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a welcome. breaking news story for you the. area around a military testing ground. or any word on casualties and what exactly are officials saying about the situation as

far as we know. no danger posed. these were conventional munitions that detonated that there was no chemical and no nucular arms involved in this explosion meaning that those no risk to the local population despite that there was some of occupations that there are some of accusations of taking place in the immediate vicinity we're hearing that three properties were damaged by the explosions this was what seems like was a very large blast to be can hear now from somebody who was in the region when the blast took place of just what it was like to be there. the blast smashed out the windows people are saying that an army building has been damaged in my town and

everyone just ran out of their homes right away we could hear the loud sounds of sirens from ambulances and fire fighting vehicles we were gathered together to evacuate the area buses arrived to pick a song but. the defense ministry has launched an investigation into what actually caused this explosion they've also issued a statement saying that none of their personnel were injured in the blast there's also a criminal investigation that's being launched into the charge of mishandling of the weapons now in the immediate aftermath of the the blast the worst was some air panic online on from sources like twitter suggesting that some military personnel had been wounded then that a number remained unaccounted for the defense ministry saying that there is absolutely no truth in this that all of their personnel are unharmed and accounted for but this isn't the first incident of this kind that we've seen in russia in recent times over the past three years there's been twenty such explosions all

fires involving munitions that are being stored and just as recently as a few months ago there was a fire in an explosion at the same facility in the resulted in one. person member military personnel requiring medical attention so not the greatest. when it comes to story but thankfully in this occasion there's been no casualties and there is no danger posed to the media to the civilian population in the vicinity. of the latest on this breaking news story thank you. news now here on r t greece engulfed the austerity anger with thousands of police officers deployed in athens as german chancellor angela merkel arrives in the city for six hours of talks. has details now from the greek capital. is undertaking the biggest security operation that is taking the nearly a million is seven thousand police officers patrolling the streets snipers on the

rooftops most economists and afraid has banned across many parts but this is the buzz the german chancellor merkel has visited greece since the year a crisis started and she's going to find a country in its fifth year of recession and call it a devastating spiral of the exodus of the stairs he now says that many people here in greece blame for well as i said there is a crisis ban in place today because many cars about things and that actually you as well as these draconian security measures that are going to be costing a huge amount to the country to pay state chancellor merkel other people all gang scale out to come out and demonstrate like joined by the secretary of one of the main trade unions caring great thank you very much for joining us now you're going to be going out and you think's going to be demonstrating in a way where. it's

a difficult day for us but today we have to demonstrate and to show to the group that they were trying to impose measures without the tolerance of the society and we believe that that is the main problem now you're seeing that in the world in the in the in the crisis and after two package of measures they're coming again play imposing new package the same one the same one which you once again once you called . wages pensions they gave promises that we should go out of there to say sure for doing a half years now but the result is that we're going deeper and deeper in there is a ship in session so there is no there is no meaning to continue this policy which is why it's enough we fell over a vicious very good bargain getting most of the asking from the from the people formally. levels of the society the bait again and again you see all of them it's enough to continue demonstrating inside this way. just

thirteen this is it is seen live around we let you know you can ease. this is coming here as a. lot of people here will that's mugsy little mockery like. fury continues to mount in greece we're also covering the latest protests at r.t. dot com a full timeline of the european crisis waiting for you online plus. julian assange said to publish a book on the freedom of internet inspired by the. punks activist group that appeared on his exclusive show for r.t. you can watch it in full and all the details of the latest details that is on our website dot com. barack obama's rival for the u.s. presidency mitt romney has called for a more aggressive foreign policy state in the middle east and that could include arming al-qaeda linked syrian rebels the democrats meantime of hit back saying

romney's stance like vision and consistency guy nature can reports. mitt romney accused president obama of quote sitting on the sidelines end of quote and not being aggressive enough on syria mr romney suggested actively arming the rebels with weapons that can bring down the air profitable what hangs he said quote the greater tragedy of it all is that we're missing a story opportunity to win new friends who share our values in the middle east end of quote but mitt romney's other remarks suggested that maybe he doesn't really care about whose hands the weapons would end up in because the objective that he stayed it was to defeat assad seeing it as a stepping stone to rend iran is sending arms to assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them we should be working no less vigorously you are in an international partners to support the many syrians who would deliver that defeat to

iran rather than sitting on the sidelines so basically mitt romney suggested taking advantage of the crisis in syria to feel the goal of defeating iran blatant but straightforward remark basically expressing the same opportunistic approach to foreign policy that the u.s. has had for many years while obama campaign called romney reckless and amateurish when it comes to foreign policy so far the administration has stopped short of directly arming the rebels although washington is coordinating the efforts of their allies in the region that is saudi arabia qatar turkey which are providing weapons to the rebels one way or another but those allies are saying that they only provide smaller weapons that they would love to send heavy artillery but they don't have the green light from washington for that because reportedly the administration fears that the weapons might end up in the hands of terrorists experts say one of the reasons why the rebels are not settling down for a negotiated solution through dialogue is the signal that they get that sense that support is on the way that there will be an intervention and everybody now

