breaking news on a series of car bombings have struck crowded areas in the iraqi capital baghdad killing at least sixteen people. to similar attacks. ten lives. across in syria government troops in his butt are militants fighting together for control of a rebel stronghold near the lebanese border believed to be a key supply route proposition forces at least fifty eight people have died in the battle for the city. skeptic britain in the referendum by the end of twenty seventeen. members of trust in the united europe as well. and atomic allegations iran that gives the go ahead for u.n. inspectors to visit one of its nuclear facilities only if they sign

a protocol suspicions about the country's nuclear program we speak to the head of the international nuclear watchdog. the very latest developments this is. a double bomb attack in the iraqi border town of has been followed by another string of deadly explosions in the capital the five blasts in baghdad iraq's shiite neighborhoods killing sixteen in reading scores more least ten people died earlier blasts in a town near the border with iran. the situation let's cross to paula what more do we know about these attacks. well according to iraqi officials some five to six car bombs we're hearing different figures have exploded in the shiite neighborhoods

of the capital city of baghdad now police officials say that the blast struck bus stations as well as outdoor markets on monday morning what officials are also saying is that each bomb happened in a different place to be looking at some five to six different locations now earlier in the day on monday to didley car bombs targeted a bus station and a restaurant in the southern city of basra which is close to the iranian border soon afterwards these bombs were reported to have struck several parts of the capital city of baghdad now attacks in mainly shia muslim which have been previously relatively peaceful areas have been increasing in recent months. paula the sectarian situation really seems to be spiraling out of control of the country doesn't it we certainly do seem to be seeing a situation that is increasingly spiraling out of control you are correct about that since february the situation has been deteriorating visibly security what we

have noticed is a spike of bombings recently targeting either sunni or shiite civilian targets just a few days ago there was the deadliest day in iraq in eighteen months that some seventy five people were killed in one day and the united nations saying that last april was the most violent month in iraq since two thousand and eight also overnight there were reportedly some twenty four policemen who were killed in iraq this is fueling fears of a return to the civil war of two thousand and six two thousand and seven and we are hearing this across the spectrum that people are afraid that that's why they spread the sectarian violence will spill over back in those years tens of thousands of people were killed so there off is that we could now see an escalation to the point that it was just several years ago. ok artie's paula square with the very latest there thank you. meanwhile in neighboring a syria has but our militants are fighting beside the government troops to retake

the strategic town of qusayr from the rebels is considered a key weapons smuggling route for opposition forces there the lebanese border the battle for the city in a contested homes province is viewed by both sides as a turning point which could prove crucial in deciding the conflict with journalist abdullah has more on this now. the ripples are on the north an area of the city that is the full control over the east in western. side of the city that was liberated the center of center city is that related and in a surprise the syrian army managed to make a full circle around the city fighting position a position fight is the main achievement is to stop that line of supply chain between lebanon and syria most of the fight is gathered from different areas and syria in order to gather in course so of course he had become the capital of

pollution this operation moved very slow but it was for these studies traditionally speaking they managed to make first they start from the west from the western side of the of the city and the ordinary is they control this this zone with some fighters from lebanon some extremist a group were preparing to go into syria to fight with that or bills they are going to make they were going to make kind of a bigger front in order to fight and expand. the fighting line between government and opposition by this now we have limited the fighting into one city or one into one part of the city the international arena and then to nationals who has started to change with the. agreement. it's less acceptable. acceptable for countries to go against the american will by providing more weapons to that if aleutian. in syria by this it's a kind of

a green line for the syrian government forces to go into will. say which is of course now by this no more smuggling will go on no more. weapons coming from cut off from other countries. of course we have more on that as we get it. now to stay or to go that's the question at center stage of british politics as a pros and cons of each new membership of thrashed out a draft to build on an in out referendum recently issued by the ruling conservative party says it must be held before the end of twenty seventeen it's been hailed as paving a clear route towards change and opinion polls suggest an exit from the e.u. is the most likely route let's take a look at a survey by the euro barometer polling center well back in two thousand and seven they found almost half the u.k. population forty nine percent didn't trust the rippin bloc and with anti e.u. sentiment growing in recent years a similar survey in two thousand and twelve revealed that sixty nine percent of

those who took part where you are skeptic lottie's peace all over has been finding out what others in europe think about britain's stance. should it stay or should it go and britain's future in the e.u. is getting serious air time at home that we're better off out now whether britain should remain in the gate for britain to leave the european union to those that britain would leave behind think about an e.u. with no u.k. britain it's important but the truth is of course you are could survive without britain it still would be the european union it would be still a very large market it is possible it thinkable we can have a european union without britain among germany's euro skeptics there's a grudging respect for their british counterparts challenging brussels bureaucracy however they fear they could be in for more of that bureaucracy should the u.k. leave it will probably have a backlash for the european thinking and then they may think well now we have these

