a series of explosions rocked damascus thirty one people are dead with the ruling party's headquarters and the russian embassy hit by the blasts. mother of a three year old russian boy says his tragic death was an accident. or wait autopsy results. lights out britain faces the prospect of energy shortages regulations.

costing around the world and around the clock you're watching. a powerful blast has struck the syrian capital killing thirty one people and injuring dozens more the explosion also cause severe damage shattering windows and sending a cloud of smoke above the city when it comes as the free syrian army officer has given his forty eight hour deadline to stop shelling its locations from neighboring lebanon at least a correspondent there has the latest. a car bomb has exploded near the headquarters of the ruling baath party in central damascus it happened in front of a barrier with regular troops are stationed this is also not far 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 the last in fact did take place but we are hearing from opposition fighters and opposition sources and activists that they work least two

hours or so more tenuous explosions we have no independent confirmation of this 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 there are also reports as of yet unconfirmed that all four of his have in that position a truck that was carrying up to some three hundred kilograms of explosives 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 both cost in footage of at least four bodies that have been thrown along a main street and also footage of fire fighters that are dancing dozens of burning vehicles that were in the vicinity rusher is demanding more clarity here of the investigation into how a three year old adopted boy died a month ago in the us is adopted mother says maxime's death was an accident moscow suspects the toddler was abused by the american family local officials though claim

it's too early for conclusions ortiz and suture is in texas. twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas much 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 keel 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. even unfortunately it's usually months after a russian child has died and in the u.s. that the american side informs us about it and 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. in the us to pay attention to yet another tragic destiny of a hopeless child to whom it promised a better life on a voyage of the future r.t.e. actor county texas on the vein is from a group which works for the safety and well being of children in care he believes maxime's death puts american adoption firmly in the spotlight general we can say that the adoption system itself is a failure especially in america where the federal government has no control over who actually happens in options you need to have a proper system in place that checks. adoptive parents much better before the adoption which has post 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 may struggle to keep the lights on in a few years but the country's energy regulator warning that it's coming dangerously close to power shortages and household bills are likely to skyrocket because more fuel will need to be brought in from abroad that's because pollution regulations mean coal fired stations have to close off marty serafin london. not good news for consumers here in britain after all they've been warned once again that their energy bills is set to rise now this warning was issued by the chief executive of the energy what store of jem 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 kid be set to push our bills even higher as we rely more and more on energy imports i want to throw

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 terrorist 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 us 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 what we have 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 welling from the institute of economic affairs thank you very much for joining us. nice 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 one hundred sixty percent since two thousand and four we've got six million households in fuel poverty expected to rise and 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 effects on climate change lies through very small so it actually could end up being counterproductive you mentioned china and india the government has said don't panic and pheno 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 and 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. well from journalists it's a blacklist of the u.k.'s media gets a thumbs down from the public and a nationwide poll by to find out who came out what and why british reporters a proper that was taken in those days. and mamma through may discovered in the caucuses by a russian i just dig into the details after the break.

download the official publication if you so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't go with your mobile device so you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. welcome back you're with me. prosecutors in poland are reportedly set to drop the

charges against the country's former intelligence chief which stemmed from allegations that the cia was allowed to run a secret prison in the country he was the first high profile official of any nation to be prosecuted over the so-called black sites and with us now is a lawyer and nina parker who coordinates the cia program with the sink here foundation for human rights thanks for joining us here on r.t. today why might these charges suddenly get dropped now do you think after the case has apparently dragged on for over a year. actually this is kind of the situation which is very difficult to explain. here the holding this a geisha in was transferred to crackle from the secure office in war so. it appeared. to press releases that they were some charges against former intelligence head of intelligence leading to agents in poland. suddenly the

press for the press reports of these charges are probably being dropped or the prosecutor in this planning to drop these charges. these are information's coming from the press they have not been compared by the prosecutor office itself but there have been reports have been they're alleging the cia rendition program operated in more than fifty countries while more people being investigated. the. actually right now. according to reports it was it was said that many many countries to some extent participated in this program however poland. said was accused of posting the secret cia rendition program. including including secret. prison in poland. actually right now

we have no information no new information and the conduct of the investigation. particular office is very reluctant to publish any information regarding its conduct and all the information coming that we know already is coming from press leaks and. freedom of information requests and by organizations such as the house and keep in they should for human rights. absolutely. as you say that many governments seem reluctant to divulge information using national security as an excuse do you think this is become a universal way to try and get or get away with violating international law and human rights in your opinion. i think in this context there is a very interesting report of the council of europe. marty who. stated national security is actually. kind of instrument

and justification to high human rights violations and i think it might be also a case in poland where the whole investigation and publishing this is classified it's covered by state secrets see and this is why. the government. and prosecutor they don't want to disclose any information regarding this case. ok i believe it there for now a lawyer and a coordinator of cia observatory program thank you for your time today here in r.t. thank you very much. journalists are among britain's least trusted people according to a nationwide survey let's have a look at the source mori poll for more information on this what politicians in general came out worst a whopping seventy seven percent don't buy what they're saying but because they did slightly better two thirds of people are deeply suspicious of the surprise really

