a car bomb explodes in central damascus killing at least ten as the international peace envoy to the country visits to call for an immediate ceasefire. the lebanese opposition calls for more rallies in a country already engulfed protests all after friday's deadly terror attack at apparent a result of the syrian crisis a spillover from. a return to chaos more civilians including children killed in libya as government linked militia charlottetown traditionally loyal to the old regime a year out german market off he was killed. bus 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 something in brussels. and a new attempt to breach the blockade of gaza is awarded israeli forces stop a humanitarian ship and arrest thirty activists on board. hello and welcome to our tease of the weekly with me. well some ten people are 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 up but i hear me let's get more on this now from our. lives in the region irina damascus is no stranger to such attacks what do we know about what has happened this time. well we know that by early reports it has been apparently an explosive taxi or right

outside of a police station in the central neighborhood of too much also known as the old quarter or the christian quarter it's a very popular part of the city very busy part of the city actually when we were in syria we were there a lot that's sort of the hub of the community all because. i could tell you how many times we've tried to get you kept there will be frightening of course this point we do not know who is behind these blasts but when such events have happened before in damascus or aleppo position groups or rebels affiliated to a with that have taken responsibility for. terrorist acts however again at this point it is not yet known who is behind this this is not the first time that such an event happens in the way you were during a major diplomatic mission in syria when various on the voice politicians diplomats calm and try to solve the crisis and help syria of the civil war it's

currently in the we do have a look at our brahimi who is in syria right now are you. trying to somehow reduce the situation and bring the two warring groups together the government and obviously the opposition however at this point we have both parties that are adamantly refusing to have anything to do with each other of course it's there with an exception of the government of president bashar al assad who did say that he they will be able to only talk to the opposition groups lay down their arms the same of the same qualities are coming in the same requests are coming from the opposition groups as well so as far as we know right now in this political situation the question of a diplomatic solution in syria still remains open and this latest explosion in the syrian capital of course it remains an example of the situation all right with

those live updates are. thank you. now al qaeda linked to rubbles fighting the assad government having knowledge that they were behind similar attacks in syria's major cities in the past journalist robert harness says the main victims of the violence they carry out are ordinary citizens and we've had reports from pretty unbiased sources like 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 were foreign 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 troller so 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 for many of the the syrians who watched

what happened to gadhafi as libya 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 are interfering in the in civil strife in syria. the latest blast and a mask as follows a similar attack which ripped through the capital of neighboring lebanon beirut was rattled on friday by its most destructive bombing 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 rule the massive turnout was encouraged by the opposition it declared a day of rage against the syrian regime which they blamed for the attack beirut based political analyst shar mine are one me says the lebanese opposition is deliberately stocking 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 but. the

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 gone 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 that is not a positive sign for lebanon or 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 it turned lead to even more militancy.

and iran learns a lesson in censorship almost two dozen of temp state t.v. and radio channels were taken off air in europe we'll bring you one expert's analysis on what's behind their. massive crowds numbering in the tens of thousands have filled the streets of london marching against the austerity policy. the coalition government scuffles erupted in the aftermath of the rally as demonstrators targeted coffee shops at the savoy hotel the march was organized by the trade unions and attracted people from across the country prime minister david cameron recently warned of more tough decisions for the struggling economy parties sarah first 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 trading is called. many people have turned out that message is against the cause they say flatlined the economy and other people from all walks of life there are nurses worried about the

n.h.s. there are police officers all fiji rule worried about cuts so frontline services in amongst the people. think it 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 cars getting worse my son to stevie's paying nine grand a year in fees i work in the interest that ten legal aid is being called so we were very vulnerable people and i won't be able to get the same help from the next year they just protect the rich they protect the interests of the rich and they build out fear in the people who are it were marching against the cuts and she's marching for the future right she's worth it. and launching so my future is thanks now to salute to this person that's being neglected all started because of europe lloyd effects of the euro crisis rumbles all we see will start see i guess taking great the specially in the last month in spain and greece of course the year you say that people simply saying that they've had enough here in london i think that possibly

into the hundreds of thousands maybe even more but the come out of it the most again we'll start with. one of the organizers of the massive protests paul no walk from the trades union congress says the people are fed up with the inability of their leaders to relate to their plight oh. i just don't think the government understands the pain that their culture and their economic program have been in communities and down the country which public services that you usually buy you whether it's your job if you worried about the future living standards even those people who work a full an overwatch two years people were here to end the culture of work and they're not even in the government's own tend to not work in the deficit is go with it because more people are up with the benefits that bill is going up the only way to really reduce the deficit is to get economic growth going again and the kicked off there is the plan is failing to deliver economic growth we need to see people back that where investments in jobs investment in communities and their government lease it swallow its pride and go to plan because while they just isn't working i

