syria's prime minister survives that assess the nation to in the center of damascus a car bomb targeting him near a school and a kindergarten kills ten and injures thirteen. the prime minister of georgia says the may have been militant camps on his country's territory and it reports that one of the boston bombers received terrorist training their. bomb blast ripped through marketplaces and two of iraq's shia provinces killing nineteen in the latest escalation of the sectarian violence unrest that's gripping the country. and a russian couple wages a legal battle with u.s. social services after their five month old baby was seized following a visit to a doctor.

it's one pm in moscow you're watching r t with me marina josh. prime minister while and they're all healthy has survived an apparent assassination scam in central damascus the blast claimed the lives of at least ten people including a bodyguard and injured thirteen local correspondent joins us live now from damascus with the details well doug could you tell us more about the attack what exactly happened. on the way to the convoy of the prime minister is usually going from. his office usually the prime minister change the convoy with. the troops come on line to

another. because it's not to say that we will go with. science or mark on cold because. we have one up but you close to still the city because a lot of people more information and also. we have to mention. everyone here in the mosque. to go to kindergarten that's one of the biggest in the mosque and one of the. things that. the patient but usually. goes down then you come on the position with. the government that is the only thinking of the. social conversation you can we can mention something to see if they want to.

help in response from the some of them get up edition with me to do anything. while i'm gone how does this fit into the broader conflict between the government and rebel forces. actually now there's a big debate about that can be going on. around a good thing that. could be about different folk and so. that should be different because. we have to. change. some information and then. we have the bomb of doing something about this. and we have the prime. minister saying something about they are going. to look at meetings bring with. them to study. but if you're the one that comes to think put it.

against. the critical pieces you wanted democracy. which evolved to be to be done to control to. the. people to be noticeable on this issue. in festus. was seen from far too funny a baby which is in fact this is going on because up to now. we wanted to make. sure. that was always xeni thank you very much indeed for bringing us this update now for more on what just happened we're following the story of course here on our t.v.'s a developing story we're joined now by marcus papadopoulos editor politics first

magazine. thanks very much sir for joining me here on r.g.p. the bomb went off near a school and i can garden so do you think children may have been targeted as well the prime minister of course. well before i answer your question i'd like to express my condolences to the victims of the terrorist bombing in damascus to say and to condemn and to condemn it outright what we have to remember is that the sort of terrorist acts which occurred today they occur in damascus in syria in very syrian cities on a daily basis and they rarely get reported by western media and unfortunately what happened today is no different to the bombing in boston from a few weeks ago but unfortunately western politicians and western journalists they're turning a blind eye to the to the actions today because they're being carried out by the west's proxies i.e. the various militant islamist groups which can which comprise the so-called free

syrian army but it would go to your question i would probably say that they target was the syrian prime minister and facts that civilians have been killed as well demonstrates just the heinous nature of the free syrian army that they're quite prepared. to kill not only the syrian prime minister but also fellow syrian civilians and this is something which is just completely ignored in the west and is no difference so the terrorist bombings that occurred in london in july two thousand and five. well our of course there has been a lot of speculation that western money has been an ana terrorist hands so do you think this attack is evidence of that. well let's just have a look at the this is the so-called free syrian army they've made it the various groups that make up the free syrian army have made it very clear that their ideology is islam is m they wish to replace the secular progressive states that is

syria which should be a little and many of these groups are linked to al qaida for example the al nusra front so the fact that western governments led by and principally by the united states has been has been send in hundreds of millions of dollars to the so-called free syrian army. really you have to sort of think about it yourself is the money going to end up in the hands of terrorists yes it is without any doubt whatsoever and anyone possible on a civilian area anyone sends a suicide bomber to kill civilians to maim civilians that constitutes a terrorist that and his his or her act constitutes terrorism and the western governments need to condemn the attack today in damascus and condemn all subsequent terrorist attacks terrorism is terrorism is terrorism. you know international

