was. a leaking blog page of the u.s. military stands accused of violent washington's oil embargo against iran while ciaran revels in record export revenues. to people are killed in several injured by a suicide bomber detonated his device at the entrance to the us embassy in the turkish capital ankara. egyptians magia cross the country in protest

again massive demonstrations called for the president to go by to remain to try and stop the violence a sign after a week of deadly clashes. and the british government pulls out the welcome mat as fears grow of a lot of european immigrants despite clogging the u.k. as the world's best destiny. it's eight pm here in moscow you live with us on our tea with me to bomb would say it's good to have you company this evening america's oil blockade against iran and its marriage may have been violated by none other than the u.s. military itself the pentagon has admitted a condo consuls some of the fuel we brought in for its operation in afghanistan it's now suspected that iranian petrol made up

a significant percentage of imports details now with r.t. is granted she can joining us live. how so bring us to speed how long has this been going on. well the u.s. gives money to the afghan government to buy fuel for its forces and now u.s. officials these back for the special inspector general for guns and reconstruction say they cannot verify that the fuel purchased for afghan security forces in recent years from two thousand and seven. in the report did not come from iran it could be their way of saying that it most probably did come from iran so it could mean that the u.s. has violated its own sanctions thereby letting us taxpayer dollars go coffers the sanctions that it was put in place not only bar u.s. companies from doing business with iran but also punish third party countries for

doing business with iran but no matter how many rounds of sanctions are in fact they are never watertight even though the european union under great pressure from washington stopped buying uranium oil you have a whole slew of other countries that still do because buyers now are china india and japan and these countries are very loyal thirsty especially china so china has upped its imports of oil india's imports of uranium crude aware up thirty percent in december from november according to tanker arrival date data western sanctions have to iran's oil exports in two thousand and twelve leading to a very deep plunge in the arabian currency but it continues. robots the man from its top buyers as well as the purchase of new tankers apparently allowed to unexpectedly exports last year late last year despite the sanctions the u.s.

can't absolutely force those other those major economies specially china to stop buying from iran's political and economic ramifications of pressure such. sure would be significant but the u.s. government is trying their prompting those other countries to buy oil from washington's allies saudis and qataris so you could imagine how happy the gulf states are about this whole new business coming in the u.s. . even though they can't stop absolutely everybody from doing business with iran this latest report from of ghana's then shows they may not they may have been unable to stop their own contractors from doing that let alone major global economies but washington is resolute to put more pressure on other countries to put more threats to put forward more threats like cutting them off from u.s.

banking system so too many countries that situation starts to look more like blackmail than anything else granted she can live from washington thank you for that update. france declared that it's a one of the mishal offensive against islamist in mali we've got an exclusive report on the collateral damage of the conflict with some chilling accounts emerging of the human cost. and a rare failure for russian e.u. list satellite collaboration as a rocket carrying communication equipment dishes minutes after takeoff. a suicide bomber has attacked the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital on caracal into people the bomb believed to be a member of the left wing group detonated explosives as he was punching through an x. ray scanner at the entrance to the building archies corresponding policy brings us

more details. three people have been killed today including the suicide bomber a security guard as well as a turkish citizen who was a member of the staff at the american embassy now according to eyewitnesses there was this massive bang also plumes of smoke that have been erupting outside of the american embassy all american embassy staff have been taken to safe rooms inside the embassy this blast did happen in a part of ankara where there are several other embassies including that of germany as well as all fronts the explosion caused no damage inside the embassy itself but it did cause extensive damage to the outside wall there are a number of illegal groups ranging from kurdish separatists to lift to islamic militants who have launched attacks in recent years in turkey's perhaps it's worth mentioning that prior to this explosion the son in law of the sama bin laden was arrested in the turkish capital of ankara you also have in addition to this violence from syria that continuously spills across the border and in the past

