tonight on r t fifty three people are dead after a series of explosions rocks the syrian capital the ruling party's headquarters at the russian embassy suffered damage in those blasts. the adoptive mother of a three year old russian boy says his tragic death a month ago was an accident russia wants child abuse allegations probe further while officials still await autopsy results. and likes out britain faces the prospect of energy shortages as e.u. regulations force the u.k. to search for power over sea. hello good evening it's ten pm here in moscow my name is kevin owen it's good to

have you company tonight our top story of a series of explosions rocked the syrian capital today the state news agency says fifty three people were killed and more than two hundred injured in the most powerful bomb blast it also caused severe damage shattering windows and sending a cloud of smoke above the city there says the free syrian army opposition groups now given hezbollah are a forty eight hour deadline to stop shelling its locations from neighboring lebanon our middle east correspondent paula sleazier 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 where regular troops are stationed this is also not far from the russian embassy according to eyewitnesses there was some gunfire after the blast that seemed to come from the vicinity of the russian embassy compound and the building there now both government and opposition forces are confirming that. pace but we are hearing from opposition fighters and opposition sources and activists that they

work least two other similar ten years explosions we have no independent confirmation of those at this stage state media is reporting that there has been many casualties hail core 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 firefighters that are dancing dozens of 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 that 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 his bill of militants near the lebanese border so far has been has not officially responded to this thread but it certainly has all the regional implications that 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 posties today and there is no response it also seems to present a sonali 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 the thrifts. follow policy on twitter for regular updates on what's happening in the region she's posting on developments in syria and the repercussions for its neighbors to the. artist was speaking exclusively to the main mediator in the syrian conflict heard some harsh comments the u.n. peace envoy lakhdar brahimi said the problem is not over the two sides playing the

blame game but that the opposition is refusing dialogue is a preview of his exclusive interview coming. only problem is in assad and he not stepping down. is a lot of both. in syria i think the president is syria's important role this is for. the. other world that's not what you believe when you're saying maybe talking to the government but not the president directly. the problem is only in one man bashar al assad himself the problem is that the opposition is. five minutes they don't want to talk about. this is the problem is his future in his own hands at this point should it be in his own hands i'm talking about our side. of the.

full interview with him you'll be out on friday here on r.t. now let's get more the situation in syria from political activist danny mackie's juris of the line from london done a good evening to thanks be with you recently returned from syria self with the west pushing for democratic change all this while but syrians enjoy enduring so much sorrow there is a democratic change going to come any time soon do you think what you see with your eyes. i mean i think there is much consensus among the syrian people and in syria that there has to be democratic change but there is a very big difference between democratic change from the grassroots level and what is being supported in funding by western countries in syria now what we see now is terrorism and people have to have to differentiate between a freedom fighter and a terrorist because what happened today was in fact it was jordan in the suicide bomber who blew himself up today and killed up to three people and injured over two hundred so this is an issue which faces syrians on a daily basis and it's not necessarily to say it's terrorism which strikes people

killed civilians i mean it is there is exposure to it was outside a school which killed lots of schoolchildren it should receive condemnation from all countries and ours and we have to understand that this is a place but there are individual cases which meet which need commentates because indeed individually speaking the fact that this happened outside a school in a residential area should really gauge condemnation from lots of countries however i do not think this is a part of him ocracy i think in fact this is a pocket to a failed state the west want democracy in syria but this is a thousand is not the way to go about it and done it while you're on the line the worries tonight as we've been reporting about maybe a new front opening up now the free syrian army is apparently giving this full dado a deadline is ultimatum to hezbollah to stop shelling it do you think it's going to kick off. i really don't think that's going to kick off i think the free syrian army didn't like the hegemony in lebanon and they lack the military capabilities to really struggle with hezbollah are who are essentially a state within

