international in the very heart of moscow. serious prime minister survived that attack in damascus as a car bomb explodes near a school in kindergarten killing ten people. like nation emerges that one of the boston bombing suspects could have been trained in georgia as the country's prime minister admits there may have been militant camps on their soil. in the russian couple desperate for the return of their baby son after he seized by u.s. social services they talked about the family battle. today news twenty four hours a day this is r.t.

i'm kerry johnston. serious prime minister has survived a bomb blast targeting his convoy in the capital is thought ten people died and thirteen others were wounded in the explosion which happened in a busy district where local correspondent. with the latest now from damascus. the blast took place today in nine o'clock it targeted the prime minister's convoy in. western i.c. it was a bomb that was attached to a b.m.w. a black that was parked two days ago in their way where the convoy usually goes from his house to his office usually the convoy goes from different routes every day but this time he. was this way and intentionally. placed led to the killing of one of his body that took place near the garden and the school thanks god this happened where the children went inside so one only two of

them were injured this list has it's it's and it's technique and it's way it's very close to what's usually shepherd to north which is a part of the group usually doesn't this. how they usually do that bombing. or bombing is raising questions about rebel tactics the editor of politics first magazine told us how likely it is that western aid is ending up in the hands of terrorists. the fact 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 syrian civilians and this is something which is just completely ignored in the west and is no different so the terrorist bombings that occurred in london in july two thousand and five well let's just have a look at the this is the so-called free syrian army they've made it that the various groups that make up the free syrian army have made it into very clear that

their ideology is islam is a they wish to replace the secular progressive states that is syria which should we look for 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 the hundreds of millions of dollars so the so-called free syrian army really have to sort of think about it yourself is the money going to end up in the hands of terrorists yet is without any doubt whatsoever western intentions in syria come up in today's crosstalk program with people about later today what's behind president obama's red line in the syrian conflict and could nato countries break the civil war deadlock. the thing. is there.

are there appear to be more questions than answers as the boston bombing investigation continues with one suspect dead and the other in custody and online media frenzy is in overdrive and speculation is rife well among the theories is that the older brother to my son i was killed by police after being captured is not a geisha shared by the suspects mother who cited inconsistences in police reports and footage from the manhunt where another suspicion that's triggered online disputes is that the whole thing was staged and actually backed up by pictures from the blast site the new revelations also emerging but not from the usa or russia italy in a corner with the details now. as speculation continues regarding where exactly the elder brother at the metal on saturday night became so interested in radical islam and russia's north caucasus during his six month visit or in the united states where he lived for over a decade the theory of possibly

a third country being involved is now circulating in the media and that third country is georgia which time or allegedly managed to visit during his trip to russia back in two thousand and twelve now this theory is fueled by the latest revelations coming from georgian prime minister. he believes that the previous government led by president mikhail saakashvili before he dissolved some of his powers wasn't involved in recruiting and training a group of chechens and that these camps were later set up to send trained militants to russia's volatile north caucasus to further destabilize the situation there now prime minister really believes that there are a strong suspicions that the authority us work closely with terrorists as a. book of sorts and so it is possible that terrorists had been trained in georgia but the investigation is under way let's wait for its results we'll get

a lot of new information maybe in some shocking findings there are suspicions that there are three jews worked with terrorists and militants if this information is confirmed this will be shocking some say that the investigation will hurt the country's image but the country's events will only be if somebody else conducts the investigation so far it remains unclear whether this ricin news has sufficient grounds on the one hand it could just be the latest twist in the ongoing political rivalry between two political factions in the country president mikheil saakashvili and the new government led by prime minister when you should really on the other hand it is really well known that georgia was a. really on friendly terms with russia after her sacrifice really came to power so there could be some real grounds for the speculation so now investigators must establish whether there is a new frontier opened up in the terror trail and whether this takes the boston

bombing choir in a new direction or u.s. investigators are also convinced such an attack could not have been carried out without special training list of suspects keeps growing as investigation continues details of that and much more all to dot com. a russian born couple are battling the u.s. courts for the return of the five month old son the baby was seized last week by child protective services out his parents did not want him home with surgery or

waiting for a second doctor's opinion on a nicolo told r.t. shawn thomas about their plight. been shocked when they walked in the door and just they all of them and saying is just let us see your son if he's 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 not so ever they've been providing and they just walked off the door was any reason given behind the nine eleven call from the hospital after you took your own child to another hospital or second opinion i mean have they given you any reason whatsoever. they say that his and them urgency that he's almost dying then the needs medical treatment and that he needs that needs to get back to the hospital immediately. i do believe this. we know he was fine he was laughing he was eating he was

