a devastating explosion rips through damascus while across the border in turkey protests break out over the country's support for the rebels fighting in syria's civil war. sectarian rifts deep in iraq with killings and kidnappings and rounding off the country's a bloodiest week in eight months and raising fears of all out civil war. and the u.s. immigration system faces tough questions after it emerges that in fact national arrested on terrorism charges got into the country illegally three years ago. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team thomas going to

have you with us now in syria state media have just reported that a powerful explosion has hit the capital damascus at least three people are reported dead and several injured in the blast is believed to have been caused by a car bomb of course we'll bring you updates on this story as we get them in our team is covering the wires right now. meanwhile turkish police have fired gas at protesters in a town in near the syrian border which was of the scene of a deadly double car bombing a week ago saturday's unrest follows similar clashes in east on bull and on carra demonstrators are angry over turkey's support for the syrian rebels which they say is putting turks in the firing line journalist many well and writer who's covered the syrian crisis extensively says aggravating the conflict. the turkish demonstrators the turkish people is upset because of what was happening on the

turkish side it's their full right because it's like to let me say to invite a fire starter into your house because you want to send to me later to your neighbors and then you wonder that the fire starter starts putting fire on your own house we have to see that turkey has a nine hundred kilometer long border to syria and we have to see that turkey doesn't do anything to prevent terrorists and mercenaries crossing the border from turkey to syria in contradiction turkey even supports those terrorists training camps they are. in turkey escaping supply in a lot of means and turkey is right now and being like a hostile power towards the moscow's the if it's a the so-called. more moderate rebels claim a couple of times in the past that they consider the jihadists from the front the troops as they call rates in the fight against hamas because so if the west helps

us now or in turkey says we support the moderate rebels it's not true because nobody can assure that a gun comes from the hand of a so-called moderate rebel in the hand office so called extremist rebel i think we should start to distinguish finally because this is a big lie. and meanwhile the u.s. state department has dismissed media reports that russia recently delivered advanced cruise missiles to syria officials say the armaments were in fact a ship more than a year ago with no violations of international law russia has long stressed its supplies to damascus are in accordance with contracts signed before the syrian crisis which broke out more than two years ago moscow says it's not supplying any weapons that could be used against civilians and is not striking any new arms shipment deals with damascus u.s. and its allies some of whom are directly arming the rebels have criticized russia's ties with syria but moscow maintains it's not supporting any side of the conflict

and has been trying to mediate peace through diplomacy. at least sixteen people have been killed in iraq in a wave of attacks that continues the recent surge in sectarian violence one of the victims was an anti-terrorism police officer shot dead along with his family at his home in baghdad by a group of gunmen also eight of his colleagues were abducted on a desert road west of the capital that comes a day after a series of bombings that made friday the country's the deadliest day in over eight months the worst of those attacks was a twin bomb blast outside a sunni mosque in bakuba iraqi sunni say they've been persecuted and marginalized ever since the fall of saddam hussein if ellison is a u.s. congressman who believes america must clean up the mess that it created in iraq. have an obligation to stay engaged with iraq. diplomatically and developmentally.

militarily quite honestly i don't i am i am not convinced that we can add meaningful improvement to the situation with some point our role in iraq militarily needs to come to an inn and even if there is horrible military by our of the violence going on there i mean the questions being raised is are reengagement going to help i doubt that seriously but what i think we do need to do is to remember that we'll create these conditions and we haven't are going obligation and you know we've got to make sure that i mean if we can play a diplomatic role to help cease the violence we should and if we can certainly help rebuild this country i think we have a moral obligation to do so because we are apart one expert on post-war iraq told r.t. that some nations are trying to use the sectarian divisions there to destabilize

the entire region you know you. are from this. fire i mean. it it it's you know it's. you know they see this. as one big. issue to break up the whole region into. ultimately it will. be i mean it will be. against foreign intervention in the region although this whole situation is engineer and it's too great and. including iraq. and as pakistan national has been arrested on federal terrorism charges in the u.s. he's accused of conspiring to make explosives and supporting a foreign jihadist movement a man had entered america legally just like the boston bombers and the incident has stoked a fresh fears that washington's failing to screen

