dozens of syrian security officers are reportedly killed in the latest attack in the conflict torn country this just hours after a key split among opposition ranks. and inglorious infidelity veteran general petraeus david petraeus his career as the cia's boss is over with rumors there's there's much more behind his resignation than just an affair with his biographer. and iraq's defense ministry denies that the country is canceling a massive russian arms deal it will review claims of internal corruption. and prayers prevented this amid fresh violence in bahrain's dissent clampdown and activists that explains why he and more than two dozen others have had their citizenship withdrawn.

good evening world news live from our moscow headquarters the watching r t with me lucy catherine of well dozens of syrian security officers have reportedly been killed in twin bombings in the country's south it's the latest spate of violence in the escalating conflict which has already claimed tens of thousands of lives archies middle east correspondent polis leader has more. now what we understand is that there was an apparent double suicide attack according to activists on the ground the blast went off near a branch of the country's military intelligence in daraa and the explosions were followed by clashes between regime forces and rebels now targets un security institutions have become quite commonplace recently in syria earlier this week there was an attack in the province of how men are kind of

a claimed responsibility for that attack dozens of a set the oilers were killed while this violence is happening in syria the syrian opposition is meeting quite far away in the qatari capital of doha now there are deciding their fate this essentially is a meeting that has been called because many of the international backers of the syrian opposition particularly the united states are unhappy with the deep divisions within the syrian opposition and at this stage it seems as if those divisions are going to prevent the syrian opposition from coming forward with any kind of a viable new opposition body the whole idea of these this meeting in doha was essentially to establish some kind of group within the syrian opposition in exile that would have more direction links with the opposition with inside the country that would be able to begin to distribute aid and funding that the group is being accused of not being representative enough this despite the fact that the main opposition by the the syrian national council just yesterday friday did elect

a new head and they were also critics who complained that the new legislative body being put forward is not representative enough or does not have enough women in it so he does not have enough minorities the syrian army which is the main armed opposition group in the country meanwhile has threatened the syrian president bashar assad that he'll follow the fate of the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi the first as assad said in an exclusive interview to our t.v. that he has no plans to leave office the state media department head said that assad is doomed to take a listen. no he said he would not leave syria we know this very well because he will not be able to leave syria he and his people not managed to leave the country the free syrian army will not let him do this he will not get out of syria line you'll be lucky if you reach the same fate as market. so what we're witnessing is an increase on the ground in terms of the violence inside syria while the syrian

opposition really struggling she trying for united group to try and deal with the situation well the group that has positioned itself as the rebellious of brilliance political leadership has again a failed to unite the opposition the syrian national council which operates in exile has been disavowed by the local syria base local coordination committees the president of the arab lawyers association says western efforts to create revolution from the outside have failed. there since he has the only credibility it had was with the western powers we all remember when the us forced many countries to attend a meeting in turkey to recognize this as the legitimate representative of syria which was part of the political gimmick that the us and the western powers nato france britain were following because what they wanted is the changer for e.g. but this is a unique case where there is a true revolution within syria but those who are recognized by the us and others

have absolutely nothing to do with it and so most of them have never been there and most of them have been out of the country for tens of years and the us knew that and the west knew that but they were still nevertheless recognized as the representative of the people now they have come to realize that actually the regime is going on in syria that is the i mean there is the people who are revolting in syria and they have no links with the external. people who are can they me to represent them so i don't think they had credibility before i don't think they would have credibility at the present moment because this is an effort to create a better view shirin ordovician everybody in the west created this something outside and they will develop resent that. well argy is full exclusive interview with the syrian president airs in just a few hours it's also available anytime for you on our website that's at r.t. dot com and i let's take a little preview of what's in store for you at five thirty g.m.t.

