nineteen people injured after a mother's day parade in new orleans is sprayed with bullets a manhunt currently under way. tookie drums up a fresh case for foreign intervention in syria damascus for a deadly cross border bombing the assad regime says it is simply being provoked. and his actions awaits the latest cash injection from brussels we look at how three years of chasing a bail out has hit the greek economy. a

very good morning to you from all of us here in moscow it's eight am in the russian capital. at least nineteen people including two ten year old children have been wounded during a shooting at a mother's day parade in new orleans thought up to three gunmen may have opened fire on the crowd so details right now from a guy in a chicken. new orleans was celebrating mother's day with over three hundred people participating in a parade police say three individuals are believed to be responsible for starting a shootout two four of the wounded though are believed to be in critical condition another public event and other tragedy there is a manhunt underway for the three suspects who police believe have managed to escape one of them is reportedly wounded in the same way as investigators of the boston marathon bombings appealed for crowd sourced photographs new orleans police have urged anyone with any photographs of the parade to step forward so just in boston

the police are drawing the public into the manhunt certainly putting nearby neighborhoods on high alert police are going door to door in search for suspects and of course everyone is hopeful that they will find them but at the same time many are looking at these recent public events which have gone terribly wrong in thinking whether law enforcement can really provide security at outdoor gatherings like this with the boston bombers or could it be early warnings that were missed the perpetrators of this shooting in new orleans we don't know who they are but we do know that in the u.s. there is very little control over in whose hands guns end up guns are freely sold their gun shows and online and all of this makes people nervous about their safety at public events naturally. their reporting from washington in the meantime though the f.b.i. spokesman has dismissed any allegations of terrorism but charlie mcgrath founder of wide awake news says the bureau should not jump to conclusions it's obviously way too early you know i don't know how much faith that i would have in our f.b.i.

you know night shocked people but they seem to you know they had to make a sions of what was going on in boston we know now years before the occurred and the information they were getting from other countries and so people in the f.b.i. coming out saying it's really terror related not to related. you know when it's not . it's not something anything right now and. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. turkey says it will urge the international community to act against a war torn syria it blames the regime in damascus for saturday's double bombing of a turkish town that killed forty six but syria denies involvement saying the attack is being used to justify foreign intervention more on this to r.t. as paul asli. turkey has blamed the syrian president bashar assad for these bombings without having undergone any kind of investigation what they have said is that syrian intelligence is to quote them the usual suspects now the deputy turkish

prime minister says that the organization and the members behind the attacks have been largely identified but what is worrying is that this does say it's a bad precedent to merely blame assad right away without giving any kind of proof or any kind of conclusive evidence as to why you say that nine people have been detained all of them are turkish citizens according to the turkish deputy prime minister and he has stressed that there be no links to the syrian opposition previously three of the five suspects arrested after the bombings were said to have been senior nationals not so it has denied that they are behind the attacks the syrian government issued a statement in which it said that we are saddened by the fall of martyrs in turkey yesterday in one way or another the turkish people are syrian brothers the turkish prime minister has said that the attack could also be linked to the peace process with the kurds and they of course have for a long time been at odds with the government of syria is the region bordering

turkey and that's where extremist opposition groups are particularly active what is unclear as of yet is how many of them could have in fact crossed over into turkey now the city where the explosion occurred has received tens of thousands of refugees and it is possible that some of them already core elements there's no proof to say that they are there is no proof to say that they are not these radical elements all setting up their own infrastructure and there are many groups among them such as the mr front and the salafist who've already done so we have been receiving reports that in aleppo for example there are reportedly some twenty rebel brigades operating and they've set up the machinery of government and justice in the quarters that they have taken over they have set up courts for example that are manned by lawyers and judges they've set up schools they say it's about their. no vacuum in the administration and public institutions so you certainly do have this very worrying phenomena that there is a large number of extremist elements that are operating particularly along the