a potential terrorists as many explained. a thirty year old was specs and national has been arrested on a federal terrorism charges but just three years ago he was easily admitted to the u.s. as a refugee prosecutors have charged for but often with conspiring to provide material support to the islamic movement of uzbekistan an american designated terrorist organization and off he was arrested in boise idaho where he has lived since immigrating to the u.s. it's also time for what's not clear is how a man allegedly tied to a terrorist network was able to bypass the u.s. is seven hundred billion dollar national security apparatus and enter the country some would argue that homeland security officials should have thoroughly vetted it was back and rejected his application for refugee status but when it comes to the u.s. homeland security system expensive doesn't necessarily equate to

a fact according to a report by the u.s. inspector general the u.s. justice department temporarily lost track of true former terrorists who participated in america's witness protection program now the independent investigator found that officials at the witness protection program failed to share the fictitious identities that had been created for terrorism linked witnesses with the f.b.i. terrorist screening center that's the agency that maintains america's terrorist watch and no fly lists so as a result some participants of the witness protection program that were put on a no fly list could have flown commercial flights without approval in the meantime the u.s. database used to track suspected terrorists has reportedly reached eight hundred seventy five thousand names that's more people than the entire population of cyprus clearly washington does not how about our resources to monitor each and every name

. on the list and recent developments in the u.s. government has also failed suspected terrorists from entering or leaving the country from new york. are to. the u.s. keeps a database of known or suspected terrorists with around seven hundred fifty thousand names on the list one of them was that the dead boston bomber who was considered to have posed no threat just months before the marathon atrocity one libertarian news editor told us the massive list of suspects may be too big for the u.s. to handle. the great ironies is that the more information you get out there and we do press or security organizations together more and more it's know more and more but somebody has to process that information is the more information there are chances are the less you'll be doing any good at the data that's in that database so you can have a as many names in there as you will on this hundreds of thousands of us a million names in there at this point the chance of actually doing anything with

any one of those names in a useful diminishes the larger the database comes the more information we scoop up the less we do it so we get we can talk about security measures all day long but it's going to open society people are going to come and go and some of them will eventually be identified as terrorism suspects. and cyber currency a big coin has suffered another setback after u.s. authorities seized the accounts of its major operator it now hampers the process of exchanging big coins which now stand at about one hundred twenty dollars per unit so why is the u.s. government so worried about the currency and is the bitcoin able to beat traditional currencies to take part users must first to download a virtual wallet onto a computer or mobile device they will then get an address for this wallet and can transfer bitcoins to the wallet of another user or a small charge before a small charge rather and without banking it mediators now from a distance it may resemble web money or the pay pal system but

a key difference is anonymity all transaction transactions are encrypted and untraceable it's this feature that's creating a space where arms and drugs can be bought and sold alongside more innocent goods this isn't putting some of this is off putting rather to some a big investors and a this week alone bitcoin related start up one five billion dollars in backing bitcoin software developer a mere talkie says the lack of middleman is what makes the use of digital currency so appealing to the public. because the system i feel is really simple system because it's based of this concept of open source so i can download the source code for bitcoin a new can read for it and like how someone can speak french or spanish or english i can read source code and i can read the source code and see that it does exactly what it says it does and some it really powerful i have because it's not on my

computer and i send it over the internet direct to someone without any middleman whatsoever using software that i wrote myself completely when i have a bank account i don't know what happens in that bank account i don't know who is dealing with are all the middlemen and institutions there with big corners none of that it's total control over your money it's proper free trade not that not the fake kind where you need to register corporations or special companies and then your shot at the market because of regulations no it's kind of money where anybody in the wild can participate paper alone is blocking access from over sixty different countries worldwide because it doesn't have any of these restrictions or limitations and the payment system is used as a political thought to shut down speech on the internet and that's why the big point is so important. now we want to find out what you think is behind america's attempts to clamp down on the digital currency let's take a look at what you think so far right now a little more than half about fifty three percent say the federal reserve is trying to exert as much control as it can over finances now more than

a third of you believe that the u.s. wants to retain it control over its people's freedoms only seven percent consider six percent now consider it washington's attempts to make. a final few green here think the american government genuinely wants to stamp out bitcoin facilitated crime. dot com and have your say. as europe's economic troubles deepen people from germany to greece are looking for scapegoats joining the ranks of the far right anti immigration groups. also ahead monopolizing drugstores find out how local pharmacies in the u.s. are being pushed off the market by giant chains stories and more after a short break right here on our team.