a state and who are the strongest military power in lebanon i mean this is the same thing as barlow who defeated is wrote in two thousand the state so it's very unlikely that the militia like the free syrian army would be able to challenge their own literally there is a worry in lebanon though may be about creep over the borders and their war creepers they put it it's itself divided over the civil war next door in syria if you think there is a danger of the war spilling over into lebanon of course especially with the syrian crisis there is a danger of it spilling of course borders to iraq or lebanon or even turkey i think the biggest problem in lebanon is that some of the western countries are really trying to pit one of the islamist movements against each other the sunni f.s.a. against the shia is a lot it's essentially a policy of divide and conquer which has been instigated media wise by the way to create divisions the fractures within our syrian lebanese society and this is an issue which they're working on today by p. think the f.s.a. against hezbollah they create more division and tension between syria and lebanon and we've seen with the recent conflict in tripoli in northern lebanon that the

syria crisis is not successfully in syria and syria is the linchpin of the reason of the region and there is great tension both in syria and lebanon and there is great fear and anxiety that the struggle in syria could spill into lebanon and will cause understand that lebanon had their own civil war which was very lucky hundreds of thousands so negative it's very scared at this moment of the syria crisis turning into a lebanese crisis now monday syria said it's prepared to talk to the armed opposition groups so it's long dismissed as terrorists is this a positive change on the way because previously assad said he wouldn't talk to these people i mean for any state terrorism inside of a country is a red line which cannot be crossed we cannot accept terrorism in any country in the world whether we syria america britain or russia or any other country. however there has to be a level of negotiations and dialogue internally speaking so at least have a ceasefire or. a little bit of. it down kind of an attempt at the

violence on the ground there has to be a level of openness between the syrian government and between the rebel forces maybe to instigate change exchanges of prison ceasefire that's not the reason in the area so long eight three pts areas which are the river will control these are all issues which have to be negotiated for and it shows that the syrian government is not taking the part of an intransigent government they truly do want to see diplomacy and dido soap it and the fact that they're willing to negotiate with these armed groups signifies a change of policy in terms of they comprehend that there can be no military solution and that any solution which comes within the syria crisis at this current moment in time is that there has to be a political solution to stop the suffering of the people and to find a real exit a negotiated settlement in this ongoing crisis appreciate in full force tonight thanks for joining us on the line from london much appreciated thank you very much thank you still to come here on r.t. with me kevin no internet either leap of faith in jordan support for the muslim

brotherhood this and it's worrying many about the islamist organizations of growing influence in the kingdom and the details on that just bit later in the program. next though the mother of a three year old russian boy she's adopted claims his death was an accident russia still not satisfied though with the investigation information coming from america live tell us correspondent marina porter hi marina thanks for being with us as but exactly a month since he died in the u.s. yet still not much is know why this. that's right four weeks following the death of little maxime and no arrests have been made in texas officials have disclosed very little while they say there are they are awaiting autopsy results now what police officials have said so far is that max was last seen alive playing outside with outside of his home with his two year old brother his youngest brother on the afternoon of january twenty first according to police

his adoptive mother claims she went inside and when she came back outside max was on for sponsored by that time police say that by the time police say they arrived at the home max was already being transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead just one hour later now investigators say they question laura shot his adoptive mother at the hospital while deputies allegedly searched and photographed the home the scene of where max was last seen alive now alan and laura shatto adopted knox and his younger brother creole from russia in november his adoptive mother says that maxime's death was an accident moscow officials however believe that laura shatto physically abused three year old max and also fed him psychotropic drugs that were intended to street schizophrenia in adults now combine those two actions moscow officials believe that it was at the hands of his

adoptive parents that max lost his life. but we have information that. had been severely beaten. before death or. possibly he had been. maybe killed but he was. going to come other. russian authorities say that they are waiting to see how the investigation turns out and to be fully informed about the proceedings and the outcome of the investigation but russian investment russian officials believe that if the probe finds that maxine was killed that those responsible should be brought to justice knox is the twentieth russian child to have died in the custody of an american adoptive family in the past seventeen years one of the most well known recent cases

