at least twenty security officers are reportedly killed in twin blasts in the latest attack in war torn syria 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. and inglorious infidelity general david petraeus is career as the cia's boss is over as ruthless well there's more behind his resignation than an affair with his biographer.

well news twenty four hours a day life for moscow you're watching out. twin bombings in the south of syria has reportedly claimed the lives of at least twenty security officers and latest violence comes as the opposition tries to consolidate its alliance against president assad but a round of meetings in qatar ortiz 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 and 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 critter claimed responsibility for that attack dozens of a seven euless that 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 that the group is being accused of not being representative enough this despite the fact that the main opposition by the the syrian national council just yesterday friday did elect a new head and they're 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 want. no he said he would not leave syria we know this very well because he would not be able to leave syria he and his people not managed to leave the country the free syrian army 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 struggle in should trying for united group to try and deal with the situation. there well 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 noise association. says that western backed efforts to create a revolution in syria from outside the failed. this is. 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 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 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 had credibility before i don't think they would have credibility at the present moment because this is an attempt to create arab or no evolutionary body in the west created this something else that and they called it a present that. you can tune in to watch artie's full exclusive interview with the syrian president later today or of course it's available anytime online i thought it ought to come. all of you who have thought about. leaving bob 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 personally the only way to define death.

through the ballot box thought you thought about what we hear bits about what we get through that box and that box with any president because they only bash our allies sided in our two 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 with concerns of internal corruption 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 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 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 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. he has said in the past that he doesn't want to be one countries a pawn when it comes to an arms monopoly which is one reason why he went to russia

as well not only 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. but government and business consultant christoph postal says the complications with a deal or a sign of pressure from washington 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 the east and with the sick 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 petition 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 the veteran gen david petraeus kafer his resignation as america's top spy master after admitting to an extramarital affair is a rapid fall from grace for the man who was the u.s.

army standard afghanistan and iraq many been in charge of the cia for just over a year the f.b.i. can sell their insecurity of the tresses. skull he was. one of the. study author and journalist. sleeves and he just clash at the very top behind the resignation. of freestyles ignition is not as simple as that it appears to be in my opinion the difference between america. and war in afghanistan are involved except for general petraeus and president obama if you were critical matters were going to war even going to start so nawal people bamma. election he wants to excel year into complete withdrawal of need two forces from afghanistan and general. and the war against gravity such a manner. wanted our presence of american forces you know around it talk to

president obama as he moved one up to meet your obstacle for his. war in afghanistan. well still to come the pulling out of one corner of the world doesn't mean the u.s. isn't ready to move into another washington shows no sign of losing interest in getting involved it's offensive and sends units to only. last for bahrain and exile explains how the country's leadership deals with dissent all that's coming up after the break. recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice and by crane

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 hugs 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 some freedom into warmer right 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. i mean so the only city in europe on the coasts of the twenty fourteen would through the pick a. thank you. thank

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welcome back. military base in poland the units will help maintain. plans for the base for. one took us to deploy. one of the proponents of the controversial european missile defense system. to be deployed in the north of the country russia has been staunchly against the from the start. threats to its national security but i. think the. 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. and you can follow that website along with how the u.s. was born don't buy a run it's going to try to take down an american spy drone and its space. request denied us says russia's extradition play to the base is going to shoot down or that's conspiracy supplying arms to terrorists.

bahrain has deployed power and military forces against protest as as a fresh wave of anti government rallies hits the capital the troops were sent to back up police in an attempt to quell the rising political violence latest series of protests began on friday of the security forces to gas thousands of shiite winship is trying to reach a mosque as a sixteen year old boy was killed in a traffic incident during the clampdown but there was renewed violence at his funeral on saturday. afternoons and last week the way to. music fan strengthens the crackdown has also seen the citizenship revoked for thirty protesters on such activists explain why. we had very strong position against corruption against. the budget of the country how it's being manipulated with and

the favor of the ruling family and we put them in a standing question this fist 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 seriously before all and no positive answer came from the government we resign and they found it for 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 knows the governor will lose that the people of bahrain will lose the position will lose and even the superballs i many cans and britons and receive the support or the lose because it is very strategic location of the world here in the. gulf the

head of the b.b.c. george went to a saw has resigned after a series of scandals i think gulf his leadership of the corporation and latest incident the flagship coming to finance program news night and false accusations that a conservative lord had sexually abused children. comes of following an interview and gave a b.b.c. radio show which was deemed disastrous during the appearance he admitted his ignorance of the news like it will cost him the media reaction to the report even though one of the b.b.c.'s most respected journalists jonathan dimbleby described the corporation's current situation as a rather this ship heading for the rocks and will 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 injured

thirty six others all of them civilians after striking an area of north gaza officials claim it was in response to militants firing an anti-tank missile at a military vehicle that was patrolling the border amasses threatening to retaliate for the gods. at least seventeen people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of violent incidents in the pakistani city of karachi five seventy students were among the victims the motives for the attacks have not yet been determined authorities say that sectarian political and ethnic violence in the city of claimed the lives of more than a thousand people this year. julian assange g.'s lawyer has claimed for a long stay inside that those london embassy could seriously affect his health. conditions inside the nation sanjay has been staying since june couldn't use of physical and mental problems for his client it was

a blur it was granted political asylum by a quick door in august places the second he sets his foot outside the consulate and back into u.k. jurisdiction. a military helicopter has crashed in southeast turkey killing all seventeen service personnel on board bad weather is being blamed for the accident aircraft was heading for the province of sirte which has witnessed a surge in militant attacks when forty thousand people have died in the conflict between the turkish government and kurdish rebels have been demanding autonomy for almost three decades. whether it's four more 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 laurie oftenest 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 yes i mean what do you expect to change in the next four years. i guess i was. expecting for you me because i don't know exactly who's going to choose i didn't vote i didn't really care why not i don'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 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 no i didn't why not i was torn between the. figure of my own interest but there were more than two running you could have voted for someone else and now i do was running there were more the people that were running for president the 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 the right to vote. the people out do you think that 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 carol and 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 so 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. with people living longer but not thinking about how they'll pay for it britain has decided to dip into workers' wages and force them to save you know betty out of school and so forth now and why this good intentions could leave people out of

pocket. pensions and 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 it's 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 replenished with say 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 in rome and it's 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 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 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 with around half the case workers paying nothing towards 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 is an open door to mis selling and the money will be creamed off by schemes in 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 about of ogun of my own finances rather than forced to by government it's not even on my agenda right now across europe in karate the safer time or let you know your future i'm just turned twenty tay i'm not to complain about my thanks and i'm thinking about how i'm going to make when next month more gauge whatever i'm up to my my pension right now they fit in with a moment in t.v. in or out 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 they should be sticking its snout into their savings but i can consider much at all because i mean as there's so many things have 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 it to know i want 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 will simply be opting out.

up for the twenty fourteen winter olympic games volunteers across russia are starting their own preparations to help the city create the world which our special report after the break. if you're passing through rushes to be a region you really can't walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lacks in forstmann means many animals are killed out of the a lot of times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive. the

heart of just u.s. forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beasts in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups who've been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up and this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called oil and a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents with an.