nine car bombs have struck crowded areas in the iraqi capital baghdad killing at least twenty four people just hours earlier two similar attacks rocked the southern city of basra claiming ten lives the situation is spiraling out of control with sectarian violence fueling fears that the country is on the brink of a civil war. and across in syria government troops and has been the militants are fighting together for control of a rebel stronghold near the lebanese border believed to be. opposition forces at least fifty eight people have died in the battle for the city. britain i as an in out referendum by the end of twenty seventeen while the other bloc members appear to lose trust in a united europe as well. and atomic allegations iran gives the go ahead

for u.n. inspectors to visit one of its nuclear facilities but only if they sign a protocol laying out there are suspicions about the country's nuclear program to speak to the head of the international nuclear watchdog. this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now double car bomb attack in iraq a border town of basra has been followed by another string of deadly explosions in the capital nine blast in baghdad iraq shiite neighborhoods killing twenty four and wanting scores more while at least ten people died in the earlier explosions in basra a town near the border with iran are supposedly or has been monitoring the situation . according to iraqi officials some car bombs have exploded in shiite neighborhoods

in the capital city of baghdad now we're hearing that they took place at outdoor market places at bus stops and on the streets of shiite areas on monday morning also on monday morning before these attacks there were two degree car bombs that targeted a bus station and a restaurant in the southern city of basra which is close to the arabian border in that attack at least ten people were killed some twenty seven people wounded not no one has immediately table sponsibility for these blasts but they do have all the signs and the hallmarks of al qaida attacks in the mainly shia muslim bus route which was previously relatively peaceful have increased recently back in march a car bomb in that city killed ten and wounded many others these situations that he does seem to be spiraling out of control tensions have been intensifying since the country's minority sunni population says that it's mistreatment at the hands of the shiite led government has been increasing including random detentions and also

neglect not protests which began back in december were launched the peaceful but in april the number of attacks rose because of the didn't security crackdown on the sunni protest camp in the country's north and what we've seen is a spike of bombings recently targeting either sunni or shiite civilian targets especially in the last week on sunday at least ten pennies men were reportedly killed in north western iraq and attacks that are blamed by the authorities on the sunni militants a few days ago there was also the deadliest day in iraq in eight months more than seventy five people died in just one day according to the united nation of april was the most violent month in iraq since two thousand and eight and this is fueling fears of a return to the civil war for two thousand and six two thousand and seven when widespread sectarian violence lived tens of thousands of people did. meanwhile a neighboring syria has

a bomb militants are fighting beside government troops to retake the strategic town of qusayr from the rebels it's considered a key weapon smuggling route for opposition forces near the lebanese border the battle for the city and the contested homes province is viewed by both sides as a turning point which could prove crucial in deciding the conflict local journalist of dalmiya was me as more. 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 sokol said become the capital of pollution this operation move very slow but it's wise for the studies traditionally speaking they managed to make first they started from the west from the western side of the of the city and then wooden areas they control this this phone with some fighters from

lebanon some extremist 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 the government and the 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 national has started to change with the russian american agreement. it's less acceptable it's acceptable for countries that to go against american will by providing more weapons but that if aleutian. in syria by this it's a kind of a green line for the syrian government forces to go into. they will choose that of course now by this no more smuggling will go on. weapons coming from

cut off from other countries. to stay or to go that's a question center stage of british politics as pros and cons of membership are threshed out a drab bill on an in out referendum recently issued by the ruling conservative party says it must be held before the end of twenty seventeen has been hailed as paving a clear route towards change an opinion poll suggests and exit from the e.u. is the most likely route also take a look at a survey by the eurobarometer polling center back in two thousand and seven they found almost half the u.k. population didn't trust the european blog and with sentiment growing in recent years a similar survey in twenty twelve revealed that sixty nine percent of those who took part were skeptic now that a spook a business on high alert fearing an exit would result in a massive loss of trade but conservative m.p. mark pritchard says it will only do better. i don't subscribe to the view that the

