nineteen people are. still underway. for foreign intervention in syria damascus for. the greek economy. just after one pm on a stunning often in here. with me welcome to the program at least nine hundred

people including children have been wounded during a shooting at a mother's day parade in new orleans it's thought that up to three gunmen may have opened fire among the crowd details from washington correspondent. 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 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'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. thanks for joining the program here on our to today turkey is urging the international community to act against his war torn neighbor syria and blames the regime in damascus for saturday's double car bombing of a turkish town that killed forty six although all those syria denies any involvement saying the attack is being used to justify some sort of foreign intervention more on this now the report to want to use paula. 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 have 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 courts is 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. and radical islamist groups have

a vested interest in provoking foreign auction in syria and could have walked straight at the turkey bombings and that's the view of middle east expert jeremy resold. al qaeda is in syria we know that that's not confirmed the smallest been suspect of them stops and so what we're seeing now is kind of charge and countercharge as people try to put the blame for this on to someone else the most obvious kind of guess would be that the party responsible for this 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 the turkey won't do anything by itself that obama won't bite if he won't commit america to take him to a more involved over syria i don't think that turkey will do anything and key 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 of course everything is going to depend on the outcome of the talks in washington but you know obama and. i here on our program today are your take on the deadly bombings in turkey just who was behind the bombings just over the border inside turkey of course a double car bombing there let's let's bring up the numbers from r.t. dot com and see how you are voting for this hour from our web site still the majority of voters saying it was the syrian rebels the opposition who are by behind the attack in order to pin the blame on damascus about a third now thinking that perhaps it was turkey itself responsible perhaps trying to provoke some sort of foreign military intervention in syria nine percent thinking it will it could be the assad government joint nine percent again a third and fourth position tied saying it could be extremists with zero motive so who planted the border bombs it's never too late for you to get involved r.t. dot com is just a click away right now you can cart your vote and let's get some more insight now

into the ongoing raul between ankara and damascus are reporting from the turkish syrian border artie's maria from washington. 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 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 this side of the border either through airports or on land. often made. 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 ankara 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 pledged its loyalty to nato but this has come at a price hundreds of thousands of desperate and greedy 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 dicta. 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. are in 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 touching upon the

issue of the ongoing crisis in and around syria and the international efforts to solve. all the parties should be at that 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 by alliance 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. it's

a bit later this hour here on our twenty minutes time you can see the full program of course crosstalk and guests still to come up before then the depths of despair. and then i went to the pharmacy to buy injections for my baby but i couldn't find any there's a problem with this sign these these days it may mean you no longer get the medicines you need join me to baltimore in just a few minutes after. stopping for justice more than one hundred detainees at america's kuantan i'm a bay prison continue their hunger strike now for a fourth month no signs of any of them backing down. manufacturing consent or determining a foreign policy consensus to win washington in the halls of power in western capitals drive foreign policy decisions particularly when it comes to iran and israel and syria is american foreign policy in the country's own interest.

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it's quarter past the hour moscow time this is r.t. greece is waiting for brussels to hand over the latest part of a massive two hundred forty billion euro rescue package agreed upon back in two

thousand and ten a greek sabrine squeezed by a painful austerity measures in order to meet the bailout terms and while international lenders say athens has actually succeeded in bringing down the country budget deficit other figures show the greek economy is still in a tailspin this report now to our culture. as been three years says 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 grace and that it's about to turn a corner let's see now how greece's economy fare is 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 thursday by forty five percent so where does the optimist stand while 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 figure so that's why the european union but for the greek people though is the most alarming trend is the unemployment rate 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 next year 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 most the 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 spinning the price with their livelihoods and their futures on the crisis in greece

may have led to a boost in suicides but alongside that it's also just as hard for the everyday joe to look after the basic requirements of health and get medicine or he's tombaugh reports on this. busy at the counter but pharmacists in greece these days are facing serious sort of fits of medicine and they're worried. critical. of the role 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. sisters and have enough of it so he has to give this instead and this it to 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 must have some docs for him and i'm really afraid about the future because i have two small children no insurance and i just lost my job 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 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 very. very serious health problems such as they don't 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 greig's 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. to even more strain on me known because to me strain of greece's economy on greek workers and now on greeks help worsening scars of a crisis that seems to cut ever deeper thomason. well given all the problems the greeks are suffering from kind of jihadists or terrorists from the university of the aegean he believes celebrating anywhere adduction of the budget deficit is just a government bluff. government has tried to create an image running programs in we're concerned budget deficits by simply slashing public investment and continually continuously delaying statements about its directions

so in reality if if the greek state paid on time whatever money he owes we were still without 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 agreements and not a real improvement and on the other hand all that it was a recent decision from the part of the greek government such as the decision to lay off for tens of thousands of public servants of the that the very big wage reductions in the private sector that will start tomorrow so they realized pics of the brink of the government's economic policy our policy is don't want to see a recession the m.f. demands that greece remains to go to other policy that will simply made even worse this humanitarian disaster we are already facing and which ones describe

your reports just. every hour at r.t. dot com more and more stories are going up on the website this hour for example including the argentinean ghost town that spent a quarter of a century underwater it comes up for air again have a story of this mysterious place that's online for you right now just a click away. plus punished for being good north korea fires at four kish armed forces minister is that enough to reduce tensions with the southern neighbor and the united states those details also at r.t. dot com. indeed.

just a moment of. despair is growing. more than three months and the military which runs the facility is force feeding many of the inmates to prevent them from starving to death. without charge of. more than half of the one hundred sixty six detainees at the site were cleared for release years ago they still can't leave due to legal hurdles on capitol hill lawyers for the captives worldwide. washington as barack obama. to shut down the. 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 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. and pakistan opens up the world update here on the program where the two time pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has now celebrated an early victory in historic general election but the poll dubbed the bloodiest in the country's history marked its first ever democratic transition between civilian governments other preliminary results announced on sunday place sharif on top and close to gaining a clear majority in the national assembly however a revote in june over thirty polling stations around. the win would be a remarkable comeback for sharif who was ousted in a military coup that happened now of fourteen years ago. in other news here on the r.t. world update at least five people have been killed in

a series of shootings across iraq the deadliest took place in the city of mashad the 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. and fresh protests and a low turnout welcomed gary as 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 they were seized just hours before the polls open the former prime minister was forced to step down in february and the protests over the state of the country about garia being the poorest in the e.u. . well it's been a pleasure having you here today up next peter bell his guests in cross talk are discussing the ins and outs of washington's foreign policy this is live from moscow .

the illusion of safety trumping you're right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america and notice 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 for. with this policy declaring if you and the street stops looking for guns they will be more guns on

the street and more people will be killed it's just that sam paul well to that i would say if you stop nazi style first gangs of random innocent people there will be more freedom on the streets it's just that simple but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm tired welcomes a big picture. of . your mother.

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