breaking news now on r t a car bomb explodes in central damascus reportedly killing ten as the international peace envoy to the country visits to call for an immediate cease fire. the lebanese opposition calls for more rallies in a country already engulfed by a violent protests all after friday's deadly terror attack an apparent result of the syrian crisis spillover. and the return to chaos more civilians including children are killed in libya as government linked militia shallot town traditionally loyal to the old regime a year after moammar gadhafi was killed. plus protesters scuffle with police as

tens of thousands march against austerity in london the clashes echo events in athens as greece suffered a nationwide strike souring the mood of an e.u. crisis summit in brussels. and a new attempt to breach the blockade of gaza is for warded israeli forces stopping humanitarian ship and arrest thirty activists on board. thank you for joining our t's the weekly time karen terrill she's starting you off right now with breaking news around ten people are reported dead after at least one explosion rocked the center of the syrian capital damascus the attack took place during the visit of international peace envoy locked out of what i hear me more on this now from r.t.c. . in the region if you know damascus is no stranger to such attacks what do we know

about what's happened this time. but inside we're talking about at least the chance that they're out here is of course that death toll could be higher part of it because the center of the city's the so-called old quarter very popular with tourists or is of course we probably shouldn't be talking about tourists right now considering the situation in the country and yes. it's an area that i have. rather well a lot of was we have been there so it really hits close to home very busy a lot of people there are here is that the salt could be a lot higher they are saying that it was possibly a twin car bombings. targeting differently. police station in the neighborhood at this point they're not is that we sure about how many wounded were talking about and how many of the killed are civilians or police. notwithstanding the fact remains is that this is not the first time that the. u.n. peace envoy comes to damascus and explosion in obviously

a charity but it has happened before and now we have. when we have law governing me coming in. before he arrived. before he arrived there in government has expressed their readiness to. participate in peace talks with the rebels but the rebels have got obviously didn't seem to make a move one way or another and then of course this explosion happened so again very trying time for syria. as of now we do not know exactly who is responsible for their terror attack of course. as we find out more details we'll be bringing you know the later all right our iran a goal is go live there from tel aviv thank you for that update arena. now al qaida linked rebels fighting the assad government have acknowledged that they were behind similar attacks in syria's major cities in the past journalist robert harness says

that the main victims of the violence they carry out are ordinary civilians. we've had reports from pretty unbiased sources like med sounds off on to other french. medical charity who said that sixty percent of the people they bumped into him in one area where they were dealing with care and just work for in generalities and i don't know is there any doubt that they've been fed in there quite deliberately to stokes the prising against the syrian government and not just the trial itself let's let's be quite clear that there are an awful lot of syrians who do not want their country to be turned into another libya i've talked to the syrians right from the start of those i don't think they ever had that much support for many of the the syrians who watched what happened to gadhafi as libya and realized that if it wasn't perfect what we what they're getting afterwards is a great deal worse than they've always been aware of and they're totally cynical about the west's motives for interfering in this and the gulf states motives for

interfering in in civil strife in syria. this latest blast in damascus follows a similar attack which represented the capital of neighboring lebanon beirut was rattled on friday by its most destructive in recent years killing a top intelligence chief and seven others thousands of people in lebanon have gathered for a funeral of the official who was highly critical of assad's role the massive turnout was encouraged by the opposition it declared a day of rage against the regime in syria which they blamed for the attack beirut based political analyst charminar while me says a lebanese opposition is deliberately stoking up anti syria views among the population to use them as a political tool. but it's not very feasible and it wasn't very feasible. president assad was responsible for the assassination of rafik hariri in two thousand and five either but in lebanon that's not how it plays out you know normal

situation people would wait for an investigation to get at least a little bit of evidence on the way before making these allegations in lebanon political parties jump on the bandwagon and start to use these things to their advantage even if it's one of their own figures who's going down there doesn't seem to be any interest in in seeking truth it's all about political advantage and it's unfortunate because it's whipping out exactly these kind of reactions armed reactions on the streets it is not a positive sign for lebanon the two top contenders for the u.s. presidency preparing to clash on t.v. but ahead of the final face off a lack of media attention is forcing independent candidates to the margins more on that coming up shortly. meanwhile in libya a bitter violence has resumed you may find some of the falling images disturbing at least twenty six people have been killed in the latest attack by pro-government militia against a stronghold of the former regime the youngest son of the slain leader moammar

gadhafi promise was reportedly among them the town of bani walid has been just. for over two weeks and are suffering from severe shortages of food water and medicine political activist ali see who left maybe around a year ago says the state hasn't recovered from the devastation made back to a point dropped. into model division now in libya there have never been before. the militias not out there can very well you know which is you know highly populated area. cause the two children also. use also chemical weapons think the reports from the local hospital on the. phone call i made with the people inside the city the city believes the militias are. down to draw in control of libya in the body to conceive in libya using. all of these operators of positions the media is not really covering. the weave