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anytime anywhere. and a welcome back you're watching our team dozens of neo nazi activists have rallied in berlin with extra police drafted in it to cope with situation the growing popularity of a far right movement is it raising concerns across the european union or trees peter oliver investigates what feeling it from britain in the west to greece in the east far right groups are making their voices heard in europe the. financial crisis affected everyone and it has allowed the right wing organizations to give people someone to blame for their problems it's those people's fault that is how they were cruet. greece has seen a marked increase in support for far right to be

a nazi groups golden dawn her organization divided by the critics as hooligans and thirds of heralded by their supporters as the saviors of greece for the greeks and they systematic and the brits hate and cultivate. but they attack systematically immigrants at the present golden dawn of the most they have elected officials on their books including greek m.p. elias confuse the artists it's not only in politics that extreme right views a permeating this goal celebration by a key athens is go to discuss the d.s. so the midfielder found for life from the national team despite his claims that he didn't know what this meant and here in germany a country which experienced firsthand the horrors of naziism right wing extremist

groups are springing up right now attention in germany is focused on the murder trial of their to shout no as the nazi right she's accused of being part of a national socialist terrorist cell claimed to have murdered nine immigrants and one police woman in the two thousands after nine hundred forty five are told about what happened in the war on the holocaust of course but some held on to those ideas when the wall came down we saw last rise in right wing groups that grew into today's neo nazis as well as n t fascist organizations members of germany's mainstream right wing party the n.p. d. sis that their policies are the only way to tackle the current problems facing the country then you're as if we as german taxpayers have to save the entire europe we are going to go broke we have to admit that some european nations cannot be saved and focus on those that can't yet. it seems as long as europe's finances continue

to languish in the red more and more people are seeking answers with the right teacher all over our city. and more news over on our website for you native americans are fighting to prevent what's being called environmental genocide . dot com a four hour report on the tribes protesting against the controversial keystone x.l. oil pipeline. plus the so-called syrian electronic army turns up the heat in cyberspace targeting a string of western media outlets find out who the latest victim is on a website. in america the familiar face of your trusted local pharmacist is rapidly becoming extinct the personal personal treatment from small community drug stores is finding itself bulldozed by the giant chains at its heart are the pharmaceutical majors and in surance firms who teamed

up to stifle the competition as artie's on the reports. pharmaceuticals in the us a major moneymaker. huge drug store chains are popping up on every street corner with multiple locations and list services when read right whichever the big ones not that i prefer them but it's just that they're the only option from new jersey so we go to c.v.s. . one in new york doing read but mostly c.v.s. competition for mom and pop shops is steeper than ever in places like the big apple where rent alone is sky high small neighborhood pharmacies are all but it stinks for the city overflowing to join chains like this one the town drugstore symbolically was always at the center of american culture in american life that now has the big chains move then not only that the prices tend to go up but they

squeeze the little guys out pharmacists however small pharmacies have more issues than just the increase of big box shops health insurance companies have been merging with drug stores taking away americans choice of where they can get their medicine if they fell at my location they would have to pass a fifty percent of the cost of the medication if they fill that c.v.s. they would only pay thirty percent of the cost of the medication sarah for auto has had her shop in a small community in upstate new york for about six months offering personal attention and a more intimate approach she's built a good reputation with the locals fast i'll do it right now but the pharmacist says an increasing number of her patients have been learning they have no choice but to do business elsewhere at a joint pharmacy across the street what they do is we just had one this week a woman came in she wanted to fill her prescriptions at our pharmacy she was sick of c.b.s. the long waits the lines the rude you know employees and we took

a prescription to her insurance card bill ditto for insurance found out she cannot fill any. where besides c.b.s. measured hosey and runs a pharmacy new jersey and is faced with the same obstacle he says he has lost a fifth of his patients because of these deals the big stores are able to make that negotiate their own contracts with insurance companies so that they get paid more than what we do and then. when they purchase their medications they purchase them at a lower rate than what we purchased them. even though there have been pushes from small pharmacy lobbying groups to get in the way of the tricks used by big chains huge corporations simply have more money to lobby their interests even if sued they pay the fine and move on meanwhile the small businesses fight on to stay afloat allow us to compete freely with each other as businesses and we go out of our way to give the best customer service and be as friendly as we can despite the pleas and

obvious economic benefits of money staying in a community instead of corporate giants bank accounts this sort of general and of the middle class story which sadly has been the macroeconomic story of the last really forty years here in the united states great thanks actually angela friendly neighborhood shops that used to be what made the american dream possible could soon be a thing of the past as they see churkin our party new york. a boeing seven thirty seven passenger plane caught fire at one of moscow's international airports after its landing gear collapsed during touchdown luckily all one hundred thirty five on board the ute air jet were evacuated safely with no reported injuries seven planes in route to the top of the international had to be diverted but the airport is now back in operation an investigation is underway the accident comes just months after another plane with only crew members on board veered off the runway evident about leaving five people very dead. now to some other news making headlines around the

