at midnight moscow time dozens of syrian security officers reportedly killed in the latest attack inside the war torn country just hours after a key splits among the opposition. iraq's defense minister denies the country's counseling a massive russian arms deal but will review claims of internal corruption. veteran general david petraeus his career is the cia's boss is over as rumors swirl that there's more behind his resignation than an affair with his biographer. and prayer is prevented i mean fresh violence in bahrain's dissent and activist explains why he and more than two dozen others have as their citizenship withdrawn i speak to.

so very good morning from moscow it's kevin know any of this with the top stories from dozens of syrian security officers have reportedly been killed in twin bombings in the country south is the latest spate of violence in the escalating conflict that's already claimed tens of thousands of lives he's middle east correspondent paula has got the latest for you. 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 province of how men are kind of a cluster claimed responsibility for that attack dozens of a seven euless but 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 better 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 there are also critics who complain 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 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 take a listen. it is still human to human. no he said he would not leave syria you 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 and will not get out of syria long enough you'll be lucky if you're not the same fate as not. 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 form or united church group to try and deal with the situation. or

a middle east correspondent there with a group that positioned itself as the rebellions political leadership again failed meantime to unite the opposition the syrian national council which operates in exile has been disavowed by the local coordination committees based in syria this is the president of the arab lawyers association says western efforts to create a revolution from outside a failed. this is he 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 there were following because what they wanted is the change of three 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 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 religion is going on in syria there is the free army 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. order of addition everybody in the west created this something else that and they called it a present that parties full exclusive interview with the syrian president is later this hour indeed if you're not quoted already this weekend it's also streaming on a website of com this is what you can expect a little bit of anyway just over twenty minutes time. all of you who thought about . leaving it's a pub contribute thief or not. but we've been fighting us here i think for the

president to still to leave is a popular issue if not both senators and the only way to define death. dr grifo view through the ballot box thought you thought about what we hear about what we get through that box and that box with any president to see only by shar our side didn't r.t. exclusive friday through sunday on r.t. and r.t. dot com iraq's defense minister has denied that the country's cancelled a major arms deal with russia is in response to an advisor to the iraqi prime minister earlier said internal corruption concerns and scrapping a deal sealed only months ago to sell iraq more than four billion dollars worth of hardware the details martin 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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. government and business consultant group of hostile told me that obstacles which appear over

this deal or down to the us. if this deal head gone through that would have meant for the iraqi people it kind of you know starting a balanced situation of dealing with east and west so to say. that 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 for washington and it doesn't bear good sites for the future. next morning for head of intelligence it was poor judgment with unavoidable

consequences it seems david petraeus is quit now as the cia chief after admitting to an extramarital affair which allegedly involved as barbara for its rapid fall from grace than for the man who was the u.s. army standard bearer in afghanistan and iraq he'd only been in charge of the cia for over a year but the f.b.i. reportedly found with cheating on his wife of thirty seven years which is right up paula broadwell would raise suspicions of illegal attempts to dig traces classify them ailesworth pakistani author and journalist spoke to a c believes a major clash of the very top is behind the resignation or modern warfare. of retaliation is not that it appears to be in my opinion the difference if america says it will end militant leadership the war in afghanistan or it will. actually end president obama if you were critical matters were going to war in afghanistan so now people bomb are pretty election he wants to expel you or him to comply. we

need two forces from the pentagon and. wanted. presence of american forces around to talk to president obama as he moved up to meet. for his. summer where. rain unleashing its police force on protesters and for a day of heavy violence of muslims sacred praed you discover soon for most how the country deals with its best and brightest as a few about ready and pay explains to me why he had his citizenship revoked it's coming up very soon it's night also as well britain is saving shy workers might find the salaries a little lighter and few chips since too many brits face becoming part of the pension is otherwise as we reported after the 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 and here 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 should have to live with the constant fear that their home will be taken away after years and years of payments just because they got sick and america i thought we believed in private property not eternally renting from big banks but that's just my opinion. more news today violence has once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are today.