community lately has been focused on the allegations of asa troops using chemical weapons do you think this blast will divert their attention from this for a while. i don't believe it will the only reason why the us is going publicist say today is because the targets the primary targets of the terrorist attack today was the syrian prime minister and the secondary target was to instill terror among syrian civilians in the effort to talk to the syrian government but no i don't think it well i think the west. has an agenda as it had in afghanistan in the 1980's miss the mujahideen including bin ladin had an agenda in the form you had an agenda in iraq in libya and it has an agenda today in it it's an it will be and who could pay through the western governments conceivably the united states but it certainly won't live. attention away from the alleged use of chemical weapons in

syria well you know earlier we heard. positions on camera on this in washington specifically views the use of chemical weapons in syria as crossing the red line so do you think these allegations will lead to anything big. well i mean the international community is very wary when it comes to the united states government claim in massacres of the kurds to claiming weapon that chemical weapons use has occurred member these are the these this is the same government that claimed one hundred thousand cars from their paintings have been murdered by forces in ninety ninety nine this is the same governments that claimed that iraq had weapons of mass destruction and it could be five minutes this is the same moment that alleged that thousands upon thousands of libyan civilians were being massacred by colonel gadhafi forces two years ago i don't think it will lead to military intervention i suspect it will be used to

justify further supports the militant groups that since all right well mr marcus' were voted off less editor of politics first magazine thanks so much for sharing your views so with us here on r.t.e. thank you well also today's edition of a cross talk show is focused on the syrian civil war as well so more opinions on this will be coming your way later. you believe we. welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital and we're getting news just stand here and we're hearing that a powerful blast has destroyed a building. in the prague injuring at least thirteen people walk or to the police at this point they say that the explosion of the fire the fall were probably caused

by a gas leak well several others are relieved to be buried under the rubble now and eyewitnesses say windows nearby houses shattered firefighters have managed to put out the blaze will be keeping you updated on this as we get more information on the story. now let's turn to other stories that we're following for you here on our georgian prime minister claims the country's previous government may have been involved in training extremist militant groups media reports suggest key terror suspect in the boston bombings visited such a camp in georgia watches what is now joining me to tell me more about this woman dina what more can you tell us about this at this point right well it is really been nearly two weeks since the names of the main suspects behind the boston marathon bombings were released in the us this hysteria surrounding this case.

still getting very little information and there really seems to be more questions than answers at this point now one of the recent question here was reached by the georgian prime minister. to me whether the previous georgian government indeed recruited and trained a group with the aim of infiltrating them into the russian federation and in his interview he said this saying it is possible that turkey has had been training in georgia but the investigation is under way and let's wait for the results will get a lot of information maybe events shocking findings there are suspicions that the thor it is work with terrorists and militants and this information is confirmed this will be shocking to us will be shocking indeed and there are also unconfirmed reports that during those six months that the older brother. in dagestan last year when he was visiting his parents he might have really been involved in

these meetings and visited this meetings and even visited the georgian capital tbilisi now again as i said very little information coming from the investigators and that really leading to a lot of speculations and downs that spread to the internet and there are a number of different social groups on. global social networks like facebook twitter instagram where people are divided in different groups those first who are who believe that the brothers are innocent those who believe that the brothers are behind the attack and that they're guilty and of course those that want to find more details as we really allow details in this case so they're trying to you know make their own investigation in one group there are over six thousand people that support the brothers with twitter like free free to harbor and joe hart is innocent

and indeed formation coming from different sources is really confusing now while the younger brother jehadi has admitted his guilt is there and continued to say that their sons are innocent and that they are sat up in a moreover when i last saw the mother of the two brothers she even told me that she believed about her son time and one was alive and that she saw him in different you tube videos however that happened later when she saw the body as well and different videos while she can she can see now she believes that. as well as she raised the question that she knew her elder son timeline was under constant f.b.i. surveillance for years so she raised the question how could that have been moving now that's the thing. and as the investigation unfold and developed yes absolutely we just are just to ask you more about the different ways that investigations folding at this point because as you earlier. there was

