the moment the syrian capital was rocked by a new terror attack is caught on c.c.t.v. rebels target a key military complex in damascus just a day after twin blasts hit in the army's. syrian vinyls and dominated the un general assembly in new york with more regime change calls from the was for intervention promoted by arab state but still no resolution. by rearranging streets the greek

capital as protesters and police slug it out in front of parliament with up to a million people walking out of work in a resoundingly no will start. it's nine pm here in moscow you're watching r t with me with a good to have you with us we're starting also now in syria a gun battle reportedly ruptured inside the army headquarters in syria's capital of damascus also the complex was rocked by two powerful explosions four people have been killed in the suicide attacks carried out by the rebel free syrian army the bombing comes just days after another opposition group of blew up a military academy in the city now she's a policy at the stand is standing by to speak to us about there's a paula if you can hear me good to see you there now damascus has suffered terror

attacks for the second consecutive day give us the details of what's happening today. well as you say two massive explosions rocked the syrian capital of damascus on the waynes day about what accounts there were targeting the military command center of the damascus regime now the moment of the blast was caught on c.c.t.v. cameras if you look at it as footage that was released by the government you can see a white van driving past the military headquarters before it exploded according to syrian state television there world cost suicide bombers that detonated these explosions there also reporting that four military guards died and an additional fourteen people were injured among them military personnel as well as civilians now the blasts occurred just ten minutes apart from each other with the first one happening at just before seven o'clock local time on wednesday morning they also

happened near a landmark square in damascus the result was that they shattered the glass of windows of nearby buildings and several residents kilometers away reported hearing the blast making them possibly the loudest explosions that have happened in the city of damascus since fighting broke out there several months ago most of wednesday saw damascus covered with thick smoke and this was as a result of the fires that also broke out in this heavily guarded military compound building the rebel group the free syrian army has claimed responsibility for this attack making it the second such attack in just as many days that rebels have claimed responsibility for yesterday on wednesday they targeted a school building so what we're witnessing is almost a trend if you like but certainly an intensification of the fighting happening in damascus the number of attacks that are being carried out by rebel fighters. all thank you for that our policy our middle east correspondent there in jerusalem.

right iran's press t.v. channel says its correspondents mayan message has been shot by a sniper while reporting on a about today's twin blasts in damascus artie's looks on a boy can spend some time in syria covering the conflict and knew him personally i met. 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 city 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 he was reporting for an iranian station but he was a syrian and he obviously to 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. political analysts will be current affairs website you can call them 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. 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 others it's clear now that the the hell that's been unleashed by the u.s.

and their allies in 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 eighteen months or two months or 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 the square by the greek parliament in downtown athens us scenes of chaos today with protesters and police exchanging molotov cocktails and to gas of grenades resells is at a standstill today with a nationwide strike of paralyzing industry transport and businesses up to a million people are taking part in protests with around fifty thousand in the streets around parliament the action is against a third round of austerity ventilated by the government if passed it would mean a deep slashes to pensions and to raising the retirement age to sixty seven let's

not get some more perspective on greek agger and the precarious position of the euro zone as i was when covering the euro crisis since it began joining me now is our d.z. dimitri coffin this. who's a producer with capital account in washington good to see that didn't seem now the euro zone is it didn't lend to such as germany france and the netherlands on one of my mosul bald themselves how much longer can they bankroll other nations via bailouts and of the e.c.b. . well it's that's one side of the one question which has to do with the surplus countries on one hand which ones you mentioned on the deficit countries. greece is obviously a deficit country and these surplus countries i think the problem is that they're asking for certain concessions from the deficit countries like greece that go against the heart of autonomy and national self-determination and at the same time the servos countries are not willing to get into bail them out and i think the risk on risk off situation i would see in markets indicates that no one really knows how

long that's going to continue but i think the markets are. convinced that it's not going to end well that it's not going to be able to go on and on now the ease increasingly looking east towards the china e.u. summit showed the team to kindle and close a friendship now what do you know thoughts on this relationship is it one that driven by mutual advantage or just desperation by the e.u. has always looked eastward in the sense that they've looked to expand their borders they've continued to move east but the last expansion hit a wall they kind of overextended themselves and i think that if anything this this recent push is an attempt to exhaust all possible options as far as getting lenders concerned the e.u. is at its core a western institution i think it will continue to remain so as long as there isn't some major break up but if there's a break i think they would prefer to have certain countries deficit countries

