at least twenty security officers are reportedly killed in twin blasts in the latest attack in war torn syria while syria splits emerge in the ranks of the opposition as they meet in qatar. iraq's defense minister denies canceling a massive russian arms deal worth more than four billion dollars but says the agreement is on hold pending a corruption investigation in baghdad. infidelity veteran general david petraeus is career as the cia's boss is over as rumors swirl there's more behind his resignation than an affair with his biographer.

from the heart of the russian capital you're watching. twin bombings in the south of syria have reportedly claimed the lives of at least twenty security officers the latest violence comes as the opposition tries to consolidate its alliance against president at a round of meetings in qatar. middle east correspondent 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 un security institutions have become quite commonplace recently in syria earlier this week there was an attack in the province of hama and i'll kind of a critter claimed 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 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 free 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. do you would. 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 the free syrian army will not let him do this no not get out of syria you'll be lucky if you're not in 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 force or united church group to try and deal with the situation where the opposition local coordination committees

based in syria have announced they're withdrawing from the s.n.c. which operates in exile the president of the arab lawyers association of dar says western backed efforts to create a revolution in syria from outside have failed. 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 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 had credibility before i don't think they would have credibility at the present moment because this is an effort to create. order over division everybody in the west created this something they call the present that. and you can tune into watch artie's full exclusive interview with the syrian president later today or it's available any time online at r.t. dot com. all of you who have thought about all living it's a bold contribute thief or not so both of the only that we've been fighting us here i think for the president to still to leave is a popular issue if not both senators the only way to define this.

through the ballot box thought it's not about what we hear bits about what we came to get through that box and that box with any president to stay or leave the 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 the country has cancelled a major arms deal with russia the four billion dollars sale has been put under review by baghdad and it concerns of internal corruption artie's sean thomas has the details there. 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 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 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 they're in a very vulnerable situation. 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 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're 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. well government and business consultant christophe horsetail says the complications of the deal are a sign of pressure from washington if this deal head 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 so to say and 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 and that they are not able you know to allow a little competition just a little you that is a very sad story for for washington and it doesn't bear good signs for the future. extremely poor judgment that's the reason vets from general david petraeus a gay for his resignation as america's top spy master off to admitting to an extramarital affair and the rapid full grace for the man who was the u.s.

army standard bearer afghanistan and iraq for them to be in charge of the cia for just over a year the f.b.i. concerned there was a security officer and says classified e-mails while scully was having an affair with his brother of one of the broadwell pakistani author and journalist. believes a major clash at the very top is behind the resignation is a porch. with dr keith of freestyles ignition is not as simple as that it appears to be in my opinion your printer is the mark of. the war in afghanistan. general petraeus and president obama were critical factors into the war even going to start so no obama. election he wants to excel year into a complete withdrawal of need two forces from afghanistan and general. war. and the war against gravity. there wanted

a long presence of american forces in afghanistan so president obama has moved one up to meet your obstacle for his. war in afghanistan. also to come on the program pulling out so one corner of the well doesn't mean the u.s. isn't ready to move into another washington shows no sign of these interest in getting involved as the pentagon says units to poland. a former bahrain m.p. in exile explains how the country's leadership deals with dissent and that's coming up after the break. recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice

and buck reign a curfew as in 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 insulting the king over twitter wow a middle eastern country that has totally shut down any form of protest and hud's you down if you tweet about the leadership so it's pretty undemocratic to me i think nato is already fueling up ready to take action and bomb some 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. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images.