world would end the day britain left the european union if indeed that is what the british people choose i also don't accept the view that somehow trade barriers would go up and terrace would be introduced by continental europe it's not in their interests they export more to the united kingdom that we export to the european union so that is not going to happen of course we heard so much scaremongering over the euro if britain didn't join the euro we were told that there would be a massive divestment out of the u.k. particular in car manufacturing what is what we've seen over the last few years actually record investment of car manufacturing in britain and we're not in the euro thank goodness we're not in the year and indeed our exports are the parts of the world the commonwealth the bric countries including russia the civet countries vietnam and so on and so forth we've seen record exports to those countries so we live in a global. globally competitive world as

a global race on and with all the economies and i think the united kingdom as an independent sovereign country would be better trading with the rest of the world also with the european union but with the strictures and the strait jacket of the european regulations now wouldn't you case hand on the handle of exit door the rest of europe is left contemplating whether it wants britain to be part of it had of the blocks powerhouse germany chancellor angela merkel said she will lobby british friends to stay while people in germany appear to have no hard feelings about the case departure as artie's p.r. oliver has been finding out. should it stay or should it go 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 european union it would be still a very large market it is possible it is 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. they can't leave europe never became part of it because of their own mentality and

colonial past. when you're going to be able 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 aren't 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 train by fifteen percent and three hundred billion euro worth of annual trade would face extra costs and this would affect of course a view on those in german chancellor angela merkel's own party of words if the u.k. is a truly became a member of the e.u. great britain the into a cool part of europe for more than one thousand years has always been an easy with being a member of the european union so now it comes to the fore we have to deal with the some of the promised britain a referendum on e.u.

membership it's going to be almost impossible for this government over 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 a party girl in. a more on the risk at r.t. dot com is our web site with a question should the e.u. the largest economy consider an exit as well some say is germany who should leave if not the blog then at least you are currently. also online today europe was there long before britain joined in french president francois hollande the rates the u.k. over its pressure to reform the e.u. . now financial doldrums and toughening astaire and you have been fueling dissatisfaction with policies across the continent researchers reveal mannie people in the bloc are

a losing face in the european project starting to saying they're be better off on their own party says are selling has been gauging the mood among members. oh if you'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 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 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. polls for that really are not very optimistic at all. well they is definitely going through some changes but where is it heading and that's a question we're asking today on our website r t v dot com let's take a look how some of you voted today. well as we can see on this pie charts round a half of those who participate in our online poll so. you will end up in financial collapse and dissolution which is a very pessimistic feeling there now more than a quarter predict. it will evolve into a virtual german empire and around twenty percent and saying that the e.u. will go on just losing a weaker members and very small segment about three percent are feeling of beat thinking that. the e.u.

will match the debt crisis and go stronger horse you can let us know what you think and log on to r.t. dot com to cast your vote. maybe it's time for us to settle this question but i'm pretty sure you're. watching our team still to come this hour we take a look at the latest twist in iran's nuclear deadlock and hear the story of a family which fell victim to the you case justice system that's in just a couple of minutes here in our city. dangerous experiments on prisoners they want to make money and they have these healthy guinea pigs in the regular society they're not able to use prisoners i mean they wish they could. drug tests on human guinea pigs. to deadly pills to get in the subway he was killed. he didn't

pass away they let him die. is pharmacy really about helping people. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day. when i'm back here watching our tina accord and 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 by a secretive body called the court of protection. met one family at the center of one of the most notorious cases. when john maddox was diagnosed with dementia his children ivan and wanda 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 care home he didn't want to be in a home basically told he didn't want to be in a home. he wanted to be the one to go with one to the final home when he went i'm swear to god to look after my heart. 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 one day and i even want to allow 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 home but i did not tell him that it didn't mean i was anymore though they got it because of the court tension and the sickos will do whatever they want with finances in its house what you're going to be locked up really very messy congress . 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 fears 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 in prison firstly for taking her father to see a solicitor in birmingham which makes it sound quite educated well in a sense it's worse than dr drew because draco would not have gone that far when i was in the jail i was frightened because the list minting of phone calls so i was afraid to speak to dad. because of the conditions they put on is and also you know in case they got in more trouble meanwhile her brother ivan watched their father's health deteriorate and that the strain of her absence in the end when he moved into that final home 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 lack legal representation and on to allow to publicize their case when messages 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 they're doing that taken their daughter away from islamic and the world and what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful and not safe like.

