our top story on this hour a massive car blast kills at least fifteen people including children outside a hospital in the libyan city of benghazi. the pressure on the syrian government and boosting support for the opposition the leaders of britain and the u.s. present their vision for ending the country's civil war. and spyware made by a british firm has allegedly been used to snoop on activists in bahrain we hear from a rights campaigner who's raising the alarm over the intrusive surveillance methods being deployed in the country our top stories this hour.

online on screen international news and comment live from studio center here in moscow a car bomb has exploded in libya's second largest city benghazi the blast went off in a crowded area outside a hospital a middle east correspondent has more on this. as many as seventeen people have been killed and dozens wounded including children there are of course fears of the death toll wolf sort of the rise what we do understand is that the car bomb exploded in that call pocket of the main emergency out jalil hospital in the eastern libyan city of the ghazi according to the libyan deputy interior minister totally destroyed a restaurant and seriously damaged nearby buildings now doctors inside that hospital say that it is there was only one body that arrived in texas and that makes it almost impossible to lead it to establish than establish the number of people who have been killed eyewitnesses say that people were hysterical beggars running about people were literally kicking body parts up off the streets now

people are angry and there's a lot of calls within the social media for libyans to take to the streets and express their anger and march and demonstrate but they're almost just as many calls for libyans to stay at home because the situation outside is not safe at all what libyans are also tweeting is that while we have seen a string of attacks on local police stations over the past few days in benghazi this is something completely different to attacking embalming a crowded hospital which is of course a public place now the security situation in libya has remained precarious ever since the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi was overthrown on sunday they were two bombs targeting police stations there have also been a five attacks in total over the last month on benghazi police stations this comes amid an increase in foreign stocks withdrawals on sunday the b.p. oil giant announced that it was pulling all non essential stuff from its libyan operations and this was based on the advice of the u.k.

foreign office on friday evening washington announce that it was pulling some of its non-essential indices staff out of the country and it was also pushing e.u. based rapid intervention troops who are currently based in germany on high alert the u.k. foreign office has also announced that its removal. some nonessential diplomatic stuff because of security concerns and political uncertainty over the last few weeks what we have seen is that indices both in tripoli and also in libyan ministries has been blocked by militia who have been demanding a no banning gadhafi officials from government. as we just heard a spate of attacks and growing instability continues to plague libya geo political analyst patrick henningsen from twenty first century won dot com says the u.s. strategy to align itself with radically groups is back far enough in libya and across the region there's been a heavy amount of active by western intelligence agencies during the.

course that culminated with what we saw last fall when the u.s. had gone right to eliminate some but potential leadership in the. libyan government it's a pretty good offer the militias basic ability. to radicalize some of those groups over the last two years so it's a recipe for chaos and it's really sad because. it's going to. challenge him or. have some semblance of law and order in the government in that country right now the whole without the can region is awash with various islamised radical groups and i'm sorry to say that this is a u.s. administration that is allied itself with the islamicists and they're having trouble taming the monsters to be created. and you can track all the latest

developments in benghazi on our web site right now dot com we've gone and it's a video footage there and i witness accounts from the scene of the blast. the leaders of britain and the united states are vowing to step up the pressure on president assad in syria and boost support for the opposition the syrian civil war has been the main focus of the meeting in washington which comes on the heels of talks with russia earlier this week where plans were drawn up for an international conference on the conflict. get more on this from marty's going to join me live there in washington gun of the u.s. and u.k. they they say they want to see an end to violence there in syria but they're sticking to their hard line on president said can this insistence on getting rid of him really lead to peace. well we have to look at we have to say that the u.k.

prime minister is in washington as well powers are gearing up for a conference on syria that would bring representatives of the syrian government and the syrian opposition to the negotiating table president obama david cameron spoke about their hopes for syria they reiterated they want bashar assad gone and they want a transitional government to be put in place and in david cameron's words they want to shape that transitional government they want to shape the opposition david cameron is here after talks with the russian president last friday at russia's black sea resort of sochi here's what he said about this new round of international efforts to mediate a solution. we welcome president putin's agreement to join in efforts to achieve a political solution the challenges remain but we have an urgent window of opportunity before the worst fears are realized there is no more urgent international task than this we need to get syrians to the table to agree a transitional government that can win the consent of all of the syrian people but there will be new political progress in less the opposition is able to withstand

the war and put pressure on assad so heaters there is no military victory so we will also increase our efforts to support and to shape the moderate opposition. well the kid difference between moscow's approach to the political solution in syria and out of the u.k. and the u.s. has been insistent that it's up to the syrians to shape their government and that it's not up to russia or the u.s. to say whether assad should stay or go that was the basis for the peace plan major world powers including russia agreed on a year ago the so-called geneva communique it calls for the syrian government and rebels to agree on a transitional government leading to elections it also calls for an immediate cessation of violence in all its forms it was kind of strange to hear from mr cameron that russia has just joined these efforts to reach to bring about a political solution where it has supported exactly that all the way moscow and

