targeted terror in damascus. in a busy square taking. america's war on corruption. drug cartels revelations emerge that washington. not working jobless rates reached specially among young europeans. to make ends meet. around the world around the. powerful blast has

rocked the heart of the syrian capital killing at least thirteen people and wounding dozens exposion company for hours after another deadly attack in central damascus targeting the prime minister a correspondent. it was only something like one minute or two minutes away from it when i passed through the area the big explosion destroyed most of the historic square which is called maggi in the middle of the nastiest it's very close to the. building of the mystery of the interior i have seen that did by the spreading wall around i have seen with no heads and they have seen how the scars rushed inside the square from everywhere how the claws distribute clothes and how the security came in to. see how people were crying and where they're. going and weeping over their

destroyed properties all around the area if you compare it with the attack on prime minister convoy yesterday we can see many similarities previous. to that was targeting the prime minister but it. kinda garden and the school and today. it's very crowded square it's full of people every time the one who was doing the same the two the two placing. exactly that this is would have only seen video and this has only civilians and this is the same way that happened with all of. the way of doing business and doing good things. well your clarke who writes for britain's guardian newspaper believes the rebels apparent terror tactics should send alarm signals to western nations quite clearly that they're able to spread terror amongst the population in damascus to terrorize civilians and it's

absolutely shiny for these people are being backed by my country the u.k. by france by the western powers these are terrorist attacks let's call them what they are they haven't been condemned by william hague or cross what holland or john kerry i mean i think that's actually a call exhibitor taken place in tel aviv or riyadh or anywhere else in the country which was a western i mean they would be roundly condemned but they're not and it's quite appalling that these so-called rebels with western help trying to bomb our way to power in syria killing innocent civilians spreading terror among some population and i think that the likes of william hague who got blood on my hands on the road or russia's state aviation agency stopped a russian planes from flying over syria after friday's incident involving a russian jet so after an airbus a three twenty one hundred fifty nine passengers on board reportedly came close to rocket fire midair the pilot so they spotted flashes and threatening activity on the ground and increase their attitude the

plane was on route from an egyptian resort to russia where it landed safely it's unclear whether it was an intentional attack but only mikey from the syrian youth movement suspects the russian jet could easily be targeted by syrian rebels. the most amazing concept which could have happened was rebel fire from missiles which could have been given by regional countries or taken from government forces it's very hard to define whether it's intentional by accident but it probably would be intentional and no rebel forces would fire a missile at an airplane a civilian aircraft without it being done intentionally the history of rebels using anti aircraft missiles to fire again simply across especially in the south of syria so it can essentially another reprehensible act which probably would have been committed by rebel forces and should gain condemnation from all the states after it is clear who actually committed this this but it does show that these are not the liberal forces which the west wanted to arm in the first place and the fact that they would even consider to attack russian airplane shows that the level of our

barbarism because russia supports a political solution in this era it is they would be a target for rebel groups for any russian civilians or any russian. especially inside of syria including airplanes. or some of syria's refugees have found a new home in russia's south you want to report to the south. i am from. the lord that i. and every day she says another body in the syria or syria in arabic. the war beginning looked far from on the skill of a. syrian woman you are. trying to protect

her. those are those of other. i'm planning to stay in russia. to build a new life in russia here. millions of untraceable dollars have been handed out by the u.s. to afghanistan throughout the past decade in exchange for long to. affirm the regular payments but the details on how kabul spends the cash on its account looks at the america of do with regions corruption. both u.s. and afghan officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to the new york times and said that for many years the cia had paid tens of millions of dollars in what they say was ghost money to the office of president karzai the afghan government has received billions of dollars in u.s. taxpayers money but the officials say the cash went to fuel corruption in the country the cia apparently delivers the cash every month in suitcases backrest