countries further in the eastern bloc to be let go perhaps and join a different sphere of influence and then to be part of the you would have the entire shift its focus to east so i think that's that's that's the way i would answer that question so let's all of the latest official report into whether greece is can manage its dad you know it looks set to be delayed until after the u.s. presidential elections why is that i mean is that too much of a danger to the global economy they you know people are unhappy right now they are already taking to the streets. i don't think. i don't think it is i mean i think the markets have had a long enough time to digest the situation in greece if greece were default i think it would be it would be concerning but i think markets are been able to. i don't think really people are or are hanging much on what's going to happen in greece of what's not going to happen i think that the concern has moved further west to italy and spain i think that's where the real concern is i don't know what it has to do

with politics but certainly the the underlying fundamentals are bad and continue to hear europe so nothing has got better things have only got worse. let's talk about the e.u. leaders they insist on the absolute need to preserve the euro zone but is that possible today i mean you've just spoken about spain with so i can add it to the we've seen how people are out on the streets we saw yesterday lows of protesters out in madrid saying we got to end this this week this has to stop other necessary structural changes aside that people are still as enthusiastic about these you know these changes these austerity is bailing out everybody. yeah i don't believe we're past the point where the policymakers in europe can effectively deal with the situation besides the fact that europe is ill equipped equipped institutionally to deal with a crisis like this it's not even a nation say it's a super state but taking that aside i think that even anywhere else this would just be too much and i think that the markets are going to take over and they're already

doing that in the bond market that's why they pushed countries like greece out portugal but i think that eventually the solution is just going to come from there there's going to have to be some bottom written and there's going to have to be a debt write off that's substantial enough where capital investment is not getting to fully human capital doesn't continue to flee the deficit countries of the countries that are most strike and so i don't i don't see european leaders coming together to do you do anything effectively. all right athena is the producer with capital content you for your thoughts on this. thank you dr the damage a surgery has caused in europe isn't limited to poverty levels and street clashes are often the break away look at how it's also threatening national integrity spain's riches and moisten productive region looks to go it alone as a certainty and then despair some support for secession skyrocketing.

in this remote siberians in which people still sing the songs which russians sang in the media ages and they cherish the ancient rituals practiced by the will set up church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sign the area are a conservative community they're known as the simi skia a word which refers to family meeting. the day the leaders meet there yet again i feel. i know i'm the first to tell you that. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and teach them how to dance in the local star. use of prayer 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. noted that he. was. i didn't ask on time period and say yes because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to have camp my background how my ancestors layered and this is my treasure their attachment to the church brought not just and sisters to this remote land deflate by call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in pesach you to it for not agreeing to the

orthodox who forms introduced in russia in the sixteenth hundreds they wanted to maintain their time honored rituals deal 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 father say he says it's not so much the rituals they cherish as the moral principles he does not approve of what ninety's doing as a critic but old believe a woman must never show had naked legs and because this thing started spoiled during the soviet union. was more and more young people leaving for big cities this year is the old believers culture could be imperiled nowadays young people prefer urban life to people to move their life to agriculture but it's not necessary to leave it inside israel to remember that and try to keep it that you know your plans to continue her studies abroad the grandmother says wherever she goes as long as

the teen years are fresh in her memory so is the culture. ok. you know without she good to have you with us now the united nations general assembly is in the second day in new york one of the day's most interesting pated addresses was that of iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad artie's marina part of ny is in new york a gauge in the speech and the world leaders reaction to it. well this time around this was the eighth and final speech that the president if iran delivered to the

general assembly and believe it or not the u.s. delegation and that is israeli delegation did not even show up for it they boycotted president ahmadinejad's speech and the canadian delegation walked out in the middle of it the president of iran took to the podium and said that he finds that his country is under threat by world powers seeking to impose their views when he was referencing tensions with israel he said that iran is under threat by quote uncivilized zionists threatening to resort to military action against his country he spoke about the economic issues and globally that most people are facing he said poverty is on the rise the gap between the rich and the poor is widening but interesting enough his speech took somewhat of an occupy wall street journal and when he was criticizing capitalistic countries on their own process he said the u.s. and european countries allow for hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent on elections and the voices of ninety nine percent of the population living in those countries

are not heard or reflected now u.s. president barack obama who is currently running for reelection in the midst of a of a campaign blitz right now in the u.s. he took to the podium of the general assembly just a day ago when he said the u.s. will do what it must to prevent iran from obtaining nuclear weapons so here you still have this major divide between the u.s. and iran but it was quite interesting that the iranian president gave somewhat of a reference to the ninety nine percent and occupy wall street. right to discuss ahmadinejad's address in more detail we're joined live by jim ella d. the policy director of the national iranian american council always good to see you here now mr ahmadinejad said the u.n. conference form is duties imposts only because it's dominated by a tight in a circle of world powers is this paranoia all does he have a point well if you look at what's happening inside of iran really if you

there are sanctions that are taking an extreme toll on ordinary people there is a sense that there could be imminent strikes whether the strikes threaten by bibi netanyahu or u.s. strikes that president obama referred to in his address and so i think that if there is a sense of being surrounded inside of iran that it is an accurate reflection of what is happening that being said you know. it is a marginalized political figure he's a president who's on the last leg of his presidency he's not somebody who has a lot of clout inside of iran and i think that all the attention that's given to this speech actually. you know aggrandize his position on the world stage but also distracts from the real issues which include not just this looming threat of a disastrous war but also the very serious human rights abuses that continue to occur inside of iran and which were not surprisingly left out of any remarks.