washington announced last week that they would be working to bring about together to bring everyone together to find a political solution to the syrian crisis is based on a plan but the success of the conference much depends on whether everyone will be pushing in the same direction that hasn't been the case so far at the u.k. prime minister is pushing to lift the e.u. arms embargo david cameron has been a strong proponent of arming the rebels although at this news conference he was a base of saying the u.k. is not make the decision on that but two weeks ago the u.s. said he was considering arming the rebels directly so far the u.s. sort of with a silent nod has been watching its allies among the gulf states as they supplied arms to the rebels moscow says flooding the conflict with more weapons will not bring about an end to violence in syria but will lead to more bloodshed instead the turkish prime minister is also coming to washington this week is thursday and he's pushing he is pushing for more aggressive action in syria including arming the rebels so the prospects of

a political solution could be undermined on several fronts probably the most important of which is that the syrian opposition has not come out in favor of such a transition plan that would be negotiated with the syrian government and that's what world powers are now trying to. mediate meanwhile the experts agree that the alternative is a political solution is the prospect of a political vacuum in the event of the government collapse and the rise of islamic extremist groups going to thanks very much indeed for that live update in washington he's going to. police in louisiana are hunting down several gunman who opened fire on a crowd during mother's day celebrations nineteen people were injured in the broad daylight attack during a street parade in new orleans or didn't report the details. well so far they have been no arrests announced but we do know that the new orleans police department has released grainy surveillance video they released that early monday morning showing

a possible suspect in connection to the mother's day parade shooting in the footage you can see the crowd suddenly scattering in all directions with some falling to the ground and it appears as though parade goers are running from a man who turns and runs out of the picture and the person is wearing a white t. shirt and dark pants the image isn't very clear but police are still hoping that someone will recognize the perpetrator and notify investigators police posted a series of still images from that grainy video on you tube as well there's also been a ten thousand dollars reward offered for information leading to the arrest and indictments in this case now law enforcement officials believe that more than one gone was fired sunday afternoon now by sunday evening a law enforcement officials were speculating that at least three people were connected possibly to the mother's day parade shooting an f.b.i. spokesperson characterized the shooting as street violence with no connection to

terrorism now the victims from this shooting includes ten men seven women a boy and a girl both ten years old children were reportedly grazed by a bullet but they are said to be in good condition at least three victims however were seriously wounded if this is connected to the ongoing debate in the united states over gun control a debate that has this country essentially divided look what u.s. president barack obama wanted to do with his legislation that failed in the senate was that he wanted to force tougher background checks on people that were attempting to buy a weapon now if investigators in new orleans ultimately find the weapons that were responsible for the shooting and they find out that those weapons were not registered were not were not sold to the people that use them or the people that use them got them illegally that goes back to the. the gun control debate that goes back to what many want to do in strengthening access to firearms is have the proper procedures for people who want to buy

a firearm so it's not clear yet if these guns that were used were illegally obtained but if they weren't that speaks to the debate that is ongoing in the united states that is sensually still getting a lot of attention but not much traction when it comes to enforcing more gun control. reporting on that the idea that britain would be better off the european union is gaining ground within prime minister david cameron's government both the defense and education secretaries know said they would vote for the u.k. to leave the block if ready for a referendum was held right now while the sort of first reports from london. this is going to look to many like the prime minister is struggling to maintain control of discipline amongst his own party eva the e.u. is she no we seem very senior figures within his own party education minister michael going to come out and say that he feels that there could be

a benefits leaving the event that sentiment echoed by the defense secretary philip hammond he said that he'd vote to leave if the referendum were on the basis of our relationship in britain with the e.u. as it stands today no rather embarrassing for the prime minister of course because he's in the us at the present time to press for a trade deal between the e.u. and the us that he claims could bring ten billion pounds that the new benefit to britain now they become and the prime minister actually had a statement where he. when he's responded to these statements from senior figures and he said that he does seem to think there's a swing in the town even before all the negotiation has started now this is in reference of course to his the speech at the beginning of the year where he promised that if the party were they to do with a majority in the twenty fifteen general election that there would be in out

referendum by twenty seventy all three of those renegotiation of britain's relationship with the remember a lot of people amongst his own party included want to see a substantial repatch relation of powers from the e.u. but of course there were many unanswered questions predominate they would actually be considered a failure because of course if there's no guarantee whatsoever the person would i get that renegotiation of a relationship that's going to be a lot of questions about the prime minister's oglethorpe's he within his own party this isn't any problem the split of the issue is an old problem for the conservative party if you can imagine that the other parties right now are going to be absolutely gleeful so this whole family squabble is that once again being played out so publicly. with you twenty four hours a day this is r t live in moscow ahead for you a bahraini activist says u.k. made spyware is being used against human rights campaigners in the gulf states you

can hear from her after the break. wealthy british style.

markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. continues here on r.t. the government in bahrain is use a vein and software from a u.k. based company to spy on a leading rights activists that's according to documents filed in the high courts by one of the felde dissolve the rights group bahrain watch the manufacturers say the program is designed for use in criminal investigations but previously campaigners claim the technology is being widely abused the program named fin spy can perform a wide range of surveillance operations it works by infecting your computer and

then recording your skype conversations and social media activity it also takes. shots without your knowledge and access all the information on your hard disk rights groups and i hope that dr harvey's witness statement on the spyware can force a judicial review on the british government's failure to investigate where the technology is going she spoke to us earlier on this and said the use of digital surveillance has been spreading in bahrain ever since former u.k. police official john yates became security advisor there. disguised as if they were from journalists and were from other activists and then after we discovered after two months investigation of a technical analysis to try and. investigate what kind of information and what this software actually does we discovered there was a company called gamma international which sells this software to foreign governments so we assumed and we given the circumstances in which i received the

e-mails and the nature of the e-mails this was a suspect this was sold to the bahraini government but we also know that the servers. received this information from the software is actually based in bahrain so the servers are currently in bahrain and they're being updated in bahrain which means that this is further evidence over the past two years particularly since british advisor john yates joined the bahrain security services we have noticed the increase in the use of surveillance in the use of c.c.t.v. and the use of digital surveillance and there are very targeted arrests and infiltration amongst protests activists that are happening using the latest technology technologies and this is all happened since following on from the hiring of the recruitment of john yates and most of these companies that provide all of this technology are british now we know of at least thirty six so being maintained worldwide so now the this is a global operation gam international has sold this software to at least twenty five

governments and the us seems the use of the software seems to have no any type of restriction so this is turning into a global phenomenon and it's run by the private sector so well look increasingly at the commercialisation of digital surveillance which is even scarier because it's very difficult to regulate. europe's finance minister signed off billions of euros of bailout funds today heavily indebted greece and cyprus received huge loans to prop up the ailing economy cyprus got the green light for the first three billion euro installment of its bailout agreed in march after tends to go she a sions with international lenders greece has been relying on cash injections for the past three years and it will now get another eight tranche worth four point two billion euros and also a further installment three point three billion euros later this year despite the greek government's claim that the money is put in the economy back on track many

believe the country is paying too high a price for that help as medical chernova reports. 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 gris 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 output 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 do the optimists sounds while the good news these measures have improved the country's budget deficit of 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 of 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 next year one expert says no matter how the number is set up now the money will still have to be repaid the greek government tried to image. it budget deficits by simply slicing the public investment and continuing continuously delaying. statements about its directions so in reality if if the greek states. were every monday all this we're going to. review that this is just so that's why they insist that this i mean listen it is an

attempt to remain within the norm in the. sense not to really prove that. so there are real aspects of. government's economic policy our policy is the what is the recession the very big question the elephant is a room of this size of this. as you know bailouts of agreements ireland in reality they have increased. greek debt 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 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 the health care sector is one of

the worst hit by the recession in greece the national health budget has been slashed by forty percent in the last four years largely to meet e.u. bailout targets ortiz has been finding out what patients are having to cope with. busy at the counter but pharmacists in greece these days are facing serious sort of fits of medicine and they're worried. that this young. 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 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 some docs are all working on what 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. 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. 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. people who are very . very serious health problems such as they've. got problems they have to get their medicine. 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 and puts a. even more strain on me known because real 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 r.t. . so that brings up today for the moment i'll be back with a new team in just over half an hour with more freedom in time stay with us for the week sports headlines with kate partridge that's after the break. the illusion of safety trumping you're right seems to be the main political theme

of post nine eleven america i notice 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 and words and news from russia and around the world with me take on change and here's a taste of what's to come. distance to scott rush up the mighty four want to go five points clear of the needs were held across stuff. from a gated on a pivotal weekend in the russian crimean me. how about greek victory this guy claimed wrongs at the unique finals. losing to olympiacos who go on to be relevant and defend continental press. plus top battle maria sharapova misses the chance to reclaim the world number one spot from serena williams as the american wins her fifteenth career title.

but let's get the ball rolling with football and with two games to go to scott 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 like a mighty four one in the moscow doll which of on point has all the weekend action. thank you i. say sky when five points clear at the top of the table with just two games to go after trying thing for one of the committee the moscow darby love putting the army in one up after only six minutes. soon made it through and then bog roll 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 me are made for one of serious concourse for the first league title in seven years. thanks i feel city's 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 each cell strong after six minutes but the tally diac of equalize from penalties for so many minutes under spight losing to a fake i chose to stop trying bookings the home side home no i'm a move a point clear a brit occasion playoff spots. i feel heard and lead a tight race for europa league places despite losing one military force window period is still the kitchen side when i have twenty seven minutes to put them within three points of european sports. five temperature it's caused enormous stay fall from our. beaten fourteen games despite being held to a one one draw at home to cross the. money she appeared in the dead all for the visitors after fifty two minutes but alexander kokoro an equaliser within a quarter of an hour with his tenth of a campaign cross of us that joined with the slimmest of.