. it's not about me three or leaving it's supposed to contribute safe or not so disobey me but we've been fighting us here i think for the president to stay or to leave is a popular issue he spoke to senator and the only way to define. the term because he threw the bottle pox so you thought about what we hear it's about what we can get through the books and the books we've got any president to say only gosh our allies did in our two exclusive friday super sunday and r.t. dot com well for a head of intelligence it was poor judgment was unavoidable consequences david petraeus as quick as the ca after admitting to an extramarital affair with his biographer it's a rapid fall from grace for the man who was the u.s. army standard bearer and afghanistan and iraq he had only been in charge of the cia for just over a year and asked about the f.b.i.

had found that he was cheating on his wife of what he said and yes even what the writer paula broadwell raise suspicions of a legal attempts to dig into petraeus as classified e-mails pakistani author and journalist. believes that the suits clash of opinions in washington is behind this resignation. so i believe that piece of priest of the nation is not. going to be used to be in my personal opinion to bring food to the market. or the war. for sure and president obama if you were critical factors were going to war to. sue nawal people. he wants to expand your him to come. withdrawal need two forces from the planet's time and didn't actually cool it up for you to respond if you do and or against gravity here's your mentor. wanted of the long

presence of american forces you know from his talk to president obama as he moved one up to read your old strict code of for his. glory it's going to start. right well and now looks like the iraqi defense minister is denying that his country has cancelled a major arms deal with russia prime minister's spokesman the prime minister's spokesman earlier said that corruption concerns had caused the scrapping of a deal sealed only a month ago to effectively sell a rock more than four billion dollars worth of military hardware well let's turn now live to our g.'s sean thomas sean a lot of confusing conflicting information coming out of iraq here bring us up to the latest on where things stand at the moment. well certainly it has been a very curious and confusing as information and details have been coming out about this story throughout the day regarding the arms deal in the possible bull cancellation of this arms deal now r.t. has spoken with the iraqi prime minister's media adviser who says that there is an

investigation in to this deal regarding concerns of corruption on the iraqi side of things now this deal is on hold pending the results of that investigation now the timing of all of all of this is extremely curious as well considering this deal was just announced in early october which the deal itself is about four point two billion u.s. dollars which would make a russia the number two arms dealer behind the united states it is specifically geared towards air defense systems attack helicopters and missiles and it gives you a little bit of a look into the internal politics of iraq they're in a very vulnerable situation they are neighbors. and they've been looking to the united states for support they've been looking to iran for support as well as russia for support so kind of trying to play all sides of the deck if you will to

gain some support in fact. has said in the past that he doesn't want to be one countries upon when it comes to an arms monopoly which is one reason why he went to russia as well not to rely on the united states has raised some speculation that the united states might be losing some influence in the country and also some speculation that the united states itself may have put some pressure behind iran to cancel this deal now when it comes to this particular deal iraq has said that they are not canceling it at this moment time things are just on hold until they can review this investigation pending the results at that time they say that they are going to be sending a new delegation to russia to review the deal. possibly resigned the deal saying that some of the original negotiators on the iraqi side may have been the sources of this corruption which started this whole conflict in the first place all right well it looks like the arms trade goes on and thanks so much for keeping us updated

there sean thomas for our team. well from stopping muslims from preying on their holiest day to stripping people of their citizenship bahrain's efforts to destroy dissent seem to be widening now in that country's capital security forces tear gas thousands of shiite worshippers who are trying to reach a mosque for friday prayers a sixteen year old was killed after reportedly being chased by police on to a busy highway and public gatherings were banned last week in order to quell almost two years worth of anti-government actions the crackdown that has also seen the citizenship provoked from thirty activists one of her much claimed why. we had a very strong position against corruption against. the budget of the country how it's being manipulated with in the favor of the family and we put them in a standing question this fish that in the history of bahrain

a position wanted to question the ruling family ministers when the uprising started in fourteen february we founded the more killing is started by the government and. our position was to be with the people when they demanded peacefully the seriously before and nor was it the answer came from the government we resigned and they founded all the pollution from the opposition against the only authority mainly so they want to give that we are usually we have to solve it with the ruling family and the rest of the content of the people of bahrain beyond that all of us will move the government will lose that the people of bahrain will do so pollution will move even the super bowl is i mean because and britain's and you see those people will do the lose because it is very strategic location of the world here in the. gulf. well it looks like britain's saving so i work or is might find their salaries a bit lighter in the future and that is because too many brits face becoming

