deaths are reported in damascus as bomb blasts ripped through the syrian capital the most powerful explosion posing damage to the russian embassy. adoptive mother of a three year old russian boy who died in the u.s. says his death was an accident as investigation into the case drags on. and the u.k.'s energy regulator warns that britain is on the verge of a fuel crisis in your stereo stricken population getting hit hard by poverty. live from our studios here in moscow this is r.t. on carried on. and we start with news just in from syria where

a series of explosions have shaken damascus i witnessed reports enormous damage and several bodies at the site of the strongest blast which also damaged the russian embassy in downtown damascus where to go live now to artie's middle east correspondent paula slayer for more on this paula what else is known about these blasts. well what we can tell you is that a car bomb has exploded near the headquarters of the ruling baath party in central damascus it happened in front of a battery away regular troops are stationed this is also not song from the russian embassy according to eyewitnesses there was a gunfire off to the blast that seemed to come from the vicinity of the russian embassy compound and the building there now both government and opposition forces all confirming that this boston fact did take place but we offering from opposition fighters and opposition sources and activists that they were at least two so more tenuous explosions we have no independent confirmation of those at this stage state

media is reporting that there has been many casualties they are calling it a suicide bombing that was carried out to quote by terrorists backing the syrian president bashar assad now there seems to have been a large number of children among the wounded and this is largely because it happened near a school syrian television is ball costing footage of at least four bodies that have been thrown along a main street and also footage of firefighters that are dancing dozens of burning vehicles that were in the vicinity there is huge plumes of black smoke that is billowing over the area the latest information we have from the opposition is that twenty people have been killed as i mentioned earlier we are being told that this is a blast that has killed many many people. and paula you know more worrying developments that the conflict spilling across the border can tell us a bit more about that. we are receiving indications that this conflict is

likely and in fact is already spilling across the border today thursday is the expiry date of a forty eight hour deadline that was issued by syrian rebels to the eleven these political party now the ultimatum says that hizbollah needs to stop shelling free syrian army controlled areas or otherwise it will retaliate it follows several days of clashes between syrian rebels and hizbollah militants near the lebanese border so far has been has not officially responded to this thread but the verbal certain are taking on a very powerful enemy and issuing such an ultimatum to his beloved it is a group that is supported him backed by iran are remind you that back in two thousand and six it was the hizbullah israel war that all accounts has been one it certainly has more regional implications and we're now seeing this kind of conflict between too boring factions on either side of the border and at the same time if

indeed the ultimatum passes today and there is no response it also seems to present a scenario in which you have the syrian rebels giving a lot of hard and walk talk but actually not following up with much action on the ground so they'll be hard pressed to make good on their threats. ok poor as they are for now thank you for that. the adoptive mother of a three year old russian boy who died in the u.s. exactly a month ago says maksim whose means death was an accident russia has demanded justice spectum the toddler was abused the local police are claiming it's too early for conclusions ortiz and there is in texas. twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas much seemed close mean known to locals as max shadow just what i heard on the news was just the kid had some scratches. that's all i know three

year old mark theme and his younger brother kiel lived in this house with their adoptive parents in a rather secluded neighborhood it was from here that on the afternoon of january twenty first the boy was taken away by an ambulance never to come back the boy had severe bruises on his legs head and internal organs can get into that because it would be speculative. for the result russian authorities didn't hear about the case for almost a month. unfortunately is usually months after a russian child has died in the u.s. that the american side informs us about it in one case it was five years after a boy died meanwhile at the u.s. state department we obviously take very seriously the welfare of children particularly children who've been adopted from other countries according to moscow little corp has been shown until it was demanded. along with two dozen deaths caused by abuse and even manslaughter russia in

a move often criticized recently imposed a ban on american adoption of its kids i have always believed that russia should stop these adoptions and i hope that they maintain this ban and don't yield to pressure weeks after my death texan officials have little to say while they wait for autopsy results the results of the investigation with russia heavily involved and asking for punishment of those responsible could take weeks to be announced no arrests have yet been made while the investigation of floor paste and the alleged information on the little boy's life and death extremely scarce one of the questions that demand an answer is why should it take a rigid push from abroad for the. west to pay attention to yet another tragic destiny of a hopeless child to whom it promised a better life on it for oil and r.t. after county texas. on the whole vein a spokesperson for pound the pub legacy to promote the safety and well being of

children and care believes this incident puts the us adoption system firmly in the spotlight in general we can say that the system itself is a failure especially in america where the federal government has no control over actually happens if. you need to have a proper system in place that checks. adoptive parents much better before the adoption which has posts option monitoring all that is not really in place there is screening but it's not properly done post adoption monitoring is impossible. especially in america it is impossible because a right to privacy. britain could fast be heading towards power shortages according to the u.k.'s guess and energy regulator a number of coal field power stations may have to close in strict pollution

