nineteen people injured after a mother's day parade in new orleans is sprayed with bullets a manhunt now under way. drums up a fresh case for foreign intervention in syria blaming damascus for a deadly cross border. of thousands awaits the latest cash injection from brussels we look at how three years of. the greek economy. good morning to you. live in the russian capital it's now i just after nine in the

morning. at least nineteen people including two ten year old children have been wounded during a shootout at a mother's day parade in new orleans it's thought up to three gunmen may have opened fire on the crowd details now from. washington. 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 another 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 those 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 there could have been 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's very little control over in whose hands guns end up guns are freely sold the gun shows and online and all of this makes people nervous about their safety at public events naturally. these gun h. kind reporting that the f.b.i. spokesman has dismissed any allegations of terrorism of a child mcgrath founder of wide awake news says the bureau shouldn't be too quick to 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 shots of people but they seem to you know they had the invitations of what was going on in boston we know now years before. the occurred in the information they were getting from other countries and so people in the f.b.i. coming out saying it's rude to relate or not to related. you know it's not it's not something anything right i don't. it's good to have you with us here in our to this morning so he says it will urge the international community to act against war torn syria it blames the regime in damascus for saturday's double bombing of a turkish town that killed forty six however syria is denying involvement saying the attack is being used to justify foreign intervention let's get more on this from artie's paulus. 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 difficulty

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 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 in one way or another the turkish people are syrian brothers the north 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 are

radical elements there's no proof to say that they are there is no proof to say that they are not these radical elements are setting up their own infrastructure and there are many groups among them such as the mistrust 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 three quarters that they have taken over they've set up courts for example that are manned by lawyers and judges they've set up schools they say so but there's no vacuum in the administration and public institutions so you certainly do have this very warring phenomena that there is a large number of extremist elements that are operating particularly along the turkish syrian border of course one of the radical islamist groups have a vested interest in provoking foreign action in syria and could have orchestrated that turkey bombing that is the view of middle east expert jeremy salt. we know for a fact because the main islam is fighting group in syria has admitted it's that in

iraq and. in syria are 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 suspected from the stops and so what we're saying now is kind of charge and countercharge. people try to put the blame for this on to someone else. my feeling about this kind of guess would be that the party responsible for this is one of the groups because very one has a reason for trying to heat up the situation and dragging. countries it would be them the fact is that that is going to washington this week and syria will be on top of the agenda and my my failing is that he won't do anything by itself that. 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 are they going to come up with. 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 everything's going to depend on the outcome of the talks in washington but you know obama and. now as you probably know we always love to invite you to get involved with the stories we cover here today the issue of the deadly bombings in turkey on the web site r.t. dot com you can vote in our ongoing live poll for example who carried out the deadly bombings of a turkish town across the syrian border look at these numbers they are fluctuating but it's impressive to see that almost half of all voters from the website of blaming the syrian opposition saying they orchestrated the attack to pin the blame on damascus now down to about a third just over a third of saying it's actually turkey who's responsible wanting to provoke some sort of foreign military intervention in syria down to a minimum of ten percent saying it was actually the assad government who did the

bombings eight percent saying well actually no just extremists with zero motive we can go to our tea dot com right now get involved in our online poll of global poll as we are taking the pulse over you and all of us on this story for now let's let's get some more insight into the deepening wral between ankara and damascus his aunties maria from. 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 commonly syrian and serbian turkish they are so close but 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 you need to state so assad to step down

immediately diplomatic political logistical support for the syrian opposition has made turkey 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 either through airports or on land. often. in the absence of any convincing denial from the government given the government's policy of saying. the right position when you look at the whole picture sure it's not. inspiring pictures damascus has even accused of allowing the rebels to bring chemical weapons into country from this turkish religion at the syrian border you can see tech is military base it's a well secured area with highly restricted access no civilians including journalists are allowed to enter the un they also use

a special access roads to get in and out that are also closed for no one 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 hundreds of thousands of desperate and green 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 this 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 it has lost its political credibility with its own people that the syrian people will not blame turkey or having chosen the. 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 that 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. and at today's edition of cross talk also touches upon the issue of the ongoing crisis in and around syria and the international efforts are ongoing to solve it. all the parties should be at the table but all the parties will posture all the parties have both said agenda and so far we haven't seen any willingness on the side of any party to move toward a political solution if you want to stop violence in syria you have to get all parties to the table you can't have these kinds of absurd preconditions and you have to get down to the business of diplomacy i think russia frankly china iran have been trying harder to do that trying the harder to get that kind of process

off the ground than the united states has been because to do it for the united states to do this means it's it's acknowledging it can't just dictate outcomes in this part of the world. you can what you're crosstalk in fooling not just over an hour's time but here on it also still to come for you in the program here when i see that of the depths of despair. bit because i went to the pharmacy to my injections for my baby but i couldn't find any there's a problem with this sign peace these days it may mean you no longer get the medicines you need join me told baltimore in just a few minutes on city. bus stopping for justice more than one hundred detainees at america's kuantan m obey facility now reach the fourth month of hunger strike.

modern russia was built on coal. fuel for its factories. coke for its steel to mark gold is it more than heat for its people. join me james brown to meet the men who spend their lives underground and work in one of the world's most dangerous professions. woodlands. hearts of coal on o.t. . more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today.