a normal child normal baby to go home and he was released from the from the other hospital and we took him to the doctor released to be do statements so the parents are basically good to go home with their baby the baby safe and their arms very interesting now taking a step back of 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 place page a blog 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 open a second facebook page for support same thing happened 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 with 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 of again hard going home your baby's not know if you know you're just feeling empty or there's some missing something in you're in we're just waiting for tomorrow stay just to you know like coming in this court hearing good news taking your baby going home or going to a different hospital. well russia's child rights omits one says he's across the case and will provide support to the parents talk to their lawyer in the u.s. means the government has a head start over the nikolai family they were provided with medical evidence that said the baby was fine to be taken home and despite the state decided to manufacture an excuse to take this baby away i think what it comes down to is the

parents didn't. appreciate the opinions of the doctor in the hospital and in my opinion what they did was that upset the initial physician and he decided to make a call to child protective services and say that there is a child who has an imminent danger of death what he didn't know at the time was that they'd gone to a second hospital and its different doctor said no it's not an issue history says that c.p.s. will win this case at the initial spot. judge judges will tend to err on the side of caution i am hopeful that when all of the evidence is put forth and the facts are shown it will be very clear that these are wonderful parents who have taken every measure to care for their son have done everything appropriately and have done nothing more than just like one particular doctor and wanted to have their son cared by someone who they had faith in contacts and. now a series of calm have killed nineteen people in southern iraq she have been since

the program we take a look at how the balance is worsening with the rising number of such attacks since the rest of convention. fifteen thousand state workers are sacked in greece the price to make its bailout. gets bumped into german chancellor angela merkel's austerity drive i saw a couple minutes times they were. well with. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

the new cover international airport in the very heart of moscow. that we get more news for you now as china's clout in east asia rapidly grows japan

is looking to warm its ties with russia as a count about its country's leaders are meeting in moscow with big deals on the table to fill the energy gap left in japan from the fukushima nuclear disaster in office. one of the biggest outcomes of this meeting is that both russia's president and the japanese rightness are said that they're very keen on speeding up the signing of the peace treaty in fact prime minister abbott said it's quite unusual that it still hasn't been timed even though almost seventy years of basque since the end of the second world war and mainly it's because of the ongoing territorial dispute around the south cool islands and sure the relationship between russia and japan is quite complicated but if you look at talk u.s. relations with other regional players there is often just as complicated if not more especially when it comes to ties with china there's an even bigger territorial dispute which is almost reached the stage of full scale military confrontation then there is japan's. with the u.s. which includes washington's growing military presence in the region including

troops bases joint drills and so on and all of that is definitely not helping improve ties with china which is a russia strategic partner and basically for the past a few decades it was japan and the u.s. on one side and china and russia on the other side but times are changing and global financial centers are now shifting towards asia and many analysts are saying that talk yomi now be looking to change its foreign policy to improve relations in the neighborhood including you could russia which would only be greeted by applause by the japanese public where many people have really grown tired of having all these of the problems stacking up throughout the years and also after the fukushima disaster and shut down most of its nuclear reactors and it's truly very hungry for energy and according to russia's president vladimir putin's russia is really to satisfy this hunger. u.k.'s been looking to restore its permanent military presence in the gulf regaining its influence easter service that was given up several

decades ago this is inclusion from a report by defense and allies the armed forces must talk to its author dr song from the joint staff college thanks for joining us how have you concluded that we might see a british return to the gulf. well the nature of three communicated by the british prime minister and the french minister in late two thousand and twelve coupled with the speech of the chief for defense stocks today richard to christmas last year which seemed to between them in the carry. a new commitment on the planet or britain to go security. so are we talking about a formal of physical return to the bases or an intensified major cooperation with the gulf states. i think. really a combination of both but on

a low scale. britain is already in the gulf and. has been since nine hundred seventy nine but the institution the arm in the patrol the the royal navy patrol and. during the iran iraq war. and so she had. silicosis if you like propane. obviously. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one with the war over kuwait. agreements with kuwait. and it's been. sort of progression of defense agreements with various gulf arab countries. particularly. in the last decade or so afghanistan and iraq along with across american and coalition forces in the gulf and so there has been a fairly standard british military presence in the gulf. since. ninety ninety.

and this. this latest round of. announcements by the british ministry of defense is really related to the situation in the desert situation after the drawdown in afghanistan next year. forgive me but how would the u.k. potentially committing to the security and well being of the gulf states tally with the questionable human rights in some of those countries. well britain like a lot of countries around the world. of different political complection. has longstanding sort of trade and even defense ties with gulf countries and of course in the case of russia with.

sustained international interest in the persian gulf. it's a matter of governments dealing with whatever. existing regimes are in the gulf. and that it's always been the case. and very briefly if you can often a financial point of view is this the right time for britain to me beefing up its major presence in a region where there really any threat thank you. whole business of trade. particularly in defense cooperation with gulf arab states it's a fairly longstanding one. one of the. latest shall we say defense packages has to do with the try to get to various gulf arab countries.

