at ten pm moscow time dozens of syrian security officers are reportedly killed in the latest attack inside the war torn country for a key split among the opposition we've got the latest tonight plus a glorious same fidelity veteran general david petraeus is career as the cia's boss is over as rumors swirl that there's more behind his resignation pelletier fair with his biographer. iraq's defense minister denies that the country is canceling a massive russian arms deal but will review claims of internal corruption. and prayers prevented amid fresh violence in bahrain's dissent and activist explains why he and more than two dozen others have had this is some ship withdraw.

hello is kevin owen here at r.t. this very good to have you company if you just joined us rather you're watching around the world our top story the dozens of syrian security offices have reportedly been killed in twin bombings in the country south it's the latest spate of violence in the escalating conflict that's already claimed tens of thousands of lives artie's middle east correspondent paula slee is called the latest for you tonight. 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 that 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 problems of how men are kind of acclaimed responsibility for that attack dozens of

a certain euless 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 distribute aid and funding for 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 are also critics who complain that the new legislative body

being put forward is not representative enough it 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 versus 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 will not manage to leave the country for free syrian army will not let him do this he will not get out of syria lying you'll be lucky if he meets the same fate as market duffy so what we're witnessing is an increase on the ground in terms of the violence inside syria while the syrian opposition really struggling to try and force or united church group to

try and deal with the situation paula steer a middle east correspondent with a group that's positioned itself as the rebellions political leadership is again failed to unite the opposition the syrian national council which operates in exile has been disavowed by the local coordination committees now based in syria meantime the president of the arab lawyers association told us western efforts to create a revolution from outside a failed. yes and 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 that evolution is going on in syria there is the i mean there is the people who are revolting in syria and they have no links with the external. people who are claiming to represent them so i don't think they credibility before i don't think they would have credibility at the present moment because this is an attempt to create an arab of you shit in order of addition everybody in the west created this something else that and they called it a present that kind of just missed it the last half hour can tell you are two full exclusive interview with the syrian president on air again in a couple of hours here is also available streaming whenever you want to see it r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's in store. paula who thought about. leaving the pub contribute

safe or not it's all disappearing but we've been fighting us here i think for the president to still to leave is a popular spot percentage and the only way to define this. presupposes you threw the bottle boxes so you thought about what we hear it's about what we get through the books and the books with any president to say only. did it r.t. exclusive friday through sunday on r.t. and r.t. dot com. for a head of intelligence it was pretty poor judgement with unavoidable consequences david for traces no quit as the cia chief after admitting to an extramarital affair with his biographer it's a rapid fall from grace than for the man who was the u.s. army standard bearer in afghanistan and iraq we don't have been in charge of the cia for just over a year but the f.b.i. found he was cheating on his wife of thirty seven years with writer paula broadwell which right suspicions of illegal attempts to dig into betrays his classified

e-mail pakistani author and journalist could make bell believes a major clash at the very top is behind the resignation is a portrait i believe for direction of presupposing nation is not as simple that it appears to be in my bosom opinion the differences between america's. war in afghanistan are involved in this actual general brochures and president obama. critical matters relating to the war in afghanistan so narwhal. election he wants to excel year into complete withdrawal of need to who shoots from a canister and immature. was due to his policy to end the war in afghanistan has a man it don't want to prolong president of american forces in a running start to president obama has removed one of the media obstacle for his. war in afghanistan. iraq's defense ministers denied the country's council the major

arms deal with russia it's in response to an advisor to the iraqi prime minister earlier said internal corruption concerns meant scrapping a deal sealed only a month ago to sell around more than four billion dollars worth of hardware details now from r.t. shaun thomas. certainly it has been a very curious and confusing as information and details have been coming out about this story throughout the day regarding it the arms deal in the possible 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 into 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 this is extremely curious as well considering this deal was just announced in early october. the deal itself is about

