it's eleven pm moscow time tonight dozens of syrian security officers are reportedly killed in the latest attack inside the war torn country hours after a key split among the opposition we've got the latest for you. classic glorious infidelity veteran general david petraeus his career is the cia's boss is over as rumors swirl that there's more behind his resignation affair with his biographer. iraq's defense minister denies that the country's canceling a massive russian arms deal will review claims of internal corruption. and prevented amid fresh violence in bahrain. an activist explains why he more than two dozen others have had their citizenship withdrawn.

alone a very good evening from moscow if you just joined kevin owen here at r.t. tonight dozens of syrian security officers have reportedly been killed in twin bombings in the country south today it's the latest spate of violence in the escalating conflict there is already claimed tens of thousands of lives artie's middle east correspondent paula slayer has the latest. 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 and 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 seven 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 direct links with the opposition with inside the country that would be able to be to distribute aid and funding but 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 take a listen then the human to human. shanel 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 you use the same fate as menarche duffy so what we're witnessing is an increase on the ground in terms of the violence inside syria while the syrian opposition really struggle in should trying for united church group to try and deal with the situation paula slayer

middle east correspondent the group has positioned itself as the rebel against political leadership is again meantime fail to unite the opposition the syrian national council which operates in exile has been disavowed by the local coordination committees based in syria meantime the president of the arab lawyers association told us western efforts to create a revolution from outside of failed. 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 that evolution is going on in syria is the there is the people who are revolting in syria and they have no links with the external. people who are complaining to represent them so i don't think that they have credibility before i don't think they would have credibility at the present moment because this is an effort to create better value shion order of addition everybody in the west created this something outside and they call that the present that. well i can let you know if i am called already this weekend r.t. full exclusive interview with the syrian president assad on air again just standard hour and a half's time is also available never going to catch it as well is a small clip of that interview. all of you who thought about steam or leaving

the fog 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. through the ballot boxes it's all you thought about what we hear about what we can get through the box and the box with any president to say or leave the xara sudden are to exclusive friday through sunday on r.t. and r.t. dot com. threat of intelligence it was poor judgment then with an avoidable consequences david petraeus is quit as the cia chief 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 in afghanistan and iraq you 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 would raise suspicions then of the legal attempts to maybe dig in to betray this is

classified e-mail pakistani author and journalist well believes a major clash at the very top is behind this resignation or to believe that doctrine of a stoic nation is not as simple that it appears to be in my bosom opinion the differences between america's. leadership over the war in afghanistan are involved in this effort for different approaches and president obama if you were critical matters relating to the war in afghanistan so narwhal people by our. election he wants to excel year into complete withdrawal of need to forces from a canister and immature world up was due to his policy to end the war against gravity. don't want it. president of american forces in afghanistan saw president obama has removed one of the media obstacle for his. war in afghanistan. iraq's defense minister has denied that the country's cancelled

a major arms till with russia and it's in response to an advisor to the iraqi prime minister and earlier said internal corruption concerns meant scrapping a deal sealed only a month ago to sell iraq more than four billion dollars worth of hardware the details 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 all of this is extremely curious as well considering this deal was just announced in early october which is the deal itself is about

a 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 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. he has said in the past that he doesn't want to be one countries a pawn when it comes to an arms monopoly is one reason why he went to russia as well not to 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 pasta. 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. government business consultant christopher hostel told me that the obstacles would shapiro of this deal are likely done to the u.s. if this deal head to gone through that would have meant for the iraqi people it kind of you know starting a balanced situation of the evening with east and west sort of sick bed would be healthy for the iraqi people because this is in line with their geographical very simple geographical situation now putting this deal under pressure you know that

means that the u.s. are insisting on a monopole in the region it is it is very clear you know it is not mr maliki was calling the shots in the iraqi policies that is the u.s. right now in that they are not able you know to allow a little petition just a little you that is a very sad story for washington and it doesn't bear good signs for the future really shortly tonight bahrain unleashes its police force on protesters we bring you the story after a day of heavy violence on muslim sacred bread you discover how the country deals with its best and brightest these days as a form of already m.p. explains to us why he's had his citizenship revoked i speak to and also britain's saving shy workers might find their salaries a little bit lighter a future fair bit lighter since many brits face becoming poverty pensions or otherwise a report on that after this break. usually

the police and occupy protesters are like oil and water but in atlanta they've come together to save the house of a former detective jacqueline barber unfortunately ms barber lost a lot of money battling cancer and was facing eviction when she turned to occupy homes for help so far she's managed to stay in her home despite it being sold out from under her feet but the main thing is that her fight to stay in her home has become like a bridge between two groups who are usually at each other's throats the police and occupiers the thing is that cruel economic practices can affect us all even retired police like ms barber i know there are some irresponsible people who buy things they can't pay for any of the police have to do something about them but they

shouldn't throw you out of your home that you've paid for for years just for getting cancer no one shift to live with the constant fear that their home will be taken away after years and years of payment just because they got sick and america i thought we believed in private property not eternally rented from big banks but that's just my opinion. wealthy british style holds a spot on. the . market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on