artillery from syria has killed turkish civilians what that means is that you have a whole host of groups who could be implicated all who could have carried out this attack back in september there was that notorious mission in benghazi in libya where we had four american staff members killed including the american ambassador and then just a few days ago you had britain's foreign office warning of a potential threat against the british embassy in tripoli so what we are witnessing is a chain of events targeting western embassies not least of all the united states that seems to be picking up momentum and it is a reflection of the growing anger against washington and other western countries at the particularly unstable time in the region. the professor of international relations will bill can dream diversity into it he says that anchors foreign policy in the region widely supported by washington could have provoked the attack. the

government has been pursuing right wing nationalist groups that were hostile to it but it may have its security made up or taken its eye off the ball virus radical islamic groups who have been passing through turkey to enter syria i think it's really common for people to stumble up for instance to see people coming from north africa who are parents two hundred types and they then move down to antioch on the border of syria across so there is danger as we saw in libya that people but the west has supported as opponents of the dictator there against can however decide that they can open fire on the western sponsors or at least one western sympathizers as happened in the american consulate in benghazi in september it is not impossible that such groups have targeted us ever see i suppose if for the sake of argument the perpetrator could be linked to a state from say iran or syria itself then it is possible that it could be argued that it was only a state sponsors attack an invasion of turkish territory turkey is

a nato member its ally shouldn't some sense come to say i suspect the more likely response is obviously going to be an intensified security suite an investigation of how this happened who may have assisted the suicide bomber it's unlikely that it was a solo person. but of course it could contribute to the international tensions but it could of course turn out to be somebody who has a grievance against united states more from an angle that we're not looking at from some other subsection of the population or from someone who's been able to enter turkey marseille. meanwhile in syria internal conflict is taking on an international dimension syria's keil position groups lands in israel of an air strike on syrian territory while the government prepares for retaliation stay with us for more than. a rocket with communications equipment on board has strayed off course and plunged into the pacific ocean soon after take up the company responsible for the launch has said it will look into why it happened is r. g.'s you got a piece going off with the details the zenith rocket with the u.s.

communications satellite on board blasted off from the odyssey floating platform to went off course almost immediately and its engines were switched off and it gets into the pacific somewhere along the equator less than a minute after takeoff now on the equator the earth's rotation speed provides an additional booster rocket so they could carry more weight and when it comes to launching from floating platforms besides looking or some there are advantages and disadvantages like there's a minimal risk of rockets falling down on inhabited areas but waves could be a problem in fact there is speculation that that could have been the case this start soon raunch is a collaboration between russia in their gear and to us boeing companies they've been working together since one thousand nine hundred five thirty four successful launches well this was supposed to be the first launch in two thousand and thirteen . torture and executive executions and

a tasteful covering all it up. we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become a veteran and whistle blower john kiriakou tells our deal why he turned against the agency and what it eventually cost him. thousands of people are marching in demonstration across egypt against the rule of president mohamed morsi there have been clashes in the streets of cairo as well as the town of port saïd near this was canal cairo based journalist belcher who has the details. i'm standing above a very boisterous and defiant protest here in egypt's tahrir square where thousands have gathered to see protest against the president this comes in what protest is a cooling is the day of the liberal with multiple protest demonstrations across the country including syria's course i even spent a year for safe and down south we do have the clashes intermittent clashes between

the for testers on the cornish and security forces which has been going on and off now for several days in addition to reports of continued violence in the shaky input sorry that is a slightly different vibe today marks the year anniversary of the full disaster in force i.e. to seventy four people dying this of course has been a nice because the twenty one people were sentenced to death the full responsibility in this protest twenty one of them often for saif the forsyte people are free to sing in the government and also this unfair verdict where yesterday we had a key meeting broken finalized which is even egypt's the highest islamic pope thirteen what happened was in this meeting it's called the stop violence initiative representatives from egypt church egypt all to a conservative son of a free islamic representatives also coming out baradei he's an opposition leader aside from that meeting he's head of the freedom and justice party for the muslim brotherhood they all met a quite an unprecedented meeting and signed this initiative condemning violence

calling for peaceful protests and dialogue this was however met with some criticism from revolutionary forces who said it didn't specify state violence in addition we have a she's here with dialogue in the future as the opposition coalition the national salvation front cox said they will have signed up with the president under certain preconditions this includes a cabinet resigning a national salvation government taking over. which is something the president himself has said will not happen too often the parliamentary elections. sexual abuse harassment and a loss of face mother german catholic later we investigate how money and destroyed evidence helps serious crimes state trial great. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the

future covered. 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. was a big. news today. again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operation the day.