a four point two billion u.s. dollars which would make a rush of 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 there in a very vulnerable situation they are neighbors with iran 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 moloch he has said in the past and he doesn't want to be one countries upon when it comes to an arms monopoly is one reason why he went to russia as well not only rely on the united states has raises 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 in 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 posse. we 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 sean thomas for government business consultant christopher hold still told me that obstacles which appear over this deal to the u.s. . if this deal head to go on through that would have meant for the iraqi people it kind of you know starting a balanced situation of the evening with the east and with the sick and that would be healthy for the iraqi people because this is in line with the geographical very simple geographical situation now putting this deal under pressure you know that

means that the u.s. insisting on a monopole in the region it is it is very clear you know it is nobbs and mr maliki who is calling the shots in the iraqi policy that is the u.s. right now and that they are not able you know to. petition just a little that is a very sad story for for washington and it doesn't bear good sides for the future. ahead bahrain police for some protestors after a day of heavy violence of muslims sacred prayer they discovered for most of the country deals with its best and brightest these days as a former bahraini m.p. explains to us why he had his citizenship revoked to speak to him also britain the savings in shanghai workers might find this salaries the lightroom future a good deal lighter in fact since too many brits face becoming pensioners as we report after this break.

recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice in bahrain a curfew and said 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 for peace. but were also recently arrested for insulting 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 sounds pretty undemocratic to me i bet nato is already fueling up ready to take action and bomb some freedom into walmer right 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.

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hello again bahrain's efforts to destroy it is said to widening with more heavy clashes saturday activists say the national guard's now been deployed to back up police as authorities try to quell rising political violence the latest wave of unrest began yesterday friday after security forces tear gassed thousands of worship was trying to reach a mosque for prayers a sixteen year old boy was killed in a traffic incident. but there was fresh violence at his funeral on saturday public gatherings were banned last week to try to quell almost two years of anti-government action and it's a crackdown that's also seen the citizenship revoked of thirty activists one of

whom explain to me why. we had very strong position against corruption against. the budget of the country how is being manipulated with in the favor of the ruling family and do we put them in a standing question this fears that in the history of bahrain a position wanted to question the ruling family ministers when the uprising started in fourteen february we founded that more killing is started by the government and . our position was to be with the people when they demanded peacefully the serious the fall and nor a positive answer came from the government we resign and they found it all that stiff opposition from the opposition against the ruling family mainly so they want to give. this 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 knows the governor will lose the people of bahrain will lose a position or lose and even the super bowl as americans and britons and this is the support for the lose because it is very strategic location of the world here in the . gulf. with people living longer but not thinking how to pay for it britain's decided now to dip into workers' wages and force them to save even if they're barely out of school is r.t. sarah ferguson why the similarly good intentions that could leave people well out of pocket. cantons in retirement already things that you think about when you're young now if you're a twenty two or you might have to the government's new or so romans is being billed as the biggest take up of the pension system for over a generation and that is how much of a burden is this going to place on people who are just starting out as you race through life it can be hard to keep the piggy bank replenished with say many other things to fork out for pension seem like just another financial hurdle but not to

worry the government's got a plan to get people saving and their little piggy is called auto 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 closer you think was too late. automatic enrollment is to help you buy basically saying look you're going to be put in your own decision to take is whether actually you think that that's the right thing and their families go with it whether you actually you think no unusual opt out brits have been spending like there's no tomorrow but they're around half the casework 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 earning 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 so he's going to cost people some of the harder and income every month but having said that if money is for real spend the pensions campaign is warned it is an open door to mis selling and the money will be creamed off by schemes in placing to huge management fees the government's trying to sell this is a winner with tax relief and making employees pay up as well but not everyone's. convinced out of out of organized mind finances rather than forced to by government even. safer to more or less know your future i'm just turned twenty two i'm not taking from a pension i'm thinking about how i'm going to make rent next month or whatever i'm up to my 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 and convinced it should be sticking its snout

into the savings so i can consider much at all because there's so many things just to pay for these days taxes of so many things whatever you know is 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. does encourage saving in the current economic circumstances it seems that many people in britain will simply be opting out of. washington suburbs first permanent military base in poland unit stationed on the soil of the nato ally will help maintain aircraft and prepare joint drills plans for the base were announced for barack obama during his visit to warsaw last year poland's long prayed for american fighter jets on its soil as well as backing the controversial european missile defense system preparations for which are progressing in the north russia has been staunchly against those plans from the start so they pose a threat to its national security vis brian burke of things to move short or raise