regulations increasing energy poverty now looms over many of those already struggling to heat their homes artie's reports. not good news for consumers here in britain after all they've been warned once again that their energy bills a set to rise now this warning was issued by the chief executive of the energy what store of gem and he said that a fall in the u.k.'s power production capacity a gap where renewable energy market hasn't quite caught up yet could be set to push our bills even higher as we rely more and more on energy imports i want to put this in context the because the debate around energy bills here in the u.k. has been raging on for years we've had control of a cia for energy terrorists you've got the big six kind of cartel of energy companies that have been under constant criticism for not giving a fair deal to consumers just this morning i was talking to someone about this he

said you know it's outrageous i pay a hundred and forty one pounds a month just for my gas that's not including the electricity and the water so you know this is really hitting families here in the incredibly hard it's becoming very scary to get that energy bill through every month millions of households here in the u.k. already in fuel property and it looks like many more could join and so that's obviously extremely concerning now the same time it was we had these warnings before what's happening right now is that you're seeing power station closures here in the u.k. as they try and get some of these old polluting plants off the grid but there hasn't been anything yet that's being boat to replace that and as he said renewable energy isn't quite there yet so there are warnings that we could see a fall in u.k. capacity by as much as ten percent by this april so this is going to be happening fairly quickly now to shed some light on just exactly what is going on and how

concerned consumers could be i'm joined by richard running from the institute of economic affairs thank you very much for joining us not great. for consumers we have heard that we're going to be relying more on imports but at the same time you know where we're trying to meet our climate change targets we need to get those operating power plants off the case system so nice but this is unavoidable and i don't think so and this is really terrible for news for consumers so energy prices have gone up by a hundred sixty percent since two thousand and four we've got six million households in fuel poverty expected to write a nine million within just three years and the problem is of course by having higher energy prices in this country tends to exports economic activity psychiatrist such as china and india so the effects of overall effect on climate change will be very small so it actually could end up being counterproductive he mentioned china and india the government has said don't panic and fema if we're going to keep britain flight switched on and actually as countries like china are demanding more imports that's pushing the global prices higher so we're actually

removing ourselves in the risk of way by you know looking towards renewable energy non-fossil fuel types of energy actually exposing the u.k. more to external risks for example imported gas is a lot more vulnerable to security recently imported coal it comes from potential flashpoint such as the persian gulf of course some u.s. states now enjoy electricity prices around a third the price in the u.k. gas prices around the fifth the price is put in british businesses that's a major competitive disadvantage that's a third a very controversial debate affecting millions of house of all across the and it looks like the debate around britain's energy both thought to be heated and continue. so if well coming up raising the standard the debt crisis and financial woes in syria tend to bygone days with gold again but as we report. just realize the rising popularity of the muslim brotherhood in jordan appointed

a changing role and then it's all coming up after the break.

download the official publication so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television or it just doesn't work so now with your mobile device you can watch your t.v. any time anyway. welcome back more international news for you now officials in france and cameroon have backtracked on earlier claims that seven french hostages have been freed in the african country reports came in shortly after france deployed a team of special forces to cameroon to help track down the kidnapped family affronts police and the tourist nigeria is the missed. is responsible for the hostage crisis the french foreign minister says if the news is confirmed it

justifies the on going fight against terrorist groups in africa become room is a former french colony just like mali with a military intervention by paris continues and some observers say france and its allies are sponsible for the rise of extremism in the region and could use it as a pretext to go off to african resources. former new york colonial powers are once again flexing their muscles and they're starting to reach back into and into yugoslavia into iraq into at afghanistan into libya and now into west africa if the main product mali for example were mushrooms there would be no french troops there are in niger but the main export is you're aiming at and that's very important to the french we have a twenty first century race for colonies beginning it's tragic that there is a further problem that the west has introduced to in

a successful overthrow of the look of the gadhafi government it introduced. al-qaeda types terrorists into africa where there weren't them where they didn't exist in any significance before so that has created a can of worms the main point though is that the western powers. and europe the neo colonial powers and the united states nato these countries have no right to act as the police of the world. for many of vending machines off a snack sweets and fizzy drinks and now you might find some that dispense gold bars instead of chocolate bars it's an increasing reality across europe where turbulent economic times when investment in gold is on the rise it's not just the preserve of the rich parties piece of experience sometimes all that glitters is gold those who deal in the mess all say its importance today can't be overstated in

