a series of blasts hit a military academy in the syrian capital damascus with rebels claiming responsibility for the. games for adults. from disputed islands with. parliament. take the streets. for britain's either with a new study showing that far from

a future recovery it's downhill from the bottom half of us. here in moscow this is with me rule life in the russian capital to a powerful explosions of rocked a military academy in the syrian capital a rebel groups have claimed responsibility saying they are responding to syrian army operations in the city a middle east correspondent following the latest. two rebel groups have taken responsibility for that attack and one is the revolutionary council of damascus this is a group that is believed to have strong links with al qaida it is also a group that is seeking the overthrow of the syrian president bashar assad and is a group that is against dialogue in the statement they said that this explosion was

in response to the syrian army's operation in damascus we also know that the rebels exploded at least seventy improvised explosives inside the building were gone and that attack we have no more information at this point opposition fighters and government troops have been fighting each other for control of the syrian capital for several months now as well as for control of aleppo the country's second largest city this is a conflict that dates back to march of last year in which we've seen dainty numbers of people killed. reporting right there she's monitoring developments on the blasts in damascus and of course you can follow all of our updates via twitter feed as you can see right here they come just days hours really before today's session of the u.n. general assembly. syria and iran looks to dominate this international get together.

thanks for joining us here on our tour today swapped words for action in its island dispute with china and taiwan after using water cannons to repel approaching taipei vessels in the contested waters a large for a lot of fishing boats backed by eight coast guard ships had to retreat from the region to tokyo considers its own after they were met with lethal force that's why one has to be a player to join the island standoff after japan brought them from private investors at. just basically sparked outrage in china and the u.s. has been keeping a close eye on the relatives that increases its military activity in the region investigative journalist james corbett things washington will ultimately do its best to fan the flames of dispute. i think we have to understand this entire

dispute not in terms of the islands themselves which most average japanese and average chinese people i think don't don't really care about i think this is being played up as a as a nationalist sentiment nationalist fervor it has the potential to get bigger and right now australia is being proposed as a third party to arbitrate in a trilateral security talk between canberra beijing and tokyo over this dispute so we'll see if it does broaden out into the region we see the us starting its asia pacific pivot so i think it actually has an interest in increasing tensions between japan and china because that makes japan ever more eager to accept an american military presence which up until now there's been quite strong protests against but now we see them renewing military joint military exercises in guam it cetera so so it is increasing the japanese reliance on the american security blanket says that as it were and i think that that plays into american interests so i think they actually probably benefit from this this. at a gregory clark

a former australian diplomat he believes that japan will struggle to find a friend among its neighbors. the united states is happy to see china japan and taiwan in dispute with each other because forces japan into a close relationship with the united states japan long dispute in one. taiwan china south korea with korea and with russia and the liberal. the result of the dispute will be to fools each of these neighbors into a closer relationship. north korea so that ukraine will become even more isolated will be probably somewhat hysterical and will. and totally on the united states will come from can support. but of course i hear it all to you we've been following the china japan standoff since the very beginning so you can trace it back to the very start on our website our dot com we've also got some

extra coverage of the water cannon battles between japanese and taiwanese vessels and more on the peace efforts being pursued by both tokyo and beijing. now the spanish parliament has taken on the appearance of a fortress today complete with hundreds of riot police manning big barricades the security lockdown as a precaution against mass protests slated for today with thousands expected to gather in condemnation of the government's crisis conduct but it's not all about austerity but the heavy emphasis on how cuts of come at the expense of democracy among the protesters demands are a complete halt on austerity and the dissolution of the parliament but journalist and author. says for that to happen the indignance need a clear objective. the same indignados of indignant movement which a year and a half ago was very successful in bringing out industry stance of thousands of people and not exactly against something very specific but against the way in which

politics are on their way i mean the lack of transparency the lack of them ocracy the fact that important decisions are not consulted with the people they said they had a huge success but it was shortly fizzled out very quickly practically because their demands were too huge were too vague also it will be people undoubtedly probably thousands of people so yes there are sangar the resentment against the government the spanish government is trying to resist that because they know it's some popular but i'm afraid they will probably go to the to the dictates of brussels once again and we'll have more maybe that's races and all that sort of thing and while not every european nation is feeling austerity has bite quite as much as the spanish or even the greeks that's not to say it's all pain free in britain if you are in the bottom half of the household income chart it looks like you don't have much to look forward to financially. describes an economic recovery that could leave many behind