oddballs and we can go even further with the way of centralizing everything and even overregulating more than we have already and how do the german people feel about britain looking into divorce. if they want to go than they should if they don't use the euro it's not really. i couldn't care less but if that's what they want then we'll just continue without them. we can't leave europe never became part of it because of the iron mentality and colonial past. when you're going to be able to they are not in the euro zone if they want to leave i say go for it i'm not sure what they'll get out of. those germans that say that they are concerned whether the u.k. remains in the european union or not they find their infer something of a shock should the united kingdom opt for independence because if the u.k. were to leave the single market would shrink by fifteen percent and

a three hundred billion euro worth of annual trade would face extra costs and this would affect of course everyone those in german chancellor angela merkel's own party of wondered if the u.k. as a truly became a member of the e.u. great britain and then to approve part of europe for more than one thousand years has always been an uneasy with been a member of the european union so now it comes to before we have to do would have somehow having promised britain a referendum on the e.u. membership it's going to be almost impossible for this government of the next to take the issue off the agenda if that split does come about it should to bring about changes but perhaps not too many tears from the heart of europe. peter all of our party berlin. for financial doldrums and toughing austerity of any feeling dissatisfaction of the policies across the continent researches reveal that

many people in the bloc are losing faith in the european project started to think they'd be better off on their own artist has been gauging the mood among members. oh if we're talking about the gloomy situation here in europe it's no longer just the naysayers or the so-called euro skeptics who are voicing their pessimism ordinary citizens across europe have now been starting to change their minds really on this entire european project if you look at a couple of recent surveys one is the pew study it shows that right now less than half of the european citizens support this entire a european project that they're even optimistic about it it's at forty five percent right now down from sixty percent a last year and this of course has largely to do with the entire economic situation we've seen dismal numbers come out this week putting nine out of seventeen euro zone countries in a recession and if you look at one of those countries which is france it is also one of the two poor countries at the very foundation of the creation of this union

seventy seven percent of the french feel of that economic integration has been bad for their economy that more business within the e.u. has undermined their own economy and if you look at the biggest concern of a citizens here it is the lack of jobs at seventy eight percent and that is not surprising considering that the e.u. has reached record unemployment rates and still continuing to rise also we look at the youth unemployment here we've seen that going up above fifty percent in countries like greece and spain and the optimism really has gone down into the most pessimistic countries really are france and italy not seeing any future for the young people we've seen a rise in suicide rates again in countries like greece spain and italy we've seen on employment skyrocketing poverty among young people children here in belgium has just gone up as well as a result of a lot of parents losing their jobs so these numbers are just confirming the kind of

pessimism that is across europe it's not again just an opinion of euro skeptics or naysayers these are figures of citizens themselves creating this european union looking at what the future. goals for that and we really are not very optimistic at all. should others consider an e.u. exit including its largest economy some say it's germany who should be if not the bloc in the euro currency not why at r.t. dot com. europe was there long before britain joined in french president francois along the brights the u.k. of its pressure to reform the e.u. that's on our website. it is. now a court in the u.k. has been stoking controversy exercising sweeping powers to decide the fate of families and individuals judged unfit to make their own decisions children have

been separated from their parents and some people even jailed secretive body called the court of protection auntie's polyploid comment one family at the center of one of them when john maddox was diagnosed with dementia his children ivan and one day intended to give him the best care they could but they clashed with social workers and their local council which took the family to the secret court of protection it ruled that the eight year old lack the mental capacity to make his own decisions and needed to live in a special cabin he didn't want to be in a home basically told he didn't want to be in a home. he wanted to really want to go with one to the final home when he went i'm swear to god to look after him right. the court makes rulings on behalf of citizens deemed to one well to be responsible for their own affairs it has power to take control of assets and separate family members all in secret

wonder and i even want a loud to take their father out of the state run facility or even discuss his living arrangements with him but he kept on asking me want to go. but i didn't like to tell him that it didn't mean i was any more they got it because of the court protection and the sickos will do whatever they want with finances in its house what are going to be locked up in these rooms week on growth. i don't feel free in order to mount a legal challenge to the secret court ruling wonder took her father to see a solicitor one day tried to draw attention to the case but was sentenced to prison for contempt of the secret court so instead of caring for her father like she wanted to she had to spend two months in here in the company of criminals i cried the first two days i was in the prison i cried because nobody you treated like an

ardent criminals and if you go in there you really cannot challenge the question as to whether somebody has mental capacity or not without talking to them and she was imprisoned forcefully for taking her father to see a solicitor in birmingham. which makes it sound quite draconian well in a sense it's worse than dr drew because draco would not have gone that far when i was in the chair i was frightened because he lets them into a phone calls so i was afraid to speak to dad. because some of the conditions he put on isn't also well you know in case they got in more trouble meanwhile her brother and i even watched their father's health deteriorate under the strain of her absence in the end when he moved into that far alone that was the end of him and he wanted it wanted still loved him anything i said you've got to know this she divorce. she's put herself in prison port observers say the difficulty with justice behind closed doors is that no one knows

if the law is being followed the evidence is heard in private defendants often like legal representation and i want to allow to publicize their case but nelson's it is giving the state too much power to intervene in people's lives preventing people complaining about what's being done to them is never right the government's faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency while continuing to protect the interest of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year it's worried me what we've done it taken away from a supply and i keep wondering what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful. not safe like. r.t. stoke on trent. so to come this hour we take

a look at the latest twist in iran's nuclear deadlock let's invest a couple of minutes here on alt.