stoke on trent. now as a look at some of the stories from around the world a suicide bomber has hit a government building in afghanistan's northern province of book on the blast killed fourteen people including the local town chief while many state workers are among the wounded the attack falls in line with a promise spring offensive by the taliban who warned people to distance themselves from the authorities. some five hundred members of an authority asli be an islamist group battled police in the streets of tunisia's capital on sunday leaving one person dead and government ban on a hardline islamist conference sparked the street violence. claimed responsibility for killing the us ambassador in the libyan city of benghazi last september tunis has been struggling to contain its extremist religious elements since its arab spring and twenty eleven. 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 america's central

states forcing oklahoma's governor to declare a state of emergency but there nato along with massive hail and thunderstorms local weather service alerts have warned of the possible destruction. iran has ready is ready to allow atomic inspectors into one of its facilities but only if they signed a protocol detailing their suspicions over the country's nuclear ambitions that was the message from iran's ambassador to russia to the un's nuclear watchdog who wants to take a look at the parchin facility near to iran suspecting it's a nuclear test site but political analyst side mohammad marandi told would say that 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 di a must also give something in return and vice versa what the iranians are saying is that part of chain which is a military complex is it's 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 the iranians allow the i.a.e.a. inspectors 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 a 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 are they running in 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 to constant threats made by israel are themselves a sign that it is an irrational regime and 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 they 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 israel the human behavior iran and u.n. officials are to kick off another round of nuclear talks in vienna on tuesday in their attempt meeting since early last year the i.a.e.a. wants to resume inspections of tehran facilities which things are carrying out atomic bomb research spoke to the organization's director general to get his take on this latest meeting and here's a preview basically it's a yes or no question do you believe that iran is still involved in nuclear weapons program when i say that iran has a case too. we don't have yet the answer 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 if scenario in iran i think oh it is except the opposite in november two thousand and eleven i shared the information that indicate possible military activities.

through nuclear we did not draw a conclusion but we have asked iran to clarify the issue if iran clarifies of the issue. 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 second gulf war i would like that people understand the the. difference. is a technical organization i mean we do not involved in the politics we are fully aware that. in a very political environment anything related to nuclear is political that is

why we should be neutral and technical. and you can catch that full interview with i.e. by attending end at six forty five pm g m t and coming right up a look at human guinea pigs and pharmaceutical drug trails trials rather in the u.s. . although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about the buddhist monk who burned himself to death as a form of protest the commentators on the news said that people there just have a different mindset that westerners could never understand you know which is

probably true but they were implying that people in the west are just different and would never use this absolutely extreme form of protest which is also probably true until just recently with the cost of electricity exceeding the income of the average ball garion and a new government coming to power that looks exactly like the old government that collapsed at least six ball gary and have used self-immolation as a very desperate and extreme form of protest but why kristen ghodsee a professor at bowdoin college who has extensively talked to bulgaria protesters claims that those who self-immolating are just incredibly desperate and cannot feed their own children and that people are actually becoming a stealth check for communism because at least that system at the people's basic needs the current democratic system from the populace perspective according to her just cycles through a few new crooks every few years although it does get media attention and you may be feeling desperate suicide is never an answer the more living bulgarians the better ball carriers chances believe me but that's just my opinion.

or your experiences in. this newsletter which is titled i hold it up it's called the i'm guessing is i write the guinea pig zero. explain the title i write about the history of human experiments and news stories about sometimes abuses and things that go wrong in experiments and so not only did you do the experiment but you're the investigative journalist as well within the industry you could say that a keeping them honest keeping them honest because they have to because the guinea pigs themselves can't do it anonymously they all doped up.