it was good to have you with us it's also great to be in britain that's the idea some u.k. politicians want to promote to potentially european migrants they feel a huge influx from some states that are now allowed to live anyway in the blog that's good laws on marty's polly boy who is joining us live from london party other fears of the politicians justified. well as one official put it the negative ad campaign about britain would help to dispel the myth that the streets in the u.k. all paved with gold and the politicians certainly are worried and they've got it wrong in the past tabby you see back in two thousand and four the previous labor government got it really wrong they got the figures so wrong about the number of poles that were coming over to potentially live in england they suggested that

there would be something around fifteen thousand polish citizens coming over to the u.k. lo and behold less than a decade later the polish community in the u.k. is one of the biggest communities and polish is the second language spoken in england and wales so they all worried how well they should be but did the british government just spend loads of money on trying to promote london as the best distillation in the world what about. ironic is certainly a fitting description tabby because we have just had the previous year was the year of the olympics and politicians trump and trumpeting great britain and how long gone and britain is the best destination the world billions of pounds poured into advertising to really sell the u.k. to the rest of the country but it seems that for immigrants potential immigrants from rumania i'm from ball garia the message is that britain isn't so great after

all so a lot of people see that sort of as quite farcical the fact that the government is willing to trash its own image and to admit that there are problems with the economy in disarray that there's a housing crisis and that there are problems with schools and hospitals. well you know what i actually did take a look at some of those ads that you're talking about what's been the reaction of ordinary brits on this well everyone's been having a good old chuckle. of. yeah over the idea of a negative ad campaign and yes some people have actually said that it's quite insulting but remain ians and for vogue ariens but one newspaper has even suggested that people send in their own suggestions for what an anti britain poster would look like and the result has been really quite scathing and quite harsh to britain as a country we've got slogans that include u.k. yuck and come to britain and clean the toilets or even britain we haven't left

ourselves because the public transport isn't running so people very sort of mocking at the same time but quite scathing about the country and we also took to the streets of london to find out what ordinary londoners think about the situation let's take a lesson. as the. this makes mother's day isn't it because in the day i think a waste of time and money and i actually believe things like to be prioritized over the devil really have a job i'm not home for me telly. at the moment leave here everything too much expensive. what westminster is certainly oh i'm sorry westminster is bound by law so they have to follow these rules and they have to allow anybody who wishes to come over in twenty fourteen to enter the country but a lot of citizens in the u.k.

as you saw that there feel that it's insulting to those people and a waste of money having advertised britain previously i'd like to see what the u.k. government will respond to romania's the advertising party boycott live there from london for us. france's president francois hollande is planning a trip to mali to survey what's being hailed as a successful military intervention against islamists the french acknowledged however that the operation is now entering a tricky phase which is likely to fall of guerrilla tactics from the extremists observers or save a three week long fighting has spread more havoc across the country with civilians paying a bloody price for it we've got the story of one of the victims brought to us exclusively by a local journalist gonzalo launcher. there are four of us as pitiless the war became a real might matter for the people of this small city in the city grew region was

one of the first places bombed by french warplanes before more jihadist to write sweeping south towards the capsule by mark on the french intervention after pile of debris and ashes mass just the visible traces of the war they left it civilians who were left with the scars that were. last a lifetime one family paid a deep price for this conflict against the islamist terrorists one of the family sons was killed by a jihadist soldier inside his own home. later when one brother was attacked by a group of militants there were children among them he started running and got back into our house but they followed him one of the children fired at him but missed and then another insurgent shot him inside the house my brother fell and was riddled with bullets we made his body in the house we couldn't bury him because we were afraid to go outside. this is just one example of the terror that the conflict is putting mali and civilians through plaguing the weakest the most no one was