poverty probationers as we report later on also for you i didn't vote i didn't really care why not i didn't even know like what anybody stood for are just not something that interests me i just go with the flow while a tight race six a billion dollars worth of campaigning but what for we're in new york to see whether it's a case of election enthusiasm or indifference. recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice and buck rein a curfew as if you can't go out of your home when the government doesn't want you to has already been in effect in the country since two thousand and eleven many of the protests which are now totally forbidden were related to members of the public

demanding the release of political prisoners four people were also recently arrested for assaulting the king over twitter wow a middle eastern country that has totally shut down any form of protest and holds you down if you tweet about the leadership so it's pretty undemocratic to me i bet nato is already fueling up ready to take action bombs and freedom into warmer eight well not really if nato really cared about spreading democracy you'd think they'd be more consistent with their targets but that's just my opinion. on the sort of flight school. i shoot to school and. all you've done for you. is the truth.

of the twentieth century. legend. schmidt calls. welcome back you're watching our team with me lucy confident of well with people living longer but not necessarily thinking about how they're going to pay for it

britain house decided to dip into workers' wages and to force them to save even if they're barely out of school players are to sarah ferguson why the seemingly good intentions could leave people out of pocket. cantons in retirement already things that you think about when you're young but now if you're a twenty two or a that you might have to the government's new also romans is being billed as the biggest say cup of the pension system for a generation that is how much of a burden is this going to place on people who are just starting out as you're a sea life it can be hard to keep the piggy bank for. say many other things to full count full pension seem like just another financial hurdle but not to worry the government's got a plan to get people saving and then little piggy is called all. in rome and it's always something that can be left and tomorrow you always got something else to spend your money on it always seems

a long way away and then when it gets close you think was too late. to get in rome and is to help you by basically saying look you're going to be put in your own decision whether actually you think that that's the right thing and therefore just go with it whether you actually you think no unusual opt out brits have been spending like there's no tomorrow with around half the work is paying nothing towards their future but with an aging population automatic enrollment will force companies to sign up every employee even though he's ending far below the average salary will be eligible a wage of just over eight thousand pounds a year is enough to make it apply but the first some will know about it is when they see less money in their already modest paycheck. there is golf course going to be a cost to him so he's going to cost people some of the hard earned income every month but having said that its money is for the pensions campaign is one that is an open

door to misselling and the money will be creamed off by schemes and huge management fees the government is trying to sell this is a winner with tax relief and making employers pay up as well but not everyone's convinced about my own finances rather than forced to by government even. safer from orlando if you try i'm just turned twenty ticking bomb of tension i'm thinking about how i'm going to make rent next month more gauge whatever i'm up to my pension right now. i would be out. with many feeling we sing governments have made a pig's ear of the country's finances they are convinced it should be sticking its snout into their savings so i can consider much at all because there's so many things have to pay for these days taxes of so many things. board ever you know it's just ridiculous i don't think you should have to pay for two no one wants to finish with nothing in the pension pot and whilst the government's need pension scheme

does encourage saving in the current economic circumstances it seems that many people in britain will simply be opting out of artsy london. well washington has set up its first permanent military base in poland units stationed on the soil of the nato ally will help maintain aircraft as well as prepare joint drills now plans for this base were announced by president barack obama during his visit to warsaw last year poland has long range for american fighter jets on its soil as well as backing the controversial european missile defense system preparations for which have been progressing up in the north now russia has been staunchly against the plan saying that they pose a threat to its national security author and historian gerald ford suggests that warsaw should rethink its foreign partner preferences. are were more solid be very much concerned right now russia is a very powerful neighbor has many allies across the globe

a military power as well as an economic power in that part of the world and quite frankly doesn't make that much. of such a powerful neighbor and i would hope imagine that there would be a reconsideration of their foreign policy sooner rather than later this is all very ominous and very dangerous particularly in light of the moves in poland which obviously brings into question the reset with moscow which had been tell it so heavily by administration spokes person but if i were in berlin i would also be concerned because there is rising competition particularly in europe between berlin and washington well another world news a military jet has crashed in southeast turkey killing all seventeen military personnel on board bad weather has been blamed for the accident the military helicopter was being deployed into the country's search province which has recently seen a surge of kurdish rebel attacks over forty thousand people have died in the conflict between turkey and kurdish insurgents we've been demanding autonomy for almost

