here in capitals walk by massive twin towers blast targeting arms command headquarters for the rebel group the free syrian army reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack that's. young going syrian ballance dominates a new and gathering with calls for a sadistic down and prestige of an intensifying harsh rhetoric fails to bring countries have a closer to finding a solution to the crisis. and pain and space protesters are brutally beat madrid us police try to stop thousands from storming the country's parliament and anger all the harshest into cuts.

this are to live from moscow with joshua welcome to the program to syria first where a massive blast struck the capital damascus on wednesday morning the free syrian army is reportedly claimed responsibility for terror attacks a target of major government buildings and came just a day after two other blasts hit a security compound near is in the region and brings us the details. 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 shot at 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 may have been planted 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 syrian state television they are calling them terrorist 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 possibly reporting there now the intensified terror attacks on the syrian capital however did not receive much condemnation from the u.n. its journalists and leaves meeting in new york this week and as it's called it calls for regime change that have grown louder with the u.s. president barack obama setting the mood by reiterating his commitment to forcing bashar assad to go into in qatar one of the states believed to be supplying syrian rebels with weapons called on arab nations to do. in syria bypassing the world body . has been phoned the hot issues are 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 of among the international community and called on the un to immediately pride protections for the 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 i 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. reporting there well russia reaffirmed its commitment to peace efforts in syria's foreign minister sergei lavrov un special envoy lakhdar brahimi on the sidelines of the gathering and promised full support for his mission and commenting on the western proposals in syria voice to the un dr kahn helen from foreign policy in focus said it's the persistent call for regime change that brought the situation to steal meat in the first place. you can't all for the replacement of a regime and then expect to have a degree magic solution so when president obama said also has to be replaced well then who's to do the negotiating team to me is that 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 or displayed batched part of the negotiation

as part of the diplomatic process and i don't see that happening sean dorney and as the united states and france and turkey and the gulf cooperation council particularly daryn so you radio are trying to initiate an engineer regime change on all 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 world leaders will be the only ones addressing those gathered at the u.n. headquarters in new york joy is still ensconced in the ecuadorian embassy in london the spot a status a political refugee will also make an appearance though a virtual one via video broadcast well exclusively bring that live to you on wednesday at twenty two thirty chante.

madrid has turned into a conflict zone as serious clashes between integrates protesters and police and the spanish capital over sixty people have been injured in the violence with signs with scenes of police brutality seen the crowds now comes after of thousands took to the streets to rage against austerity cutbacks and tax hikes are just sick of greece was in the middle of it all. the names 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 mass house with them police moved in in force and they've pushed back those demonstrations chased down making what forcible arrests we see a large number being detained a large number being injured in the proceedings that follow taken away by

ambulances now this is being a racially dogs occupied the parliament and the intention originally will surround the parliament here in madrid and try to get their message out and see us there see of noble cuts to health care spending in education the salaries and i'm sure watching this huge squad of us the full display on both sides we've heard the chant throughout the course of the weapons times now when it comes to austerity well we hear reports as a budget on this issue will be discussed later this week by the correspondence government projecting 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 your ations that have

been golfing space amateurism in recent bum's and more violence predicted in 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 costas a sociologist and says the economic turmoil in spain has turned a whole generation of citizens into immigrants. the question of whether or not this is worth it is a question for the government and for the troika of the european union what you're seeing out here right now is the spanish and by extension the european citizenry reacting against austerity thirty 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 the education 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 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 meanwhile child poverty in spain has an increase 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. and in greece and the sentiment is also running high as workers walked out for a general strike against painful cuts you're looking at live pictures at the moment from athens where protesters are gathering in front of the parliament. the greek government is negotiating a new round of belt tightening in order to receive an explanation of why the long promised international creditors expected the nationwide strike will bring the country to standstill with flights halted and public services shut down. with r t as we'll be following developments in the greek capital with fears a demonstration will spell and to violence. now and to some other news we're

following for you here today the rolling wave of protests over a prisoner abuse scandal in georgia is gaining momentum and has even now crossed the atlantic hundreds of georgia nationals gathered outside the united nations what president bush really was delivering a speech at the general samford the protesters to me on the georgian president along with prosecution officials take full responsibility for their implications in the prison brutality scale several thousand students also packed into the georgian capital to voice their anger over the shocking video taken in the 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. and coming up in the program saving the lives of pilots of showing no mercy to civilians the death toll from u.s. drone strikes in pakistan is much higher than previously claimed. also the perks of being a minister top british politicians get caught up in scandals over their business

links as they just can't seem to keep their hands out of the cookie jar plus. chinese people boycott jeffries goods over the disputed island called flip flops and it's well you know it's a couple. the sun rises over what seems like analyst forest but here in new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of light of all stalk as in much of the world it's disappearing at a county structure a great. markers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes

regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy logger set up traps making them hard to reach in an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve were only sanitary logging of disease trees is a lie out according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to forests. and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find quality tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander some more you go has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible

to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that they have twelve tractor trails are. very fast which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're legal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i've got to go and look now as i started city for more whole forest legislation so as soon as the bells and so on ribs and you'll forest court and according to the oath every for us that's the guys in waltham in the in the forest to the still these so

called steel doesn't work just. as no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live afterwards do like it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change and the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. courageous

and creative. elegant and full and most public speaking. a few european bodybuilders against millionaires. we immigrants. it may not seem so serious. but this could be a real threat to. european extremists. welcome back if you just joined us you're watching live from moscow now is virgin reveals its plans for more and more hysterical measures cutting welfare support for mallee already struggling it seems a number of top politicians aren't so willing to rein in their jet set lifestyle their close links to the country's business elite are undermining people's trust in them as our chief paul the boycott now explains. the london headquarters for show