syrian border. middle east correspondent. the radical islamist groups have a vested interest in provoking foreign action in syria and could have orchestrated the turkey bombings that's the view of middle east expert jeremy salt. we know for a fact because because the main is the us fighting group in syria has admitted it's that al qaeda in iraq and. in syria one in the same and all the fighting groups in syria and they're all working tactically with. so al-qaeda is in syria we know that that's not confirmed the smallest been suspect of them stops and so what we're saying now is kind of charge and countercharge. as people try to put the blame for this on to someone else my conscious mind my feeling about this is all just kind of guess would be that the party responsible is one of the groups because of anyone has a reason for trying to heat up the situation and dragging our. countries it would be them the fact is that the third one is going to washington this week and syria

will be on top of the agenda and my feeling is that he won't do anything but self that obama won't bite if he won't commit america to take a more involved over syria i don't think that turkey will do anything and the issue here is what kind of evidence that they're going to come up with will they come up with any evidence that's going to convince us that this in fact was an action carried out by the syrian intelligence service so there's a many many unknowns right now and the most everything is going to depend on the outcome of the talks in washington but you know bamma and. well you know here at r.t. we love it when you get involved with our stories we're covering today let's continue this the deadly bombings in turkey would like to know what you think if you had a dot com you can tell us who do you think is behind these bombings over the weekend impressive numbers frankly from r.t. dot com for this hour early hours here in moscow though the majority saying it's the syrian rebels who orchestrated the attack to pin the blame on damascus now down

to just about a third of you now saying turkey itself is responsible wanting to provoke foreign military intervention and then a huge distance saying down to ten percent saying well perhaps it was the government behind the bombings or nine percent as well is. streamer did it with absolutely zero motive impressive numbers from com it's never too late right now particularly if you do get involved at our website cast your vote or about it so let's get more insight here on r t the deepening well between damascus or. because of the story turkey shares its longest border with syria it's hard to imagine now but in two thousand and nine the two countries even held joint military drills across that frontier in what was a brief thaw in relations between the two while comalies syrian and serbian turkish they are so close that it's really only the border that prevents them being a single city people here joke they could have dinner in syria and coffee in turkey

just by strolling through the gates you can see behind me but it's now closed and the relations between the two neighbors are strained like never before changes came after turkey joined the chorus of fellow need to states and called for assad to step down immediately diplomatic political logistical support for the syrian opposition has made to be one of syria's key foes there are numerous unconfirmed reports of weapons and ammunition smuggled into syria with help of people on the side of the border. on land. often. in the absence of any convincing denial from the government given the government's policy of saying. what position you look at the whole picture show it's not. inspiring pictures damascus has even accused ankara of allowing the rebels to bring chemical weapons into country from this turkish

religion at the syrian border you can see texas military base it's a well secured area with highly restricted access no civilians including journalists are allowed to enter the army also uses special access roads to get in and out that are also closed for no other military vehicles well if even if accusations of turkish involvement in supplying weapons to fighters in syria true it would be almost impossible to prove by supporting the opposition in syria turkey may have pledged its loyalty to nato but this has come at a price dozens were killed in two separate incidents near the syrian border in just two months hundreds of thousands of desperate and gree refugees are fleeing from the war zone making the security situation on the border as tense as ever we spend more than eight hundred million dollars for the syrian refugees so it's a huge number now they want jobs in in those cities so it is also somehow affecting

the social stability in the region some say turkey is being used as a proxy by the western and gulf countries hostage to power that's forced to pull the chestnut's out of the fire but there are those who approve of enterprise actions and think turkey should take advantage of that situation if the syrian regime it will be changing and i think it has lost its legitimacy and it has lost its political credibility with its own people. that the syrian people will not blame turkey of having chosen the dictator in the period where they were suffering turkey feels that this region these close region. central asia and middle east is a priority region we should be the. power which has influence in all the regions echoing these were the two recent reports by

amnesty international and international crisis group global independent movements the documents reflect the concern by western and gulf partners over what they call turkey's near ottoman imperial aspirations what these countries certainly don't want is their loyal ally who paid a high price for being a good team player starting to play for itself. r.t. turkish syrian border. so touches upon the issue of the ongoing crisis in and around syria and of course the international efforts to solve it. if you look at the position on syria you know there's been the meeting between secretary kerry and foreign minister lavrov in moscow and people are looking toward the possibility of a conference but you know already the planning for this is getting bawled out because the russians quite reasonably think if you're going to have

