nine car bombs have struck a 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 tarion violence fueling fears that the country is on the brink of a civil war. and across in syria government troops and hospital militants are fighting together for control of a rebel stronghold near the lebanese border believed to be a key arms supply route for opposition forces at least fifty eight people have died in the battle for the city. euro skeptic britain i isn't in our referendum by the end of twenty seventeen while other bloc members appear to lose trust in the united europe as well.

three pm in the russian capital you're watching r t. welcome to the program a double car bomb attack in the iraqi border town of basra has been followed by another string of deadly explosions in the capital nine blast in baghdad neighborhoods killing twenty four and wounding scores more while at least ten people died in earlier explosions in basra a town near the border with iran our disposal here 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 they were to diggy 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 and some twenty seven people wounded not no one has immediately came responsibility for these blasts but they do have all the signs and the hallmarks of al qaida attacks in the mainly shia muslim a 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 certainly does seem to be spiraling out of control tensions have been intensifying since the country's minority sunni population says that its list treatment at the hands of the shiite led government has been increasing including random detentions and also neglect not protest which began back in december who launched the peaceful back in april the number of attacks rose because of the didn't security crackdown on the sunni protest camp in the country's move 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 policemen were reportedly killed in north western iraq and attacks that are blamed by the authorities on sunni militants a few days ago there was also be deadliest day in iraq in eight months more than seventy five people died in just one day according to the united nations 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 left tens of thousands of people did. meanwhile a neighboring syria has 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 in the contested homes province is viewed by both sides as

a turning point which could prove crucial in deciding the conflict local journalist dharma was eenie has more. syrian army managed to make a full circle around the city fighting the opposition 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 to additionally speaking they managed to make the first day they started from the west front western side of the of the of the city and veteran areas they control this this zone with some fighters from lebanon some extremist group were preparing to go into syria to fight with that it builds they are going to make they were going to make a 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 international has started to change with american agreement. it's less acceptable. acceptable for country to go against 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 that it will. say which is that of course now by this no more smuggling will go on. weapons coming from qatar or from other countries. now to examine the possible ramifications of the theory has been a battle with the rebels let's now talk to milly's an expert tariq ali who joins us live from london thanks very much sorry for joining us here on our t.v. while we are seeing she has been a fighters participating in this offensive fire fighting against the rebels most of

whom are sunni so what we're actually seeing here obviously in this conflict becoming more sectarian in nature what i think effectively. what this war is now increasingly becoming is a war that is still getting iran and crying to room or iran's only arab ally from the reckoning it's become very clear in the in the weeks sectarianism has been used. sunni versus shia shia versus sunni i mean without assigning blame or responsibility that is what is going on affected really now both in iraq and in syria in iraq you had a situation where the sunnis constituted a minority but ran the previous regime the united states intervened and effectively handed over power to the religious parties of one sort or an over another

they then carried out in large ethnic cleansings in bulk and in other cities and we now see the in response to that at a time when the united states itself has very few if any groups left in iraq in syria you had the opposite you had a lot of sunni majority which was governed by the white bird regime very closely linked to iran and the arab uprisings that took place destabilize the region further in my opinion you have a minority supporting the syrian government a minority supporting the islamist rebels. no large proportion of the population waiting for the war to end and hoping that something will happen to bring conclusion to this war well as we see it hard here the sectarian situation is why complex and the tension is rising high there in the region now let's take

a look at the broader context if you will here i mean could israel potentially now attack syria under the guise of defending itself perhaps since its old enemy has a block are there well i mean you know one reason. is being actively defending the government forces in syria is because they fear that they're linked to iran will be broke a member linked to getting weapons to defend themselves from being broken these release have already gone to syria meeting with very little opposition hardly any from the so called in to the united states and the european union in fact the syrians going to bomb. the israelis going to bomb syria without getting some sort of green light from the united states were they to do so again it would create an even larger unless the israelis have not been threatened by syria for

a very long time in fact the syrian government of us so that is de facto collaborated with the israelis in the past so where they see the threat is not syria but iran that is the israeli section and in order to weaken iran further they might carry out attacks on damascus but then they should be prepared for some consequences well terry king you know we've interviewed a military analyst earlier who told us about the rebels' strategy in because sarah let's now take a listen to what he had to say. well it's all about the syrian rebels in the city are affiliated with the al nusra front and similar organizations they've taken many of the citizens hostage turning them into live shields right now the areas controlled by the syrian army which is a great victory for the government forces. so we've heard about the tactics that the militants are using there in the region basically using people living in to say or as a life shield so could we see the syrian government blames for the civilian deaths