think we're going to see lots of different forms of protest people campaign in their local communities and down the congestion cases that will mean people taking industrial action for 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 greats descended on our phones as a nationwide strike under way police one protester died of a heart attack and the scuffles in madrid parents teachers and students marched in condemnation of impending government cuts to education capping three days of industrial action if there's one thing we've learned over the past couple of years is that when you're in the years there's something about this crisis they usually mean the exact opposite and when i saw the same interest inside probably means that spain increases the going into depression that agrees by next year one of the

contracts in the economy contracts roughly twenty dollars one stanza twenty five percent that you have to regions in spain which are demanding secession you have actually seen your fascist forces on the rise in greece it is a move that we haven't seen since the one two thirty s. so i think really. what's happening here is that the press is actually spinning out of control things are getting a lot worse and the summit completely fails to address any of the structural problems which include most important in the deadly embrace between world financial sector which is to be insolvent and a series of states which are completely over and. telling what the euro crisis means a lot of pressure especially in the case of president online too much criticism coming from all angles one very annoyed fashion icon called him an imbecile after he moved to cut the country's deficit plus. also online over using your mobile phone couldn't keep you aid brain tumor at least according to

a ruling by italy's supreme court find out what the legal implications are party dot com. homeland security now has robot tunas seriously robot fish the drones in the sky spying on you just weren't good enough effect they've revealed that they're going to be using robotic hummingbirds soon who how cute these things can only see you though above the water now during the one percent or less of your life that you spend swimming homeland security will be keeping you safe since nine eleven we've heard ad nauseum that we need to be kept safe so americans have given up their rights but have things gotten that much safer honestly has any of the stuff ushered in some sort of peaceful utopia no it hasn't the best terrorism prevention would be

to not bomb secular regimes in other countries like libya so that some fanatical wackos come the power that would help way more than robotic spy fish i hear a lot of people talk about personal responsibility a lot of speeches and yes personal responsibility is a key component of the american way slit people provide for their own defense what is going to protect you more a shotgun under the bed or terminator tuna so homeland security can the two are right but i just might be. more news today boylan says once again flared up. these are the images cobalt has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations are all day.

noam welcome back to our teens the weekly for the week's top stories and today's news on karen tara well a humanitarian ship bound for gaza has been stopped and diverted to the israeli port up 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 the boy it was the latest attempts to breach the

israeli blockade which has been in place for the last five years it comes to years after the so-called freedom flotilla was attacked with nine an armed activists killed by israeli commandos but victoria strand a spokesperson for the latest vessel says their mission is to bring international attention to the injustice of the israeli blockade of gaza. what we can achieve that we can make the international community to focus on the fact that the a stable is going on that it is the siege going on and it did it is getting worse year by year and do what we are doing is actually walk to w. age old uni stand save the children learn fifty yarder in june sorry saying that. the blockade has to end it is now its sixth year and you also say that there are a newborn tree situationally fuel situation the health situation is deteriorating

you dettori eighteen all the time. it builds up of tension is peaking ahead of the u.s. presidential election the top two runners will face off on monday in the last televised debate democrat barack obama average public and 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 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 band man stevie green party's campaign manager believes the two party domination is due to outdated laws 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 and 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 there 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. . now independent candidates will be getting their own platform for debate with the help of our team on tuesday and of course we're keeping a close eye on the upcoming vote you can tune in on monday as we kick off our special coverage of the race to the white house will there be a war on iraq. china friend or foe is missile defense offensive.