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download the official r.t. application. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. now t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time. this is r.t. bahrain's efforts to destroy dissent a widening with more heavy clashes saturday activists say the national guard's been deployed to back up police now as authorities try to quell the rising political violence the latest wave of unrest began yesterday friday after security forces tear gas thousands of worshippers trying to reach a mosque for prayers a sixteen year old boy was killed in a traffic incident during but there was fresh violence at his funeral today saturday public gatherings were banned last week to quell most two years of anti

government action it's a crime has also seen the citizenship or votes of thirty activists to one of them explained 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 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 that we fall and no positive answer came from the government we resign and they founded for the stiff opposition from the opposition against the ruling. really 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 almost and even the superbowl as americans and britons and receive the support of the lose because it is very strategic location of the world here in the . gulf. with people living longer these days but not thinking about it who paid for it britain's decided 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 could leave people well out of pocket. plantains 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 romance is being billed as the biggest take up of the pension system for over a generation 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 for planet the same many other things to fork out for pensions 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 enrollment always something that can be left until 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 i was too late. to get in rome and used to help you by 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 therefore he's go with whether you're actually using 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 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. the risk of course going to be a cost so he's going to cost people some of the hard earned income every month for having said that it's money is for the pensions campaign is warm that is an open door to mis selling and the money will be creamed off by schemes and plays into huge management fees the government is trying to sell this is a winner with tax relief and making employees pay up as well but not everyone's. events how to get out of organized my own finances rather than forced to by government even. safer from orlando 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 more gauge whatever i'm up to my my pension right now for the moment. i would be out.

with many feeling we sing governments have made a pig's ear of the country's finances the unconvinced it should be sticking its snout into the savings can consider much at all because i mean as there's so many things just to pay for these days taxes of so many things whatever just ridiculous i don't think you should have to pay for to know what was finished 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 will simply be opting out. to america for more years in the white house for us president barack obama but the tight race on an expensive election has left some voters less than satisfied. takes a political pulse check in the big poll issues.

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 yes i mean what do you expect to change in the next four years. i guess. i was. expecting for you because. it was going to change i didn't vote i didn't really care why not i didn't even know what 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. of 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 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. we'll have. full people out do you think though there might be room for a third party come two thousand and sixteen. well whatever i. 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 oh 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 you think

it'll 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. you're in kind of a father residence to say so as my exposure to he see a very soon is not really more the things the bankers would prefer you didn't. go

on x. program. than the legacy no one should be proud of chiefs of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building still ting over their foundation pipes spewing 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 local life to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also an express lane when it was great and how prosperous the settlement was well times have obviously a change when they saw it lagged. still attracting tourists or barons work. watch.

that's why while. our goal is common to hear a few days ago instead of drawing it that way. where that can do nine hundred eighty there was a burgeoning mining community. determined to maintain it costs. half way between north america and western europe the bergen archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the us. now it's one of the last preserved relics. of the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades curious western tourists 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. bill it is a big hit the defunct are incurred still helps keep the money flowing. through . the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards if these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists. should stay the way it is that would be. 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 morning russian songs to

the repertoire of the audience called the wanted to hear it was a song comfortably from their. by their i'm max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report you know governments of

breakers around the world are invincible thanks to big baby ben bernanke used magic money printing able to survive the fastest inflation jump over the biggest accounting black hole thanks to the wizards of central banking stacey woman tell me more max they tell you that story believe them again and they will lose or they could like your job better. well my first headline is an analogy for that we see this tire wizard held after bullet proof tattoo brawls so a sorcerer tattooist in thailand max has been arrested after several brawls involving young disciples of his all these teenage boys were painted with these tattoos that they were told would make them invincible to gunshot wounds and knife wounds well sure enough they went out to test this. and see if it actually works there are huge brawls police arrested the teenagers and asked them why they thought

they said they were tattooed because they believed it would make them invincible and wanted to test whether it works or not they use sticks and knives but guns were rarely seen in the brawls i think this is the first time we're seeing bleeding from the virtual game world into the analog sticks and stones can actually break my bones world in other words these generation that's brought up with magic potions and fantasy virtual worlds have been unable to migrate into the known virtual world where buying a trunk and to give you magic powers actually doesn't exist this generation coming up is do well is there a game called pinball wizard because you know this guy was the wizard and many of us in the global west the think of the central bankers and the treasury department's of having some sort of wizard like powers and i always think of it as like a pinball game they're trying to get the ball.