a few european bodybuilders against millions of. immigrants. it may not seem so serious. this could be a real threat to. european extremists. a second day of dramatic bombing in the syrian capital. key military complex in damascus. syria. the un general assembly in new york with more regime change calls from the west intervention promoted by arab states but still no resolution. general strike in full swing with. police is up to

a million people walk out of work and no to austerity. and braces for another round of cuts we asked the people on the streets for their perspective on what exactly happened last night. worldwide news live from moscow this is our with me rule received shine a gun battle reportedly erupted inside the army headquarters in syria's capital damascus after the complex was rocked by two powerful explosions four people have been killed in the attacks carried out by the rebel free syrian army the bombing comes just a day after another opposition group blew up a military academy in the city with the latest from the region is. sleep. 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 loudest 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 the explosions also a code not far from the headquarters of the 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 are these paula syria right to know in the meantime iran's press t.v. channel says it's correspondent. has been shot dead by a sniper or reporting on air about today's twin blasts in damascus on a boy to spend some time in syria covering the conflict a new. post another. i'm mad. on one of my trips to damascus i was the one who actually reached out to him i wrote to him on twitter saying that we should form a collage of the wrong side of his to reporters that cindy reference to one of the white house official camas that iran the russia china was on the wrong side of history when it comes to syria now he responded in a very humorous manner is

a. very well known reporter in damascus he was receiving a lot of threats for his reporting both by phone and on his twitter account anyone could see it i relied on his knowledge sometimes on his contacts extensively as did a lot of reporters in that region both. western reporters on one hand you see people dying in great numbers every day and that instills a certain sense of humility you understand that your whole life is worth nothing and that was the thing about maya as well because he was reporting for an iranian station but he was a syrian and he obviously. a great care about his own country and he was concerned about what was happening there and he wanted to bring what he saw as the truth to the rest of the world because he always tried to go and talk to various factions within the syrian society because it was his country of course

when i was on a boy to write there were supposed to a bit earlier in the program i also spoke to patrick having certain political analyst for the current affairs website you can call him he believes the journalist death was unlikely to be an accident. the propaganda war has now taken another turn and i believe that the recent shooting of the press t.v. bureau correspondent was a targeted assassination because he's working for an iranian state broadcaster so the message is only certain amount of media is allowed to perform in syria and not others it's clear now that the the held it's been unleashed by the u.s. and their allies and the gulf states has now reached new levels of violence in the heart of syria in the capital of damascus so this is this is the result of of eighteen months or two months two years of progressive planning and trying to

get into the country and having foreign fighters all over all over the different regions of syria and now the violence is coming to damascus it's very very sad to see the country descending into this sort of chaos but that's to be expected. and the syrian crisis is dominating the general assembly of the united nations now into its second day in new york i just on the program. who is closely watching the high level gathering. well there are several leaders and foreign ministers that are scheduled to address the general assembly but british prime minister david cameron is among them it is expected that he will address the issue of syria of the syrian crisis and deliver some harsh rhetoric against the syrian government of bashar al assad now this harsh rhetoric was first delivered just a day ago by the u.s. president barack obama and his french counterpart aligned both of those leaders

said the syrian government of bashar al assad is over and has no place among the international community they both are rallying the general assembly to help support the syrian opposition now other countries such as brazil said that the situation in syria the crisis in syria can only be concluded or dress through diplomacy and dialogue not military intervention but then there was also qatar said to the general assembly that if the joint special envoy for syria lockhart brahimi does not find a way to solve the crisis plan b. should be a no fly zone over syria so here we still have all the the the heads of or the all the members of the general assembly addressing this issue but there is still a big a division on how to solve this problem u.s. president barack obama said that egypt is not an ally but is not an enemy and those comments of course came after the anti-american demonstrations began that the white house criticized president morsi for not condemning the violence we cannot after

