the syrian capital's wrong by twin tara blast targeting army command headquarters the explosions taking place just a day after rebels claimed responsibility for bomb attacks at his security compound in damascus. and ongoing syrian violence dominates the u.n. gathering with calls for assad to step down and threats to intervene intensifying but harsh rhetoric fails to bring countries any closer to finding a solution to the crisis. paid in spain protesters are brutally beaten in madrid as police try to stop thousands from storming the country's parliament in anger over harshest charity cuts.

and the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program astray to this morning's may developing story fresh twin blessed targeting government buildings rocked the syrian capital damascus on wednesday a day after two other blasts hit a security compound less across life a correspondent paula slayer has in the region and scott all the latest for us so paul what can you tell us about wednesday's attacks and how serious were a day. well two massive explosions rocked the syrian capital of damascus early on wednesday morning they happened to near the command headquarters of the army and the air force they were just minutes apart they also happened not far from one of the main squares of the capital city

now they shattered the glass of windows of nearby buildings with some people reporting hearing those explosions several kilometers away in fact some eyewitnesses have gone as far as to say it was the largest explosion in damascus since fighting broke out there several months ago this part of the city is covered now with huge plumes of smoke the ambulances rushed to the scene the police have cordoned off the area to prevent traffic and people from getting closer we were also receiving reports that the ministry of defense is on fire now the syrian information minister has said that the explosions were caused by two roadside bombs one of which he says made a similar incident inside the grounds of the army command headquarters he did deny initial reports that there were casualties saying that no civilians or army personnel had been hurt in these explosions and this does seem plausible because it happened at around seven o'clock in the morning local time the explosions also occurred not far from the headquarters of the syrian state television they are

calling them a terrorist attack so far no rebel group has come forward to claim responsibility for these attacks and they come just one day after rebels blew up a school building in damascus which they say was being used for military training so certainly the situation in the syrian capital extremely tense with a string of attacks now coming almost daily. all right hala thanks for the policy reporting there. and the intensified terror attacks on the syrian capital however did not receive much condemnation from the un is general assembly meeting in new york this week instead its calls for change that have grown louder with the u.s. president barack obama setting the mood by reiterating his commitment to forcing bashar al assad to go into qatar one of the states believed to be supplying the syrian rebels with weapons called an arab nations to intervene in syria bypassing

the world body are important i have been following the hot issue being addressed in new york now. every world leader or high figure that took to the podium at the united nations general assembly on tuesday did address the crisis in syria the secretary general ban ki-moon described the war in syria as a regional calamity with global ramifications he urged the international community to act quickly with consensus before he says the crisis spirals out of control some western leaders took a more aggressive approach with their rhetoric french president francois hollande said that the syrian government of bashar assad has no future among the international community and rebels on the un to immediately ride protections for syrian opposition groups that are currently occupying the northern part of the country u.s. president barack obama also released some criticism additional criticism of bashar al assad saying that time has come for his government to go and the u.s.

president also said that the international community should support the vision that the syrians have for the future of their country now we do know that the u.s. and its western allies have been pushing for regime change in syria have been pushing for sanctions against syria russia is among the countries that believes diplomatic approach taken to the crisis in syria were a dialogue between the government and the opposition house to be created the united nations is still divided over how to resolve the problem in syria right of ordinary reporting there while russia reaffirmed its commitment to peace efforts in syria's foreign minister sergey lavrov met un special envoy lakhdar brahimi on the sidelines of the gathering and promised full support for his mission and commenting on the western proposals and syria voiced at the un dr kahn holland from foreign policy in focus said it's the persistent call for regime change that brought to the situation to a stalemate in the first place. you can't call for the replacement of

a regime and then expect to have a diplomatic solution so when president obama said that has to be replaced well then who used to do the negotiating team to meet with the solution here was the regionally basically the one that both russia and china oppose which is that you get a cease fire you don't talk about regime change at this point that's part of the negotiation as part of the diplomatic process and i don't see that happening sombong it and i was in i'd state and france and turkey and the gulf cooperation council particularly our in saudi arabia are trying to initiate in junior regime change some of the model discouraged about where it's going to go from here but if it doesn't have a diplomatic solution i think the ripples are going to be just disastrous and war

leaders won't be the only ones addressing those gathered at the u.n. headquarters in new york jill in a silencer still ensconced in the ecuadorian embassy in london the spot his status as a political refugee will also make an appearance though a virtual one via video broadcast and we'll exclusively bring that slides to here in our team on wednesday at twenty to thirty g.m.t. . was a a a. a a a. was a i. was found madrid has turned to cons and zone as fierce clashes between and rights protesters and police and golf the spanish capital dozens have reportedly been injured in the violence with scenes of police brutality seen in the crowds it all