perhaps the official said much of the money goes to paying off warlords and politicians many of whom have ties to the drug trade and in some cases the taliban the result of that appears to be that the agency empowers the same networks that american diplomats aligned for spent agents say they're trying to dismantle president karzai was asked about the goetia money and he acknowledged receiving it he basically dismissed the payments as no big deal saying those are monthly small amounts used for various purposes as the cia declines to comment another u.s. official has been quoted as saying the biggest source of corruption in afghanistan was the united states afghan officials quoted in this new york times report said a number of senior officials in the afghan national security council or individually on the cia's payroll there was an interesting story with the administrative chief of the accounts of mohamed. mr saleh he was arrested in two

thousand and ten in connection with the sprawling american led investigation tied together afghan. taliban financing and the opium trade president karzai heading released within hours and the cia that helped persuade the obama administration to back off its anti-corruption push possibly because they didn't want the cia connection discovered in the alleged corruption scheme because that would be a story of a dog chasing its tail in washington. america's money of course comes from want is the world's biggest defense budget by far and he will campaign richard becker says as long as it continues to swell more americans want to poverty . it's really amazing when you look at the cia operations in afghanistan which really began that in two thousand and one of the one nine hundred seventy nine hundred eighty s. the cia largest operation entire history was carried out in. the billions

and billions of dollars that have flowed and yet today in two thousand and thirteen afghanistan ranks exactly last so it really indicates one of the corrupting influence. of the cia intervention is head over all of these years and continues to have today they're spending a vast sums of money on the real u.s. military going to be sure overall be over a trillion dollars and we have to be in the united states virtually half nearly forty percent of the population according to the government itself is now in the living in poverty or as low income and the interest of the people have been sacrificed on the altar of militarism well media reports say the ghost money is ending up in the wrong hands even the organized crime what do you make of it go to our web site marty dot com and vote in our site poll that's how we look at the latest results so far that eighty percent say that those monies ending up in their

own hands because of bribery to achieve u.s. goals and way down eight percent say it's well for multi-purpose aid to help afghans and equally today six percent each say a secret to corrupt the taliban or even flooding terrorists with counterfeit cash that's how you're voting today so far go online and have your say. well europe's latest unemployment numbers are in and they don't make good reading the rate went up across most of the european union in march according to euro stat to be able to see had the figures disappointing to say the least and rising year by

year with spain there under isa being the worst affected in greece the numbers an eye watering twenty seven percent there and spain is not far behind both have more than one in four people are unemployed right now and as for young people it's much worse the jobless rate for them is more than double the national figure has started this report now and why it takes more than just numbers to see the true extent of the damage. the unemployment rate in the years old has recently reached a record twelve percent and for those aged twenty five and below in countries like spain and greece that number is as high as more than fifty percent with very little signs of any economic improvement now for those who are looking for a job that search is no longer just about trying to find work many are now trying to leave their home countries like niccolo wriggles e l g graduate from italy now working initial in brussels and the situation in italy was actually awful

because the only thing i was able to get is a really short contract like free mouth for six months with absolutely no possibility of growing out in an industry or in the laboratory anything most to most of them were totally eight feet and you can't really think of your future he says it wasn't a walk in the park in beijing either as many companies require a working knowledge of both french and dutch a barrier that may be hard to overcome but perhaps still more attractive for some the going back home i read. in two thousand and twelve. and the person the person of young people emigrate from italy grew up by thirty forty percent in two thousand and twelve i really don't know what will be into tools and information and it's not just the citizens feeding the kids first come to

the web to seek new opportunities started their will business is building their lives have now will suit change their minds threads iana this meant leaving greece and david all the way back to her native ecuador and while the sickness was the initial reason for the move she has no regrets about making that decision the sixth one fatal silently man many foreigners decided to leave race and live to come. it's like germany in switzerland but the greeks who stayed behind are saying that the situation is really difficult when for instance servicemen he used to get one and a half thousand euros are now paid just one hundred m. our place has been open for two years even though it's still new i believe we have very good prospects for the future and this is not something she says just isn't possible the year right now to trend if you look at the figures in countries like ireland some people argue that a whole generation has left and perhaps for good enough. i don't think

