fifty three people are dead after a series of explosions rock the syrian capital the ruling party's headquarters in the russian embassy suffered damage in the blasts. the adoptive mother of a three year old russian boy says his tragic death a month ago was an accident russia wants child to be solid geishas probed further a lot of officials still await autopsy results. and lights out britain faces the prospect of energy shortages even regulations force the u.k. to search for overseas.

news in comment this is. a series of explosions have rocked the syrian capital the state news agency says fifty three people were killed and more than two hundred injured in the most powerful of the bomb blasts and also caused severe damage shattering windows and sending a cloud of smoke above the city well this is the free syrian army opposition group has given has been our forty eight hour deadline to stop shelling its locations from neighboring lebanon or middle east correspondent paula slip has the details. 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 they was 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 are hearing from opposition fighters and opposition sources and activists that they work east to other similar tenuous explosions we have no independent confirmation of this at this stage state media is reporting that there has been many casualties they are courting that a suicide bombing that was carried out to quote by terrorists there are also reports as of yet unconfirmed that all four of these 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 ball costing 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 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 lebanese

political party has been now the ultimatum says that his bill that needs to stop shelling free syrian army controlled areas or otherwise it will retaliate it follows civil days of clashes between syrian rebels and his bill of militants near the lebanese border so far has been has not officially responded to this thread but it certainly has more regional implications and we're now seeing this kind of conflict between two warring factions on either side of the border and at the same time if indeed the. ultimatum possible today and there is no response it also seems to present a sonali in which you have assumed 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 the threats. they can follow up on us they're on twitter for regular updates on what's happening in the region he's posting on developments in syria and the repercussions for its neighbors when

the free syrian army will actually attack has been out in the open and remains an open question as middle east expert tai-chi explained to me out there there is often worse than their bite but worth it to do that they would be dealing with a totally different entity than be deal with in syria because hezbollah is a popular mass organization with the support of a very sizable section of the lebanese population and watched that going to be going to be to reopen the wounds of previous civil wars in lebanon which no one wants neither has the law nor its opponents and backer don't forget the last attempt to crush a split i was made by these release who invaded lebanon on bombed bare root tried to crush but suffered reverses themselves the recent attack was and the syrian government. it was a introduce stabilize it further they should be

a political settlement that this ugly stalemate should not be allowed to continue. any longer and they're both saner elements within the opposition should sit down and see what's going to be sorted out even at this late it late stage because if this doesn't happen the war will expand as we are seeing into lebanon on and then anything's possible. well still to come here in r.t. a leap of faith in jordan support for the muslim brotherhood is getting there and it's learning many about that is the most organizations growing influence in the kingdom details on that later in the program. rush or is demanding more clarity of the investigation into how a three year old's adopted boy died a month ago in the u.s. is adoptive mother says maxime's death was an accident moscow suspects that he was abused by the american family when okla fishel zero claim it's too early for

conclusions autism society canaries in texas. twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas much seen close me and known to locals as max shadow just what i heard on the news what was just the kid had some scratches. that's all i know three year old moxie him 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. even unfortunately it's usually months after a russian child has die 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 flow paced on 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 a thorough and arty actor county texas. vein is from a group which works for the safety and well being of children in care he believes that maxime's death let's american adoption firmly in the spotlight in general we can say that the adoption system itself is a failure especially in america where the federal government has no control over what actually happens. 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 time 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 them off marty sara first in 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 stock of jenn and he said that a fall in the u.k.'s power production capacity got wherever nubile energy market hasn't quite caught up yet kid be set those even higher as we rely more and more

on energy imports i want to put this in context the because the debate around energy those here in the u.k. has been raging on for years we've had control the 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 on 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 at the same time it was we've 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 can seem as could be i'm joined by richard welling from the institute of economic affairs thank you very much for joining us not gray. nice for consumers we have heard that we're going to be relying more on imports but at the same time you know what 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 exports economic activity to country such as china and india so the effects of overall effect on climate change lies very small so you actually could end up being counterproductive even to 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 we're moving ourselves in the risk of way by you know looking towards renewable energy non-fossil fuel types eventually 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 it's a major competitive disadvantage that's a third of 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 hated and continue . well from journalist to blacklist the u.k.'s media gets a thumbs down from the public a nationwide poll trying to find out who came out to my parents from want to open that he's taken a nosedive. and mammoth remains out discovering the caucuses by russian archaeologists we dig into the details off the break.

