a powerful explosion strikes in syria's capital damascus just in front of the hotel where the u.n. observer mission is stay. acquittals down south rumors of it already granting asylum to whistleblowers quest for refuge and does it signify no but powerless state. and more violence in afghanistan while revelations is a prolific conditions in an american run hospital something a top u.s. general tried to say we under the.

news for russia and around the world this is all she was me thanks for joining as the rebel free syrian army has reportedly claimed responsibility for a large explosion in central damascus the block took place they'd lost took place just a mrs from the hotel where the u.n. monitoring mission is located on a boycott was ride and we managed to catch up with. this appears to be the relatively calm of the past few days but as you can see this column was very deceptive and very shortly. they were going very very loud bangs that were followed by a series that will learn that the founders like the nation are from nations of the south who are quote army that are taking a good hotel and at the point we have no confirmation that the fight was. only one of the hard part of the team but it's really key from where i am at the

moment thank you. very much for the level morning meeting you now because believe me when even though you. know you also believe in general not repeat those who ever carried out things. which probably work for you very clearly. now in addition to the army clean house is also from the government institution and the building where the government offices allocated also caught fire and now the firefighters are working for the union it looks great they have fire on their control you are in a very demand they be expiring in four days and yet. if you do you can go one day out of here and there are missions your cards are your was giving you a news conference he was very very skeptical about the way the situation in the country is developing probably now they don't even have to go into trolls because they can see examples of that farmland from very vocal windows. and

exxon is keeping across developments in the syrian capital for us and the last hundred plus friends and the jews on line on her twitter stream current and one of her latest tweets she quotes a series if you see a foreign minister who says the demo scares the last time it's a dui i have said it. voters without borders have sent an open letter to the syrian rebels raising the alarm of an increasing number of attacks against journalists on the ground the group which advocates freedom of information government correspondence of prime targets while foreign journalists are also receiving death threats from the opposition and that's being taken as further 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 a fence elevation to speak of jackie's colleague who was with him in syria when he was killed. we can't show it as we're shiels desk used to be now there's only a black and white picture of. hope and he was a great friend he was always smiling it was hard he always wanted to go places always curious he loved his job he was also someone who was very friendly who would go filming we were happy to go together because we would be able to live new adventures like the one we lived through 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 i lost a friend christoph says his initial thoughts were that the syrian government was behind the attack however just 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 defined that he wasn't alone in coming to that conclusion i made by mistake by random french intelligence guy. i don't understand why your report didn't pick up. the news it's that there are because it was our conclusion intelligence services and friends got reach a conclusion that he was killed by a mortar of eighty one millimeters coming shooting from the rubble area by mistake i published this story it was denied of course by the minister of defiance ministry of foreign affairs of all because it's not really politically correct little correctness that's playing into what has increasingly become an information war as as much. it is a civil war where the villain is usually the heavy handed regime and 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 and 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 jordan list are dead 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 palin 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 to say do so for me it's most important to know who did work when this becomes clear that we can go on with our

lives but now we are still mourning every day every day where you just are still your r.t. paris says the pentagon has confidence the u.s. could successfully enforce a no fly zone over syria leon panetta however this would require a major policy decision which hasn't been made yet and he also accused iran of training see when pro-government militia saying tehran's involvement in the conflict quote could aggravate the situation and eric draitser political analyst full stop imperatives in dot com says washington's latest rhetoric 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 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 with 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. of course you can always find all the stories you may have missed on our website it's called it has a taste of all steps for you right now the continuing victims of the fukushima disaster agrees some discovery of reveals a bunch of lies flying living near japan's tsunami crippled nuclear plant genetic mutations talking they leaked radiation might still affect humans. but high powered support for internet freedom apps of it co-founders steve wozniak kids

wake and it's. controversial web regulation. has exclusive interview to see online. but you know not just on our soldiers fate isn't quite sealed just yet acquittals president pastorally debunking media rumors they whistle blow had been granted asylum in the south american country instead president rafael carette says he hopes to make the decision later this week and saw human while remains at ecuador's embassy in london he sought refuge back against 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 eighty year old charges are more now in a sonorous blind with also has been in touch with 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 conversation 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. saying that a decision had been made in that the decision was to grant refuge to. a television address by president rafael correa saying 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 his decision so 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 and the foreign minister in ecuador have said that they see this as an act that would protect his right to life and freedom an official working on the case in ecuador britain and so we wouldn't have been less than enthusiastic to negotiate with the latin american states regarding asylum

bed kevin zeese antiwar activist and member of the bradley manning support network so even if they whistle blower gets the green light from i quote or 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 were been trying to negotiate a great deal prior to making this decision so maybe that's already been done but if not that will be the next challenge save that which you know it doesn't solve the problems charges are still outstanding and once he's in the air you have to worry about the u.s. military are they going to surround assad just plain and bring him down and sweeping a room down united states force in the land and outside of the horse this is not a done deal it's a big step and it's a good sign that our country will stand up with julius anjan say that we recognize that you're being mistreated or that this which are news dandan and pushes for to try to find a political. if there's one thing a soldier's story doesn't like it's plot twists