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to the true science technology innovation hall believes developments from around russia we've got the future covered. midnite fifteen year most good now you with bahrain's efforts to destroy the sense of widening with more heavy clashes on saturday activists said the national guard's now been deployed to back up police authorities try to quell rising political violence the latest wave of unrest began friday after security forces tear gassed thousands of shiite worshipers trying to reach a mosque for prayers a sixteen year old boy was killed in a traffic incident during a clampdown but there was fresh violence at his funeral on saturday the public gatherings were banned last week to try to quell almost two years of anti government action it's a crackdown it's also seen the citizenship revoked and thirty activists one of the

least claim to be why. we had very strong position against corruption against. the budget of the country how is being manipulated with in the face of all of the all the 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 what they demanded peacefully the seriously fall and nor was it the answer came from the government we resign and they founded for the stiff opposition from the opposition against the ruling family mainly so they want to give we 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 government will lose the people of bahrain will lose a position will lose and even their super wars are very careless and britons and receive the support of the lose because it is very strategic location of the world here in the. gulf. you know people living longer these days but not thinking about a pay for it britons decided to dip into work his wages and force them to save even if they're barely out of school as artists are for why they are the seemingly good intentions 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 a very you might have to the government's new or so romans it's being billed as the biggest take up of the pension system for over a generation but just 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. pensioners seem like just another financial hurdle but not to worry the government's got a plan to get people saving their little piggy is called 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 too late and so what automatic enrollment is to help you buy basically saying look you're going to be put in your own decision to take whether actually you think that that's the right thing and their families go with 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 to their future but with an aging population automatic enrollment will force companies to sign up every employee even those 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 the already modest paycheck. there is going to cause going to be a cost to it so he's going to cost people some of the hard earned income every month but having said that it's money spent the pensions campaign is warm that it's an open door to mis selling 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 employees pay up as well but not everyone's. convinced out of out of over my mind finances rather than forced to by government even. on our congressmen can run even safer to more let you know your future i'm just turned twenty two i'm not taking home a pension i'm thinking about how i'm going to make when next month more gauge whatever i'm up to my pension right now they've also roman being t.v. . i would be out. with many feeling we sing governments have made a pig's ear of the country's finances they aren't convinced it should be sticking

its snout into the savings can consider much at all because i mean as the so many things have to pay for these days taxes of so many things for every 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 does encourage saving in the current economic circumstances it seems that many people in britain will simply be opting out. arts. washington set up its first permanent military base in poland a unit stationed on the sole of the nato ally will help maintain aircraft and prepare joint drills plans for the base were announced by barack obama during his visit to warsaw last year poland's long craze for american fighter jets on its soil as well as backing the controversial new missile defense system preparations which are progressing in the north russia those been staunchly against those plans from the start saying they pose a threat to its national security and the war activists brought back and told me he

thinks the move sure now to raise tensions between moscow and washington. the agreement with the polish government the 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 shield. will do some pretty for small of the israeli military's open fire in a residential area in guns thirty four people were killed there twenty five injured

all of them civilians israeli officials claim it was in response to gaza militants firing an anti-tank missile of a military vehicle patrolling the border come us is threatening to retaliate now for the violence. a military helicopter has crashed in southeast turkey has killed all seventeen military personnel on board bad weather is blamed for the accident the aircraft was heading for the 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 have been demanding autonomy for almost three decades now. the train has derailed in iran it's killed a passenger and three crew members and injured dozens more it was heading for the capital from the country south with three hundred twenty four people on board at times not yet know what went wrong the last railway tragedy in iraq was eight years ago then a freight train carrying fuel and fertilizer exploded after the railing killing over two hundred eighty people. so is four more years in the white house for a u.s.

president barack obama but the tight race on an expensive elections left some voters less than satisfied we sent artillery half an hour out to take a political pulse check in the big apple and she is. 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. for you nick because i don't know exactly who's going to choose i didn't vote i didn't really care why not i didn't even know like 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 i'm sure it does. i'm sure it does but do i have much control over it and it really feel that but 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. 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 president the and you didn't even know it. those two parties are too strong and they're entrenched and i don't think you can 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 the right to vote. these people out do you think though there might be room for a third party come two thousand and sixteen. well whatever i can hope and they can do something but it's you know it's a tough road to go you know 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 got to you 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 the middle ever change. i would hope it would i don't know what the catalyst for that would be so you think you can be a catalyst don't you think that people can demand more and make a change. i'd like to think that they 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.

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