download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. welcome back more international stories for you now well journalists are among the britons at least trusted people according to a nationwide survey let's have

a look at the mori poll that the details behind this here politicians in general it came out worst. a whopping seventy seven percent of you don't buy what they're saying bankers only did slightly better three quarters of people are deeply suspicious of them no surprise really given the money troubles they've landed the public in recently where journalists are viewed almost as untrustworthy as bankers if more than seventy percent seventy five they're simply two percent i should say of people in britain no longer believing them either well tony gosling is an investigative journalist himself says their bosses are the ones to play. it's not the fault of journalists because the people actually control the media really are not the journalists themselves journalists are hired and fired by the managers and boy editors of newspapers the senior staff one of the by products of the financial crisis has been very handy for some because the it's been 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 peddle their own political line and it's very difficult to tell the truth the idea being basically if you're a journalist like me you know don't rock the boat you might end up on the dole so if you blow and say they're lying 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 results being things like the savile scandal of coming out but nobody is actually being sacked for that. about fly on the wall might have more to it than you think online we have details of the american air force is the size drones will be able to fly and spy and carry out deadly targeted missions. also on the web site of a dish prime minister david cameron says he's open to channeling money for overseas aid into the military budget he says it's for peacekeeping operations story altie dot com. prosecutors in poland reportedly set to drop charges against the country's former intelligence chief stemming from other gay sions that the cia was and how to run a secret prison in the country he was the first high profile official of any nation to be prosecuted for the so-called black sites. who coordinates the cia observatory

program says national security is widely used as an excuse for human rights violations there is a very interesting the records 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 a case in poland where the whole investigation published in this edition is classified it's covered by state secrecy and this is why. the government. and prosecutor they don't want to disclose any information regarding this. russian scientists had another huge glimpse into a pretty story after discovering the remains of a mammoth it's the area could hold more skeletons of the atoms which became extinct

tens of thousands of years ago i spoke to our culture that he's on the new details about the amazing find. it wasn't siberia where they found it like many would have thought actually happened in russia's north caucasus now the discovery was made and become bodies in about a region which is a very mountainous area and also home to al bruce europe's highest peak now during the seasonal snow saw landslides occur and it's these landslides that can reveal what's been burry deep in the ground and that's exactly what happened local researches say that these are the remains of the south and mamma's now that animal lived in europe and central asia as some two and a half million years ago which was around the time b. ice age began they were huge animals four meters tall and also known for its curled tusks their laughter african homeland and migrated to eurasia and their last resort

is widely seen as what is now self and russia we should also say that out of seven full mammal skeletons that were found in the world three were found in russia well what are they going to do with all these remains well first of all research us will have to date and toughs them but the most interesting part here is that they believe that there could be many more remains close by. the side have been finding pieces of bone vertebrae for many decades some of them used to vertebrates that gives you an idea how large it is one theory suggests that all mammals became extinct at the same time so we may have found an entire graveyard where they were all together before. so we'll wait and see what kind of prehistoric treasure troves because this could be and i've lived in the caucus as and i've reported from the north caucasus and i can tell you it's a place that's really dripping in history which parts of which have been remained

untouched for thousands of years and who knows what it actually holds. now some other world news that twin explosions in central hyderabad in india have killed at least fifteen people and wounded dozens more to cinemas were damaged in the blasts local media say one of the bombs was attached to a motorcycle while the second was located in a small container argue about in new delhi are now on high alert. more misery for air travelers in spain staff at iberia are on strike for second day running of staged a rally in madrid against a plan to make off dozens of workers the airline merged with british airways in twenty seven and ten base bosses are targeting the loss making tariff deep cuts hundreds of flights have been grounded expected to cost the struggling millions of euros and lost revenue. and a two thousand palestinians have marched to an israeli prison in support of hunger

strikers in jail not to descend into riots when security forces try to disperse the crowds eventually resorting to rubber bullets and tear gas. follows a hike or a fusil to herrick leticia in for parole from one of the striking prisoners to the public anger is mainly focused on claims the inmates were a little condition were wrongfully detained. it's active in charge of the oscar pistorius murder investigation has been taken off the case because it was revealed that in both their faces seven counts of attempted murder of the claims he and two other officers drunkenly opened fire on a minibus and twenty eleven he took the witness stand again on thursday before being removed off the probe into why paralympian pistorius fatally shot his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. the muslim brotherhood has been expanding its political presence in jordan becoming the kingdom's most viable

opposition movement is mr organization has gained acceptance within the ruling monica it's humanitarian work winning over some of the population that is loosely tough enough reports many locals worry about the possibility of living life under 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 and when they feel that this is. because in a future they will destroy but i can admit i do think that maybe if all is covered by islamic brothers. we are afraid. of the mass of the

religious. 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. so. 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 saeed to promise jordan would soon become part of the muslim caliph it rejoice. victory is. that hand. and islamic state will be created on this land good can prevail five 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 in their recent rise in egypt. 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 that if syria if the revolution succeed in syria we have. so that we. 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. the climate change protest brings out tens of thousands of people in the u.s. capital was largely ignored by president obama after much more uneasy nor by the mainstream media up next in breaking the set stay with us.

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