comes after thousands took to the streets to rage against the staring cutbacks and tax hikes are his jacob graves was in the middle of it all. tens of thousands of people were out on the streets in numbers but then it turned someone on it was so protesters throwing projectiles at police there's also a call some thought of fireworks being set off in and around the amassed house with them police moved in in force and they've pushed back those demonstrations chasing down making what forcible arrests we see a large number being detained a large number being injured in the proceedings that followed taken away by ambulances now this is being a rigidly occupied the heart of it and the intention originally will surround the parliament here in madrid and try and get their message out and see us there see of noble cuts to health care spending in education the salaries of shops watching to suit a squad of us the full display on both sides we've heard all the chant throughout

the course of the weapons are all kinds of that when it comes to austerity well we're hearing reports as a budget on this issue will be discussed later this week by the corresponding scope of projects in the budget for next year and we're already hearing that potentially there could be a freeze when it comes to cuts the health cuts to spending on education that could really be seen as a backlash from what we've seen so far i'm sorry yes that was rationed that have been go fix spain amateurism in recent months. now more violence is predicted and the spanish capital on wednesday as organizers of the protest are reportedly going to try to storm the country's parliament once again carlos del cos as a sociologist and says the economic turmoil in spain has turned a whole generation of citizens into immigrants. it pushes whether or not this is

worth it is a question for the government and for the choice of the european union what you're seeing out here right now is the spanish and by extension their opinion citizenry reacting against austerity austerity right now is at a level where it's affecting people's daily lives is affecting whether or not people can get medical attention is affecting whether or not people can advance socially reggie cation and social progress what you're seeing is a country where an entire generation is being relegated to a class of immigrants people that have been invested in with public money to be educated are now going to move out and generate wealth in other countries that's not a project for a country being wild child poverty in spain has increased exponentially the first thing that the government can do is call for a referendum on paying back the debt and on the constitutional amendment that they may find more on the mass protests and further violence in the streets of madrid on our website r t v dot com there you'll find photos of the brutal police response as

officers fire the rubber bullets hambleton charged with castro's witnesses' accounts and views from protesters are also available at or t. dot com. the rolling wave of protests over prisoner abuse scandal in georgia is gaining momentum and has even now crossed the atlantic hundreds of georgia nationals gathered outside the united nations where president how saakashvili was delivering the speech at the general sampling the protesters demand the georgian president along with prosecution officials take full responsibility for the implications and the prison brutality scandal several thousand students also packed into the georgian capital to voice their anger over the shocking video taken into the dining prison the protests are all coming just ahead of parliamentary elections in georgia on the first of october leaving president saakashvili scrambling to save face and seriously undermining his ratings. are coming up and. the program here in our team saving the lives of pilots showing no

mercy to civilians the death toll from u.s. drone strikes in pakistan is much higher than previously claimed. the fox minister top british politicians get caught up in scandals over their business lang's they just can't seem to keep their hands out of the cookie jar. people boycott japanese goods over the disputed pile and called for false unspoilt it's a cup production the sales slump and all the stories of the short run. in this remote side be rings in which people still sing the songs which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the nation practiced by the will set up

church before the seventeenth century the old believers he resigned the area are a conservative community they are known as the simi skia a word which refers to family meeting. the duly elected leaders meet there yet again i feel right. now i'm the first to do it the. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and to show them how to dance in the local star. life. easier and the girl needs to watch her legs don't go up too much during the dance she must be a modest. yet. seventeen year old nanda is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only. when she comes to visit her grandmother. needed. help getting.

i didn't ask on time per day and say yes because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to have camp my in better ground how my ancestors lived and this is my treasure their attachment to the church brought. to this remote lent by call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in persecuted for not agreeing to the orthodox who forms introduced in russia in the sixteenth hundreds they wanted to maintain their time honored rituals the old believers still baal and cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying but this fall the city says it's not so much the rituals they cherish as the moral principles he does not approve of what knowledge is doing is according to an old believe

a woman must never show had naked legs and. things started to spoil during the soviet union. was more and more young people leaving for the big city this year is the old believers culture could be imperiled nowadays young people prefer urban life to devote their life to agriculture but it's not necessary to leave the inside to remember that and try to keep their. plans to continue her studies abroad to grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the teen years are fresh in her memory so used to create her. shoes that so much as i can recall the life on it will be just how we feel when she used these really long. in the u.s.

to what degree does it impact american foreign policy what about the rift that now divides. the into the really be sure to let me turn to you catch both of the premier merits like deviation show of the summer check out a whole family of russian engineering feats that let ships truly fly or just go with the flow and take in the view of the bay below but hold on there could be turbulence on board the plane it's only jet powered and baby is claiming that mark really. pair them up with the world's most colorful jumper and you've got a team ready to joust in the late lick knowledge young here on r.g.p. we've done a few jerks covering. and watching r.t. live from moscow as britain reveals his plans for more more stereo measures cutting welfare support for a man already struggling it seems a number of top politicians aren't so willing to rein in their jet set lifestyle well there are close links to the country's business elite isn't reminding people