given the money troubles they've got in the public and but journalists of you don't most as trustworthy as bankers more than seventy percent of people in britain no longer believe in them will turn the guzzling who's an investigative journalist himself told r.t. as kevin owen it's not the reporters or the bosses who are to blame. the first thing i'll say is this probably expect me to say this is not the fault of journalists because the people who actually control the media really are not the journalists themselves journalists are hired and fired by the managers and boy bosses vaal papers the senior staff well it is actually and it's the owners as well i mean it's been one of the byproducts of the financial crisis has been very handy for some because the become much much easier to hire and fire journalists and so what's happening is the media is concentrating in the fewer and fewer hands and these owners are basically using their outlets to push to peddle their own

political line ideas being basically if you're a journalist like me you know don't rock the boat you might end up on the dole you know you've got wife and kids to feed ok right so generally just standing for this people feel that media is all too frequently lying to them starting as you see it in britain is that a fair assessment or is it overblown. well i think it's overblown to say the law it's just that we're not told the entire truth i mean for example in denmark about ten years ago one of the news presenters was actually sacked for being on the news and saying at the end of the news that is what we decided to tell you tonight as a bit of a joke but you know there is a lot that isn't being said in our media i mean the b.b.c. is losing its credibility slowly ever since really the one nine hundred ninety s. because of the way it's been being managed not through the fall of the journalist but i mean for example the moment we've got the chairman of the b.b.c.'s chris patten he's a former senior conservative cabinet minister you know he's coming from a very specific point of view i mean i don't really think he should have people

without political persuasion or any x. you know senior politicians running the b.b.c. and of course the result is being things like the savile scandal of coming out but nobody is actually being sacked for that. there are conflicting reports over whether a french family who were abducted on holiday in cameroon on tuesday had been freed in nigeria the news was first announced by french minister who they to back tracked an official from cameroon also denied it or present alone says the four children and three adults were seized by the new taurus is in this group of her reports that the hostages were rescued off the french special forces tracked them down cameroon that way they were seized as a former french colony just like money which intervention continues geopolitical expert ken stone doubts france's liberation intentions in the region saying it's only fueling extremism. the former new york colonial powers are once again flexing

their muscles and they're starting to reach back into into yugoslavia into iraq or . 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 the main export is your aim and that's very important to the french we have a twenty first century race for colonies beginning so 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. and russian scientists have had another huge glimpse into a prehistoric past of discovering the remains of a mammoth in the caucasus it's thought the area could hold more skeletons of the animals which became extinct tens of thousands of years ago well it is with a culture never a zone the trade and joins us now live in the studio with one of the finest thing all carry it was an inside beer and like many would have thought actually it happened in russia's north caucasus now the discovery was made to be cut in about cairo region which is a very mountainous area and also home to alibre set which is europe's highest peak now during the seasonal snow thaw landslides and it's these landslides that can reveal what's been buried deep in the ground and that's exactly what happened and they don't know much about exactly what they found the history of it are suppose

well local research just say that these are the remains of the south and moment now of that animal lived in europe and central asia as some two and a half million years ago which was around the time the ice age began they were huge animals four metres tall and also known by their cruel tusk they lost their african homeland and migrated to eurasia and their last resort is widely seen as what is now south in russia which should also say that out of food seven skeletons that were found in the world three were found in russia amazing stuff but what are they actually going to do with it all when they finally dug it up and cleaned it off it said that will parts going to get well research a say that fast of all they have to date antacid but the most interesting part of the story is that. there could be more remains close by and here we're talking about a whole cemetery of prehistoric animals and i've lived in the north caucasus and

i've reported from the north caucasus and i can tell you the locals in a regular basis find different fossils bones fragments that can actually date back millions of years while exciting stuff is made in the course of a thank you for that. moving on up data verse from other world news now and there's more misery for air travelers in spain stuff but i barrier are still on strike and staged a rally in the. thousands of workers airline merger with british airways and twenty seven. bosses are targeting the loss making deep cuts hundreds of flights have been grounded are expected to cross the struggling millions of euros in lost revenue. well gary is entire government may have resigned or protests have lost another steam thousands marched across

a field to the parliament building as did supporters of the now outgoing prime minister a mass resignation followed more than a week of angry nationwide demonstrations in the us country it was sparked by energy price rises a sturdy measures and well in living standards. the detective leading the oscar pistorius murder case is also facing serious charges both is accused of seven counts of attempted murder of the claims he and two other officers drunkenly opened fire on a minibus in twenty five and he took the witness stand again on thursday but could be removed from the investigation into why a paralympian pistorius greatly shot his girlfriend reeva steenkamp last week. the muslim brotherhood has been expanding its political presence in jordan becoming the kingdom's most viable opposition movement is the most organization has gained acceptance within the ruling maleki its humanitarian work winning over some of the

population but as reports many locals worry about the possibility of life on the organizations islamic rule. 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. 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 monarchies 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 promised jordan would soon become part of the muslim caliph it. victory is. this logic state 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. i have a lot of concerns that 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 treat from its traditional role in helping communities now it's too focused on getting poll. 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 their evolution. we have. so that we can. see 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 you see coughing up r t amman jordan coming up banker baiting champion max keiser stay with us.