dozens of people including children are reported killed as up to four consecutive explosions hit the center of syria's the city of aleppo. the cycle of violence riot police in bahrain fired tear gas at a funeral march for a protester who died in custody amid accusations mainstream media is acting in concert with brains ruler. and georgian president mikheil saakashvili is urged to step down after a galling election upset his party on the margins and him vulnerable to legal action.

hello and welcome to our team with me karen we go now to a developing story up to four explosions have rocked the central square of syria's largest city of aleppo reportedly killing around forty people the blasts were thought to have been caused by car bombs and were followed by heavy gunfire more on that from march's middle east correspondent paula slayer paula she joins us live now so syria is no stranger to terrorist attacks what happened this time. well they have as you say a number of explosions in the syrian northern city of aleppo which is also the country's commercial hub syrian state television is reporting that this is the work of terrorists and that dozens of people have been killed many of them belonging to the syrian regime and now it comes amid intensified fighting between government forces and rebel fighters in the search and we are understanding that the

explosions were a few minutes apart they happened near the city's large squares at least one massive crater has remained in the ground and that the facade of several tall buildings nearby were completely ripped apart according to eyewitnesses there the explosions were followed immediately by intensified gun battles and clashes we are also hearing that by all accounts it seems as if the explosions were of course by called bombs now this is not in birthright but it does suggest that this is the work of suicide bombers there isn't a binny's newspaper that is reporting that the syrian president bashar assad is in the city of aleppo where he is visiting and seeing firsthand what the battles there have been bringing about and that is also ordered at least some thirty thousand troops to be deployed it is unusual it certainly is rare that they have been suicide bombings in the city of aleppo there was

a bombing back in february in which twenty eight people were killed but most of the suicide bomber bombings have been concentrated in the capital city of damascus and over the past few days and certainly over the past few weeks there has been an intensified number of car bombs exploding there now the rebels have come forward and tamed responsibility for those car bombings so far no one has time for sponsibility for this particular attack but it certainly does have all the fingerprints of rebel car bombing suicide attacks there was a court last week by we'll find. in which they said that they would intensify their fighting in the mid they said that they were going to end the battle there it comes amid reports of a receiving that qatar has saved nearly two hundred million dollars to the free syrian army so certainly the scene seems to have been said for fighting to intensify in the near future and looking now in the city of aleppo right about as poss layer live from tel aviv thank you paula. now. co-author

of pakistan terrorism ground zero trawls parallels between the war in afghanistan and the current situation in syria i would like to mention. it reminds me of the stand back and nine hundred seventy nine when there were certain democracies supported an international jihad. against the soviet union but the international community there were some characters they were equally true that. if you knew in the long term consequences were really there was teetering for . peace. if they were stricken courage was going to support the. movements against the regime it would lead to the devastating consequence you. want a future. the danger of terrorism spilling out of syria was highlighted by the head

of russia's security service the space artist tom barton has more on what he had to say. the head of russia's federal security service alexander bought recalled was talking about his concerns not just about sectarian violence in the middle east not about the humanitarian crisis there but about his fear of the risk of the rise of islamic terror groups specifically al qaeda in the region he said that the removal of leaders there has created a situation which makes it easier for those groups to gain a foothold and that the unrest in the region makes it a breeding ground for terrorism more than just those links there are specific fears about what's al qaeda and terrorist groups may be trying to do in the region say that they may be trying to gain higher positions within the new government structures there and b. but they may find it easier to try and get their hands on weapons of mass

destruction which would create a very dangerous situation indeed specific to russia he talked about the reported sightings of north caucasus terrorists operating in the region and gaining valuable experience there and he talked about a new strategy that of a thousand stabs being employed lots of little attacks the death of the u.s. ambassador to libya recently has now been linked to al qaeda and mr born a cop says that the e.u. wildfires that have caused such problems recently may have been started by terrorists citing the websites encouraging terrorists to try and cause as much damage as possible by doing things like lighting fires which require very little imports those are the messages from the f.s.b. heads about the danger of the growth of terrorism in the restive middle east. also in the middle east there is fresh outrage over just how far behind health

authorities are prepared to go to eradicate protests and in a few minutes here on our team were taught. about how the truth of the crackdown isn't only being ignored but even there are major global news networks. a decade of unchallenged rule has come to an end for the now former ruling party of georgia with its head president saakashvili now under pressure to resign and taking up the mantle is the opposition bloc georgian dream promising to undo saakashvili is policies and even hinting at legal action against the leader of the reports from the b.b.c. . it felt as if georgia had won the football world cup thousands in the streets celebrated the surprising win by the opposition and despite fears the ruling regime may somehow hamper this triumph soon their worries were swept aside by the president himself. it is evident that the georgian dream coalition has secured

a majority this means this parliamentary majority has to form the next government for us at least for me the views of this coalition were fundamentally unacceptable and still remain so. just six months ago an opposition win was deemed impossible the ruling party is rating was at seventy percent and nobody could challenge that confidence saakashvili was that he amended the constitution granting more powers to the prime minister at position many predicted he would eventually feel himself little did he know he was digging his own hole when he made these changes to the constitution again i would say. is it time to as a dream that never see the parliament these are the majority of his party we knew that one day. but he did not seem to put themselves probably he. just tailing the constitution on his own shape and on his own he could