world for you this hour a car has crashed into a crowd of hikers in the u.s. state of virginia injuring around sixty p. . all several of the hikers who were taking part in a parade are said to be in critical condition police are investigating the cause of the accident witnesses say the car had a handicapped or sticker suggesting that the driver may have a medical condition. the high profile pakistani female politician has been shot dead in the southern port city of karachi zora shot he'd hussein was the member of pakistan's movement for justice one of the country's main parliamentary parties she was assassinated by two identified gunmen outside her home and died while being taken to the hospital the reason for the murder is not yet here it comes on the eve of a highly contested partial rerun of recent of general election saturday's vote was that bloodiest in the country's history with over one hundred politicians killed in

the run up to the vote. thousands of people took to the streets of kiev to demand the release of former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko the thousands strong rally turned violent and at least ten people were injured in the schenkel herself was sentenced to seven years in prison in two thousand and eleven for abuse of office while signing das deals with russia two years earlier. at least four suspected al qaeda terrorists have been killed and several others injured in a drone strike on a vehicle in southern yemen officials said the attack took place around dawn in this province there's been a dramatic rise in the number of drone strikes in yemen since the country's new u.s. backed president came to power early last year. france's president francois along has signed a same sex marriage bill into law it was the flagship ship social reform of his

election campaign a year ago despite public support the bill stirred months of mass nationwide protests involving hundreds of thousands of people right. suffering the lowest popularity ratings of any french president. we are all being expected to pay our way as a few more tax dollars are squeezed out of us but not everyone is coughing up the big firms we spend a fortune on are getting away with paying a pittance in duties and it's countries like britain which are being called on to sort it out. reports that one hundred of the u.k.'s biggest companies but new research shows that they're still cutting corners by saving money on tax ninety eight of the footsie one hundred companies in the u.k. run the holding all subsidiary companies off shore these include high street giants such as barclays bank and tesco it's unlikely to make easy reading for the british government which is the possible promising to climb down on corporate tax avoidance

now action aid is the charity that's been looking into the issue and i'm paid to tax policy expert mike lewis who also the report where these findings come from. mike thank you very much for joining us the british government's been promising to clamp down on tax avoidance for a while now we've seen a number of stories and scrutiny towards companies such as starbucks and amazon and google so it looked like progress had been made but what did you find when you looked at the bigger picture a new research found that tax haven operations and companies are almost universal amongst the world's largest companies the u.k. has a particular responsibility here one in five of the world's tax havens are under the u.k. jurisdiction what's the link between overseas tax havens and the developing world. the link quite simply is that the developing world in developing countries are

suffering from tax avoidance further and faster than the u.k. and other countries developing countries lose up to three times more money to tax havens every year than they receive in international aid thank you very much for joining us david cameron has promised to tackle the issue of global tax avoidance at next month's g eight summit which britain will be chairing but so far it's unclear how firmly britain is prepared to act in order to stamp out the culture of corporate tax avoidance. r.t. london. one of the best kept secrets of st petersburg's legendary herman taj museum is revealed we come back after a short break. a

fairly dickinson university study has been revealed to twenty nine percent of americans think that a revolution won't just happen in america but needs to be done in order to protect individual liberty if respondents consider themselves conservative than that number is bumped up to forty four percent that's nearly half also fox news found out that since nine eleven the percent of americans willing to sacrifice their personal freedom to reduce the threat of terrorism is at an all time low this number might sound trivial but it only takes a tiny percent of the population actually start a revolution i mean how many communists were in russia at the start of nine hundred seventeen and how many were there at the end revolution may sound like a nice thing to a growing number of people but the media wrongly portrays revolution as some fun video game battle where freedom fighters toppled a statue of the dictator and then democracy just instantly comes about and life is good and happy i ask you to ignore movies like v. for vendetta and look at history revolutions cause horrible destruction that could take decades to repair i guess what when your economy collapses because

a revolt infrastructure breaks down and the shelves go bare also professional revolutionaries get their supplies from somebody and a foreign powers were to say fund american revolutionaries they would want something in return aloha and goodbye alaska if you look at history then you'll see that revolution is brutal and ugly and it's truly the last resort but still is a resort but that's just my opinion. if. you and. the a. the and. the and.