is the key surrounding d.-ma yakovlev which took place in two thousand and eight that young boy was left in a car by his adoptive father for eight or nine hours the temperature inside that car was about thirty two degrees celcius as a result that little russian boy died when his father was tried in court his father was his adoptive american father was found not guilty that case prompted moscow officials to adopt a new legislation that recently imposed a ban on american adoptions that move was harshly criticized for right now tensions clearly are escalating between moscow and washington over the way that russian adoptive children are being looked after here in the united states because we're keeping a close eye on it going to put a correspondent in new york from thank you very much. bill so good news from a group which works for the safety will be children could he told us he believes

much seems death puts american adoption firmly back in the spotlight again. 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 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. soon from journalist to black let's not talk about me talking about the u.k.'s maybe a getting a thumb down from the nationwide poll that's being carried out a bit later than find out who was the why british reporters popularity has taken

a nosedive but. also two mamas remains are discovered in the caucasus by a russian archaeologist we dig deep into those details right after this break.

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hello again britain my struggle to keep the lights on in a few years for the country's energy regulates a warning now that is coming dangerously close to power shortages household bills are like a skyrocket because more fuel need to be brought in from abroad that's because the a u pollution regulations mean coal fired stations will have to close small than. in london. not good news for consumers here in britain after all they've been warned once again that their energy bills are 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 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 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 and the water so you know this is really hitting families here in the u.k. 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'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 consumers could be i'm joined by richard welling from the institute of economic affairs thank you very much for joining us not gray. for consumers we have heard that we're going to be relying more on imports but at the same time you know when we're trying to meet our climate change targets we need to get those operating power plants off the case system so now going yes 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 to nine million within just three years and the problem is of course by having higher energy prices in this country 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 and you mentioned china and india the government has said don't panic and fear 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 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 the third a very controversial debate affecting millions of house of all across the and it looks like the debate around britain's energy both to be hated and continue. cerf earth reporting well with energy bills soaring then there's more worrying news for britain's taxpayers isn't there the cash from the u.k.'s foreign aid budget may now be diverted to military operations instead we hear as the proposal of prime minister david cameron is very open to the idea the green light snow on the for the aid money to be used in three areas then security the mobilization and peacekeeping well in london to talk to us is geo political analyst patrick henningsen patrick about your please about this europe british taxpayer of course you're going to be one of the people one of the millions paid for it but you're also an expert in the field what do you think about this grand plan. well let's look and read between the lines the tax the money that we're talking about is already been spent in other words that the money that the government collects in taxes is already is already

spoken for what the british government is doing here is it going exactly the way of the american model which is to put the country into government into debt in order to fund these various foreign aid projects or military aid civically so if all this really is these pledges of foreign aid are essentially bail out for the arms industry and the security industry or the money for them or is it more the to david cameron the conscience is being pricked he said this is all about moral responsibility he's got a moral responsibility to tackle poverty and world security you don't buy into that the know well it's over this is a moral responsibility that david cameron is exercising by selling arms to the sri lankan regime it's been guilty of a brutal genocide ethnic cleansing absolute mass killing against the tamil. people who are seeking autonomy that's what the british government is doing as far

as morality goes but basically what cameron's using the very language of the globalist here and those who are in leadership positions who are in favor of a down the road a world government or a large a sort of regional government but but how is a lot of because when you look at this if the suggestion is is to spend not on combat missions but on peacekeeping missions there's nothing wrong with that is if you can afford it. yeah well i've seen the exact same words coming out of the mouth of bill clinton barack obama george bush and david cameron only three four weeks ago at the conference in lagos nigeria said that he admits that much of the foreign aid that british government's been doling out is being wasted or ends up in quote the wrong hands so i was he going to fix that reality the one that he himself has admitted to so i wonder which countries are going to be first in line to benefit from this set. well you know the thing is you know we we we in