is this the maneuver that they have behind this i mean is this the tactic that they have behind all this. well it could be you know the situation is so confused we still don't know about the chemical weapons the single united nations report blamed the rebels the rebels blame the syrian government the syrian government says why should we even bother to use them when we've got make twenty nine simply air which can do more damage effectively in my opinion both sides of committing atrocities in states no doubt about it and in a civil war this is inevitable. so the fact that we've recently seen images of a syrian or islamist radical eating the all goodness out of the body of syrian soldier is of course horrendous and i think has done the

rebels a great deal of harm i think they are getting isolated from the syrian people i don't think there's any doubt about that but people are desperate they have no idea what is going to happen when if this war comes to an end right middle east expert tariq ali thank you so much for your views here on our t.v. much appreciated thank you. now to stay or to go and that's a question sara stage of british politics as a pros and cons of even membership are thrust out a drab bill on and out of random 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 road towards change in opinion polls suggest an exit from the e.u. is the most likely route was that take a look at a survey by the euro barometer polling sander. back in two thousand and seven they found almost half the u.k. population didn't trust the european blog and would end sentiment growing in recent

years a similar survey was conducted in two thousand and twelve and revealed that sixty nine percent of those who took part were in fact euro skeptic that has put u.k. business on high alert fearing an exit would result in a massive loss of tree 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 than 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 other 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 on the strait jacket of the european regulations now the u.k. is hand on the handle of the exit door the rest of europe is left contemplating whether it wants britain to be part of it out of the blocks powerhouse germany or chancellor angela merkel said she will lobby british france to stay while people in germany appear to have no hard feelings about the u.k.'s departure as art has been finding out. 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 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 string by fifteen percent and 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 of the and into a part of europe for more than one thousand years has always been uneasy with being a member of the european union so now it comes to before we have to deal with some . 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 over party. now more on the rift at r.t. dot com with a question should the eight years the largest economy consider an exit as well some say is germany who should leave if not a block down at least thank your currency. also mine today

europe was there a long before britain joined their french president francois lon the raids the u.k. over its pressure to reform the e.u. . financial doldrums and toughening of sterett he had been. huling the satisfaction with the policy across the continent researchers reveal many people in the bloc are losing faith in the european project starting to thing to do every batter off on their own he says are silly and has been gauging the mood among e.u. members. oh if you're talking about the gloomy situation here in europe it's no longer just the naysayers of a 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 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. for that we really are not very optimistic at all. while the e is definitely going through some changes now but where will it and out where is it heading that's a question we're asking today on our web site r t v dot com let's now take a look how some of the voters answered this question well as we can see almost half of those who participate in our online poll are not feeling very optimistic they are thinking about financial collapse is inevitable and a solution for the new now more than

a quarter predict some sort of an evolution into german quasi empire for the european union and twenty three percent saying that there will be some sort of shuffle with weaker members leaving basically we can members will be lost along the way the e.u. will go on and three percent and which is clearly the minority are feeling a bit an optimistic thinking that and debt crisis stronger ties among members are likely to happen for the e.u. will definitely you can let us know what you think on the issue by logging on to our twitter com and letting us know what you think. he's towing from. this question but you're. watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow 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 u.k.'s justice system and that's in just a couple of minutes here in our state this.

is. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for way you think you understand it and then you glimpse

something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow a court in the u.k. has been stoking controversy exercising sweeping powers to decide the fate of families and individuals on fit 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 boyko met one family of 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 was that the eighty 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 either want to go with one to the final home when he went i'm swear to god to look after him. 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 once allowed 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 want 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 works are going to be locked up in these rooms week long grocery where. 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 or cried the fierce 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 conan because draco would not have gone that far when i was in the chair i was frightened because the list meant to phone calls so i

was afraid to speak to dad. because i'm the commission's report on this and also you know in case i got more trouble meanwhile her brother and i even watched their father's health deteriorate terms of the strain of her absence in the end when he moved into that final loan 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 lawyer is being followed the evidence is heard in private defendants often lack legal representation and i want to allow to publicize their case when their sins it is giving the state too much power to intervene in people's lives preventing people complaining about what's been 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 has worried me what what they're doing that taken away from and warning what's going on to us when we get older you know we've got to be really careful and not say like. artie stoke on trent. and i was to go to some other stories making news around the world a suicide bomber has hit a government building in afghanistan's northern province of boggle on the blast killed fourteen people including the local town chief while nanny 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 slepian islam as

grow battled police in the streets of tunisia's capital on sunday leaving one person dead a government ban on a hardline islamist conference sparked the street violence on total show he claimed responsibility for killing the us ambassador in the libyan city of benghazi last september to minister has been struggling to contain its extremist religious elements since its arab spring in twenty eleven. and just a few minutes here in our team sports with kate partridge don't go away. pakistanis have gone to the polls in elected a new parliament what will the new government do domestically and in the area of foreign policy particularly washington's drone war with growing economic dislocations in a very threatening taliban ok and should pakistan forward and will the military continue to watch on the sidelines choose your language. of choice make it with no

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