. britain's in the midst of a double dip recession and everybody's feeling the pinch or all of a chilling new research has revealed that the gap between britain's rich and poor is widening in fact if you are one of the middle income or low income families in the way to tighten your belt even further it's still that by twenty twenty an average low income family could see their net income full by as much as fifteen percent i think is really worrying for low income households because it shows that we don't just have a growth problem if you like and u.k. shows that even once growth both kick in households across the bottom half are going to be poorer in twenty twenty than they were in twenty or now let's say learning about this latest research is that it's based on a very generous assumptions about the future growth in britain now what that means is that even if person manages to repeat and give this boost to the economy to start slowly dragging its way out of this recession the not everybody is going to

benefit and the ones who are going to be hardest hit going to be those middle income and low income families now in an age of austerity britain's government's been accused of waging war on britain's poor chancellor george osborne wants to cut a further ten billion from the welfare budget again having that knock on effect to the middle income low income families he needs the support of the most. or he correspondence or fourth reporting that well if you're going to get to the root of the financial troubles to continue to rock europe you could just tune in for the cause report the latest edition focuses on how banks are continuing to exploit the world's most vulnerable here's a taste of what's coming your way fifteen thirty g.m.t. . lloyd's anti-fraud boss who stole two point four million pounds told police she deserved cash for long hours the fraud took place during the financial crisis when boyd itself was receiving substantial amounts of taxpayer money so again. this

woman for some reason gets arrested and sent to five years in prison for doing the same exact thing that ironically or not her bank was receiving billions and billions of these taxpayer money out here to bail out for their own fraud that's the way things get at the end of. organized talk talk or say is that those who are actually doing something to benefit society as this woman is obviously doing to try to put lloyd's out of business that i see fantastically here in the city of london that thousands of caucus stock or see bankers investment bankers will now be laid off this is fantastic this means that we are doing our job so to george osborne and david cameron i say that we're here we're on a mission to put the city of london completely out of business and so far the news is good all those people are being shipped out of the city they're being forced to get a real job shucking oysters down to cornwall and making course pasties for

a living and that's the way it should be because they're just cock a stock of terrorists. it's ten minutes past the almost go time so plenty more to come in the program that will be off to a short break including free speech or hate speech so we investigate the mixed reaction to a new jihad being put up in the new york subway. other dreams of a better life in europe to see migrants denied the life they longed for saying they've been treated worse than. his day starts at five am in the winter tending to this story hundred sheep in the mountains. thirty five years old it wasn't. having studied accounting but you do i'm familiar dictated that he would take on the can. after his father.

he's just made camp at their winter farms did setting up his ute traditional to fenian round tent made of diskin. his beastly back amongst his family and his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius says there are still there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so all most of us is simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they

were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the cats or dogs. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd it gets a high at fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in their publics capitol hill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact you can start to look for a new wife. you

know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm to are welcome to the big picture. thanks for joining us here on our view today i'm rory sushi on the first day of the u.n. general assembly in new york was marred by an outbreak between sworn foes iran and israel iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad denounced israel's alleged nuclear stockpiles and occupation of palestine mostly prompting the ambassador to walk out of going to try to also accuse the u.s. of shielding israel and paving the way for

a strike on terror on this comes just days after washington decided to remove an iranian militant group the. terror list of a sudden change of heart over an organization which seeks to overthrow the iranian regime is hardly a coincidence that according to. a policy director of the national iranian american council. u.s. officials went you know public they went to n.b.c. and said hey is working with mossad to conduct assassinations inside of iran so there is clearly at least reportedly still a paramilitary aspect to this group and they are committed to advancing their political agenda by using violence and here's the thing if these guys could. pressure their way off the terrorist list they could pour millions of dollars into the top lobbying firms in the united states and basically manufacture this campaign to achieve their political agenda here imagine what they're going to do now that the any case off the list and you have all this money that we don't know where it's

coming from is swirling around and the next push is we need war with iran there could be no mistake that this campaign was a campaign to make war more likely this was part of the push for war when you have negotiations between the u.s. and iran the number one hurdle from the iranian side is this perception that the united states doesn't actually want to negotiate. resolution to the nuclear issue that this is about regime change just like on our side our number one concern is we can't trust the iranians that they don't want to nuclear weapons this adds fuel to the fire inside of iran that this is really about regime change in. united states is not going to accept any kind of diplomatic resolution. now the american made anti muslim film and the protests that followed it are galvanizing culture warriors on both sides of the atlantic ad space in new york has become the latest battlefield r.t.s. anastasio is in the big apple to gauge the locals reaction. i believe that is calling for the defeat of jihad are being put up in ten subway stations in new york

mr costin with more than six thousand dollars come from a group that's accused of sparking hate by critics but has been given the green light by new york authorities only going up this monday the ads are already causing much debate are they too offensive to the muslim community or does freedom of speech conquer all let's find out what new yorkers have to say about this i'm shocked that that mayor bloomberg and his people are allowing it just going to lead on to more answer and tell you everything it's a good idea to have an anti islamic sentiment for some reason absolutely not but just perpetuates anti people sentiment controversial of course it's controversial is poisonous in the new york city subway system you know this is a city that's been wracked by a trauma for years and years and here we are after eleven years of war still using the language of war these ads are going up in new york subway stations today but what do you think about this. while i support israel for the safety and peace and security of israel i'm not for hate speech but at the same time we have

a first amendment is there really a very fine line between freedom of speech and offending but there is this freedom of speech there's also freedom of religion so you have to walk a fine line should be inside muslim but people still should be aware what they're doing the anti muslim ads are popping up at a time when protests continue raging in the middle east over a film depicting the prophet muhammad so should new york officials have considered not just the substance but also the timing of this campaign they ought to be less this caution and just let this thing that i add as a time because they they are you know they hate us over there whenever you start speaking against religion especially when tensions are globally the way that they are yeah i think there definitely be some consequences well i could see how could my things complicated. where they would have an effect on the u.s. but we could use this as something against the u.s. do you think this could have a more dangerous consequence. really sure the anti is rimini new york city for