trust and them parties paul explains. the london headquarters for shell second largest company in the world can get that far without having friends in high places apparently not it's a march that the oil giant has been cozying up to none other than the u.k. business secretary dr vince cable cable's been described as the moral center of the coalition government he's even pegged by some to succeed nick clegg as leader of the liberal democrats but it's all been called into question his links to the company behind me he acted as chief economist for the company in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. in a leftist sense of the business secretary from the c.e.o. of shell back in march of this year the oil executive thanked the right on rable m.p. for being the contact minister for shell during cable's time that shell is faced with a number of lawsuits including and i kissed ation of propping up a violent. and

a summary execution of nine activists in nigeria but fifteen million dollars later that was settled out of court the company's questionable human rights record which hasn't affected easy access to u.k. government officials just last month it was revealed that shell around so-called schmoozer thorns to senior government minister says disguised this training course says but just how close is too close defense minister liam fox found out last year he had to stand down from his job. that is best friend businessman adam verity had accompanied him on different meetings overseas this year culture secretary jeremy hunt was revealed to have just been so friendly with the bosses of news international that he exchanged hundreds of text messages with them while overseeing the bid to take over the largest broadcasting company in the u.k. hunt wasn't sacked but moved on to become head of the health department many

observers say it's the u.k. ministers lack of accountability in relation to accusations such as these that concerns them the most. what you want to live from moscow and plenty more is available on our website r.t. dot com so keep that in mind and you can also have therefore the news with this on the air let's take a look at the long way hold and why polish families still can't pay their last respects to their relatives who lost their lives in a plane crash in russia which killed ninety five people including polish president lech kaczynski. and only a month after are paying close to ten million dollars for breaches of privacy facebook looks to be at it again find out what their latest and what their latest fad rather research means for users.

or drone strikes in pakistan after dramatize more civilians down the u.s. government is willing to admit an independent report from two of america's top law schools shows a serious misrepresentation of lethal strikes and contradicts washington's claims a few innocent deaths from the brave new foundation hopes the study opens the door for more accurate information. the government said it's exceedingly rare that civilians have been killed as a result of these drone strikes they even say they do they put the number in single digits which is absurd based on a host of different organizations that follow these things there has not been the kind of critical reporting that should happen on something of such a magnitude another problem is how the government classifies people in this region

any male above the age of eighteen is considered a militant by the government's own. two faced accusations about who is who is targeted how they are targeted who is a militant what milton actually means to the government. there are too many contradictions for this to be true so. it is definitely worth some. now six look at some other stories from around the world hundreds of people in the u.k. have been forced from their homes as heavy rains continue to fall one driver was lucky to escape the floodwaters went at emergency worker was able to push her car to safety several others had to be rescued by a life boat in the case environment agency warns the waters are likely to rise further. added gyptian newspaper has published a series of cartoons in response to the sense of caricature as up the prophet mohammad that recently appeared in

a french magazine one cartoon shows the burning world trade center through a pair of spectacles with a caption western glasses for these lamas world while another shows a flashlight painted with an american flag highlighting an arab man holding a bloody knife while the true picture of his mom goes unseen many egyptians have a plot of the cartoons as a civilized response to the french publication. strangers are rallying outside a south african courthouse where political activist julius malema as being charged with corruption is accused of laundering proceeds from illegal public contract contracts and using the money to buy him self car and plot of land to support the scene of the charges as a government attempt to silence him malema has used their recent unrest at south africa's mines in his criticisms of president jacob zuma. well it's now cross to the business as grower daniel bushell areas and let's take

a look at the implications the conflict between china and japan has over the business world chinese people now refusing to budge from these products in protest and it's no hit toyota slashing production in china the world's biggest get off the sales the collapse sixty percent of the top japanese firms have already halted production of the security fears china is the country's biggest trading partner on the whole issue is now affecting sentiment in japan as we can see the nikkei is sliding rival called make the honda said three percent off the good to buy from boy to hold the new markets just cope with lower rates braces for a general strike over fresh spending cuts and the euro is near one we've closed on the greenback off the boil and the protests in the group ruble has started down to the chorus of balls show falls here most goes the price of oil from this to seven week lows of rising u.s. stockpiles are supposed to energy stocks in particular major movers troubled by the mitchell looks to sell

a stake in the company as his struggles to cut that rival responds they're heading for the a two week lows of the session production of this the twenty twelve week crude prices may just know the russian making the biggest push here to transform its crumbling infrastructure bustling forty six billion dollars in government bombs because the ministry boring because to overhaul roadways guess fields and airports as well as build a new ring road around the mall school. region submerges recommend the bonds as an exceptional investment for foreign traders i think we're talking about long term high yield guaranteed bonds but by the states who wouldn't want those in your portfolio today it would have more stories we know it's deliberate sounds impressive indeed daniel thanks very much for this and looking forward to more business these next hour and in just a few minutes here on r.t. will continue with cross stock or peter well in a vocal gathering discuss where the u.s. and israel draw the line when it comes to iran.

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