it's interesting that you just mentioned how his speech has been received and the amount of tension it's been given historically he's been seen as all branded as an aggressive dictator yet his farewell you enjoy a speech carried the words peace love and justice all but three dozen times i mean it is a signal of an image change in terrans leadership. i'm not sure what the strategic thinking was in delivering this speech normally when he when he comes to the united states these are speeches designed to provoke angsty and to generate media attention and really you know i think that there were there was a fair number of remarks that will be perceived as incendiary remarks that will be exploited by folks on both sides of the debate in order to heighten tensions. you know on the u.s. and the israeli side i think that there are still statements that the judge made

that will you know will be used to create the impression that iran is not a rational actor and that there needs to be a military conflict but i think this is all spin this is all noise and at the end of the day once the political theater is over we need to all figure out how we're going to get back to the negotiating table to resolve these many issues not just the nuclear issue but the human rights situation in iran through serious diplomacy well thank you very much they miss as you. did the policy director of the national iranian american council for your thoughts on that ahmadinejad's speech. thank you . it's a round two in madrid today with protesters really taking to the streets of the spy brutal clashes with police last night more than one hundred people were either arrested or wounded him put his chances are cited heavily fortified parliament led by in that lead by the dignan movement of the protesters are calling for an end to

austerity and that is illusion of what they call a corrupt parliament but anger and despair in spain is taking on more dangerous forms especially in the economic region of got the nia there calls for the session from spain have reached fever pitch and the result president has called early elections are hoping to capitalize on a sara to get more now on that the linnaeus prospects with and i t's spokesperson for the european partnership for independence joining us here good to see their misses a key got the money is a main gripe it seems is that it has to bankroll is still poor and underperforming spanish regions is that right yes that's right and. that is actually the standout stoop with which we can actually fall is is just a common stance. nation since my country long enough. to

be treated with a fair. and i'm sure we will actually end up giving the billion euros. that they don't come back to our own poor man i know we. have our money for more than you wrote my from germany we're going to london in which they are retiring and i'm going to write a. number actually i'll get in a word hormone don't approve of it how to. right now looking at the numbers you mention a bit of the numbers of the last few years has been kind to god the lunette fly measurably in the natal economy has been stagnant and growth minimal only really at madrid's of fault or are politicians just trying to shift the blame. what i'm sure are different political parties who are growing each other in catalonia but the

reality again the bottom line is that gap has one system. pay only five percent of the taxes to the capital and tax ante and ninety five percent we paid two radically to the spanish tax actions from we each we should be receiving the fact that even is not in the process of shows or how about . a certain amount of money that you know comes back so just to understand these sixty million sixty thousand million euros a year and never comes back to normal not being kept on taxes. much much more serious for example the five billion euros data that we have in the government cuts and only a half has kept you out for the spanish and the schools are not in the rescue

right. it's real it's all right honestly we have and get and i guess i hear you and i'm sure loads of people say we got the luna share your sentiment but we have to go down and i guess spokesperson for the european partnership for independence thank you thank you the capital account will our list is coming up stay with us. culture is that so much money in which coal mining companies are here today how

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the bar this is only the third time issuances crossed that monthly threshold since at least nine hundred ninety five that's according to data provider deal logic as reported by the wall street journal so is the appetite driven by this. judge. turned little. creature you. were reaching for you know in this low rate environment is the risk of falling off the cliff becoming more than the herd is willing to bear though and will overturn flight to quality leaves some investors and off into the abyss will discuss plus r.b.s. managers took part in live or manipulation that's according to a bloomberg report citing interviews and instant messages i will get every time we get angry about private bank manipulation rightfully so but where are the headlines about the public private consortium that has bought and now controls thirty five

percent of the long term treasury market duncan about the fed of course we'll talk to peter chair of t.f. market advisors about it and wall work on treasuries we parse the perspectives on the popular treasury e.t.f. will bring you the breakdown and word of the day let's get to today's capital account. there are certain historical relationships that investors look at when deciding where or how to invest in in today's environment stocks look pretty cheap relative to treasuries but does this fail to take into account a fundamental change in the underlying assumptions specifically the changes brought about by a federal reserve that now owns.