american and british gloom merican embarq we are responsible for the majority of these conflicts flaring up in this unrest flaring up in places like africa the middle east in asia we're backing military juntas and we're also fueling the fire of conflict around the world so it's a bit of a galeon flip to come in and say we're also going to provide you with the solutions to these problems you know in the way of foreign aid there's some big firms lobbying to get on what's called the foreign aid gravy train and the military a gravy train is a huge one and there's these firms are lobbying government to get in there to supply things because their bills invoices will be paid by the government is there such a thing to go to british troops in afghanistan. well you know the british troops are having trouble getting kevlar vests and some of the basic requirements that they need to do their job around the world and or put who put in their own lives on

the line or maybe for the country britain but they're not getting what they need you know i spoke to an m.p. from mozambique recently who said that we're not interested in any aid any foreign aid they see foreign aid as a trap and so you might see down the road some of these countries speaking out against these globalist policies as being the targets of of destabilization in the future and there's good against the economy i want to it so he or she children george osborne's got to make of it you think he'll a great success but announcing cuts to the armed forces well you know. what you have to look at you know this is a lot of people aren't aware that britain in france signed a franco british military pact which is a long term impact looking ahead fifty years so already we're seeing the borders dissolve the sort of the form of nato and the sort of regional governments and regional military forces were police if you will or are coming into effect and that

those agreements have been signed behind closed doors that was not done in on it and it was a agreement made behind closed doors so there's already moves afoot to change the scope of what we see now is nation states acting as a nation states and we're seeing something completely different for the future i think people need to take a very close look at what's going on and what their political leaders are up to in this department to pitch landless special tennyson's thank you for being on the line from london thank you. now something completely different as they say russian scientists have out another huge literally glimpse into a prehistoric past after discovering the remains of a mammoth it's thought the area could hold more skeletons of the animals as well which became extinct tens of thousands of years ago but only a colleague carrie johnson spoke with in a culture who's on earth more details about this amazing five. it wasn't siberia where they found it like many would have thought actually happen in

russia's north carcasses now the discovery was made and week about it in about a region which is a very mountainous area and also home to alberta's 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 that well first of all research us will have to date and task 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 there so we'll wait and see what kind of prehistoric treasure troves the carcasses could be and i've lived in the caucasus 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. who knows indeed we just had a few steps for avoiding the cia secret prisons as an investigation in poland

flounders the fords say prosecutors are about to drop charges against the country's former intelligence chief suspected of allowing america to run torture jails in the country talk about that soon also to good as gold as many people know choosing to invest in the precious metal to weather the financial storm we took in ten minutes right up to the business use katie. katie philby. me most not just promo just no it isn't it. just party stings that he is indeed eco friendly yet he's going to be that he's going to be singing a leo is so interesting because he's always going on about how he loves the environment and obviously its biggest gas company so i say no more on that one has to pay and it. seems line of it. well also one of it's in the bottom of. the president roster of coals so it could be a big haul to say the kind we're not invited so i don't mind yeah we're here but

we're going to be telling you all about it the business person off the break habits do that. if you have a business than you need customers right this is perhaps the simplest law of capitalism but if your business is making juvenile prisons how are you going to attract more customers by bribing judges into condemning innocent children so you'll have all of the captives i mean customers that you need to charge mark silva jr from pennsylvania has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for illegally accepting money from a juvenile prison developer the pennsylvania supreme court determined that he may have unlawfully convicted the five thousand youths some of former as young as ten years old for crimes they didn't commit this is obviously sickening a total exploitation of power but the thing we need to think about is the fact that

the us has by far the world's largest prison population and a booming prison industry it leads me to believe that maybe this one scumbag judge from pennsylvania isn't the only one out there abusing his power if you see a prison full of kids near you you better make sure that they're actually baby guilty of something but that's just my opinion. sigrid laboratory in the kirby was able to build the most sophisticated robot which on secretly doesn't do the doing about anything tunes mission to teach creation and

