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

us. and in syria state media have reported a powerful explosion in the capital damascus at least three people are reported dead and five others injured the bomb was planted in a car near a school no one has claimed responsibility so far for the attack meanwhile in turkey police have fired tear gas on a crowd of protesters at a town and near the syrian border which was the scene of a deadly double car bombing a week ago saturday as unrest follows similar clashes in the stand bull and the capital on carra demonstrators are angered by turkey's support for the syrian rebels which they say is putting turks in the firing line journalist manual oxon writer who's covered the syrian crisis extensively says is only making the conflict worse. the turkish demonstrates the turkish people is upset because of what is happening on the turkish side it's their full right because it's like to let me to

invite a firestarter 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 the training camps they are. in turkey is giving supplying a lot of means and turkey is right now acting like a hostile power towards the moscow's the if it's a the so-called. more moderate rebels claimed a couple of times in the past that they consider the jihadists from the front the troops that culminates in the fight against hamas because so if the west helps us now or 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 reveller i think we should start to distinguish finally because this is a big lie. and meanwhile the u.s. state department has dismissed a media report that russia recently delivered advance cruise missiles to syria officials say the armaments were in fact shipped more than a year ago with no violations of international law russia has long stretches to get its supplies to damascus are under contract signed before the syrian crisis broke out more than two years ago moscow also says it's not supplying any weapons that could be used against civilians the u.s. and its allies some of whom are believed to be directly arming the rebels criticize russia's ties with syria but moscow maintains it's not supporting either side in the conflict but trying to broker peace through to. at

least sixteen people have been killed in iraq in a wave of attacks that continues the recent surge in sectarian violence there 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 to the west of the capital this comes a day after a series of bombings that made it friday the country's deadliest day in over eight months the worst of those attacks was a twin bomb blast outside a sunni mosque in bakuba iraqi sunnis say they've been persecuted in marginalized ever since the fall of saddam hussein keith ellison is a u.s. congressman who believes that america must clean up the mess it created in iraq i think we 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 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 or of violence going on there i mean the question needs to be raised is our reengagement going to help i don't i doubt that seriously but what i think we do need to do is to remember that we helped 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 seize 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 part one expert on post-war iraq told our 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.

issue to break up the. region. ultimately it will. be i mean it will be. against. the region although this whole situation is engineer and it's to break up the government including iraq. and it's back to stand 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 the man had entered america illegally just like the boston bombers and the incident has stoked fresh fears that washington's failing to screen potential terrorists as a marine important explains. a thirty year old was vexed 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 affect it according to a report by the u.s. inspector general the u.s. justice department temporarily lost trust protection program 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. that of these use to track suspected terrorists has reportedly reached eight hundred seventy five thousand me yes that's more people than the entire population of cyprus clearly washington does not count but our resources to monitor each and every name on that list and as recent developments have shown. the u.s. government has also ballots that terrorists from entering or leaving the country

morning from new york line up are not part. of the u.s. and keeps a database of known or suspected terrorists with around seven hundred fifty thousand names on the list one of them was the dead the boston bomber who is considered to have posed no threat just months before the marathon atrocity one a libertarian a 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 together and we do press or security organizations together more and more and more and more but somebody has to process that information as the more information it gather chances are the less you'll be doing any good at the data that's in that database so you can have it as many names and as you will on service hundreds of thousands of civilian names in there at this point the chance of actually doing anything with any one of those names in the useful diminishes the larger the database comes the more information we scoop up the less people in it so we get we can talk about security measures all day long but it's going to open up in society people are going to come and go and

some of them will eventually be identified as terrorism suspects. the cyber currency bitcoin has suffered another setback after u.s. authorities seized the accounts of its a major operator that's hampering the process of exchanging bitcoins which right now are worth around 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 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 for a small charge and without banking mediators from a distance it may resemble web money or the pay pal system but a key difference is anonymity all transactions are encrypted and untraceable this is the feature that's ringing alarm bells creating a space where arms and drugs can be bought and sold alongside more innocent goods this isn't putting off some big name investors though and this week alone

a bit coin related start up one five million dollars and backing bitcoin software developer a mere talkie says the lack of middleman is what makes the use of the digital currency so appealing to the public. the big system i think 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 bitcoin is none of 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 it's kind of money where anybody in what can participate paper loan 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 of sign point. well we want to find out what you think is behind america's attempts to clamp down on the digital currency but check out what you've been saying so far right now a little over half of you about fifty four percent say that this is the federal government trying or the federal reserve rather trying to keep control over the financial system they're now more than a third in pink here say that it's the country trying to rid gaining control over people's freedoms and then only six percent see it as washington's attempt to make bitcoin users pay taxes and then just a tiny small minority of this little sliver genuinely aiming to stamp out big coinage facilitated crime well had to archie dot com of course you can always have

your say. as europe's economic troubles deepen people from germany to greece are looking for scapegoats and joining the ranks of the far right anti immigration groups. also ahead monopolizing a drug stores find out how local pharmacies in the u.s. are being pushed off the market by giant chains these stories and much more after a short break right here on to.