surprised when india bali once jihadist troops arrived it was discovered that the majority of the military were heavily armed child soldiers. as france prepares to hand over the operation in mali to local troops which are increasingly being accused of atrocities on r.t. dot com we've got exclusive footage allegedly showing evidence of war crimes by the troops well we have more stories from people on the ground about how the living through the western led battle against islamists. seriously opposition group has joined the chorus of outrage over what the regime says was an israeli bombing near damascus the national coalition slammed the a strike on a military research center inside syria as an attack on the country's so venti while the government has pledged to retaliate the middle east experts however take the rebels' condemnation of the israeli attack with caution because they reported bombing of the side actually plays into the hands. well the main thing right now is

to remember that this comes on the heels of systematic targeting of syrian by the syrian free army and the syrian opposition also i'd like to remind you that the syrian opposition has already thought of the radar station on the edges of the golan heights last year so this comes as a continuation of the effort to. royd the syrian army by the opposition and now by the masters themselves by the israelis so what we are witnessing now is a reflection of the political impasse that the syrian opposition as suffering from being unable to achieve anything significant on the ground they have resorted to help from the zionists directly i don't think that is policy of

making public comments of strikes be it assassinations or strikes that they launch outside the boundaries of international law iran has threatened israel with consequences falling to be a strike iranian academic and political analyst mohammad marandi says israel should take this warning seriously it's important is that the united states knew about their strike before hand they did nothing about it the european union as usual so is silent about it there is no condemnation for killing syrians two for bombing the country and of course iran will defend syrian sovereignty the iranians have many means to hurt the israelis and to punish the israelis it doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be involved directly they could. support. countries or bodies that could make life for israelis more difficult. now to other

international news this hour there is also demonstrations in iraq where sunni protesters have blocked a major highway in the west of the country protests by the minority group take place most weeks but these appeared to be the largest since the end of last year they're angry at what many see as discrimination against them by the government a group linked to al qaida has also urged them to take up arms. a bomb blast in northwest pakistan has left twenty two people dead and injured more than forty on the crowded street with both shia and sunni mosques police say a motorcycle packed with explosives was detonated killing worshippers who were leaving after friday prayers no group as he had said is responsible for the attack the incident happened close to prague is done semi autonomous tribal region with a strong taliban and al qaeda presence. the first man now convicted

over america's torture program is now on call waiting to start a thirteen month prison sentence but decorated cia veteran john kiriakou played no part in the interrogations but was instead convicted over leaks after blowing washington's then secret program wide open speaking to r.t. he told us of just what it is he's being punished for. first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was

not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have given me ten years in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing our civil liberties incrementally over the last decade to the point where we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on american citizens and intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just part of normal business. the idea that that our government would be using drone aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime and have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have been unthinkable and it's something now that happens every every so often every few weeks every few months and there is no public outrage i think this is

a very dangerous development. john kiriakou was also a guest on a breaking news that he on our team where he told the different torture techniques used by the cia also mall and his caves and the implications in the in-depth interview right after sharpening. you know i can kind of sort of understand the mindset of an evil dictator i have trouble understanding what is going on or maybe not going on in the minds of the terrified cogs who believe all the propaganda give up all their rights for the illusion of safety to coach jerry seinfeld who are these people well maybe some of them may be working at your local school braindead bureaucracy zombies at a pennsylvania school suspended a kindergartner note kindergartner as a terrorist threat because she threatened to shoot another student with

a gun that shoots soap bubbles i guess this was all a mix up because the girl she wanted to shoot didn't understand that it was in reference to bubbles and not bullets children in kindergarten can often misunderstand things but the administration of the school seems to be no smarter than six year olds immediately going into total panic mode guess what this is hardly the first time that something like this has happened remember the kid who pointed a piece of chicken at a teacher and said bang the thing is that the real terrorism of the event is that the mental sleeves of fear propaganda that work at these schools are raising a generation of children to be just like them somebody shoot me with a bubble gun that's just my opinion.

to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i've got so many i mean the town i know that i'm sitting in the seems really really messed up. and we're all very so personally apologized and said. the worst we're going to fly down superman the radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone probably want to close for a politician did you ever seen anything like that i'm told. good solid and not a martin this is breaking sets the record of the commerce department u.s. g.d.p. dropped point one percent last quarter maybe at the weakest since the recession.