a u.s. embassy was attacked in cairo so at this point we do know we can expect that in dispersed speech to the general assembly president morsi will address the issue of this this film that was made in the u.s. and uploaded on you tube a very. film that sparked all this anger towards america another key figure to make his address is of course the president of iran of mahmoud ahmadinejad whose speeches are usually so good they go off to delegations to still meld. that's right i don't think there's ever been a speech that the iranian president has made where there hasn't been a mess of mass exodus but in the first two minutes of his speaking but it usually comes when he get delivers an insult to israel or questions the nine eleven attacks the president. mahmoud ahmadinejad that this will be his last address to the general assembly it is expected that he will speak about

a new world order where the u.s. is not as powerful and other countries are more involved in international problems just a few days ago he said when speaking to a different meeting at the u.n. he said that israel has no roots in the middle east and that prompted an exodus of the general assembly so we'll have to wait to see if his speech will be a little bit different but of course it is always controversial when the president of iran visits new york elitism or an important reporting from new york and in fact with the iranian president appointed judges right now at the podium as you see on your screen addressing those in attendance at the general assembly the united nations so you can follow this on our website. for the live feed. and i will be the only ones addressing those gathered at the u.n. headquarters in new york juanita still hiding deep inside the ecuadorian embassy in london despite his status as

a political refugee and he will also make an appearance of a video link or bring you that exclusively live twenty to thirty g.m.t. . was five. i hear. they. are to ten minutes past the hour here in moscow of course this is r t at the square by the greek parliament and downtown athens are scenes of utter chaos today protesters and police exchanging molotov cocktails and tear gas grenades agrees itself is at a standstill with a nationwide strike paralyzing industry transport and business is up to a million people are taking part in protests with around fifty thousand in the streets around parliament alone of the action is against

a third round of austerity being debated by the government if passed that would mean deep slashes the pensions and the rains in the retirement age to sixty seven but attorney and professor of constitutional law george catherine gallo says austerity has shown itself to be a path to disaster. for their own recipe it's in the second phase of recipe that's one reason there are no limits is not at least the disease itself because we see that these two years of it but austerity measures there that it has not decreased it's now actually bigger than what it used to be despite the show just a year into the other point of view that we have also this engine of economy so it's a kind of the sceptic we can look to reduce the debt a state we're making record a record in this notion of it we're not only set up we had a years of just an explosion sensor for political implosion of the government itself so what i think that in the months that the congo going to have to face.

crisis he says they're going to run. well after a short break here on r.t. we'll take a look at a similar. the austerity protest. one of the demonstrators who we talked to told us of systematic provocations made by the police an effort to evoke a reaction from protesters. and a cozy relationship for big profit a major business scandals in the u.k. where john companies could be owing their success to some powerful backers inside the government. i never thought i could earn a living this way. natale a show of oil is the norm or should test small arms so those photos to machine building plant not are the us lost count of all the weapons she's fired over the

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from. t.v. . thanks for joining us here on out to you today on live from the russian capital massive protests in athens today against austerity there was a riot in but drib last night tens of thousands of protesters surrounding the parliament and provoking a very tough response from spanish law enforcement more than one hundred people either arrested or injured and the police charged the crowds greaves was in the thick of it all he reports on how far he has pushed people's patience. tens of thousands of people were out on the streets in numbers but then it turned someone on it was all protesters throwing projectiles at police there's also

a constant thought of fireworks being set off in and around the amassed house with them police moved in in force and they pushed back those demonstrators chasing down making 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 has been a recently dogs occupied the parliament and the intention originally was so round the parliament here in madrid and try and project their message over and see us there see a global cuts to health care spending in education the salaries and shops actually suit the squire of the for display on both sides we've heard for the chant throughout the course of the weapons our hands now when it comes to austerity well we're hearing reports there's 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 three biggest demonstrations that have been golfing spain amateurish in recent months. and a more protests are planned in madrid today with demonstrators declaring they will not stop until their voices are heard i want to them a victory some petro associate professor at the ok juan carlos university he says he saw police deliberately goading protesters. what happened is that there were stunt but of ok shoot to police they began to beat people up in various small groups at seven pm just to get the last scenes of daylight and. fear to do to to scare the people so they wouldn't go there so. dave