and that ties in with communities continuing you know defense agreements with local governments. and in an age of austerity shall we say in europe these trends contractor pulls into the british economy. and that is certainly an element of it. there are things and sort of them standing strategic interests that britain as a member of the western alliance has in the gulf area where they had never saw kerry off in the briefing paper attend to east and say when you came in to deployment to the gulf thank you for joining. washington is diligently weaving some more web regulation if the government gets its way internet providers would be threatened to sit there and compounding. the debt if he was close to wiretap. you don't come. taking the sochi straight into space then how russian cosmonauts got

into states of. international space station. five car blasts have killed at least eighteen people in shia dominated provinces in southern iraq the country is experiencing its most severe spate of sectarian attacks since the us occupation tensions mounted after a deadly army raid in a sunni anti-government protest camp last week more than two hundred have died in recent clashes the shia led government has also banned ten t.v. channels including al jazeera from reporting inside the country saying they incited sectarian on the rest entrance and from the aid organization s.o.s.

iraq says the latest spike in violence is more than just a religious standoff. after ten years of occupation because we consider distil an occupation there is still no basic services people are randomly arrested they are locked up without charges they are your church women children are being raped that's why the protests started by the way and. this talk about sick darian this is this is totally wrong that these are not sick. protests these are protests against a situation that is and. that a bill for forty iraqi people. that there is poverty there is other throwing money there is no health care that it. get the 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 ramadi fallujah joker

crooks martial no we haven't because this security forces didn't want them to go to these places. turkey maybe another step closer to peace with kurdish militants the kurdistan workers party is preparing to withdraw armed elements from turkish territory next week which would be a key turning point towards ending the conflict that's claimed forty thousand and nine as maria financial reports there still distrust on both sides which is making the peace still shaky three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. k. the guerrilla movement trying to turkey's military for the rights of kurds in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have died google owns youngest son i'm on them and. no one would go into the mountains without a reason they would voluntarily sacrifice a warm and comfortable life for a disturbing existence on the run in

a harsh memes in this environment turkey treats the kurds with no respect we had to stand down 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 necessary mean families are reunited they can do mountains in iraqi kurdistan away pick a fight as a base for a great natural fortress and it's totally in the girl's hands no one can say exactly where in these mountains the fight is a high don't know how many we 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 leaves up to expectations. turkey's prime minister edouard 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 speaker 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 best they're preparing for the worst from the other side actually there is no food trust from kurdish side through government. because we have very bad experiences since establishments of torture public up to now the massacres and rights violations the denial and a major they say that many other bad things have happened to us the ruling a k party which is the driving force of talks with p.k. k. and or john wants everyone to show just a little more optimistic on 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 are details many do actually share some hope although perhaps even more worry that in these details lies the devil reef nationality from turkey. enough around some other international news a powerful blog partially destroyed a building in central prague on person is thought to being killed with dozens more injured several others are believed to be trapped under the debris in the same explosion and the father followed a likely caused by gas leak going out windows and thereby buildings firefighters have managed to put out the. release of been granted fifteen days to question the owner of the tower block in bangladesh that collapsed and killed at least three hundred eighty one people and while thousands of garment workers rallied to demand the death penalty the owner voicing their fury over a poor safety conditions in the country's close factories this used rubber bullets and tear gas to bring on rest on the control of the demonstrators who watched

several vehicles including an ambulance. and the libyan foreign ministry in tripoli has been surrounded by up to two hundred militants demanding that syria posts in a new administration not given to members of a former gadhafi regime officials said negotiations with the group have begun and factions tried unsuccessfully to stormin tyrian ministry in the state news agency on sunday. fifteen thousand jobs have been struck off in greece with the massive public sector layoffs starting immediately all this was the reaction as parliament signed away the jobs together with an extension on taxes it's all part of the effort to push through even i.m.f. mandated austerity return for a bailout cash throughout the eurozone the tide is turning on the austerity architects in germany when president francois loans party sparked a diplomatic gaffe by describing german chancellor angela merkel as selfish in the draft document on european policy party officials have since said there was soften

their time investment advisor patrick young so there are lots of growing rift between you and zones two big hitters. sure is tearing apart the fundamental break of the european union. and i'm not is between the northern european nations led by germany who are seen to be fiscally sawing pragmatic and sensible of what their economy and then you have the rest all of them tend to come closer to the mediterranean and they're led effectively by from some in france likes to think that it's still a first world economy but the difficulty is their numbers really aren't dramatically better than some of the failings economies of the mediterranean such as say if. the french are left in a situation where they're desperate to do anything and basically move us back to the one thousand six names or seventy's level over the last decade or two and the economy by spending a lot of money that france doesn't help and they're hoping germany is going to give them mrs merkel says no or a couple minutes away from crosstalk on

a serious deadlock or a possible western intervention stay with us here not to. 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 blackstar in apartheid in south africa and the slavery jim crow arrows in the usa.