speak your language or not at the end. user. gramsci documentaries in spanish more matters to you breaking news a little turn to tip angles kiddies stories. are you here to. try to call to spanish find out more visit i to allahabad. well dozens of neo nazi activists have rallied in berlin with extra police drafted in to cope with the situation the growing popularity of far right movements is

raising concerns across the european union peter oliver investigates what's feeling at all from britain in the west to greece in the east fall right groups and making their voices heard. it's modafinil in this 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 door and organization divided by the critics says 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. violent behavior but they attack systematically immigrants at the present

golden dawn have made the most they have elected officials on their books including current greek m.p. elias confuse the artists it's not only in politics that extreme right views are permeating this goal celebration by a key athens is go to discuss the d.s. so the midfielder bound 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 springing up right now with tension in germany is focused on the murder trial of their fish out there know as the nazi right she's accused of being part of a national socialist terrorist cell claimed to have murdered by immigrants in one policewoman 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 nazi it's 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. if we as german taxpayers have to save the entire europe we are going to go to broke we have to admit that some european nations cannot be saved and focus on those that can. it seems as long as europe's finances continue to languish in the red more and more people are seeking and says with the right peter all of a job. well as always we have more news for you over on our web site there for you now native americans are fighting to prevent what's being called. genocide . for. protesting against the controversial keystone oil

pipeline. service unites a family a chinese man finds his using a popular online tool twenty three years after he was kidnapped as a child all the details on our website. in america the familiar face of your trusted local pharmacist is rapidly becoming extinct the personal treatment from small community drug stores is finding itself bulldozed by giant chains and it's all down to pharmaceutical majors and insurance firms teaming up to stifle the competition on associates 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 reid is

writing 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 and neighborhood pharmacies are all but it stands 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 it as the big chains move in not only 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 fraud oh have had her shop in a small community in 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 but 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 check her insurance card bill bittorrent charan's found out she could not fill anywhere but. 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 their 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 we go out of our way to give the best customer service and be as friendly as we can despite the pleas an 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 and they see churkin our party. a passenger plane caught fire

at one of moscow's international airports after its landing gear malfunctioned during touchdown luckily all one hundred thirty five people on board the ute air jet were evacuated safely with no reported injuries seven planes in a route to vnukovo international had to be diverted but the airport is now back in operation an investigation is underway into the end comes just months after another plane with only crew members on board veered off the runway ave developing five people dead. now to some of the international news making headlines for you this hour. a car has crashed into a crowd of hikers in the u.s. state of virginia injuring at least a fifty people there 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 handicap sticker the driver has been described as an elderly man.

a high profile pakistani politician has been shot dead in the city of karachi. shot he'd hussein was a member of pakistan's movement for justice one of the country's main parliamentary parties she was shot by two unidentified gunmen outside her home and died while being taken to hospital the killing comes on the eve of a controversial partial rerun of the general election last saturday's polls were the bloodiest in the country's history over one hundred politicians killed in the run up to the vote. in ukraine thousands of protesters have been demanding the release of the country's of jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko the thousands strong rally in the capital kiev turned violent and at least ten people were injured it was sentenced to seven years in prison in two thousand and eleven for abuse of office while signing a gas deal with russia two years earlier. in southern yemen at least four suspected

terrorists have been killed and several others injured in a drone strike on a vehicle official said the operation took place around dawn in the province there's been a dramatic rise in the number of drone strikes in yemen since the country's new us bank president came to power early last year. french president francois along have signed a same sex marriage bill into law it was the flagship social reform of his election campaign a year ago despite public support of the bill months of massive nationwide protests involving hundreds of thousands of people right now from suffering the lowest popularity ratings of any french president in recent memory. now we're 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 as artie's public worker 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 tasks ninety eight of the c. 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 possible he is promising to clamp 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 michael lewis who authored 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 universally 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. well next to max and stacey explain how corporations are duping an unsuspecting public that's coming up in the kaiser report. more news today volumes says once again flared up. again these are the images those

world has been seeing from the streets of canada as. giant corporations are on the day. welcome to the kaiser report i-max kaiser you live in the real world the one with the inflation declining wages rising unemployment then you're probably the sucker of the girl i can see no poker table because unless you're living in the high frequency trading dark market dwelling fictitious capital will bring financial eyes world you're never going to be able to afford the real world unless you can think like a fictional worlds where there is no gravity where up is good and good is down you'll never be able to compete with those who would steal your real wealth using spoof

trades bogus securities and fictitious capital. max in the real world no price matters more to the real person than the price of oil of course they care a lot about how much they're paying to fill up their fuel tank well it's set in the fictional world where those who operate in with fictitious capital set the prices shell and b.p. unmoved by price fixing probe shell and b.p. shares were trading flat as markets weighed up the implications of an investigation by european regulators into whether the companies may have manipulated the price of oil for more than a decade oh i know there are no more of these price fixing scandals in the oil market yes well we've talked about this before it's a benchmark rate so.