and for every secret that the whistleblower shed light on hey found himself attracting a growing crowd of enemies or more and more desperate to bring him down from buying state governments and even public figures openly calling for the him to be a cold he's christine freeze out now with more on just how far it has or less collated. we first met julian assange here in washington in two thousand and ten where he unveiled the collateral murder video at the national press club. 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 we need sources who can get this through pretty gratian out to the public in the weeks following a song and wiki leaks were everywhere with a week's 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 the way to 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 julian assange is 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. requests. that 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 in ecuador and it would be president rafael correa that would give julian a songe the green light to make ecuador his new home 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 us on 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 there will be covering us songes quest for asylum sovereignty over the next few days here in our city for you and also if you missed any of the world famous whistleblowers own shows for our so you can watch all the twelve episodes online at www dot com. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political back. to the source material is what helps keep journalism on we. we want to present. something. there's been uncommon praise from germany towards greece and spain which berlin says are taking major steps in combating the euro crisis that however flies in the

face of warring used to test stakes showing the european union is entering a dreaded double dip recession angulo merkel has also approved a risky european central bank plan to directly by ups punish and it highly indebted and despite being something the frugal heads of germany have long resisted and analysts say berlin's been left with no choice of roman trade so we can they could ask for a full state bailout a tiny tiny sound from our poll can't let happen and noted german economist hands were the same one who believes the you simply hasn't learned the lessons of the euro crisis the full interview in ten minutes time but here's a quick thing. 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 tora bora capitalism which we have seen in recent years this irresponsible capitalism resulting from the gamble for resort action played by the banks the 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 they watched death toll came in the south west of the country a string of suicide bombings have beria as locals were shopping and preparing for the muslim holiday that and the month of ramadan

a separate bomb blast also struck it's a known history in the north and produce province the surge in violence comes as u.s. troops gradually hand a responsibility to afghan security forces and provide training for them but as all she's going to check on reports the legacy of them are going to beijing leaves much to be designing. senior u.s. military officers blow the whistle on horrific conditions of the national military hospital wing tabel they revealed photographs from twenty ten some graphic images showing severely neglected starving patients at 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 missions 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 remake this request. with a war going and then he made. it really. shocking come and he calls me bill. what does that mean i took it. for a jew presumably stage moreover a 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 kind of struck down. a quick look at some other international news stories in breve bahrain hired guns by the french government which saw at least eleven people arrested several demonstrations one critically wounded at least used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowds the violence comes after a postponed its budget didn't want to opposition figures who are facing jail sentences but let it fall to overthrow the ruling family has been rocked by the

growing antigovernment protests. have gathered for a demonstration against the ruling islamist party in the central tunis in town or city visit the heart of the time to eleven uprising they demand the release of nearly forty five people arrested when these dispersed a previous protest last summer's day with rubber bullets and tear gas today this week thousands also took to the streets of the capital to vent and to solve problems and the incident to the country's constitution that might reduce women's rights on that is that his government. at least thirty people have been injured after police a growth company massive demonstration against a dumb being built on colombia's mundelein the river thousands took to the main road next and they're lined with these southern cattle department protesters claim the construction company is not fulfilled its obligations to provide adequate

compensation for the displaced to the downside to flood areas in six and i suppose it's. time for business now with casey hi there so are the markets still a sea of red then kate i'm afraid so you hear they really are skull it seems to be the color scheme for the day really we have the asian markets kicking it all off and now we've got europe down now there's been some reports in the financial times that greece wants to more years to implement their latest austerity program and apparently will formally i. european leaders for extra time next week so the market is all too optimistic about the certainly caution little bit of uncertainty in the air as you can see just that we've got the foot on the does both around top of present in negative territory firmly entrenched i'll say with europe we're going to talk about britain's standard chartered because they have admitted to breaking u.s.

sanctions with iran now the lender has agreed to a three hundred forty million dollars settlement with new york regulators that accused it of hiding operations with the islamic republic well the bank said the amount of illegal transactions totaled only fourteen million dollars instead of the claimed two hundred forty billion ok took in the money we can see the exchange rates just we've got the common core is there is gaining already a modest amount there a modest not one twenty three twenty seven raised to be flat as for the ruble it's still managing to lose out against bosco choruses in the trade today there could be markets here most are still firmly entrenched in negative territory really facing the pressures from the general international radio at the moment the r.t.s. one and a half down and out of the my six just shortly behind some of the stocks and some of the biggest movies on the my sex diamond produce i'd also is no exception to the company's foreign sales though rocketed seventy three percent in the first half of

the year that is impressive not impressive enough for investors as you can see our float there as well as gold brackins to the red seven tenth's of a besides a one of the company's made owners has offered these states shares with a discount for those good t m k they're on half a percent in negative territory as you can say stay with the company the company is preparing a lawsuit against the european union the sun goes the e.u.'s general court to council tariffs on russian pipes exported into europe steve case says the recent extension on. faeces unfounded goes against the w.t.r. rules and affects cells of all the russian juices in the region as for overprices and the still declining that's off the stockpiles in the us world's biggest crude consumer of course rose for the first time in the wee weeks as according to industry reports and a ways as you can see they are indeed declining now general motors is facing

a three billion dollar lawsuit over into ferry and a possible sale of saab now the u.s. called giant is accused of deliberately bankrupting the swedish all to make a instead of handing it to russian and chinese investors. now 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 are 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 rallying takeover talks with chinese investors spiker leverage those charges in a three 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 spiker cars and g.m. face off in court. is indeed a sea of red but was see any land is going to come in about fifty five minutes

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