so rather a stay here for the time does so sylvia our team brussels. with debt crisis seeing golf in europe maybe is starting to literally cost lives i could then expand a major study say that as many as ten thousand people have committed suicide due to financial ruin david a stalker of oxford university he was researching the impact of austerity economics on public health says politicians are risking more than they realise. what we've seen in studying recessions over the past century and the focus on the present crisis is that recessions hurts but when politicians respond with deep cuts so vital social supports they can turn those recessions legal in the worst case we see greeks after rate cuts malaria prevention budgets we saw a return outbreaks of the country and kept under control for the past four decades you seem to be impacted spike by over two hundred percent at

a time when h o b budget was caught similarly we've seen across europe austerity produced series of epidemics from suicide just for our access to health care to hurt yourself or it's even can it be so far europe's leaders have been denial about the human costs the stereo policies pursued across europe and sued in america but this question recently asked and what we need to do is take into account. that i would run it like other drug trial it would have been discontinued because of its duds. coming out europe's human rights court rules that ukraine acted illegally by jailing its former prime minister making the program we look at whether the decision could change anything for you that's a question. as extra medics all shipped into gone time to deal with the worsening hunger strike psychiatric expert tells us why there's only one solution for the

prisoners protest let's watch the break. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. i.

removed about international airport in the very heart of moscow. u.k. could be lining up a military return to the persian gulf countries for decades after closing its string of bases in the region inferential the british think tank that made the four costs out of the upcoming troop withdrawal from afghanistan strong commercial next with gulf want to please and the final situation the middle east as a reason for the shift but there are fears that such a move will further destabilize the troubled region but about our expense. british c. is a world renowned defense think tank that credited with really influencing government defense policy so these recommendations and what they're talking about in this

paper to be taken lightly the paper talks about the fact that it might be britain might be considering stepping up its military presence in the gulf states especially next year after they pull out from afghanistan now that would be quite a departure from forty years ago when they actually shut down a string of defense bases in the gulf it's they say that might be wise considering that the rest taking place in the arab states at the moment they might want to preempt trouble if they're based in the gulf states at the moment on the other hand there is of course the problem of some of the human rights records of some of the countries that they might be dealing with that might not be good for britain's image and of course are talking about returning to the middle east in terms of military presence might force some observers to talk about. imperial powers and

imperial aspirations which you talk about britain's presence in the gulf states. i'm joined in the studio by chris bambery he's a political analyst quests the recent paper says that increased military presence in the god of would be justified considering the instability that we're seeing at the moment in the region what do you think was the british military presence in the gulf can only instability stabilize what is the instability in the gulf states the movement in terms of states what we're talking about is a democracy movements we've seen. is a pretty good interview against a democracy movement to mount a human rights and so on to some nation nor i think real and she wouldn't talk to his abilities and what we're seeing at the moment i think is cool so from sanctions against iran by use it's also in the. builder is engaged in in the persian gulf which is deliberately as part of attempt to build put pressure on the regime what about the question of money we know that britain is very

strapped for cash the arab states are swimming in it if you've got a cash cow why not milk it well david cameron and they're all farmers you mention and you have been. begging bowl been put in to ask money selling anything they can return for that actually the very core ties between the united arab emirates and bruce that some forty million pounds build what once was a trade between the two qatar is the biggest supplier of that your gas i think they'd be killed and developing not to ease a dependence on russia because of tension between britain and russia as well but i think we have got to put in the context of this is a return to us of an imperial poll see what they did by no to states with britain truly behind and therefore decision to increase any military presence in the gulf as it was instability chris bambery thank you very much for your comments in december the u.k. chief of defense staff said that after afghanistan the gulf will become the u.k.'s main military effort and it looks like this report is proving that theory correct

especially if according to receive there could be a lot of money to be made in the gulf states for the british government. or the misery is far from over for the survivors of a bangladesh tower block collapse in the all of the big western they were making clothes for weren't enough to compensate the victims and report on light. and dark and sore spot report warns those affected by last month's acts on the oil spill there's still toxic trouble in the neighborhood and more about that on our website . if you.

