knology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. when blast hit the capital of russia's dagestan republics where people are confirmed dead. nine car bombs ripped through neighborhoods in iraq up to forty people are dead and scores more are injured. the situation is spiraling out of control with sectarian violence fueling fears that the country is on the brink of a civil war. here in government troops and lebanon's hezbollah around a key border town that said to be a viable smuggling route for the rebels. and calls on the u.k. to quit the e.u. grow louder with a referendum in the political pipeline while other members also question whether it's time to go it alone themselves.

it is five pm in moscow you're watching our team with me and josh welcome to the program while there have been two deadly blasts in the capital of russia's biggest on republic details are still emerging about the attacks we're joined now by our correspondent andrew farmer who's god's more on this and what do we know this hour well the blast i can tell you did take place around an hour ago there were two explosions that happened in which is the capital of dagestan it happened in the dying time part of that city just outside the bailiff's office there was an initial explosion and then off the emergency services arrived at the scene there was a second more powerful explosion officially the death toll we are being told is around. three but initially reports were eight and we still do not have any details on the number of paid. all that have been injured but we can say it has been

a very powerful blast in this. deadly car bomb attack that took place just over an hour ago it is worth noting that a similar attack took place almost exactly a year ago then again it was a double car blast and that in that same part of the of the city it's worth also looking at some background if we can just mention that it is a muslim republic and it has been trouble for many years now by islamic extremists and many of those groups do have links to al qaida and it's worth also noting that the russian government has repeatedly said that this has been an example of the fact that terrorism is a global problem but as soon as we get more details on this latest blast we will officially they say that three people have been killed by this double car bomb attack and. initial reports said there were eight no confirmation yet on the number of injured where everything's very much indeed for the subway andrew farmer bring

us more on this of course we'll bring you more details as we get them here on our team. two other stories now a fresh eruption of sectarian violence in iraq with deadly blasts targeting public areas including markets and bus stops has claimed up to forty lives the attacks strong baghdad and the southern town of basra which have also left more than one hundred one the details from our middle east correspondent powerful year according to iraqi officials car bombs have exploded in 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 deadly car bombs that targeted a bus station and of restaurant in the. just 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 to sponsibility for these blasts but they do have all the signs and the hallmarks of al qaida attacks in the mainly shia muslim a bus 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 are who 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 purchase which began back in december who launched the peaceful but in april the number of attacks rose because of the deadly security crackdown on the sunni protest camp in the country's role and what we've seen is a spike of bombings recently targeting either sunni or shiite civilian targets especially in the last week 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 of two thousand and six two thousand and seven when widespread sectarian violence left tens of thousands of people did. possible the militants have joined forces with pro asa droops in the fierce fight for control of a rebel stronghold on syria's border with lebanon the town of qusayr is considered a key entry point for smuggling arms into syria local journalist dog always told us more about what's happening on the ground. syrian army managed to make a full circle around the city fighting position position five is the main achievement is to stop that line of supply chain between lebanon and syria most of the fighters 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 these studies

to additionally speaking they managed to make first they started from the west from western side of the of the city and then areas they controlled this this is own with some fighters from lebanon some extremist a group were preparing to go into syria to fight with that upholds 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 the government and the opposition by this now we have limited the five to one city or one into one part of the city the international arena and then to nationalise fear has started to change with american 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. a which is of course

now by this no more smuggling will go on. coming from qatar or from other countries middle east expert tariq ali believes the recent escalation of sectarian violence in the region is being used by the west target iran. what this war is now increasingly becoming is a war that is still getting iran and trying to rue morgue iran's only arab ally from the reckoning it's become very clear in the way in weeks sectarianism has been used effectively 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 another over another

they then carried out a large ethnic cleansing and we now see the in response to that in syria you had the opposite you had a lot of sunni majority which was government by and the white. 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 and the large proportion of the population waiting for the war to end and hoping that something will happen to bring a conclusion to this war. to stay or to go and that's the question center stage of british politics as a pros and cons of each 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 two thousand and seventy and have been