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations to rule the day. about the program now some other news making headlines around the world a suicide bomber has hit a government building in afghanistan's northern province of background the blast killed eight people including the local town chief of any state workers are among the wounded falls in line with the promised spring offensive out of town about want people to distance themselves from their forces. some five hundred members of the notorious libyan is the most group battled police in the streets of tunis its

capital on sunday in one person dead government ban on a hardline islamist conference on the street violence and claimed responsibility for killing the u.s. ambassador in super benghazi last september tunis has been struggling to contain its extremist religious elements since its spring. from the u.s. state of oklahoma has been in the grip of extreme weather that has left at least one person dead as many as twenty six tornadoes ripped through american central states was an oklahoma governor to declare a state of emergency in the tornadoes hit along with massive hail and understands the weather service and all possible just. iran is ready to allow atomic inspectors into one of its facilities but only if they sign a protocol detailing their suspicions of the country's nuclear ambitions was the message from iran's ambassador to russia to the un's nuclear watchdog want to take

a look at the parchin facility there to run suspecting it's a nuclear test site a political analyst side mohammad marandi told r.t. is to bring what say western nations are unwilling to compromise on the issue for each give there must be a take in other words if you run takes a step forward but i must also give something in return and vice versa what the iranians are saying is that part sheen which is a military complex is fine with iran for the i.a.e.a. to inspect at site but the iranians wanted to be done within a comprehensive framework otherwise if iran. factories inside there is no reason to prevent americans from giving when they find nothing then the americans will say no well it wasn't that building it was another building in the parching insight that you need to see and this story will go on forever and ever so the iranians are saying let's sign a comprehensive agreement and then we will allow you into the side and return you

have to give something to us if it is proven that there is nothing there that is dangerous or suspicious then the i.a.e.a. must give us a sign of approval so it's very easy from the perspective of the iranians to resolve but i say chief is basically someone who is controlled by the united states he was installed by the united states and he is one willing to resolve the situation would you say this is why didn't it did the world powers they runyan talks in kazakstan last month and who would you say is the more stubborn of the two sides the other side because of the situation that western countries have brought about as unable to make a decision and to move forward constant threats made by israel are themselves a sign that it is an irrational regime and a hostile regime and the fact that the united states and western countries support it every time it makes

a threat against the iranians again shows that the iranians that western countries do not behave rationally when it comes to iran israelis who would lose militarily as well as politically because the international community aside from the west they would recognize israel as the aggressor state and it would cause further instability in the region which does not serve the interests of the united states or israel so the iranians really at this stage don't take any threat of military attack as serious but it does see it as a sign of israeli human behavior. but iran and u.n. officials are to kick off another round of nuclear talks in vienna on. tuesday their tenth meeting since early last year i.a.e.a. wants to resume inspections of terrans facilities which it thinks are coming out of tomic bomb research as he spoke to the organizations director general to get his take on this latest meeting is a preview. basically

it's a yes or no question do you believe that iran is still involved in nuclear weapons program. that iran has a case too. we don't have yet the answer i've heard many opinions that these talks would hardly bring any resolution to the matter of the ongoing stalemate which has been going on for many years now what is your opinion do you think that the west is actually interested in facilitating any kind of peaceful solution i believe that all other countries are very much interested in resolving the outstanding issue in a way to iran by diplomatic means of course the i e e a is determined to do its best to resolve for the else standing issues by diplomatic talks and that is why we have had ten rounds of negotiations

with iran to find a way to resolve these issues the fact is that until today we have not yet reached an agreement but will continue if we just had the meeting with iran on the fifteenth of may. it was a very intensive meeting but still we have differences and we could not reach agreement with one of the latest reports by the international atomic energy agency says that iran does not provide the necessary cooperation with the agency does that give any grounds to suspect that iran is actually having a nuclear weapons program in the country we are not saying that iran has nuclear weapons or iran. decided to develop nuclear weapons but we have pieces of information that indicate that iran was involved in

the peace relevant to the development of nuclear explosive devices mr mann i have one quote from you here we have credible information that iran continued its activities beyond two thousand and three where is this information coming from from various. sources we have this information from open source we have. information and we have some of information coming in from some ten countries so we have various information and we do not depend on one piece of information i had this question asked several times on twitter when i said that i will be in syria new today. do you think that such a passage in the language between the west and iran happening at the moment can create an opportunity for something like in iraq a scenario in iran i think it is except in the opposite in november two thousand and eleven i shared the information that indicate possible

military activities. through new korea we did not draw a conclusion but we have asked iran to clarify these if iran clarifies of the issue of international community can have confidence in runyon activities and we are ready to help them to clear. these these concerns so what i'm doing is to resolve the issue through diplomatic means this is exactly what happened in the gulf war and i will let the people and the stand and the the. difference. is a technical organization i mean we do not involved in the politics that we are fully aware that. in a very political environment anything related to nuclear is political that is

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