the arrest and imprisonment of ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko has been ruled illegal about the u.p.a. court of human rights the judges dismissed his complaint of physical mistreatment while in custody she serving seven years for abuse in office for gas deals with russia aunties and he has been following the case from the very beginning defending lawyers of unity national believe that this decision by the european court of human rights will see her walk free especially after her plea for parole last week was turned down there was a certain breath of hope when the one of the politicians of iran the free minister utilites center was released on a presidential pardon several weeks ago but this is not the case of too much anger because on the one hand the current ruling establishment here they want to be friends with the european union they are spying for european integration but on the other hand they of course see that is the biggest political enemy and it's far more

comfortable for them to see her remain behind bars and they also have this one trick up their sleeve they can always say that look you are ruling the decision to convict or to seven years of prison as illegitimate but look there are two cases currently ongoing again sir one of them includes association to a murder of a deputy in nine hundred ninety six so it's interesting to see where it goes from here but we already have the reaction from the ruling party which said that this decision by the european court for human rights may not become valid grounds for releasing in fact this is been a bone of contention between europe and kia for for some time we remember last year when you've hosted the football championship the euro twenty twelve some of the european officials boycotted the tournament because of the blanco and her case the question is whether o'keefe will be willing to kneel to this pressure by europe given the latest statements by the ruling party doesn't seem that this time it will bow down to the pressure as well. well the owner of a nightclub in central russia where more than one hundred fifty people died in

a fire almost four years ago has been sentenced to nine years ten months behind bars another seven people involved in the angst and also guilty it will also be jailed or far out the lame horse nightclubbing happened in two thousand and nine when fireworks were set off inside a little crowded building claims quickly took hold of the work of fittings on the walls and ceiling many victims trapped all crushed and skinny. a quick look at some other news making headlines right now in libya gunmen have three surrounded the justice ministry in tripoli is among the dismissal of all members of kind of the daffy's for the government post trucks carrying anti aircraft guns a part of the building siege of the foreign ministry also called an exploration is now into its third day. the palestinians join the funeral of him michelle who was killed in an israeli airstrike while driving a motorcycle in it today two other men were also reported to have been injured in

the attack israeli military claims michelle was involved in extensive terrorist activity including a recent rocket attack on the southern israeli city of and that is the first deadly air strike on palestinian territory since we've reached a truce with militants the last of them a medical staff reinforcements have been drafted into guantanamo bay as fears grow over the health of inmates going on hunger strike first three months some forty medics arrived at the camp one hundred detainees according to officials are refusing food in protest at this treatment and their indefinite detention prison as long as they claim the hunger strike is much higher more than twenty of the protestors have lost so much weight and have been force fed in five hundred extra medical treatment close the guantanamo detainees are being held without charge than half have been cleared for transfer release psychology professor terry cooper's thinks no medical attention will help them any less us or want to start addressing need a monster. when one or two people go on

a hunger strike it's an extreme act they're taking the risk of their life and they have a message that they want to deliver they exhausted all of the possibilities to communicate and have a voice when one hundred people or twenty some people even go on a hunger strike you've got a major problem with the harsh conditions and the end the answer is to settle with the prisoners and improve the conditions instead they're playing a extremely dangerous military is playing extremely dangerous game of letting them starve to death and then the question of whether they should be forced better or not which is not really the real question the real question is why not address their demands. well coming up this if you just found a new home in southern russia stay with us.

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 areas in the usa as examples of legally dividing society by necessity i think most people in the e.u. with their modern sensibilities would find these practices to be bob baer american backwards but my question is that why is there to this day officially 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 latvia around three hundred thousand of them are considered non-citizen residents who can neither of or 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 apartheid the

non-citizens have logically decided to vote for their own parliament because they can't elect to participate in the left field what even if the parliament has no power whatsoever it will be their chance to shine light on the issue which the mainstream media has been keeping quiet for years you know you'd think that people would be outraged over segregation but what happens to russians and russian speakers is just not cool or hip or trendy or convenient enough for the mainstream media to take notice but that's just my opinion. download the official t. application to your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter with your mobile

device hugo watchdog see anytime anywhere. i am from syria did the war in syria. a war. just go to see my friends on my c.v. or. my name is. i came here.