understands without a negotiated solution bloodshed will continue. being low. a b.b.c. film crew in syria has discovered the rebels are in possession of weapons crates meant for the saudi military the soldiers refused to comment on how they got the shipment and gave no permission to film its contents and this comes amid escalating fighting across the country with bomb blasts and firefights in damascus and turkey now stepping up its own war rhetoric after six consecutive days of returning fire with syria in response to shelling that some speculate is a profit by the rebels political analyst says the insurgents are desperate for foreign intervention the turkish government take a lot on this beard. and because these guys own reasons for doing this on the one hand they're trying to give cover over to the rebels to continue their

fight you know that the rebels again defeated on the ground bombarding syria as a way to help the rebels not lose too many of their positions but i think also wants to please is kind of. nato nato masters in its bid to join the e.u. so it's been willing to do the bidding europe and the u.s. britain france and the u.s. they may be helping the hoping that they can somehow try and knowledge made into taking action as well and. the blitzkrieg is that she the only thing really that would enable the rebels we're now on. the watching r.t. now fireworks jubilation and a fiesta atmosphere right now in venezuela this only means one thing and that is that president chavez is there to stay and so are his plans for how to handle the country's economy including its enormous oil reserves as artie's lucy catherine off reports it's a strong reason for some painful headaches in the west. six years up to the top

that may be at odds with the liberation of the workers of this one party that let's treat we're just going. to join in on. it. it's a victory that supporters say has implications far beyond this country's borders talley's chavez is the father of south america all the presidents who are friends among each other latin america understand the understand the significance of chavis for the world that's rising up from its knees for the world of equality for the world without the jimmy of the empire without a germany if you wish and that's precisely what makes many western governments nervous venezuela could be an example for other countries i mean here you have a country that is saying that the polarization of wealth which we see not just in one country not just in two countries but globally is completely toxic and must be addressed and that there must be a redistribution of wealth this is antithetical to what's been known as the

washington consensus so in that sense the president chavez and is as a threat a threat that doesn't just hurt washington's influence but its coffers under chavez venezuela has refused to act as a market for u.s. based private investment and no longer can u.s. oil firms rely on the country as a stable source of cheap crude venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves chavez has promised to ramp up production and slash this country's dependence on u.s. markets by doubling exports to asia according to the president and that is why he represents a threat to the west it's all about the political. from the economic point of view we have the largest petroleum reserves in the world when the world runs out of oil and only five countries which possess the majority of reserves who are male and your mother was a russia iran saudi arabia iraq and it is well. it's black gold could account for the vilification of chavez in the west after all just

a year after he took office in one thousand nine hundred nine chavez toured the middle east to lobby key opec members to drive oil prices higher he also provided subsidized oil to quba bella bruce nicaragua and syria countries whose relations with the west aren't exactly ideal for critics that is well under chavez is a terrifying prospect. i think chavez has mostly criticized for his foreign policy first for breaking relations with traditional trade partners of venezuela such as colombia and the us and second for political alliances with countries which are considered as non-democratic and even belligerent in their foreign policy such as cuba and even more so iran. chapa says his world view is just one that the west is going to have to get used to. it was said that in american morning. world remember that history.

twenty years ahead of europe. which is now in venezuela didn't. have world power yet. six years. seems like more and more ukrainians are packing their bags to leave the e.u. for a better life. driving them. you can tell an ordinary russian siberian appalled in the blink of an. anthropologist in those days sideburns were different clothes different food from different animals. my journey began in two men but the big city was

all shiny all funded skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous . so. a small town just outside. many. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia . making sure you can have many as a start the main dish. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting if you decide to participate .

when you look upon martin. is in the middle of a swarm. of. it's inhabited by. a large minority that migrated before the russians. this. is real siberia maybe not the stuff of brochures but distinctive enough to show that.

thanks for joining us here on our to today i'm with an update on our breaking news story thousands of people have been evacuated from villages surrounding a military testing ground in central russia where a stockpile of munitions has detonated at this point no casualties have been reported. by the blasts around the site regional officials say residents of the nearby city of forty kilometers away are. not being moved a criminal investigation has been launched into the incident stay with us here on the latest on this breaking news. brewing between washington and beijing the u.s. . house intelligence committee says two top chinese companies should be barred from doing business in america a new report warns that the equipment made by telecom giant who are away and manufacture. could be used by beijing to spy on the u.s.