survive this let's say the arresting in georgia but that's a little less. however this situation did not come out of nowhere prison torture tapes released in september he'd saakashvili the hardest thousands took to the streets as allegations emerged that he personally ordered the torture and filming of these atrocities and now the president could face more than simply losing his grip on power if there's a big enough majority perhaps to impeach him maybe. next year remember. the changing point in this election was the allegations of brutality in prisons and torture and the allegation behind that was of course that saakashvili and his prime minister merabishvili had altered this abuse so if you have a situation where the new parliamentary majority wants to investigate that abuse it could well produce a crisis full his close associates so they could not only have lost the election

but they could face serious legal complications the georgia dream boards the leader and possibly the next prime minister because anybody really has already made his position clear that this man's ideology has established a crime of violence and torture the food you've seen of the things happening in the georgian prison is the result of his ideology because he brought together the group that carried out it would be good if he submits his resignation rather than starting various procedures to force him to resign. it was not only the prison tape scandal which brought soccer serious fortress of power down say experts corruption among elites daunting poverty and playing hardball with russia all contributed but for now george is welcoming and. hoping for a fresh start georgia's history is rich with different sorts of bloody cold it does

and forceful change of governments in the outgoing president mikheil saakashvili came to power as a result of the revolution so this may well become the first days in its country's history of a peaceful transition of power. r.t. reporting from belief in georgia. party politics are making headlines in the u.k. as well with the anger on labor conference underway but leader ed miliband speeches criticized for putting his life story ahead of the issues london correspondent brings us the details. down. in space the international space station may have to change course to avoid astro junk littering the earth's orbit. invented by the famed soviet orthopedic of really result of in the nineteen fifties

these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to reshape arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life about a third of patients admitted to the it was out of center now days seeking series three focus magic reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor know because who operated on many of them it usually comes down to man's pride first patient return to us with a leg length i mean a quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to the wall to surgery because panos tool than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the will out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations were

one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in others in america average age is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so on eight centimeters would probably right the average for women height isn't so important girl can be sure it's not a big deal like your guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most mad a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite in dealing yet he's. if you want to have the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perky. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations.

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you for coming back to r.t.m. karan now the u.k. labor party annual conference is in full swing at miliband is casting himself as a working class hero promising a bright future for great britain while with less criticising the country's current leadership but as archie's last month reports there was plenty of politics but few policies at the labor leaders address. ed miliband told the labor party conference about his childhood as the son of jewish refugees who had fled the nazis and his school days at a london comprehensive which he says enabled him to get on with people from all walks of life his ultimate goal though to differentiate himself from david cameron and his chancellor george osborne who've been branded from within their own party as to push boys who don't know the price of milk but in reality just how different is ed miliband his father was

a socialist intellectual and his upbringing in highbrow north london circles is worlds away from the lives of most british workers he went to oxford and has never had a proper job outside politics apart from a teaching post at harvard's this speech was full of bluster about the all me the police the wonder of the lympics an ephemeral vision for britain some might say that's because policies are few and far between he said still still it's how the banks make sure companies pay a fair wage and support the national health service but the main announcement of the speech was a promise that if elected labor will instigate a massive increase in food cake tional education focusing on the fifty percent of young people who don't go to university a great idea youth unemployment is around twenty percent at the moment but there was no mention of the all important cost and how it would be met miliband has admitted that labor was in power they'd be making austerity cuts too but he's

refused to give any detail until after that elected more than anything miliband has tried again to cost himself as a man of the people but many are saying that if he wants the people to listen what he really needs to do it's not talk about himself the seemingly endless anecdotes about his childhood and his family seriously and in detail about the country and its problems. torture violence under arrest words used by human rights activists in bahrain to describe an intensifying government crackdown on sentiments in the latest incident riot police move to disperse a funeral procession for a protester who died behind bars after he was allegedly denied proper medical attention also in bahrain nine doctors lost their appeals against their sentences and were order to serve lengthy terms for allegedly allegedly treating injured

protesters the crackdown on dissent was explicitly covered in a documentary made by former c.n.n. journalist amber lyon a film one prestigious journalism awards but was only aired domestically in the u.s. a decision the documentary maker thinks was motivated by money. we were able to kind of dodge our minders and sneak into some of the villages and actually see these atrocities patients who had run out of the hospitals that were shot up with birdshot ambulance drivers who were beaten and as we were heading back out of these villages we were violently detained by security forces in rain about twenty masked men with machine guns who then try to erase all the video that they found and luckily my female producer and i were able to hide some disks. and we were able to actually get out of the country with this content so you can imagine surprise when we got back to the u.s. and this content was airing on c.n.n. and right after that is when the phone calls started coming into the network complaining about me and trying to get my coverage. is paying c.n.n.