began to. beat on people of course they are where the demonstrators. we hear used to buy into it is despair depopulation leave. going to turn into a violent street but i can tell you that the spanish population protestors they don't want they don't want to buy them they just want to all but turn i've gotten three eight all. electric propulsion to meet with. of course you can always find the latest updates as well as comments and analysis online that are dot com let's check out some of the items already lined up for you there right now waves of anger at leaders of japan and taiwan stage of real life battleship game as tokyo's coast guard uses water cannons to repel tai pays for away from disputed islands. plus a live all or die it's a long road to hell for

a texas murderer is repairs to enter the execution chamber for a third time is the twice now he's received a last minute stay of execution. are just one in twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital the pain caused by the global financial heart attack still has the british government groping for a cure but plans for deep welfare unemployment cuts have been met with anger amid accusations that politicians are protecting corporations and this from the austerity blast radius. looks at why britain's top bosses are making more money than ever. can you 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 cables been described as the moral center of the coalition government has even pegged by some to succeed nick clegg as leader of the liberal democrats but it's all been called into question over 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 letter to sent to the business secretary from the c.e.o. of shell back in march of this year the oil executive thanked the right honorable m.p. for being the contact minister for shell during cable's time that shelah faced with a number of lawsuits including and i kiss ation propping up a violent 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 hasn't affected easy access to u.k. government officials just last month it was revealed that shell round so-called

schmoozer thorne's 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 after that as 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. reporting right now the outrage over allegations of torture in georgian prisons as follow the country's president all the way to new

york more than one hundred georgian nationals greeted me. with heckles and boos outside the united nations building and the president was there to address the u.n. general assembly protesters demanding the saakashvili resigns in the wake of revelations of inmate of busa in the country's jails meanwhile in georgia's capital protests sparked the prison abuse claims continued with thousands of students packing the city streets the scandal broke out just ahead of elections seriously undermining the ruling party's chances. now civilian casualties from the drone strike campaign in pakistan are being severely downplayed by the u.s. government and independent report from two of america's top law schools says deaths far exceed official estimates of the impact that strikes have on local communities and the damage to american pakistani relations is also virtually ignored by washington that according to the latest findings join a make from the brave new foundation hopes the study opens the door for more

accurate information to be passed along. the government said it's exceedingly rare but civilians have been killed as a result of these drone strikes but even if they do we put the number in single digits which is absurd based on host of different organizations that follow these things there has not been the kind. of critical reporting should happen on something of such a magnitude another problem is how the government classifies people in this region any mailable 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 worrisome. to go to feel when we go nice to see you again today though we continue to talk

about this island dispute between china and japan obviously no i was taking your trunk out of business yeah exactly chinese people are now refusing to buy japanese goods in protest now forcing also giant to its reacts by slashing production in china the world's biggest coal market of the cells collapse sixty per cent other top japanese fans have already halted production and that's because of security fears china is the country's biggest trading partner by causing the tokyo stock market to hit another learn today and it was the asian markets that kicked off the declines in the global market world i would go wall street now trading as you can see we are indeed looking at negative figures just that we had cells of home cells decreasing and stocks also feeling the pressure from europe as well as those protests in a really really rough so investors got the european source as well struggling in the second part of the trading day i also want to mention that the makes

a spanish bulls is now down around three and a half to set a bar and calls for spain have gone right. it's about six percent just above six percent i should say a lot of this music a year isn't forming a more two week lows with so moistening around the area on the russian car system is trading today for the stuff car is the same can be said for the extra markets here we have a loss is us crystal balls sent the oil price to a seven week low has energy stocks in it. and russia's biggest lender bad bank has become a trading on the love them stuff and saying says this bag was too modest last week the bank rise of a five billion dollars through a secondary public offering in london moscow the bank's deputy chairman revealed the company is further plans to all say. we have completed an important stage for international expansion this year and about to complete closing the bank

transaction through the wrong in the near east to three years we're not planning to do any international acquisitions in the core banking space we need to. integrate what we have purchased make sure the competitive advantages that are so strong domestically for us become a political in the countries where we have just made an entrance i came up business in about fifteen minutes for a great pleasure thanks. just like you want to you know be a paedophile his guest on cross-talk before american israeli relations in just a sec. wealthy british style sign. on the. market why not canada. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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