a conference on iran you need all of the relevant and important players there which means you need a run there and the united states is already bulking at having iran take part in a conference on syria that is just not diplomatically serious it's privileging this ambition to have gemini in the middle east over really serious diplomacy all the parties should be at the table but all the parties will posture all the parties have both said it and so far we haven't seen any willingness on the side of any party to move toward a political solution. we kind of do stay with us here and get the program in full just a bit later this hour in about twenty minutes or so but also coming up here in the depths of despair. they don't know i went to the pharmacy to buy injections for my

baby but i couldn't find any there's a problem with this these these days it may mean you no longer get the medicines you need joined me to in baltimore in just a few minutes. plus starving for justice more than one hundred detainees at america's notorious guantanamo bay camp reach a fourth month of hunger strike. modern

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a moment on the world update but for now greece is waiting for brussels to hand over the latest part of a massive true one hundred forty billion euro rescue package that was agreed back in two thousand and ten by the greeks have been squeezed by painful austerity measures in order to meet the bailout while international lenders say athens has succeeded in bringing down the country's budget deficit and other figures show the greek economy is still in a tailspin but in a culture to explain. has been three years says greece was granted its massive bailout by international lenders since then the harshest areas the measures have driven the economy into the ground but some claim that the risk hope on the horizon for gris and that it's about to turn a corner let's see now how greece's economy fares today compared to what it looked like in the last full year before it needed rescuing starting with the country's g.d.p. an indicator of the standard of living that's plummeted almost fifty billion euros

in the last three years while government data has surged by forty five percent so where does the option. sounds well the good news these measures have improved the country's budget deficit to three point eight percent to put that in perspective it's now very close to the sets by the european union but for the greek people though the most alarming trend is the unemployment rate that stopped twenty seven percent mostly the country's youth and that's going to get worse four thousand civil servants are being laid off this year alone with the number is set to crippled by the end of the year one expert says no matter how the number is set up now the money will still have to be repaid. better these were. all the means to. the

business of. stating bottom of the. world by december of two thousand and thirteen so it will be a better value for sure thinks i'm a better friend and so you could also say that the believe. and during an astonishing six years of recession is also having a harrowing consequence so is science in greece which used to be the lowest rate in euro are rising rapidly mostly among the middle class troublingly people have taking their lives in public hanging or shooting themselves or even self-immolation while politicians and economists shuffle the figures as the people of greece being the price with their livelihoods and their futures now the crisis in greece may have actually led to a boost in suicides but it's just as hard for people who also just try to simply

look after their own health of explanation his who wants he's tom bot. busy at the counter but pharmacists in greece these days are facing serious sort of jesus of medicine and they're worried. about this. what's going to be the. next day price controls and tight cash flows mean many drug companies won't supply them greasers health industry is denied profits and patients their medicines so for example if you came into the pharmacy with high blood pressure may doctors like to prescribe this medication but d.n.a. says doesn't have enough of it so he has to give this instead and this issue ation is replicated with hundreds of medicines in hundreds of pharmacies across the country. but the charity doctors of the world in thessaloniki patients are in an even more desperate situation some doctor or human i want i'm really afraid about the future because i have two small children no insurance to manage the squad as

you know i came here because i don't have insurance and the money to pay for my parents some force to come and the situation will only get worse yes. but it cannot i went to a pharmacy to buy injections for my baby but i couldn't find any so now that i am unemployed i came here. forty five volunteer doctors a week battle with as many as two thousand monthly visits in this crowded space they rely on donations of medicine nations that are running. people who are very. very serious health problems. and problems they have to get their medicine. every month every day it's very serious for them not have their medicine if they do not they could die greeks aren't surprised at any of this and more they've seen crisis and austerity reach throughout society this new think and makes things even