situation in libya because they want to set this example for syria to say what we succeed in libya so we succeed in syria who cares i just see. they will be looking it up of my point of view. the u.s. could be creating more problems for itself in pakistan coming up the cia wants more drones but there are fears it could mean a buildup of deadly attacks abroad and in turn lead to even more militancy. plus india turns its back on the idea of an economic strangling of iran as the two countries search for ways to dodge the western embargo on me export council will trying to find a new payment round. massive crowds numbering in the tens of thousands have filled the streets of london marching against the austerity policies of the coalition government scuffles erupted in the aftermath of the rally last demonstrators trying

to coffee shops and the savoy hotel in march was organized by the trade unions and attractive people from across the country prime minister david cameron recently warned of more tough decisions for the struggling economy argy sara firth was among the crowds thousands of people have taken to the streets of london and announce he'll start the much older life by the trade unions. many people. that message is against the cuts they say have flatlined the economy and other people from all walks of life there are no this is worried about the n.h.s. there are police officers all feed the world worried about the frontline services and among the people you see much think it's they many many families all across the age range feel that they've been affected in some way by the continued cuts my parents rely on the n.h.s. you can see kids getting worse my son to stephen is paying the ground even fees i

work in the interest that certain legal aid is being home so we were very vulnerable people and they won't be able to get the same help from the next year they just protect the rich they protect the interest of the rich neighborhood out fear in the people who are it really marching against the cuts and she's marching for the future straight she's way. you know like today my future is bank now cause there's no disgrace in this being a fake to fail start. your reply to fix the euro crisis is all we see the stars yeah get taking great the specially in the last month in spain in greece all across the year you say that people simply saying that they've had enough here in london outfit that possibly into the hundreds of thousands maybe even move it to march against the austerity. austerity was on the agenda elsewhere in europe this week at the e.u. summit in brussels european leaders have agreed on a deal that would bring centralized banking supervision to the continent however the summit was marred by fresh protests in europe tens of thousands of greeks

descended on athens as a nationwide strike got underway clashing with police one protester died of a heart attack amid the scuffles in madrid parents teachers and students marched in condemnation of an pending government consta education capping three days of industrial action. there's one thing we've learned over the past couple of years is that when you're in the years something about this crisis is they usually mean the exact opposite. end of the crisis inside probably means that greece is the going into depression or greece by next year one of the contract to the economy with contract with roughly twenty percent with unemployment stands at twenty five percent but you have to regions in spain which are demanding secession you have actually a new fascist forces on the rise in briefly. a move that we haven't seen since the one nine hundred thirty so i think really what's happening here is that the first election spinning out of the things are getting

a lot worse and the stomach. has to address any of the structural problems which include was the important thing to be embraced between the financial sector which is too big and a series of states which are going to be. dealing with the euro crisis. it means a lot of pressure especially in the case of a president with attacks coming at him from all sides just recently one very annoyed fashion icon has called him and even after a move to cut the country's deficit plus also on r t eight hundred chicago inmates are stepping forward to describe how they were tortured by prison guards and the victims say the abuse was racially motivated.

a texas mom was arrested and thrown in jail orange jumpsuit and all for neglecting her kids who were playing in front of her house for just a little while a concerned neighbor and sort of say walking across the street you know to talk to the unintended children to find out what's going on went to the total sheep mowed in immediately called nine one one because children playing it is truly an emergency worth the police's time but i guess it was worth their time because they showed up and slap the cuffs on the mother who claimed that she was there the whole time and of course to punish you for ignoring your children briefly while they play you'll get thrown behind bars because that makes sense where does this culture of fear come from if you leave your kids alone on your own property why does that mean that they are certainly going to die. there are dangers out there believe me but living in constant fear abuses your children far worse that's just my opinion.

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welcome back to our team for this week's and today's news from around the globe a humanitarian ship bound for gaza has been stopped and diverted to the israeli port of ashdod a with thirty pro palestinian activists arrested israeli defense forces claim the ship had no humanitarian aid on board activists say soldiers captured the vessel outside gaza's naval border he pointed to was the latest of attempts to breach the israeli blockade which has been in place for much five years it comes through years after the so-called freedom flotilla was attacked with nine an armed backed of us killed by israeli commandos but victoria strand a spokesperson for the latest rasul says their mission is to bring international attention to the injustice of the israeli blockade of gaza. we can achieve that we

can make the international community to focus on the fact that the book a still is going on that it is a siege and to get it is getting worse year by year and do what we are doing is actually walk to w. age new nice save the children learn fifty yarder in june sorry saying that. the blockade has to end it is now it's six years. feel to say that there are. you walter situationally fuel situation the health situation is deteriorating dettori eighteen all the time. the build up of tension is peaking ahead of the u.s. presidential election the two top runners will face off on monday in the last televised debate democrat barack obama and republican mitt romney seem to be getting all the air time ahead of the vote but they aren't the only participants

third party and independent candidates have to struggle for attention this week in the green party's jill stein was arrested together with her running mate while trying to get entrance to the latest debate that's despite stein's name appearing on eighty five percent of the ballots across the country ben mask eva green party's campaign manager believes the two party domination is due to outdated balls and corporate control the reality is that there's nothing in our constitution which prevents a multi-party system from emerging here in the u.s. but we do have laws on the books all across the country and we also have the actions of private corporations that have grown up over the last sixty years to prevent independent parties from challenging the two establishment parties here in the united states the laws that we have in the books prevent or make it very difficult for independent parties to get on the ballot to give voters that choice those laws date from the cold war they date from the mccarthy era in which there was a fear of communism and socialism and they tried to make it very difficult for progressive