three decades. budget talks have collapsed after member states failed to agree on extra funds demanded for the rest of the year there's also a huge gap in what's been known as. the emergency funding aimed at covering education infrastructure and research projects one point five billion euros were used to pay for part of me were used to pay italy poland as well as spain but ordered to help victims of flooding as well as job cuts the row casts a shadow over the long term budget plan for the next decade which is up for discussion later this month. meanwhile a train has derailed in a wrong and killing a passenger as well as three crew members also injuring dozens more it was heading for the capital from the country's south with three hundred twenty four people on board it is not yet clear why it came off the tracks now the last railway tragedy in iran was eight years ago when a freight train carrying fuel as well as fertilizer exploded after derailing it

killing over two hundred eighty people who had been on board a nearby well it's four more years in the white house for us president barack obama but the tight race and the expense of election has left some voters well less than satisfied argues that the harshness take a takes a political pulse in the big apple let's take a look. the u.s. presidential election is finally over now what this week let's talk about that did you vote are you happy with the outcome. what do you expect to change in the next four years. i guess. i was. expecting for you me because. it was going to change i didn't vote i didn't really care why not i don't even know why quote anybody stood for just not something that

interests me i just go with the flow so you don't think it affects your everyday life oh it sure does. i'm sure it does but do i have much control over it and it really feel that voting is the only way that you can control i still in feel like i had that much control no i didn't why not i was torn between the two. figure to be in my own interest but there were more than two running you could have voted for someone else. there were more the people that were running for the presidency and you didn't even know it those two parties are too strong and they're entrenched and i don't think you want to change that but what about if we start really trying to separate money from politics or put solutions like that on the table to. have the right to vote. these people out do you think that there might be room for a third party come two thousand and sixteen. well whatever. they can do

something but it's you know it's a tough road to go here what's it going to take for the american people to wake up and realize there's more than two parties. i'm not sure i sometimes think we put a lot of pressure on the president and a lot of the change has to come from with us as well you know we can't rely on him one hundred percent you know you've got to you've got to get up in the morning and you've got to work for your country yourself you can't rely on one man to do it all for you i. i think the only people in this country that have ever really been able to make a difference usually end up dead. that is so sad sad but true but. do the middle ever change. i would hope it would i don't know what the catalyst for that will be but do you think you and i can be a catalyst don't you think that people can demand more and make a change. i'd like to think that so do you think that we can make people more aware in these four years that we have until the next election i think so how do we do that. that's a good question we're doing it right now we are whether or not you expect anything

to change in the u.s. the bottom line is real change is probably not going to start with the president in visioning it it's going to start with the people demanding it. well as honda versus hollywood as his tax attack on the wealthiest french citizens takes a star turn legendary film a firebrand gerard depardieu is rumored to be making a dash with this clash and he's not the only one its feet playing friends as we report on our website r.t. dot com. plus two facts to be killed an american death row inmate tries to avoid a lethal injection on account of his weight that story for you again on our web site archie dot com. well coming up get ready to lock and load for a date with a legendary kalashnikov rifle. in

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seventeen year old nadia is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. ok i didn't ask on time for an answer yes because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to have camp my background how my ancestors lawyer very attachment to the church brought his to this remote land deflate by call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in persecuted for not agreeing to the orthodox who forms introduced in russia in the sixteenth hundreds killed believers still baal and cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying was more and more young people leaving for big cities this year is the old believers culture it could be imperiled

. nazia plans to continue her studies abroad the grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the jews are fresh in her memory so is the culture. i am a professional. true without firing single realms full full automatic. fatigue no. i take pride in my work but. the one who kills that distinction belongs to the man who pulls my trachea. i am an assault rifle my name is.

a group of elite soldiers from russia's interior ministry to start an exercise in the morning information according to tradition they pay homage to past comrades who have died in the line of duty. has taken part in many counterterrorist operations across russia. they have a variety of firearms at their disposal but their weapon of choice is still the kalashnikov rifle. it's known simply as. there are. these soldiers with special training. it's regular procedure but modifications to the kalashnikov assault rifle to be tested in such units it would be hard to imagine how tough a testing ground. one rifle for every bench is thoroughly scrutinized before.