the other two farms have struck back saying the document is actually aimed at hampering them competing on the american market the u.s. telecommunications sector is a attractive area to foreign companies as it's worth some thirty billion dollars and keeps on growing but tim come the senior director of strategy for free press says the round with china could backfire on the united states. it's interesting to note that most computer equipment most telecommunications could mint is in fact made in china increasingly china is a player in the technology space and their ability to create cheap manufactured products should pose a threat to business interests overseas business threat not so much a national security threat politics definitely comes into play here seen in both the romney and obama campaign an effort to get tough against china this could very well be an outgrowth of that but also of concern is the idea of the marketplace for cyber security with their estimates that i've seen it but this is

a multibillion dollar business so it's in the interest of a lot of these companies that provide cyber security services to inflate the fear it helps businesses that sell cyber security systems that sell systems that will allow us to protect against these alleged attacks it helps them make money so potential for this to have a blowback effect on the united states you look at american companies like cisco systems which is very invested in in growing its business in china usually what happens when you have these kind of international controversies if the u.s. acts against a chinese company you could very well see the chinese government act against a u.s. company on its own turf. there are just a moment on the business here with marina finale though the european union has proven to be a real magnet for ukraine's migrant workers with one in ten ukrainians employed in the bloc countries but some e.u. nations to send further into recession and many are heading back home feeling tired has come to find a better life their. investigation the reverse and try and. enter euro

goes to villages with empty houses and few people on the street a common sight for western ukraine and it's not the result of any disaster almost every family in the west of ukraine has a member working abroad ever since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. ukraine has been one of the main suppliers of cheap labor force into the european union as it stands over four million ukrainians are currently working in europe that's every tenth citizen of the country but this is changing yuri worked in spain for almost a decade before escaping the financial crisis and resettling back home at times he indulges in some gastronomically. and make spanish style salami at home but yuri says there is no going back. i made good use of the money. i bought several stools and currently lease them i also bought

a house twenty five kilometers to look for if i stayed in spain i would have to work like a slave to something here i can enjoy life many of my friends who stayed in spain are now out of work and planning to come back to. and he's far from the only one the real estate market in western ukraine is seeing a boom in property sales all thanks to those running away from the collapsing euro zone and that i think a lot of the people they may have thought of buying houses in the e.u. we're seeing how the crisis playings those countries and are returning home of all real estate properties sold last year almost a quarter of the bonds were returned migrants muesli by two to three room apartment with up to one thousand euros in the last two three months alone more than a thousand families booked last year which makes around one hundred million euros worth of investment into property in just one of ukrainian regions the overall sound of european money ending up in ukrainian spoke it is even more astonishing

last year ukraine was able to receive up to seven. years of dollars from the ukrainian currently working abroad and that's coming from the country's worst affected by the financial crisis spain italy and portugal where many businesses have grown reliant on migrant ukrainian workers you might think their return home should benefit both sides but in reality economists believe this may spell trouble for ukraine amount of remittances we usually receive from them is going to go. from seven billion i would expect that this should be on the level of the tional supply of labor coming from e.u. conscious to ukraine is needed to be supported and it's additional pressure for the ukrainian by object which is quite difficult to do when you have a limited amount of resources but yuri says even if the labor market goes into

meltdown it would not be as bad as it could have been if you stayed in spain the money he brought back has made him completely self-sufficient and immune from being and wanted either at home or a brooch. reporting from ukraine. hard times and business culture of a good to see you again i know you've got your finger on the pulse of the market so any news to report well yes i do today is that when we have yet another grim economic report this comes from the international monetary fund and what they're saying is that basically global economic recovery slowing down and they have also downgraded their forecast for global growth in two thousand and thirteen as you can imagine this is not having a very positive effect on the markets especially europe because this is what they were talking about in particular many investors are concerned about the spanish financial health right now is that the and the driver of that. this hour now the

next no one to talk about is that this in the russian british oil. because we have a new twist to this saga this time around the russian co-owners just comprised by a they are considered selling their stake in the venture either to a strategic partner or through an i.p.o. now just to give you more details on that so we know that this would happen if b.p. sells its parts something local shareholders are really unhappy about at the same time a are is not giving up plans to a large if they can see and gave repeat by line shares from british partners he says the company with can see in you the process of minutes they regardless of the a are moved and earlier the british will form initiated talks to sell its half and russia's third largest oil firm due to a shareholder dispute. all right sounds like a look at their option markets because of the mix then gains we saw some losses and

right now they are continuing to gain from the previous hour we see that the my success fame and flat territory but it's that it just and all this of course by the five that we have a negative outlook it's because we have higher oil prices this always encourages russian investors. now i want to talk about a local company here and. before that let's take a look at currencies jumping the gun there when we have the euro which is continuing to weaken against the dollar and there are from ruble continues to strengthen against the currency basket the stews that now let's talk about that company and that is a megaphone which is the country's second largest mobile phone operator and has the sought to hold an i.p.o. in the fourth quarter of the year the company plans to list up to twenty percent stake in moscow i don't want them aiming for around four billion dollars meanwhile media reports say megaphone will place a fifty percent stake on the first. i was only trying to leave early because that's

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