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choose the access to your office. hello there welcome to business wall street house may enjoy a five year high since twenty thirty but now that there is a chance the federal reserve could stop pumping cash into the system is the policy about to come to an abrupt end such peaks are enjoyed back in two thousand and eight just before the global financial system came crashing down with catastrophic consequences as you can see the situation right now on the mall kids is not really a far cry from what was happening right before the recession hit now the comparison is evident to what was happening back in two thousand and eight so what is happening today now the dax the biggest economy in germany most mainland european stocks are also following the same trend as the dow the footsie is doing its own

thing right now so the question is are investors and global finance ministers ignoring another huge bubble and is it set to bust well that's exactly what i also markets just just capital today. bubble yes i think we're heading that way i think pin ended liquidity program with central banks leave the quality taps open and leave the door wide open for more more liquidity or ultimately on the run in the long term perspective would lead to. inflated asset prices it could be a stress balance sheet for the fed housing bubble and also a commodity price bubble ok will talking of headaches let's mention europe now because it's been a choppy week. full year rise and absolutely p.m.i. coming out today how do you see the situation in the short term is the recession

deepening. the eurozone is in the struggle for the next six months i think we all know that the e.c.b. chief mario draghi is highlighted that. at this particular point the the picture is very cloudy and so there is pure my deficit just that the recession may be deepening and may not. really kick in place until the end of two thousand and thirteen and if we continue seeing weak economic data from the eurozone then we may have to rule out a recovery in two thousand and thirteen cases just to conclude now you don't physically another two thousand and eight global recession. no i at this particular point no i think there are two two big risks that could ignite such out of a vent and i would have to be illumined type catastrophe and i would have to be a spanish exit from the euro zone or a spanish bailout or a more political instability in the if we do see silvio berlusconi take

after this weekend's election that that's reading in a pushup those boring cost but spain italy and that would force the hand of these governments to request bailouts from the c b or even an exit and that's the same case with the with the u.s. the sequester the showdown in the spending budget spending cuts sorry the divide in washington between two parties if we continue seeing that divide and the fact that they're not. coming to grips with the remainder of the fiscal cliff there's still a lot to do before us politicians then we may be at a point where we could dip back into negative growth or we may see a recession. ok well we can see how u.s. stocks are performing right now so most stocks are indeed trading in the red and it's the minutes from the f o m c meeting that really illustrated a split over the central bank's more than three easing program that is really pulling down any kind of optimism that we had earlier on in the week also domestic news coming out the u.s. labor department reported that the number of people applying for unemployment

benefits jumped as well last week europe is also responding to the conflict across the pond and digesting domestic data too with business in the european union slowing in february which suggests the trend could continue through two twenty five thirty s. exactly what investors are worried about right now and as you should be able to see we've got the russian ruble actually losing out to the common currency and the u.s. dollar just exactly what happened mid week here in moscow as far as the russian currency is concerned and all that booming going really played into the moscow markets actually they settled the day in the ragin the fact that oil prices are also heading south is not much for helping either particularly for the energy dependent stocks here. moving on russia's gas major gas brum is having a huge no expense they party to celebrate twenty years of pumping out gas so it's

probably no surprise that russian president vladimir putin will be there to congratulate the landmark event but a surprise guest is eco friendly british rock star sting but as. of course they may not really have much to celebrate at all anyway. legendary putin and rock star stating that will help the gas from celebrate its twentieth birthday although it's interesting that the british singer who's well known for his save for the college of cake is now accepting a gig from the old largest gas producer i guess it's hard to resist a big payday gas from has reportedly blown two million dollars on its birthday bash but is such extravagance justified yes as the world's biggest gas producer with a developed pipeline network and vos to untapped resources in the arctic above the company is now facing challenges and watching its earnings shrink the gas from his

main problem is depressed economic growth only its main markets europe last year gazprom pumped its percent last gas to the continent and that's despite its price discounts and even a symon blue best friend and partner in thailand and it has started a new round of contracts revising and may even challenge a gas pump through arbitration in all other parts of the world shale gas revolution and new suppliers of unconventional gas do not help and even at home gas from is now facing competition from the falsely expanding independent gas producer lower tech as well as paid drug rosneft both firms are now claiming l. and g. experts writes that way soon and gas problems monopoly so bad news are piling up old things both the boy gas from is now worth just over one hundred billion dollars the cheapest among global peers on the stock market. i hope business news from

a two hour was out today i'll be back yes oh no party for you to go to you stick around with us you won't go far wrong because you got plenty coming up thanks katie you can stick around to coming up soon in just a couple of minutes why britain's journalists getting a public slap why two it's good to go gold it's the next few minutes. 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 realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. choose your language. of holy week over the internet real conversational some of.

