this is r t tonight fifty three are dead after a series of explosions rocks the syrian capital the ruling party's headquarters and the russian embassy suffered damage in the blasts. deductive 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 though while officials still await autopsy results. like britain faces the prospect of energy shortages as e.u. regulations force the u.k. to search for power over sea. good evening live from moscow this is r t it's eleven pm here now we appreciate your company my name's kevin now in so our top stories you just heard

a series of explosions rocked the syrian capital 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 this as the free syrian army meantime the opposition group has given has bill our forty eight hour deadline now to stop shelling its locations from neighboring lebanon our middle east correspondent paula sleep here as 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 at 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 east to either so moved ten years explosions we have no independent confirmation of this at

this stage state media is reporting that there has been many casualties they all called 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 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 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 his bill that 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 ruled 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 passes today and there is an over sponsor 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 their threats and you follow the 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 as well now it's he's been speaking exclusively to the main mediator in the syrian conflict and heard some harsh comments from him the un peace envoy lakhdar brahimi said the opposition's reluctance to make any concessions in the stands against the assad

regime is one of the roadblocks to peace is a preview of artes exclusive interview. we think the only problem is in assad and he not stepping down it is a lot of. who are involved school in syria. is syria's poor but. this is a first and the do you believe that's the problem because the world doesn't matter what you believe when you're saying maybe talking to the government but not the president directly. the problem is only in one man in bashar al assad himself. the opposition is. for a few minutes but they don't want to push and. this is his future in his own hands at this point should it be in his own hands and talk about assad i don't want to go

. all full interview on friday here on r.t. it's to come and whether the free syrian army will actually attack hezbollah in lebanon remains an open question tonight as middle east expert tariq ali explained to us. it's often worse than their bite but worth it to do that they would be dealing with a totally different entity than be a deal within syria because hezbollah is a popular mass organization with the support of a very sizable section of the lebanese population and watch that could do could be could be to reopen the wounds of previous civil wars in lebanon which no one wants neither has learned nor its opponents and that can create don't forget that the last attempt to crush a split i was made by these release who invaded lebanon on bombed bare root tried to brush it but suffered reverses themselves a recent attack was and the syrian government. it was aimed to

do stabilize it further they should be a political settlement that this ugly stalemate should not be allowed to continue. any longer and their first saner elements within the opposition should sit down and see what can 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. still to come here on r.t. a leap of faith in jordan's support for the muslim brotherhood surging there right now and it's worrying many about the islamist organizations growing influence in the kingdom talk about that later in the program. but next the mother of a three year old russian boy says she says she's adopted claims of his death was an accident it's a story been following all week of course russia still not satisfied though with the investigation information coming from america or u.s.

correspondent one point nine has the latest for you 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 for. 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 more a shot his adoptive mother at the hospital while deputies allegedly searched and photographed the whole alan and laura shatto adopted knox and his younger brother

carol from russia in november his adopted mother says that maxime's death was an accident moscow officials however believe that it was at the hands of his adoptive parents that mox lost his life we have information that. the boy had been severely beaten. before death or. conclusion that. he had been. maybe cuba 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 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

case 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. i was about thirty two degrees celcius as a result that little russian boy died when his father was tried in a court and 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 adopted children are being looked after here in the united states. funds from a group which works for the safety and well being of children k. told us he believes mike seems death puts american adoption firmly back into 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 who will actually happens in you know the options you need to have a proper system in place that chick's. adoptive parents much better before the you don't which has posts in monitoring all that is not really in place there is screaming but it's not properly done post adoption monitoring is impossible. especially in america it is impossible because a right to privacy coming up cash in all military at the expense of a did something being looted by british prime minister david cameron indeed he suggests siphoning some kushal from the foreign development budget to spend on peacekeeping operations instead you go to expert opinion to come on back in a few minutes from now. mamma for remains are discovered in the caucasus by russian archaeologists we dig deep into the details but after this break.

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enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch ati anytime anywhere. britain may struggle to keep the likes saw him in the coming years with the country's energy regulator warning that it's coming dangerously close to power shortages and household bills are likely to skyrocket to because more fuel will need to be brought in from abroad all this because a you pollution regulations mean coal fired stations have to close the sarah firth 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 store of jem and he said that

a fall in the u.k.'s power production capacity a gap where a nubile 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 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 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 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'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 great. need 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 to 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 you 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 flights which don't 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 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 and of course some us 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 households all across the cape and it looks like the debate around britain's energy both to be heated. sarah ferguson is british households and for more and more they might be interested to know what some of their cash is being mocked for same as money from the foreign aid budget that may be diverted to military operations prime minister david cameron says he's very open to the idea the green light now on for the aid money is to be used in three areas for security to mobilization and peacekeeping to political analyst patrick henderson told me the u.k.'s well harvey help the war torn countries being among those feeling the conflict in the first place what the british government is doing here is it going exactly the way of the american model which is to put the country and the government in order to fund these various

foreign aid projects or really terry eight specifically so if all it is really is these pledges of foreign aid are essentially bail out for the arms industry and the security industry glue merican imports were 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 gaily and flip to come in and say we're also going to provide you with the solutions to these problems in the way of foreign aid there's a big firms lobby to get on what's called the foreign aid gravy train and the military aid 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. but fly in the war might have more to it than you think if you check out what we've got to say about that online we have details of the american air forces later as

insecticide is drones that will be able to say to fly on the spot i carry deadly targeted missions also a squadron of unknown high kids may have forged shoulder to shoulder with washington cyber security experts to outstrip shiner on the cyber battlefield again more about the surprise alliance at r.t. dot com. prosecutors in poland reportedly set to drop charges against the country's former intelligence chief stemming 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 lawyer mina parker who coordinates the cia observatory program told us national security those widely used as an excuse often for human rights violations there is a very interesting the records of the council of europe the marty who are our

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 edition is to classified its primary by state secret c. and this is why. the government and police and prosecutor is they don't want to disclose any information regarding this. story of a big fine next literally russian scientists have heard another huge glimpse into our prehistoric past after discovering the remains of a mammoth it's thought the area around it as well could hold more skeletons of the animals which became extinct tens of thousands of years ago but earlier mccullagh carrie johnson spoke to artist medina cochon of those almost war details on about this amazing find. 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

the couple is in about a region which is a very mountainous area and also home to albertus 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 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 touch them but the most interesting part here is that they believe that there could be many more remains close by. really near the site have been finding pieces of bone vertebrae for many decades some of them used to vertebrate. 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 the caucus this 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. that's right who knows ok the world news few now twin explosions central hyderabad in india

killed at least eleven people wounded at least fifty more civil taney as blast happened within meters of each other eight people died in the first bombing while the other attack claimed three lives the devices are attached to bicycles which were left in a crowded marketplace all major cities nationwide. the very heart of the e.u. this is brussels and this is what belgian workers think of austerity apparently 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 survive the economic crisis gripping the continent. nearly two thousand palestinians of march to an israeli prison in support of hunger strike is in jail but it descends into riots when security forces are trying to disperse the crowds eventually resorting to rubber bullets and tear gas the march follows a high court refusal to hear a petition for parole from one of the striking prisoners but the public anger is mainly focused now on claims too 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 now the islamist organization is going to acceptance within the ruling monarchy with its humanitarian work winning over some of the population but. 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 with a. future they would destroy but . maybe if all is covered by islamic brothers.

we are afraid. of the mass of the religious political a little bit 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. this law mix 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 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. 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 that if syria if the revolution succeed in syria we have like egypt syria. 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 catherine of r t amman jordan. just ahead here again l.t. financial attack dog max kaiser takes on the banking big boys but after this break .

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