe the green light to make ecuador his new home as has been living in the ecuadorian embassy in london since june nineteenth since the president said he would make his announcement after the olympic games president correa said if he does grant a songe political asylum it would be an informed decision and one made in the name of human rights in washington christine for south r.t. and of course we'll be covering a song just quest for asylum some really over the next few days here on our sea and

also if you missed any of the world famous whistle blows our own shows here on r.c. you can watch all the twelve episodes online at our songs dot com. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact on. the source material is what helps keep journalism on the we. we want to present. something of. there's been uncommon praise from germany towards greece and spain which berlin says taking major steps in combating the euro crisis and how about flies in the face of warring new statistics showing the european union is entering a dreaded double dip recession the merkel has also approved

a risky european central bank plan to directly buyouts punish and it all in debt despite that being something the frugal has of germany have long resisted so on let's say both lives been left with no choice about rome and madrid so weakened they could ask for a full state bailout at any time and that's something marco consulate's hopping on to next hour we speak to a noted german economist. has a move believes the e.u. simply hasn't learned the lessons of the euro crisis what i find very surprising is that the united states would never think of bailing out california when it goes bankrupt every state is responsible for itself and if there is a loss it has to be borne by the creditors of that state while at the same time they argue in europe there should be an international bailout and this is all too obvious they want to save and rescue their own investment this kind of torbor capitalism which we have seen in recent years this irresponsible capitalism

resulting from the gamble for resort action played by the banks that they in vest in risky enterprises hoping that their profits the profits will be privatized while at the same time expecting to be bailed out if something goes wrong this kind of capitalism should not have a future. almost fifty people have been killed and many more injured in a series of attacks across afghanistan the was just told came in the southwest of the country a string of suicide bombings hey barrios locals were shopping and preparing for the muslim holiday that ends the month of ramadan a separate bomb blast also struck at a market in the northern could use province the surge in violence comes as u.s. troops gradually hunter sponsibility to obgyn security forces and provide training for them as i. can now reports the legacy of the american invasion leaves much to

be desired. senior u.s. military officers blow the whistle on horrific conditions at the national military hospital wing tabel they revealed photographs from twenty ten some graphic images showing severely neglected starving patients of the hospital which the u.s. military sponsors and helps oversee witnesses describe the conditions there as quote unquote auschwitz like lacking basic necessities like soap the hospital treats afghan military personnel but the mentors are mostly americans one of the whistleblowers colonel mark fassel served as inspector general for the nato training mission in afghanistan he says the mission's top commander general william caldwell tried to stall the requested investigation into reported abuse and mismanagement at the hospital his first response to me was how could we do this or make this request. with election coming and then he made it

really again. shocking comment that he calls me bill what does that mean i took it. for him to the present stage. moreover the general calls command apparently ordered to destroy any photos and videos from the hospital here's the memo that they issued in september last year it says quote an official personal photos or video or audio recordings of patients or health care events which already exist will be destroyed or deleted end of quote so apparently they wanted these shots destroyed or delete it while putting forward positive images like this one positive clips like this one but here at the national military hospital in kabul doctors nurses and technicians are working with u.s. military advisors last year the commission on the wartime contracting estimated that the u.s. lost up to sixty billion dollars to waste and fraud in iraq and afghanistan they

call the estimate conservative but in the case of this military hospital in afghanistan it's not just about money pocketed by some incompetent contractors or corrupt local officials but also about apparent attempts to hush down human suffering and possibly cover up abuse to present a training mission in afghanistan as a success story i'm going into. a quick look now at some other international news in brief bahrain has been a robot slash antigovernment protests which saw at least eleven people arrested several demonstrators were reportedly wounded as police use rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowds the violence comes after a court postponed its verdict on twenty opposition figures who are facing jail sentences for legibly plotting to overthrow the ruling family bahrain has been rocked by the ongoing anti-government protests the more than eighty. thousands have gathered for a demonstration against the ruling islam is possible in the central toonies in town