a month and whether they could lead to more dire consequences. is exactly what remains to be seen. because you can follow this and many other stories that i thought. of what else you find there right now for example old habits die hard only a month after paying close to ten million dollars for breaches of. the latest means. goes to a high profile collector who also happens to be the artist's model. we'll get to the. fallout from the arab spring is the subject of intense debate in

europe with many calling for a strong response to the growing influx. of north african border spoke to those willing to risk life for. it's a game of cat and mouse that denies humanity to anyone involved hundreds of sub-saharan immigrants hiding in a moroccan forest waiting for their chance to cross the last barrier on the way to europe. i've already cost twice but they caught me you forced me to return. let us stay we don't want anything else god sends us don't hunt is over to the. dogs. he jokingly compare themselves to the herds of will the biggest and and zebras which cross the continent every year and attract thousands of european tourists to the spectacle although this man believes the average european would extend considerably more sympathy to zebra than to anyone else downes.

managed to survive but many die or disappear this is no good for people to like you . six meters high and eleven kilometers long these plants was built by spain in two thousand and five with a single goal of keeping the migrants all despite its formidable hide hundreds still try to climb it every week an estimated one in ten make it the rest of it fractures and broken bones a send back these guys have no other choice rather than to jump us fans you know that's the worst thing they can do but there is no other choice in this france where there is so aberrate structure appeared in any other points within europe to say hunt for birds environmentalist not going to banter no time here it's being used to hans people and quite often it becomes a deadly trap poverty and no prospects have driven africans northward through decades but recent events in the region made their situation worse in the past up

to eighty percent of sub-saharan africans move through libya many settling there thanks to more market after span african policies i think they were better off in libya. gadhafi there's no doubt about that. that new regime is being. africans who work at most silent jobs in libya these people are looking for a better life just like the millions of europeans that cross the atlantic to the new world seem to be for in search of the american dream. it's not about how we get here it's about believing in your dream. but in their mass migration to greener pastures some humans feel angry the zebras. or thi. time now for the r.t. world update will start now with cia drone strikes in pakistan are having a severe impact on civilians this according to a new american study the report suggests the attacks claim to be surgically precise

do little to improve u.s. security and so they cause anti american sentiment among the affected population the campaign has already put strain on u.s. pakistani relations are threatening a nato supply lines to afghanistan. in the u.k. a month's worth of rain in just a day course rivers to overflow and heavy flooding in some areas of scotland was the worst affected as the river time burst its banks thirty kilometers east of edinburgh fifty five flood warnings have been issued across the u.k. and evacuation plans are being made forecasts say the wet weather will last a few more days. but why there is risk. good to see you again your hourly market updated with more pressure on global banks now as these new disclosure rules in the u.s. make them less eager to learn and yeah they all feeling the pressure at the moment of all they and the rules are not yet taking effect internationally but let's say

banks are lending a lesson before another term of yours that bank he told us that it's high interest rates that are saying global growth. one of the problems you see is a lack of government though those that use. obvious use specially for private real burns. certain thing which i think. is a problem to the banks are going to be it's a problem to be going to be there the high interest rates the. credit you d.v.d.-a disposition is small businesses are charged very high interest rates because the. raw material for the bench the funding is very high due to the high risk. you can see the europeans they give you just like us is a mixed performance in the afternoon session revestive they're on the fence at the moment as they await the bullets coming out of the us we've got consumer confidence

and housing prices as well as big numbers coming out of banks and carmakers they're low up we've got oil firms they are higher because the prices are they might have a look at those later in the meantime is check out the exchange rates because the euro is very much worse slights and yet seem obvious it is indeed for us to solve tonight you can see the ruble is managing it now as far as the russian car is it is to regulate his house and so on the ruble will become really traded in the next few years essential bank we stop talking off the car and see if this change rate shifts that we see upon us minister told us the move will stop the speculative investors as well. we really like the. policy because this policy actually stabilisation cost money typically flies when there's pictures with regimes as we've seen in thousand and seven and i want this you know is that the be the systems the police itself. is actually turns around and leaves

the country. we've got the goods is here in moscow to look at to again a mixed performance the softer new not all need to change the fortunes around an hour and alcohol's oil is helping matters so it is supporting but domestic news. says a truck. on the rise not solve its first jump start hearing thirty one is impressive so as mentioned or a lot let's have a look at the prize and see what is happening including a lot of the moments of my should say we've got live again in a. positive. dating for the first time in six days after the drop so we have in the last week was seen as best i have also got u.s. stock futures pointing northwards as well as always support the oil markets the next so i have the figures for wall street thanks stephen. carter second here on ars he will be turning over to al gore and often spotlight basically the issue here

is as a religious tensions have been escalating worldwide certainly in recent weeks and we talked to one of the most respected priests of the russian orthodox church. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so horribly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. courageous and creative. elegant and full and public speaking. the sound of.

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