to create content that shows bahrain in a favorable light even though c.n.n. says this content you know is editorially independent it doesn't. affect that well we've seen that with this documentary not airing and also with the constant struggle i had c.n.n. to get bahrain coverage accurate coverage of the human rights abuses on air while i was there what c.n.n. is doing is they're essentially creating what some people have termed infomercials for dictators and that's this sponsored content that they're airing on c.n.n. international that's actually being paid for by regimes and governments there's every principle of journalistic ethics because we're supposed to be watchdogs on these governments we're not supposed to allow them to be paying customers as journalists. here in our team we've been covering the uprising from the start tom lot of events analysis and first hand reports from the gulf states can all be found

on our web site here's a taste of what other stories are waiting for you there with the call for turning the eleven soon even washington is giving up her website for more on the state of peace talks. possible change of pace in russia's home policy find out whether moscow is going to take notice of the largest and most detailed list of recommendations from the new. space debris closing in on the international space station may force the hall to shift orbit the base of maneuver is considered every time the chance of a collision excuse exceeds one in ten thousand thomas brings us up to date. if you consider we've been shooting stuff up into space for about fifty years now a little bit more than that and it is estimated that there is more than twenty one thousand pieces of debris from us that are more than ten centimeters in size that

are hurling around our planet at around thirty thousand miles an hour in the same proximity where we work it's not surprising that every once in a while we have to have a course adjustment in this specific case a piece of defunct japanese satellite is threatening the station in fact they're saying that there's a one percent chance that it might need to have a course correction or a vase of maneuver if that happens it will be at three twenty two time on thursday so not very long now at that point the astronauts inside will have to wait for about five hours and then at around eight thirty one g.m.t. this particular piece of debris is expected to come dangerously close to the international space station now the three crew members on board currently there is one american astronaut one japanese astronaut and one russian cosmonaut if for some reason that it looks like this piece of debris will hit the space station still even after the a very sort of maneuver there is another emergency procedure in place at this time

the crew onboard will close all of the hatches and then crawl into what they call a lifeboat which is really a soyuz capsule and wait with all of the procedures set in place for them to undock rapidly from the station which means they are one command away from just getting out into space if something actually does hit the space station. let's switch to financial matters now marina how are the markets saying today hi karen well we're monitoring the european markets in particular because they started off the trading session in the right and if we take a look at the picture now down the complete. pause the fans are still sort of on the flat line so why were they in negative territory to begin with that's because investors are really concerned about spain right now. or it's for the past couple of days that's. they would be seeking the bailout some analysts were saying that this is not a good thing because it will mark a new low for the eurozone especially the financial crisis but it's also we had investors that were looking forward to it and since then the spanish prime minister

says that they will not be seeking any other bailout anytime soon investors were not impressed by that but now we've seen that the optimistic mood is coming back into the markets and reflected in the figures that you see right now who want to take a look at currencies see what the u.s. stands because in the beginning of the trading session we saw that it was weakening they can see us all about right now it's also bounced back although it's more let's fly up this hour when it comes to the ruble study there it susan against the currency basket now mention the ruble so let's take a look at the russian markets here where we started off in the right amounts mainly because of lower oil prices and we see that it's continuing this way was that the r.t.s. is setting about a quarter of a percent and the my six slightly behind there now another company wants them particularly well we're moving on but i'll say that after this ok so let's talk about the oil company. which is looking to get out of the six crew in venezuela now the oil field is being developed by a group of companies led by ross that it's one two percent stake is waters on the

table and it's worth about two hundred million dollars and other russian oil companies gas with the project last month now the company i want to talk about earlier was a russian mining company machel which was losing and shutting about three and a half percent in the previous session and that's because a report about its second quarter net loss accumulated to two hundred million dollars but this time around they're adding their recovered and adding about half a percent to bring you up to date with that that's up from the business for now a few more stories of course karen you or the viewers are to dot com slash business is where it's at right thank you very much and in a few minutes archie talks to historian and author jeffery roberts as we discuss what the world has learned from history's deadliest war.

well. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered my parents really truly honestly believe that what had happened was as a result of my father's exposure to agent orange i was born with multiple problems . i was missing my leg and my fingers and my big toe on my right foot i use my hands a lot in my artwork i find myself drawing my hands quite a bit to me for my hands you know just as if anyone would. but they do tell a story they tell a story of. talks and. you

know how 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 realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.

geoffrey robertson a historian and author of a great new book called stallions gen it's a book about marshall as you quote who actually liberated the soviet union from nat isn't let the soviet army to conquer berlin in ninety forty five so will recommend . so in your book you discuss general marshall's yukos life and his military genius but do you agree that military genius taken alone isn't really enough to have a great victory or to win a great war because you also need self-sacrifice you need enthusiasm so if you look

at the wars of today let's say the war on terror there doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm from people outside why is that is it is it because the cause isn't justified or are people just tired to wars. that the second world war a great protracted war wasn't just one boy of course it was one boy or you know the whole so. of it people. the soviet victory defended depending in the end on the pope to support for the war and the willingness to to mike choose sacrifices also that depended on having a political and economic system that was i would say survive the challenge of war on the lives of the war if i don't impose heavy discipline on the population in order to secure a victory to die the picture in relation to various will cc's is very different.