here even more difficult and puts you in even more. because to me strain of greece's economy on greek workers and no one greeks listening stones of the crisis seems to have a deep. despair is growing at america's guantanamo bay prison detainees have been on a mass hunger strike for more than three months the military which runs the facility is force feeding some of the inmates to prevent them from starving to death the protests respond by alleged mistreatment by the guards and the indefinite detention without charge of some inmates more than half of one hundred sixty sixty trainees at the site were cleared for release years ago but still can't leave due to legal hurdles lawyers for the captives and doctor visits worldwide a calling for action from washington barack obama has still not kept his long running promise to shut down the site. but i think it's such a sham that we hear the president say that guantanamo should be closed he is the

most powerful man in the entire world why can't he close guantanamo well he can the question really is why doesn't he call close guantanamo he is lacking the moral courage he is lacking the political will he blames congress but really he has the power to release those prisoners who have already been cleared for release demand a speedy and fair trial for the other ones and bring them into the united states and close down the shameful prison the prison of guantanamo the force feeding seems to be a situation that is analogous to torture and this has been said by the american medical association and human rights experts they say that the way in which this is being done is so painful to the prisoners and those prisoners who have had a chance to get messages out to their lawyers have described the terrible situation

that they are in being strapped down. for several hours having these tubes stuffed down their nose and into their stomach and it says they say it feels like a razor going down their bodies so this is another form of torture and these prisoners have already endured years of torture in the prison in guantanamo. ok as promised it's time for the. some of the global headlines for your brief let's start with north korea which has now sucked its hardline defense minister the new head of the people's forces. rather little known army general this is the first time leader kim jong un has replaced a senior politician since coming to power just a year ago the new appointment though is seen as significant as it comes amid war threats tensions on the korean peninsula were made worse in february after the north latest nuclear test. fresh protests and a low turnout welcomed the ball garrett's parliamentary election which looks on

likely to provide a clear winner and there were allegations of fraud wiretapping and hundreds of thousands of illegally printed ballots were seized just hours before the polls opened the former prime minister was forced to step down in february all amid protests over the state of a country which is the poorest in the e.u. . and the least five people have been killed in a series of shootings across iraq the deadliest took place in the city of mashad off the gunman opened fire on a vegetable market by the attacks followed a police crackdown on a sunni protest camp in the country's north which sparked renewed sectarian violence. two time pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has celebrated an early victory and historic general election the poll dubbed the bloodiest in the country's history also marked his first ever democratic transition between civilian governments and the preliminary results announced on sunday placed sharif on top and close to gaining a clear majority in the national assembly the win would be

a remarkable comeback for sharif who was ousted in a military coup fourteen years ago by former pakistan army major i mean he says sharif faces a tough task to try and unite the nation. election results all miss because. largely punjab the party has won in the punjab in sindh in the party in baluchistan there are seventy shady and murky and in a. very good sign for this one this is the step towards pakistan's become edition you see there is no national party no in the lead and all four provinces are led by horses who want to go in different directions the military is in deep trouble because of the military was instrumental in starting the misuse of religion. in foreign policy and strategy in the afghan war starting from ninety to ninety nine

and now the whole game is turned against the blue to be taliban i think. are not going to talk because the. language is violence and i don't think a dialogue was possible is some part of taliban the afghan taliban ninety percent of the taliban fighting in afghanistan or pakistan sponsored maybe the peace is pakistani state but in the long run when the americans would do all the taliban frictions will combine and they want to play hell with the pakistani state. live from moscow this is r t you can find many more stories online about dot com including dressed to impress british billionaire and virgin boss richard branson have a look at that it dawns on air stewardess outfit serves drinks on a six hour flight after losing a bet over pictures on a website or to dot com while you're there you can also find this story as well or an argentinean vose town spent a quarter of

a century underwater comes up again for air read the story of this mysterious place of course on our website odyssey dot com. or it was good to have you with us here on t.v. just a moment peter lavelle crosstalk discussing the ins and outs of washington's foreign policy.

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mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all considered i'm peter lavelle manufacturing consent for determining a foreign policy consensus in washington in the halls of power in western capitals dr foreign policy decisions particularly when it comes to iran israel and syria is public opinion constructed to fit the interests of special groups and lobbies and is american foreign policy in the country's own interest.