hailed as favoring a clear route towards change in opinion polls suggest an exit from the e.u. is the most likely route was the take a look at a survey by the euro barometer polling center back in two thousand and seven they found almost half the u.k. population which is forty nine percent and didn't trust the european blog and with and to you sentiment growing in recent years a similar survey conducted in twenty twelve revealed that sixty nine percent of those two part or euro skeptic all that it has put u.k. business on high alert fearing an exit will result in a massive loss of trade well let's now get reaction to that from the editor in chief of financial news website news dot com ross thanks very much indeed michael for joining us here on r.t. to discuss this well it seems like a prime minister's party is fine with cameron by no means rules the westminster rules the question is will get past his coalition the lib dems partners or the

opposition labor party. i mean i don't understand why they make such a big. voting about the membership in the eula not i mean basically we are living in a democracy this is how i receive it and most of the people in the whistle everybody in within the you has a basically and fundamental right to vote if he wants to be a member or not and cannot understand the exact moment what is going on exactly also in britain but also in brussels on the other hand you have to see those people who rule do you. fear to lose their privileges and these privileges are very very high keep in mind more than four thousand you. it's all the chancellor merkel here in germany over four thousand. more than.

mrs merkel and this is the reason why they want to keep the e.u. as it is and i don't think that most of the people within the like this so the britons have the right to go to baltar and to vote will be almost clear they don't want to be a member of the anymore all right michael this issue clearly has divided some of britain's financial gurus some of them saying that. some of them in fact warn of massive financial losses than an exit from the e.u. and others beg to differ which side of the debate are you on what do you think. i mean if you're always talking about costs and if you're only always talking about so-called benefits from the i mean then we are the subjects of. of the whole system if the system is not working then we have to restart it and i think most of the people don't like it as it is most of the people many people

don't understand what they're doing and i think this is only a theoretical threat that the politicians pols to say ok if we are not member of you then we will all suffer i think the contrary is true and this is also what many britons want they want a total reform of the they don't like the e.u. as it is they contemplate the people there who rule us as small as parasites who are living on the costs of their mere subjects in the they are living they have sky high salaries they can get their pensions for sixty one they have extra holidays they have many many benefits and these benefits they want to conserve this is the really reason why they don't want the people to vote about the membership and again i mean compare it with the iron curtain twenty thirty years ago. or hungary did they have any choice to vote if they want to be a member of this pact of the wausau pact you know we are here in the same situation

nobody has the right to vote if he wants to become a member and i think it's a basically right of every body in the new also in germany to say if he is for the you or if he is against you and again this also puts pressure on the rulers in brussels to do the right thing what are they doing right now they are doing the. sanction bishan the news i'm very. sorry for interrupting you yes brussels is under a lot of pressure now from all the e.u. countries but then on the other hand is it too early to blame brussels for all the mistakes i mean look at these countries that comprise the e.u. some of these countries would be world minnows on their own wouldn't they. i mean everybody is talking if we don't have the everything what collapse then a big war could could start these fairy tales i mean nobody wants we want all to

live in peace but what we don't want is the. shift that we have we want direct democracy we want direct. regional leadership in the you and not somebody whom we cannot rule and whom we cannot vote for in brussels who is dictating us what we have to do and not i don't see any disadvantages if this is you as it is now will be torn. away will be destructed all right michael ross thanks very much indeed for your analysis here on r.t. and with a lot of hard feelings swirling around the e.u. one thing many seem agreed on is anger at brussels nine european countries are now in recession now with no end in sight membership appears to be more trouble than it's worth for some steps are still you know reports. 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 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 the euro skeptics or naysayers these are figures of citizens themselves creating this european union looking at what the future holds for them and we really are not very optimistic at

all. and i had an r t it seems for tactic the vulnerable can on the wrong side of law in britain. jailed for trying to take care of her elderly father we bring you the story of one woman who was secretly thrown into prison for trying to take on the states that's coming up in just a few minutes. plus of all the sayings which my be bothering brits right now it's the debate on legalizing gay marriage that's taking center stage at westminster and it's by no means a done deal as we explain sued. 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 will they wish they could. drug tests on human guinea pigs. hate to call