thank you for joining us here on our. show in moscow greece is waiting for brussels to hand over the latest part of a massive two hundred forty billion euro rescue package was agreed upon a back in two thousand and ten now the greeks have been squeezed by painful austerity measures in order to meet the bailout and while international lenders say athens has succeeded in bringing down the country's budget deficit other figures show the greek economy is still in a tailspin as within a culture explains. it's been three years as greece was granted its massive bailout by international lenders since then the harshest areas he measures have driven the economy into the ground but some claim that the risk hope on the horizon for greece

and that it's about to turn a corner let's see now how greece's economy ferrous 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 served by forty five percent so where does the optimus stand while the good news these measures have improved the country's budget deficit three point eight percent to put that in perspective it's now very close to the figure so that's why the european union but for the greek people though is 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 triple 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. this is. better these would. be better value for sure example better and so if you're going. to be the bully 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 europe are rising rapidly mostly among the middle class troublingly people have taken their lives in public hanging or shoes. themselves or even self-immolation while politicians and economists shuffle the figures as the people of greece spinning the price with their livelihoods and their futures. when used in suicides

but it's also just as hard for the everyday person trying to look after the basic health correspondent tom barton reports. busy at the counter but pharmacists in greece these days are facing serious shortages of medicine and they're worried. that this year. the with. 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 many doctors like to prescribe this medication but d.n.a. is just as in have enough of it so he has to give this instead and this actuation 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 or what i'm really afraid about

the future because i have two small children no insurance and i just lost my job i don't i don't it's quite 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 less people. can live i went to the 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 donations that are running from people who are very. very serious health problems such as they are logical 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 anymore they've seen crisis and austerity reach throughout their society this new think and makes things even here even more. more. strain on greece's economy on greek workers and greeks worsening scars of the crisis seems to have a deeper. and many more stories to be found. including dress to impress. those pictures on our website. that spent a quarter of a century underwater comes out. of the story of this mysterious place on our website right now.

it's. just a couple minutes on the. prison for the detainees have been. more than three months but. the facility is force feeding some inmates to prevent them from starving to death and the protest. by god. without charge of many inmates more than half of the one hundred sixty six detainees at the site were cleared for release years ago but still can't leave due to legal hurdles lawyers

for the captives worldwide are calling for action from washington as barack obama has still not kept his long running promise to shut down the prison. 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. let's get to some other global news for you in brief it's time for the off the wall starting with north korea which is now its hardline defense minister and you head of the people's forces drawing is a little army general this is the third time for the leader kim jong un has replaced a senior politician since coming to power year ago but the new appointment is seen

as significant as it comes amid war threats tensions on the korean peninsula were made worse in february after the north's latest nuclear test. fresh protests and a low turnout welcome to ball gary is parliamentary election which looks unlikely to provide a clear winner there were allegations of fraud wiretapping and hundreds of thousands of illegally printed ballots that were seized just always before the polls open the former prime minister was forced to step down in february and in protest over the state of a country which is the poorest in the european. at least five people have been killed in a series of shootings across iraq the deadliest took place in the city of mashad after a gunman opened fire on a vegetable market the attacks followed a police crackdown that 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 in an historic general election

a poll dubbed the bloodiest in the country's history also marked its 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 and the win would be a remarkable comeback for sharif who was ousted in a military coup fourteen years ago a former pakistan army major. says sharif faces a tough task to unite the nation. election results all miss because a. largely punjabi party has won in punjab in sindh in the party in baluchistan there are seventy shady and murky and a. very good sign for this one this is their step towards pakistan's become edition you see there is no national party no in the lead and all four provinces led by horses who

want to go in different directions the military is in deep trouble because the military was instrumental in starting the misuse of religion. in foreign policy and strategy in the afghan war starting from ninety three to nine and now the whole game is turned against the believed to be taliban i think. are not going to talk because the. language is violence and i don't think at their lowest possible is some part of taliban the afghan taliban ninety percent of the taliban fighting in afghanistan or pakistan sponsored maybe the peace of pakistani state but in the long run when the americans would do all the taliban factions will combine and they're going to play hell with the pakistani state. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. if you can just a moment on the break adventure of james brown he's attempting one of the world's most dangerous jobs actually it's the hearts of co coming your way in just a second.

the illusion of safety trumping your right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america unnoticed pushing the keep you safe at any cost more than new york billionaire mayor michael bloomberg who recently had to defend his stop and frisk strategy after giving a speech to police brass stop and frisk is the practice of just being able to search anyone in new york at any time for any reason with your hands this gestapo style practice has been in place since two thousand and two but thankfully was finally recently found to be unconstitutional by a federal judge you know the fourth amendment all the talk about no unlawful search and seizure seems pretty clear to me why did this take so long to figure out

bloomberg despite that silly constitution thing stands firm with this policy to occur and if you and st stops looking for guns they will be more guns on the street and more people will be killed it's just that sample well to that i would say if you stop nazi style first kings of random innocent people there will be more freedom on the streets it's just that simple but that's just my opinion. speak to language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting for the world talks about civil c.o.r.p. interviews intriguing story for you as you. say in troy arabic to find out more because it's arabic t.v. .

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