a lot of confusion still very different sources only to be very fight of course before anything concrete comes out so tell us a bit more about perhaps new leads this investigation is looking at because you mention the social networks earlier facebook twitter instagram are we getting anything from them now at this point i mean perhaps anything new that we do we. could look at and focus on we are getting you some of the information of course as you just mentioned is unconfirmed but in terms of the confirmed information the u.s. authorities found an instagram account that belonged to the younger brother jihad and there he was actually a visiting some of the radical pages and liking some of the pictures and the videos and that was one of the point that was found by the u.s. investigators and of course the other thing that really made the hard lines just a couple of days ago was the fact that russian security forces recorded telephone

conversations between the older let alone and his mother died and on that during the telephone conversations both of them mentioned jihad however as we managed to contact the father and i of the brothers he really did not rise that information the same that that that is impossible really to place. oh this is stupid he was saying joe has names and they misheard it is jihad and now they can say anything we won't be surprised if they now say we planted a nuclear bomb somewhere it's just stupid to the group we're talking about jihad. so indeed what do you know the invasion really develop and there seems to be more questions now than answers. thanks very much for this update and of course we'll be following this story and as it continues to bring more details information. now you're watching our t.v.

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international airport in the very heart of moscow. welcome back to what you are to live from moscow now three car blasts have killed nine thousand people of marketplace of southern iraq's shia provinces according to medics and police the country's experiencing its most severe a spate of sectarian attacks since the us occupation tensions have been heating up

in the country since a deadly military wait on a sunni protest camp that led to cover that led to over one hundred seventy deaths in a series of clashes in the space of one week the shia led government has also banned tente tells including on his ear from reporting inside iraq saying the inside of sectarian unrest durk and the ensign from the aid organization s.o.s. iraq says the protests are deeper than just into religious clashes. at the news of your station because we can see that there's still an occupation there are still no basic service just people. ready to be arrested they are locked up without charges they're not going to. women children and men are being raped that's why the protests started by the way and so this talk about chick darian is this is totally wrong and these are not sick darian protests these are protests against a situation that is full of iraqi people. see that as unemployment

there is no health care that it is a good education system has collapsed the media has been very weak until now in covering these protests have we seen images on television about the millions who were in the streets in in ramadi fallujah. mosul no we haven't because this security forces didn't want them to go to displace iraq's prime minister has launched talks with the leader of the country's kurdish minority hoping to bridge the asking divide the kurds are also hoping to work on their differences with the governments in neighboring turkey however as marie is and also reports distrust in both sides means and go to collapse at any moment. three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. k. want to get real a movement trying to turkey's military for the rights of kurds and in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have died google owns youngest son

and man them he's angry that his boys are considered terrorists in the country where he lives and it won't be no one would go into the mountains without a reason no one would voluntarily sacrifice a warm and comfortable life for a disturbing existence on the run up in a harsh mountainous environment turkey treats the kurds with no respect we had to stand out his second son was arrested in germany over links to the b k k the third is the only one still fighting one war the kill i'm proud of him but i would love to have him back home. a milestone agreement between the turkish government and the p.k. k. includes a cease fire fighters would have to lay down arms and give up their struggle but that won't necessarily mean families are united they can do mountains in iraq eager to start away pick a fight as a base to form a great metal force and it's totally in the girl's hands no one can say exactly where in these mountains they fight as

a high don't know how many they are and it is to these safe haven that those of them now fighting in turkey will most likely withdraw too if the peace process lives up to expectations. turkey's prime minister who has been personally negotiating with jailed kurdish leader or john says it would be sabotage if those retreating take their weapons with them but one former p.k. came second and current kurdish national congress member believes this is exactly what will happen but as. always called for a kurd fighters they have more weapons and they'll never give them up easily or ever leave them on turkish territory as. the reason is not only get real principles and member of the only pro kurdish party in the turkish parliament told me that while every side types for the past they're preparing for the worst from the other side actually there is no food cross from kurdish sites to government abuse because we have very bad experiences since establishments of torture public up to now