crisis when you have come some prizes some monetary prizes gold and silver every time as a security for people for bad times and with europe still far from out of the financial woods buying up gold is no longer just the reserve of the super rich the reason we sell small pieces is because we get customers and a lot of people say buying gold is something only the rich can do we get customers who i reach poor everywhere in between just people wanting to secure the value of their cash. well if you're feeling the gold rush when you're in something of a hurry there's a.t.m.'s they can dispense it whenever you need it. here's why greed and fear is a very powerful combination of fear of her demise of all paper money. be it but you're alone or paper money is global and if that actually happens that will

trigger praise for you where everybody has to go into it because they will feel. that their paper money will be worthless one reason behind swapping currency for carrots could be more stark than this gold silver is a real monetary value is a paper it's printed it's like leg monopoly and it's not feeling that the way you would you were with no longer hitting the right notes. that sending europeans on the hunt for metal that matters peter all of the r.t. germany. well news now of a very big discovery russian scientists have unearthed remains of a mammoth say the clay pit in which it was found may hold plenty more secrets let's get more now from our tease within the culture here in the studio where they actually finalists thing there while carrie it wasn't many with thought actually happened in russia's north caucuses but in about

a republic the whole area is very montanus and it is also home to the highest peak in europe now as snow melts high up the start of a landslide season begins and these are these landslides that can reveal really lots of interesting things that's been buried deep in the ground and that's exactly what happened and didn't know much about exactly what they found in the history of it as it were well local research as they say that these are the remains of the south and mammals that left in europe and central asia like two and a house a million years ago and we sure is also a rounded time be i began now these are very huge animals four metres tall and known by their cruel tusk well they left their african homeland and migrated to eurasia and presumably many believe that it's these the russian part the part of south and russia is their last results so we should also see that out of seven full

skeletons that have been found in the world three were discovered in the south and part of russia amazing stuff and we're going to do with it there when they when they finally get them out of the ground and clean them all that we're going to do with these beads well locals that will local researches say that they definitely would task them and date them but the most interesting point in that story is that there could be more remains close by and local researchers say that we're talking here about the whole cemetery of prehistoric animals reported from the north caucasus and the lived in the north caucasus and i can tell you that locals in a regular basis find different fossils in different parts of bones they can really date back millions of years it's very interesting. exciting stuff ok to the culture ever thank you for that. moving on now emboldened by the rise of there is a mist allies across the arab world the muslim brotherhood's branch in jordan is

now looking to expand its influence movements has long been tolerated by the monarchy along it to gradually win hearts and minds among the population and some locals now fear the brotherhood's changing priorities could spell trouble if there's a couple of reports. when it comes to the arts professor mohsen us four works to bridge the divide between east and west influenced by both islamic and renaissance art he hopes to inspire his students with the same passion. but he's going concerned about the muslim brotherhood's rise to power in the region a force says his students don't want to lose the freedoms they now enjoy and often worry about how their lives could change if jordan came under islamist rule. but. maybe. brothers. we are afraid.

but not all share in that fear for decades the muslim brotherhood enjoyed a safe haven in jordan even as it was outlawed elsewhere in the middle east the monarchy is tolerance has helped the group to become the country's most influential islamist organization. that system was on a full display at this islamic hospital in downtown amman the muslim brotherhood has gained support throughout the arab world with its model of combining political activism with charity work here in jordan the brotherhood is responsible for building schools clinics and hospitals like this one a critical lifeline for the nation's poor. emboldened by the arab spring rise of their counterparts jordan's brotherhood is seeking more power it rallied behind calls for democratic reform of the country's political system trying to cast itself

as the face of the opposition the group has vowed to refrain from violence but its leader to promise jordan would soon become part of the muslim caliph it rejoice. victory is that. and islam excrete will be created on this subject can prevail. in january the brotherhood made its move leading a boycott of the parliamentary elections but instead of being a nonevent high voter turnout evidence perhaps that jordan's brotherhood isn't ready for prime time just yet. and. i have a lot of concerns and must be resolved before i can support the muslim brothers we've seen the recent rise in egypt and tunisia but so far they haven't proven to be a good solution in either of those two countries the power grab has also turned off some longtime brotherhood supporters like this patient who is recovering in the islamic hospital. the muslim brotherhood the street from its traditional role in

helping communities now it's too focused on getting. despite such sentiments and fears about its true intentions the brotherhood still remains the only organized political opposition in town for now the group will have to bide its time helping perhaps that regional instability could tip the balance in their favor they think. if the revolution succeed in syria we have. it's a game of political chess and chance for now the students could only wonder whether their futures will be shaped by the islamists or by their own hands who seek out and of r t amman jordan. don't forget to check out on you the coed sites and these are just some of the stories waiting for you at dot com but race hate on the rise in france as a recent report reveals shocking statistics on ballance against jewish people in

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