parties in particular to emerge here at the green party we have overcome many of those challenges joel stein is on eighty five percent of the ballots yet they're still preventing her from taking part in the debate if you look at the success of the green party despite all the obstacles we face it says that there is a great demand for the greens people vote for the greens here in the u.s. . that independent candidates will be getting their own platform for debate with the help of party on tuesday and of course we're keeping a close eye on the upcoming vote tonight on monday as we kick off our special coverage of the race for the white house. will there be a war on iraq. china friend or foe is missile defense offensive. where you're trying to dance to us election the closer october twenty second on our team. b.p.'s board of directors is reportedly set to confirm the sale of its fifty percent share of the joint venture to m.k. b.p. to ross now if the deal does go through the russian oil giant could become the

world's biggest listed all producer in return the british company would reportedly get around seventeen billions of dollars in cash and nearly thirteen percent of ross nath shares its representatives will also join ross never to board of directors says b.p. will become the second largest shareholder of the russian state owned enterprise that's what allowed b.p. to take part in offshore all its power ration in the arctic. india has announced it will maintain oil imports from iran at their current levels as they two countries search for ways to come to a commercial arrangement the latest e.u. sanctions ban all transactions with to iran putting pressure on new delhi's banks to avoid processing payments the western community has been doing repeated economic blows to iran over its nuclear energy program which its feared might one day become weaponized iran has always denied that claim but despite this the financial news has been tightening around tech brands trade and banking sectors analysts sriram

chelios says the e.u. is overestimating its ability to control the situation. the indian government is very firm that we are not going to. cut down on any more iranian oil imports and then to continue buying from them and therefore the financial arrangements and we will know what i think. no there there is a time for regional currencies to gain ground and for trading to happen in alternative currencies apart from the euros in the dollars i've seen the longer the trade if you go on and the sanctions may not in bericht india's ability to have relations with europe is in a state of decline and you seem to be becoming graces i think they are punching above their weight in trying to impose a solution on the iranian question and if you just fanciful imagine that you can so whole be the decisive actor in trying to force iran. this impasse has been going on for years not and we would like to see how we could morally from the threats of

original change and this kind of warfare. these sanctions on iran were followed by a muscling of its media almost two thousand of tap on state t.v. and radio channels were taken off the air and you're up next hour we'll bring you an expert's analysis of what's behind the back. of. the cia this week asked me white house to allow the expansion of its unmanned aircraft slate at what allow the agency to keep up its strong missions abroad including the deadly strikes in pakistan the cia's request came just a day after pakistan's interior minister quoted statistics that say eighty percent of those killed by the drones are severely it's he said over two thousand people have died three hundred strikes fell far off mad acquiring cheap from pakistan's first political lobbying group says washington is only creating more militants with its tactics. this is a major blow to u.s.

diplomacy and position in parks done and this is the first time that a senior official actually come out to say this make this kind of a statement there's no evidence that the drones have actually helped buckstone control the militants on the contrary pakistan has been very much very successful parts of the military in flushing out terrorist from the northern region of so wide back in. two thousand and nine and clearing cleaning up that entire area and if now we see a resurgence of some of the activity of the terrorist it is because of the safe havens on the what i would call the american side of the border which is the afghan side of the border ninety six incursions from the of gun territory into parks done resulting in killing of bucks and you soldiers and bugs and civilians. and coming up it's our interview segment today our guest is max auto professor of general and international business administration he's discussing the current financial troubles as well as germany's were on the crisis.

the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spilling black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the bergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also looks. at how prosperous the settlement was well times have obviously can't read this so it lags they still attracting original tourists or barons work cons watch native cash that's why when. our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of drawing it that way the local administration decided to

paint the bin you and put it at variance work central square that into nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs particularly located halfway between north america and western europe bergen archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of western most outposts now it's one of the last preserved relics. picture of the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades curious interested i think it could be even more appealing for russia. to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local souvenir shops so between. bill it is a big hit the defunct aren't curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's

all rushing through your show but you can't play robles for almost. your local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like farms it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part also the let you know authentic traditionally up. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on those they tend to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called the wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar.

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which is unacceptable to local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. most blog post but we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups what price is colombia going to pay for. the modest effect on r.t. . would be soon which brightened if you knew no bounds to move from finest impressions. means for instance on t.v. dot com.

i'm joined today by dr max also a professor of political administration and author of the books investing rather than saving and the delightfully optimistically titled the crisis is coming to talk to us the thanks very much for speaking to me now jeremy currently finds itself in a relatively decent position economically can it keep that up germany is not at all in the driving seat germany's economy is functioning but germany is driven rather than driving by the processes that are going on unfortunately i think the current system will last for a while because the european political elites really has sworn to defend it whatever the costs and the car sign norma's so really the current system is hurting europe we have to make some changes but i do think that the current rather detrimental state of affairs is going to continue for quite a.