at sidi bouzid the heart of the twenty eleven are promising they demanded the release of nearly forty five people arrested one please despise the previous protests last thursday with rubber bullets and tear gas on monday this week signs also took to the streets of the capital to vent at a proposed amendments to the country's constitution that might reduce women's rights under the islamist government. these certain people have been injured after police broke up a massive demonstration against a dumb being built on columbia is not done then a river thousands blogs the main road connecting the land with this southern kettle department the protesters claim the construction company has not fulfilled its obligations to provide adequate compensation for that displacement the dam said to flood areas in six local municipalities it's. a business time now with k.c.a.l. out there so the asian and russian market saw in the red now what about your of

this out kate or yearly just tracking those losses really just really thing from the same hymn sheet if we get out to the european markets you'll be able to see the numbers very much speak for themselves today a lot of negative sentiments going on there was a report in the financial times over the night said that grace is a. extend. more time to pay back the money to get the house in order we've got calls about one of the biggest losses so far three point six percent saying. at a loss so that's the main sentiments going on we're going to be following your throughout the day but right now we're looking at a sea of red now staying with europe britain's standard they have admitted breaking u.s. sanctions against iran the lender has agreed a three hundred forty million dollars settlement with new york regulators that each

of hygiene operations with islamic republic over the banks said that the amount of illegal transactions only fourteen million dollars instead of the claimed two hundred forty. will see the exchange rate able to see that europe right now is just a fraction more than there were always good at one twenty three thirty five just now for the common current say there's an gun rounds in the london eye today that's doing the rounds on the trading floor saying the european currency is a zombie getting over to the. us with the russian market as you say u.v.-a they did open up in negative territory and i'm afraid that is indeed where they made their raise in the games already made this week fall in the global equity markets has it and it was an oil price is taking a plunge to you that is very much taking its toll as he said movie. diamond also that it's no exception just the companies for seventy three percent this year

that's not having any good news today. as you can see it just now is two tenths of a percent one of the companies made. states with a discount and russia's top. we've got it just for tenth of a cent with the company the country's top. pipe maker as i say is preparing a lawsuit because the european commission the first. general court to. hear a case is a recent extension. found it goes against the rules and affects cells of russian produces in the region so see how the asian markets are getting on at the end of the trading day still make is it where they could pay and that's because an official at the world's biggest producer said that china's golden years of growth are deep in japan it was the banks that had a bit of a big thing in the session today prices of oil are indeed falling. in the u.s.

the world's biggest. of course is the first time. corning to an industry report and moving on then general motors is facing a three billion dollar lawsuit over interfering into a sub the u.s. car giant is accused of deliberately bankrupting the swedish automaker instead of handing it to the russian and chinese investors. explains. defunct car maker solve automotive may be running on empty but the saga surrounding its bankruptcy is only accelerating now the swedish company filed for chapter eleven back in december after takeover talks with chinese and russian investors failed u.s. auto giant general motors which owned part of saab was reportedly against chinese carmakers assessing saabs technology licenses now if there war if there

was a successful deal made that would have purportedly provided saab with the nuff capital to stay alive while also saving some three thousand jobs in sweden according to experts g.m. would have also profit now spyker cars which currently owns saab is accusing g.m. of intentionally driving saab out of business by railing takeover talks with chinese investors spiker leverage those charges in the billion dollar lawsuit recently filed against g.m. meanwhile some experts are questioning if g.m. was simply using saab as a pawn in a hidden economic conflict or divide between the east and west and if that is true could that be a developing trend in practices within the global economy that question and many

others may likely be raised when speicher cars and g.m. face off in court merino port r.t. new york. yearly i'll be back about fifty five minutes i'm going to try to save up some optimism somewhere for you guys. thank you very much katie holmes coming up in a few moments cross talk tough call the show of groans one the one hand double save accurate and cheap and on the other side on the other hand it moral inhumane and and they will stay with us.

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