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welcome back but america has set up its first permanent military base in poland and units will help maintain a. joint drills plans for the. based for announced by president obama during his visit to war sold austria just don't want to be us to deploy want to jets on its soil and sosa been one of the most active proponents of the controversial european missile defense system which ought to be deployed in the north of the country russia has been staunchly against the plans from the start saying they pose a threat to its national security but on t. war activists brownback thinks the bush 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 and in any other way by the

russian government as a threat is 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 million dollars so far on missile defense shield. so you can follow that on our website and only in how the u.s. was won't go run on claims it wanted down an american spy drone it's in space. request denied the u.s. says russia's extradition treaty it's been to boot and for that's conspiracy. to terrorists.

bahrain has deployed paramilitary forces against protests. as a fresh wave of anti-government rallies hits the capital the troops were sent back up police and attempts to quell the rising political violence latest series of protests began on friday of the security forces tear gassed thousands of shiite worshippers were trying to reach a mosque for prayers the sixteen year old boy was killed in a traffic incident during the countdown to the was youth violence at his funeral on saturday public gatherings were banned last week after it went almost two years ago when the film demonstrations the crackdown has also seen citizenship vote talk to protest is one such activist explained why. we had very strong position

against corruption against. the budget of the country how it's being manipulated with in the favor of the ruling family and we call them in standing question was first on 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 the fall and no positive answer came from the government we resigned and they found it full of the 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 not lose the government will lose the people of bahrain will lose a position will lose and even the superballs americans and britons and receive the

support for the lose because it is very strategic location of the world here in the . gulf. now the head of the baby see george enter a store has resigned after a series of scandals that engulfed his leadership of the corporation they just incident the flagship current affairs program newsnight false accusations that a conservative lord had sexually abused children this comes of following an interview into a sort of gave on a b.b.c. radio show which was deemed disastrous in the appearance he admitted his ignorance of the newsnight broadcast and really media reaction to the report from the b.b.c.'s most respected journalists deliberately describes the corporation's current situation as a ship heading for the rocks. said he could no longer hold the position making his fifty four day tenure the shortest in the company's history. elsewhere in the world israeli forces have killed at least four people and injured

thirty six others one of them civilians of the strike in an area of north gaza officials claim it was in response to militants firing an antitank missiles at a military vehicle that was patrolling the border and masses threatened to retaliate for the violence. at least seventeen people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of violent incidents in the pakistani city of karachi five hundred seventy students were among the victims the motives for the attacks have not yet been determined authorities say that sectarian political next nic violence in the city have claimed the lives of more than a thousand people this year alone. and the military helicopter has crashed in southeast turkey killing all seventeen service personnel on board bad weather is being blamed for the accident the aircraft was heading for the search province which has seen a surge of kurdish rebel attacks over forty thousand people have died in the

conflict between the turkish government and kurdish insurgents demanding autonomy most three decades. well it's four years in the white house for u.s. president barack obama but a tight race and an expensive election has left some voters less than satisfied what is going to harvest takes the political pulse in the big apple. 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. i was going to choose i didn't vote i didn't really care why not i don't even know why quite 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 what voting is the only way that you can control i still in feel like i had that much control you know i didn't why not i was torn between the two. so you'd be in my own interest but there were more than two running you could have voted for someone else and no i do think 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 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 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'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 off oreo 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. coming up from our skies are in the states you have it take a look at what big business and wall street are really up to that's in the cards report right offspring. trimmings and this is true even for specialists a horse can produce several sounds it comes to the unions the art of throat singing

comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from unions believe not only animals but also surrounding objects like reverse morris and stones. souls imitating the sounds they believe to capture the power of nature. was. to get to a one of the five main stars of fruits and it imitates the gentle breezes of summer harra whose name means great hunter the first piece adopted. there are special instruments that accompany the singing if gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument

a gill it says he wants to leave to poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument that there was a tip so pitiful is because of the spirit of the horse going to his dream and said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather on my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody only instrument is called cry over again. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you

knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. hi there i'm max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report you know governments of breakers around the world are invincible things 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 stacy woman tell me more max did they tell you that story believe them again and that they were wizard they could make it all 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 so 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 used sticks in the lives 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 he's just this generation that's brought up with magic potions and fantasy virtual worlds have been unable to migrate into the known virtual world. where buying it trying to give you magic powers actually doesn't exist this generation coming up. 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 you know they're cheating they're lifting up the game and trying to get the ball to go down into the right spot you're talking about would be tilt tilting the machine and a big screen.