a massacre in right violations of denial and i may say that many other bad things have happened to us but even if big a k fighters did withdraw an armed they could easily requip themselves if it was needed but this was tried before. the crew into iraq they came back because you know they had already. forced the ruling a k party which is the driving force of talks with the p k k and all john wants everyone to show just a little more optimism an issue which has been the result of losing over thirty thousand lives in this country will come to it and i think that is more important than how it is handled who it is who is who is going to brief i think those many do actually share some hope although perhaps even more that in these details lies the

devil reef notion r.t. from turkey. now russian couple living in the u.s. are battling to get back their five month old baby boy who was seized by top protection services yes already stepped in when alex and on an eagle eyes sought a second opinion after their child was diagnosed with a heart murmur and was ordered to undergo immediate surgery my colleague john thomas managed to catch up with the boy's parents we been shocked when they walked in their door and just they all of them in saying it's just let us see your son if he is ok and i said i'm holding him in my arms he is ok you can take a look and they're saying give me your child and that's when they took away no paper in ever they've been providing and they just walked out of the door was any reason given behind the nine eleven call from the hospital after you took your own child to another hospital for a second opinion i mean have they given you any reason whatsoever. they say that he's in them urgency that he's almost dying there needs medical treatment

and that he needs that needs to get back to the hospital immediately. do you believe this. no he was fine he was laughing he was eating he was a normal child a normal baby to go home and he was released from the from the other hospital that we took him to the doctor released to be and do a statement so the parents are basically good to go home with their baby in the b.b.c. from their arms. very interesting now taking a step back facebook and social networks they are a way for you to get support and you said facebook shut down the page that you set up to get support for your case did they give you any reason why they closed down this page no i think it has everything to do with the government we got a lot of support we got a lot of prayers a lot of people who were there you know just praying for us and all in the first

facebook page a blog we called facebook basically my sister in law called facebook no answer every question as she was asking them there was no answer coming back we opened a second facebook page for support same thing happen again your child hasn't been a lot of home in four days what's going through your mind it kills me i don't have my baby of me at nighttime i just visiting him like been visiting him three times today for an hour and you're leaving at seven o'clock again hard going home you babysit not know if you know you're just feeling empty there's missing something in you and we're just waiting for tomorrow's day just to you know like coming in this court hearing good news taking your baby going home or going to a different hospital. is to asia has no shortage of bitter territorial disputes but today russia and japan are looking for ways to resolve at least one of them the leaders of both powers are meeting in moscow and disputed islands big business and

energy deals will all be at the heart of the year talks are going office following the visit. the relationship between russia and japan really can't be called easy and one of the biggest stumbling blocks is the territorial dispute which has been actually keeping the two countries from signing the second world war peace treaty the dispute around the southern coral islands and prime minister. is known for his hardline approach on this matter but analysts say the fact the japanese pm is in moscow for the first time in ten years is already quite a positive signal plus russia isn't the only country with which japan has territorial unresolved problems it's also korea and china where the dispute has almost reached the speech of full scale military confrontation and analysts say that throughout these that the japanese general public has grown really tired of these problems and does want to see them finally resolved now the importance of

business ties between moscow and talk you know really can't be underestimated and the japanese prime minister has brought a major delegation out of at least sixty heads of large japanese companies along with him to russia and they're also talks about establishing a possible japanese investment fund which could reach one billion u.s. dollars. part is not supported now while you're up to date and coming up very shortly the latest edition of cross-town don't go away. most people in the western world would agree that having laws that officially create second class citizens is totally unacceptable we can look at the way jews were treated in nazi germany or blacks during apartheid in south africa and the

slavery jim crow era has in the usa as examples of legally dividing. society by necessity i think most people he you with their modern sensibilities would find these practices me bob baer american backwards but my question is that why is there to this day of fishley sanctioned second class citizens in certain e.u. countries or to be more accurate i should say non-citizen residents of the two million people in last year around three hundred thousand of them are considered non-citizen residents who can neither vote nor hold public office these non-citizens are russian speakers of various ethnic backgrounds whose children also by birth bearer of the non-citizen status not happy being on the bad side of.