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canada. operations today please look. hello again journalists are among britain's least trusted people it seems according to a nationwide survey let's take a look at this source of henri paul it's bad news for a british colleagues apparently you know here we go seventy two percent politicians in general came worse though if that makes them feel better whopping seventy seven percent of people don't buy what they have to say bankers only did slightly better but i guess no surprise there three quarters of people are deeply suspicious of

their no surprise really given the money troubles they've currently landed the public in but back to the journalist they're viewed almost as untrustworthy as bankers with more than seventy percent of people in britain no longer believe in what they got to say well i spoke to tony goes thing about this he's an investigative journalist himself he told me that it's not the journalists that are to blame it's their bosses. 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 result is being things like the savile scandal of coming out but nobody is actually being sacked for that. prosecutors in poland reportedly said to drop charges against the country's former intelligence chief stemming from

allegations the cia was allowed to run a secret prison in the country it was the first high profile official of any nation to be prosecuted of the so-called black sites lawyer aminah parker who coordinates the cia observatory program told us national security is widely used often as an excuse for human rights violations. there is a very interesting the records of the council of europe the marty who are who say the national security is actually. kind of instrument and justification to hide human rights violations and i think it might be also a case in poland where the whole investigation published in this edition is sick classified it's covered by state secrecy and this is why. the government. and prosecutor office they don't want to disclose any information regarding this case. as the recession bites and currency wars continue

there's one safe haven assets gold is growing in popularity is the savings method of choice for more and more people is peter all of the reports sometimes all it glitches is gold those who deal in the mess all say it's importance today to be stated in crisis when you have come some prizes some monetary prizes gold and silver every time as a security for the 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 a lot of people see buying gold as something only the rich can do we get customers who i reach poor women 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 that can dispense it whatever you need it. here's why greed

and fear is a very powerful combination of fear of her demise of all paper money. but your alone or paper money. and if that actually happens that will trigger praise three where everybody has to go into gold because they will feel that. that their paper money will be rough worth while reason behind swapping currency for carrots could be more stock 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 are always getting the right notes. that sending europeans on the hunt for metal that matters peter all of the r.t. germany small world news now tonight twin explosions a central hydrabad in india have killed at least eleven people or wounded at least

fifty more the civil taney as blast meters away from each other eight people died in the first bombing while the other attack claimed three lives the devices were attached to bicycles which are left in a crowded marketplace all major cities nationwide now are on high alert. in the very heart of the e.u. in brussels this is what belgian workers think it will stir tens of thousands turned out to demand better job security more than double the number expected like most european countries belgians been tightening its belt to try to survive the economic crisis gripping the. nearly two thousand palestinians of march to an israeli prison in support of hunger strikers in jail but it descended into riots when security forces tried to disperse the crowds eventually resorting to rubber bullets and tear gas and march follows a high court refusal to hear a petition for parole from one of the striking prisoners the public anger is mainly focused on claims that the inmates are in a critical condition and were wrongfully detained in the first place. the muslim

brotherhood has been expanding its political presence in jordan becoming the kingdom's most viable opposition movement indeed the years when mr organizations gained acceptance within the ruling monarchy with its humanitarian work winning over some of the population but as you see cafe off reports next 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. leave because in a future they will destroy but i cannot deny that it. may be if i don't word all is covered by islamic brothers. we are afraid. of the mass of the

religious political little. 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 to promise jordan would soon become part of the muslim caliph it rejoice. victory is. in islam it states will be created on this subject 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 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 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 that if syria if the revolution succeeds. and 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 captain of r t amman jordan. i'm kevin i know you're just a few minutes away from or the world's biggest stories here with r t international

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