nineteen people are injured after a mother's day parade in new orleans is sprayed it with bullets a manhunt now under way. turkey drums up a fresh case for foreign intervention in syria blaming damascus for a deadly cross border bombing. as our friends awaits the latest cash injection from brussels we look at how three years of chasing a bailout has got to the greek economy. it's a pleasure to have you with us here on today i'm real research and live in moscow

with your world wide news 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 so you were three gunman may have opened fire among the crowds details now from washington and. 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 appeal for. orleans police have urged anyone with any photographs of the parade to step forward so just as 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 weeks in 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. in washington garniture trying reporting that now the f.b.i. has dismissed any allegations of terrorism but for china mcgrath the founder of wide awake news he says the bureau shouldn't be quite so 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. or you know night shots of people but they seem to. be 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 what it's not it's not something i'm saying right now don't. thank you for joining us here and i see today so he is urging the international community to act against his war torn neighbor syria and blames the regime in damascus for saturday's double bombing of a turkish town that left forty six dead there syria denies the involvement saying the attacks are being used to justify foreign intervention and more on this his. fall asleep. 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 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 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 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 that there's 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 turkish syrian border. radical islamist groups have a vested interest in provoking foreign action in syria and turkey bombings that's the view of middle east expert jeremy salt who we know for

a fact because the main islam is fighting group in syria has admitted it's that al qaida 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 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 feeling about this kind of guess would be that the party responsible for this one of the groups because of anyone has a reason for trying to heat up the situation and dragon. 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 the take it won't do anything but 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 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 of course everything is going to depend on the outcome of the talks in washington but you know obama and. now it was a pleasure for us here are to you when you get involved with the stories we're covering i would like to know your take an opinion on the deadly bombings in turkey if you head over to r.t. dot com right now you can get involved in our online global poll where the numbers continue to change hour to hour it's a great pleasure for your participation let's see how it stacking up who planned who planted the border bombs across the turkish border into syria still the overwhelming majority of voters saying well perhaps it was the syrian opposition who did the attack to put the blame on damascus we got a bit of a boost for the second position here perhaps it was turkey itself responsible and wants to provoke some sort of foreign military intervention in syria still that number nine nine percent for the third there perhaps it was the assad government

down to eight percent perhaps extremists with zero motive so who planted the border bombs inside turkey r.t. dot com is where we're gauging your pulse please get involved if you haven't already cast your vote for now though let's get some more insight into the deepening wral between ankara and damascus artie's maria phenomena reports from the turkish syrian border. 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 well comically 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 nato states and called for 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. what position when you look at the whole picture sure it's not. inspiring pictures damascus has even accused anchor 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 on 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 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 and 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 the concern by western and gulf partners or 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 today's edition of cross talk also touches upon the issue of the ongoing crisis in and around syria and of course the international efforts to try and solve it. all the parties should be at the table but all the parties will posture all the parties have said it 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 is 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. but if you want to crown in a quarter that's when you can see the program in full here on the still though so to come in the program for now although that over the depths of despair. i went to the pharmacy to buy injections for my baby but i couldn't find any there's a problem with this piece these days it may mean you no longer get the medicines you need join me to in baltimore in just a few minutes. bus stopping for justice more than one hundred detainees that america's guantanamo bay prison continue their hunger strike now into a fourth month with no sign of backing down.

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thanks for joining us here on ars he was not far from the world update for all the grease waiting for brussels to hand over the latest part of a massive two hundred forty billion euro rescue package back in two thousand and ten greeks have been squeezed by painful austerity measures in order to meet the terms of their bailout and while international lenders actually say athens has succeeded in bringing down the country's budget deficit other figures show the greek economy is still in a tailspin in a conscionable explains 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 their risk hope on the horizon for greece and that it's about to turn a corner let's see now how greece's economy. here 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 optimists sound while the good news these measures have improved the country's budget deficit three point eight percent to put that in perspective that'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 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. this is. better these would. be better. example better and so you could go. and during an astonishing sixty 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. in the mean time of the crisis increase may have lead to a boost in suicides it's just as hard for the everyday joe to look after his basic health needs correspondent tom barton fills us and now busy at the counter but pharmacists in greece these days are facing serious sort of two years of medicine and they're worried. critical but this year on. the way to the role or 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 dealy 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 nurse or doctor or human and i'm really afraid about the future because i have two small children no insurance and i just lost my job at a metal 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 . i went to a pharmacy why 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 a very. very serious health problem such as they made this up and the logical problems they have to get their medicine in every month every day it's very