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. and the left has sent to 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 could station hoping up a violent act to ship 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 schmooze with on a senior government minister has 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 a company to him on eighteen 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 that bid to take over the largest broadcasting company in the u.k. hunt wasn't sucked but moved on to become head of the health department many of us have a say it's the u.k. ministers lack of accountability in relation to accusation. such as these that

concerns them the most. and what plenty more is available on our website r.t. dot com had their answer the news you may have missed. a long way home and learned why homeless families still can't last the specs of their relatives who lost their lives a plane crash in russia which killed ninety five people including poland's president . only a month now close to ten million dollars for breaches of privacy facebook looks to be added again find out why they are a way to sadness or means more users. drone strikes in pakistan have killed and traumatized more civilians sound the u.s.

government is willing to admit and in the panel report from two of america's top law schools shows a serious misrepresentation of the legal strikes and contradicts washington's claims a few innocent deaths john amec from the brave new foundation hopes the study opens the door for more accurate information of the government said it's exceedingly rare that civilians have been killed as a result of these drone strikes but 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 the militant actually means to the government. there are too many

contradictions for this to be true so. it is definitely worrisome. taking a look now at some other stories from around the world hundreds of people and have been forced from their homes as heavy rains continue to fall one driver was lucky to escape the floodwaters when an emergency worker was able to push her cart to safety several others had to be rescued by lifeboat the phrase environment agency warrants the waters are likely to rise further. an egyptian newspaper has published a series of cartoons in response to the offensive caricature of 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 the islamic world while another shows a flashlight painted with an american flag highlighting an arab man holding out a bloody knife while the true picture is not goes on seen many gyptian is have applauded the cartoons as a civilized response to the french have occasion. demonstrators are rallying

outside a south african courthouse where political activists julius malema is being charged with corruption he's accused of laundering proceeds from illegal public contracts and using the money to buy a car and plot of land his supporters see the charges as a government's attempt to silence him lemon has used the recent unrest at south africa's mines in his criticisms of president jacob zuma. already the conflict between china and japan over disputed islands is really damaging there's this is daniel bolton has more as well as a more yeah it's on chinese people refusing to budge japanese goods in protest the fourth toyota to react feel to a joint slashing production in china the world's biggest kids off the sales that collapse sixty percent of the top japanese firms have already halted production off the security fears china is the country's biggest trade partner it all helps in the tokyo stock market to another low today. over in europe gets hit by

a general strike in greece that sort of a fresh spending. it's the. on the green back to those violent protests in madrid this get the currencies up for you as we can there's the russian market shot falls in as rising u.s. crude stockpiles and the oil price to seven we close the energy stocks among others may move. looking to sell a stake in the company as they struggle to call the dead. infinit to a close off the slashing production target crude prices or wages russia's making the biggest push here to transform its crumbling infrastructure selling forty six billion dollars in government as the economy ministry blowing the cash to overhaul railways gas fields and airports as well as build a new ring road around the most region the bones have been called an exceptional investment for foreign trade as renaissance just wrote we're talking about long term high yield guaranteed bonds backed by the state who wouldn't want those in

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a report on r g. six. please. the french invasion of russia has started again after two hundred years up at the. journal the emperor napoleon has arrived from overseas to lead the army i have to

really take my time to prepare myself to get it right i don't know. the bloody bottle near moscow is going to start over. james brown will reveal the victor the soldiers are back to do it all again. but as you know version twenty twelve on r.t. . the hartland is the town of illusion fifty kilometers north of london. an old working class town now plagued by employment in two thousand to in the car industry some thirty thousand workers were laid off. its two hundred twenty thousand residents including a large number of muslims. thirty five thousand of them live in the neighborhood around the league reeve road. and all the women wear veils.

of the founder and leader of the e.t.l. lives in luton and agrees to meet us in a. somewhat unexpectedly it's a beauty is clients come to. top off that thailand's. movement's headquarters is temporary it's a squat and a construction site. the following day there's a protest. rankest running point just how i am but it's one of london's most difficult areas the messages are nothing near. being let out of it or leave it for example. cuts. basically. what if we were free to fulfill as about realistically probably fifteen hundred. maybe more two thousand. people everybody wants to go to have it because the first of all it's.

real. as you know. the people. we can allow to tell how it is so how to do. how to do. so how much was badly hit by last august rioting but spread across england. for days ok i was awesome and looting. two years ago some violent attacks like this one that shocked the country. follows the citizens movement take to the streets to restore order.