where they're trying to dates the u.s. election called closer to october twenty second on our team. a peace board of directors is reportedly set to confirm the sale of its fifty percent share of the joint venture to b.p. to ross now if the deal does go through the russian oil giant could become the world's biggest listed oil producer and return the british company would reportedly get around seventeen billion dollars in cash and nearly thirteen percent of us nafta shares its representatives will also try to ross snuff board of directors as b.p. will become the second largest shareholder of the russian state owned enterprise as would allow b.p. to take part in offshore oil exploration in the arctic. the cia this week asked the white house to allow the expansion of its unmanned aircraft fleet it would allow the agency to keep up its drone missions missions abroad and that includes 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 civilians he said over two thousand people have died in the three hundred strikes so far off made quraishi from pakistan's first political lobbying group says washington is only creating one militants with its tactics. this is a major blow to us so diplomacy and position in parks done in this is the first time that you 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 by. 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 no we see a resurgence of some of the activity of the terrorist it is because of these 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 parks and you soldiers and bugs and civilians all right let's now have a look at some other international headlines hundreds of protesters gathered on the streets of guatemala rallying against the deaths of six rural workers who were shot dead in clashes with police at the beginning of the month demonstrators symbolically reenacted the violence but some of them even dress to please uniform it workers died during a march against soaring electricity prices and educational reform. at least twelve people have been killed and forty nine injured after a dual bomb blast in a shia district of the iraqi capital baghdad explosions rocked a crowded market becoming the bloodiest incident this month in the country as came after gunmen attacked a police patrol killing two security officers and wounding another. the european commission has been trying to brush off accusations that ordered

a ban on more than a dozen of iran's state t.v. and radio stations it said that satellite providers acted on their own accord this came after the e.u. approved a new set of sanctions on iran as western nations continue to strangle its economy over fears of attack iran's atomic ambitions they say the punishment targets mainly iran's financial and trade sectors political analyst chris bambery doesn't buy such claims. the don't have to be a conspiracy theory to think that by banning media nineteen t.v. and radio stations from access to europe it does look like you further step towards military intervention against iran given it happens on the same day that the pauses produce the nations around against the background of a completely removed troop buildup by america with its british and french allies in the persian gulf and the siren calls from tel aviv for american action against

against their own day therefore it seems to be a problem run putting up with all of this and this was a decision taken not just by a private satellite company to withdraw access now we take you on a trip to such for a look at mountain life in the whole city of the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics states. a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the lawn ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here spiritual life it takes up many hours on the road to becoming a monk requires both hard work and religious to the cation. salem's to become and herds cattle as part of this preparation. however these

beasts get a musical company. base you're a minister and sequences you know they react to the sound signals the fruits the herders had in the old days they needed them it wasn't just a fun thing but these meadows didn't come naturally requiring decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard. this island is mostly rock. the soil here is very thin on the monks can't just get more of it because they're surrounded by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever food they need. they grow their own crops found their own fish and repair their own churches. but the central purpose of alarm has always been religious the main monstrous surrounded by smaller priories spread through the many archipelago the monks here know their existence is a little different from that of other monstrous here we are out of the way and we do have. bill creams and song times tourists as well as.

away. from clearly to use use hardly. disturb. it is that combination of high religion and down to earth hard work the motivates these men. the gold fever. turns thousands into slaves. my father but also my brother involved in the mines and since i started working in the mine i stayed here a look at. his multinationals. to cash cow to be milked dry and if i think that in this country gold medal edgy as an environmental cost

which is unacceptable to local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals people in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups what price is colombia going to pay. the people. the modest effect on r.t. .

down in the black sea coast of russia the city of sochi is busy preparing for the twenty fourteen winter olympic games construction is booming transport infrastructure is being completely revamped and disabled on search points are being installed across town. but aside from being russia's second lympics city sochi is also one of the country's most popular tourist destinations people flock here for

the long hot summer as the spacious beaches on the warm seas busk if you're looking for more than just a time it's also an area filled with some amazing natural highlights. so i've been spending a lot of so i'm in the city but off in the mountains there's the caucasus reserve which is literally the size of finland so i've met up with one very experienced. and we are all on a bench. it's fair to say that if you're driving up here then you're in for a bumpy ride it's you might be lucky and find some time ago but mostly it's just to try brooks fortunately alexei's wonderfully named wozzeck is up to the top.

last month not look like much of this is spin spin on this thing is seconds and. we're going up and down to crash the blasts. still going. to be a full. truck. because it's. just a couple of days in the caucuses reserve had time for the mountains the biosphere here is filled with unique flora and fauna some of the best hiking trails in the country. but getting to them wasn't going to be easy. especially as there are plenty of places that even the wozzeck can't go. james take this one place it will be my bike. i'm on the blue one. to get into the forest we needed to cross the nearby river but along rugged palls like these you need to be careful where you're putting the wheels.

on. problems of. simple he's pretty easy to punctual the run over show. me the excesses of the thing you have. to be to hold. and once we were open rolling it was time to head across the most of . the bit lloyd. we're going to boy boy. this is. alex a work says the head of a conservation pony and knows almost everyone based in the coaxes national reserve he gets to go home most nights but they're all forest rangers that live here with their families three hundred sixty five days a year and their little enclave was on a stone. the rangers are here to police the reserve.