serious for them not to have their meds 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 difficult than to put in even more strain on me known the economy strain of greece's economy on greek workers and now on greeks help worsening scars of a crisis that seems to cut have a deeper thomason party. and up energy office or terrace i spoke to just a bit earlier from the university of the aegean he believes are celebrating any reduction of the greek budget deficit is nothing but a bluff. british government is trying to create an image running programs in budget deficits by simply slicing public investment and continuing continuously delaying statements about its directions so

in reality if if the greek state paid on time whatever money he owes we were still . a big deficit so that's why i insisted that this and you know this isn't just an attempt to remain within the nominal terms of the bailout agreement i'm not a real improvement on the other hand all that is all the recent decisions from the back of the greek government such as the decision to lay off for tens of thousands of public servants of the. very big wage reductions that private sector with more or so although they realize bits of the government's economic policy are full as well as the recession the i.m.f. demands that greece remains to go with it. that will simply make even worse this humanitarian disaster we are already facing and which was described

. this is r.t. you can find many more stories online at r.t. dot com including maybe close your eyes dressed to impress british billionaire and a virgin boss there is. richard branson dons an air stewardess outfit and serves drinks on a six hour flight after losing a bet if you want to see the pages for that matter just log on to the website r t dot com. also while you're there you can check out this interesting story an argentinean ghost town that spent a quarter of a century underwater finally comes comes up for air again the story of this mysterious phenomena online on the web site right now. punished for being good as north korea removes a hardline defense minister and stands down to ballistic missile physicians and what it gets in response from its southern neighbor and america on the website. for now despair is growing at america's guantanamo bay prison the military which

runs the facility is force feeding some inmates to prevent them from starving to death as a protest was sparked by alleged mistreatment by guards and the indefinite detention without charge of many inmates and more than half of the one hundred sixty six detainees at the site were cleared for release years ago and they still can't leave due to legal hurdles on capitol hill lawyers for the captives and activists around the world are all 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 will 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've 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.

and straight to pakistan to open up the r.t. world update now it's where the two time pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has celebrated an early victory in an historic general election the poll dubbed the bloodiest in the country's history also marked its first ever democratic transition between civilian and government the preliminary results announced on sunday placed a sharif on top and close to gaining a clear majority in the national assembly however a revote is due in over thirty polling stations around karate the winner would be a remarkable comeback for sharif who was ousted in a military coup fourteen years ago. at least five have been killed in a series of shootings all across iraq at least took place in the city of the shah the after gunman opened fire on a vegetable market and the attacks followed a police crackdown on a sunni protest camp in the country's north which sparked renewed sectarian violence. fresh protests and

a low turnout welcome to paul gary is parliamentary election which looks unlikely 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 open the former prime minister was forced to step down in february and protests over the state of a country which is the poorest in the e.u. . well let's get some action here on our t.k. partridges next with the hottest action of the week of the world of sport. the illusion of safety trumping you're right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america and no one is pushing the keep you safe in any cost and lot 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 declaring if you end street stops looking for guns they will be more guns on the street and more people will be killed it's just that simple 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.

welcome to the l.t.s. bush show twenty six action packed minutes of deeds words and news from russia and around the world with me kate and here's a taste of what's to come. knocking distance to scott rush up the mighty four want to go five points clear of the needs were held up still while all relegated on a pivotal weekend in the russian crimean me. how about greek big three this guy claimed wrongs that they. you're in the finals after losing to olympiacos who go on to be and defend the continental crown. plus top battle maria sharapova misses the chance to reclaim the world number one spot from serena williams as the american wins her fiftieth career title hundred. but let's get the ball rolling with full bore and with two games to go to school have gone five points clear at the top of the russian premier league and on course

for their first championship crown in seven years after thrashing lucky for one in the moscow darby but you're on point has all the weekend action. i'd. say this car went five points clear at the top of the table with just two games to go after triumphing for one of the committee the moscow darby wagner love putting the arm in one up after only six minutes. soon made it through and then boggle over to the second just before the break to me to toss or poor go buy in for loco early in the second half but say to be are made for one and give serious concourse for the first league title in seven years. i've seen its hopes of keeping their title for a third straight year took a huge ten's of the champions or held one one at struggling rust of record signing acts of itself strong office.