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welcome back here with our team british families torn apart and some relatives even put behind bars for trying to care for their own families the court of protection has been exercising its sweeping powers to decide the fate of families and individuals joined on fit to make their own decisions playboy what looks into 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 will get 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 out. 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 to allow to take their father out of the state run facility or even discuss his living arrangements with him so we can ask you want to go. but i didn't tell him that it didn't mean i was any more they got it because of the court protection the sickos will do whatever they want with the finances in its house what works are going to be locked up in these rooms weeklong. 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 two months in here in the company of criminals i 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 draconian 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 left meant to get phone calls so i was afraid to speak to dad. because i'm the commission's report on is and also you know in case they got in more trouble meanwhile her brother ivan watched their father's health deteriorate under the strain of her absence in the end when he moved into that final loam that was the end of him and he wanted it wanted still moved him anything i said you got to know this she was. she 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 essence 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 what they're doing that taken away from a spark and the wording of what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful. not safe like. artie

stoke on trent. well the fukushima radiation no go zone still means locals are banned from staying overnight in their own neighborhoods but as we explained online japanese farmers are ploughing on anyway using land for growing rice for mass consumption. also online how do you keep full faith and safe at a twenty first century world cup perhaps an army of u.s. military robots and israeli drones learn about brazil's twenty fourteen points. of british prime minister could get a slap in the face from his own m.p.'s this week they plan to derail moves to legalize gay marriage and it could cause a rift within already a strain governing coalition are long correspond sarah ferguson has the details. this is a real headache for the prime minister he could be about to have the worst possible start to his week with the potential for

a house of commons to be over one of his flagship policies that of equal marriage that's fact being debated over the next two days in the house of commons one of the things things abated one of the amendments is this extension of civil partnerships to heterosexual couples that's being dubbed the wrecking amendments so is cool because if it's very sad three that could be said to delay or possibly even the rail the equal marriage bill all together so a huge amounts of debate that we're seeing this morning around this this is really it's all going to hinge on what the labor party what the liberal democrats decide to do in this state because it's not just the conservative party that we've seen i carry out this infighting over this issue the concern at the labor and the liberal democrats is that they're actually in favor of extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples t. that this would tidy up the legislation of course that's quite confusing though

because if they joined the conservatives who are going to vote for that amendment by and large who oppose equal marriage all together then they could. and as we said delaying this bill so there's a huge amount of its buts and maybes that a surrounding this bill this is an issue that we seeing debated across your francis's become the ninth country to legalize gay marriage certainly a controversial piece of legislation here in the u.k. for the prime minister but one that he said he's standing firm by now it says it will appeal to the core of bates is that the conservative party is desperate to get on side the younger softer image the conservative party trying to forward despite the dissent from their own party now they say the senses say that this is simply an attempt to detract from some of the much more important issues right now that of facing the vote is that when the vote is put forward what they see as a priority it's not about equal marriage it's about issues like the economy about

europe about immigration these are issues that many cost activists fail and not being addressed within their own party hand on the way next year in our task to don't humans' a look at the people used in america's drug trials. although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about that 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 bulgarian 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 gary's chances believe me but that's just my opinion.

transitive lifestyle and long story short i take drugs for a living human drug testing what other people see my scars a think of a drug that is or could ever do i track marks with jack and heroin that after i get about one hundred needles in there is going to leave a mark that's what i am sure and i've been in studies where we had one hundred sticks and like fourteen days that's a lot more traffic i think going through my veins i mean that's what i'm being paid to do being paid to be poached prodded. tested and if i don't want to do that i won't be here doing it.