tensions between moscow and washington. the agreement with the polish government to station u.s. military personnel there and going ahead with the creation of a missile defense shield which cannot be perceived in any other way by the russian government as a threat as a direct threat against russia also partly just to solidify and incorporate poland into an american influence on russia's border i think this says a lot about the obama administration playing the game of the military industrial complex which has a lot to gain economically and politically in terms of its own positioning in american politics by creating a new kind of cold war atmosphere with russia and that's what the missile defense shield is all about in addition to being very good for business they've spent one hundred billion dollars so far on missile defense you know the people just voted for obama again hoping thinking that there would be an end there of peace is something better than mitt romney something better than the ultra militarism of the

republican party but you see there's a very fine line between ultra militarism and militarism in the united states the american people of course i think will go into the streets because when they realize that social security is on the chopping block medicare education vital social programs and contrast that with endless money for arms i think you'll see big protests and i think they'll actually start on the on inauguration day. more world news know briefly israeli military has opened fire on a residential area in gaza at least four people have been killed there up to twenty five injured all of them civilians israeli officials claim it was in response to garza militants firing an anti-tank missile at the military vehicle patrolling the border hamas is threatening to retaliate for the violence. the military helicopters crashed in southeast turkey killing all seventeen military personnel on board but whether blamed there for the accident the aircraft was heading for the search province which is seen a surge of kurdish rebel attacks over forty thousand people have died in the

conflict between the turkish government and kurdish insurgents who've been demanding autonomy no from most three decades. train derailed the rabbits killed a passenger and three crew members and injured dozens more it was heading for the capital from the countryside through three hundred twenty four people of all time it's not yet clear what came off the tracks the last railway tragedy in a years ago vern a freight train carrying fuel and fertilizer exploded after the railing killing over two hundred eighty people. thanks for being with us is appreciated tonight coming up we invite you to get ready to lock and load for a day with a legendary kalashnikov it's all next program on our team oscar. legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape

building stilton over their foundation time spinning black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture if 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 an express lanes when it will be and how prosperous this was well times have obviously changed when they saw a black guy say it's still attracting the region tourists are barons work and without cause much needed cash that's why when business bad they're ruining our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint it in you and put it at variance work central square that in the nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community there the soviet union was determined to maintain its

own costs to be located halfway between north america and western europe the space bergen archipelago. part of norway but the special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the us is ours westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union's last preserved relics. it is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local server near shops so between my bill it is a big hit the defunct are incurred in still helps keep the money flowing was it so rushed through your words you can't buy the rubbles there on the ground 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 operators if you come into a very authentic place like arms should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on the time 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 the morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called old the wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar.

i am a professional. truth without firing a single realms full automatic. fatigue no failure i take pride in my work but for one thing. the one who kills that distinction belongs to the nut 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 assault rifle so these men it's known simply as kalash. there are. these soldiers with special training lasting almost until. it's regular procedure but you modifications to the kalashnikov assault rifle to be tested in such units it would be hard to imagine a tougher testing ground but in your gun. one rifle for every bench is thoroughly scrutinized before being sent to units in a field. in a scientific trial. the rifles designed. one that when he realized his first model was to be subjected to a severe test he looked away he couldn't bear to see it with his own eyes.

testing a new variant of the kalashnikov goes through seven stages first the gun is placed into what's known as the dust chamber where the room is filled with sand. she does chambers filled with fine particles of silica sand the next stage will lead us to the sprinkler room it imitates a subtropical climate when u.s. commandos fourteen the hot and humid conditions often prompted them to improvise with captured kalashnikovs rather than their own issues and sixteen rifles kalashnikovs were in such a climate. self-taught gunsmith mikhail kalashnikov came up with a prototype for his celebrated rifle at least age of twenty two he says about designing it off to he was wounded in action during the second.