another car bomb causes carnage in syria killing at least a dozen people in the northwest of the country less than twenty hour hours after twin blasts in the capital damascus. still the inability of. the syrian opposition. to come to geneva and sit down and negotiate with the government. moscow's slams the decision of a k c were an opposition group not to attend a russian you as a brokered peace talks and criticizes washington for failing to pressure them. now with the world's largest burra days from defaulting on its debt and international lenders begin to panic about the consequences of america's fading to

reopen its frozen government. in the south the most violent riots with hundreds are arrested after angry moans chanting anti migrant slogans stolen shopping center and clash with police. news from russia and iran the while this is aussie with me you know thanks for joining us. a car bomb in northwest syria has killed over a dozen people and wounded many more the powerful blast came just a day after twin cobhams rocked the center of damascus one year a hotel where international chemical weapons inspectors are staying. in the syrian

capital for us and joins us now live hi there paula nice to see it appears that a couple of things in syria happen on a daily basis and please tell us about the latest. well a car bomb has exploded in a rebel held north western town in the province of which is not far from the syrian turkish border from the reports we have it seems that as many as twenty people have been killed and dozens more wounded the explosion happened at a busy marketplace this is the same province where on sunday seven red cross workers were ducted while they were traveling they were shot at by gunmen and taken to a named location all of this coming just hours after two massive car bombs exploded here in the heart of the syrian capital on sunday night they took place in front of the syrian state t.v. building and not far from the hotel where foreign experts who are investigating and

overseeing the destruction of syria's chemical weapons stockpiles are staying a short time ago the head of their team criticized the opposition for not allowing them access to some of the sites where rebels have control now there has been a number of warnings posted online by rebel fighters that they will use mortar shells to rain down on damascus and for most of sunday night and into the early hours of monday morning most of the capital city and huge parts of syria were without electricity after having been hit by mortar shells a short time ago two mortars fell at that same scene of the blasts on sunday night here in central damascus and as i speak to you there is the continuous firing of syrian artillery all of this is hampering peace efforts and the two sides continue to dig in the hills nowhere is that more evident than in the city of holmes we traveled there and visited the quarter of bab. where we found that the two sides

are often just meters away from each other. this is the frontline as watched by a syrian. army sniper that i know of when they see somebody and shoot. after a thousand days of war this is what victory looks like and the eerie silence of what once was a vibrant quarter of. twenty meters from here where both fighters hold their ground while the army does the same squeeze between a few streets that throw up unexpected heroes from among the rubble of us had been less had an account and this was unknown and syria before an iraqi i knew nothing of this before the war cyclicals of. two and a half years ago by some was a school teacher of the twenty nine year old signed up for war that suddenly shattered right inside his castle and he saw some volunteered his pain passion for kalashnikov. something happened with him while i was teaching

a mortar shell landed in the schoolyard there were a lot of victims i remember as i held one little girl who had been killed and seeing a blood i felt so sorry for her family africans wish my fear they seem to like beheading even icons and start me these are the messages they want to send us the syrian army was based years there was no military shearers only innocent civilian lives with some people here were praying for peace and this is one of the bombs that fell and one of the bombs that caused all this devastation this is their message to put it here just as a reminder of. the church of babel shum was built in eight hundred eighty five four hundred twenty six years it served as a house of sanctuary overnight it became a house of salter. this yard was for the children it was also for many families as well they were killed because they

refused to be the militants. will be all the militants have been cleared out of this quarter but we're still here as we keep up a presence to protect the area and prevent the terrorists from returning. to trying to get the area back to normality to what it when we defeat them we will rebuild this church and children will once again leave your prayers will be heard to be a handful of families are starting to return in the ravages streets the sound of children's laughter punctuates the rumble of machine gunfire. and i remember when i used to play football just like them you know i have to carry a gun just sort of they can play here safely but when i was their age i dreamt of being a professional footballer and i'm sure they've got the same dream protecting them so nobody comes along to destroy their dreams. they were approaching sniper valley it's about twenty meters from here the snipers and. explaining to me

right now we're going to go slowly i think it's going to take my hand and we're going to run. ok. ok his telling me not to be afraid and i don't know if it. was that you ok ok i trust him and we're going to make a run for it ok two three. if i can i cannot participate in the best interest we've got across the table but. it was apparently one person was killed here bet i'm ok thank you. as night falls the streets of bubbles become more dangerous the soldiers light fires every few meters to help them see as i believe some asks me to pray for him and his comrades most of us he says will probably be. the next time you visit policy there are t. double shot homes syria. international efforts to find

a solution to the syrian crisis how to further undermined by the kneading opposition group refusing to attend peace talks in geneva russia's foreign minister sent the decision by the syrian national council is due to its western sponsors being either unwilling or unable to persuade them to take part and here's what sergei lavrov had to say. exposing the subject of the main obstacle is still the inability of our partners to force the syrian opposition who they support to come to geneva and sit down and negotiate with the government in order to find a way out of this crisis by general consent once again my colleague john kerry has promised me results but there are no results there are just statements like the one made by mr about the refusal to attend the geneva conference it is strange to hear the repetitive utterances from individual representatives of the u.s. state department that we are moving towards the goal of geneva two together but

that it's only important for russia to put pressure on damascus this is shifting the blame onto others because we do influence damascus and get real results. and. discuss the difficulties of providing humanitarian aid to syria with the president of the red cross and here's a quick preview of the full program which you can find online as r.c. dot com. this and more you just mentioned the geneva conventions and the geneva conventions make it pretty clear. they were primarily designed to protect people quiet not part of the conflict or no longer part of the conflict and while the geneva convention clearly give protection to civilians or to combatants they do not leave combatants without any protection. the same protection as civilians who can go in there is a woman the woman didn't seek according to did she need a convention have the same right to medical treatment civilians have.

in just three days the u.s. will be forced to make a decision that will affect the entire global economy if lawmakers don't find a way to reopen the frozen government and then agree to raise the national debt ceiling america will default on its debt and if that happens the shock will be felt well beyond its own borders or is a nice in our house the details well there's been no headway over the weekend between democrats and republicans coming to some kind of agreement on how to raise or whether or not to raise the debt ceiling if the u.s. doesn't secure a debt arising of its debt ceiling they'll have to default on its over sixteen and a half dollars of borrowing so you have the rest of the world very worried they're panicking you have the heads of various major financial. financial organizations like the i.m.f.

talking about how american legislators need to be responsible that this bickering is ridiculous they need to find a way to get through this to the rest of the world doesn't have to pay for these dire consequences huge economic partners what will happen to them if the u.s. does go head into fall well according to experts whether or not it happens on thursday china is still going to rethink the way it does business with the united states here's jeffrey summers of the university of wisconsin milwaukee and united states of course is an economy which leads global credit and the foreign purchase of its treasury bills so this puts it in a very precarious position moving forward in terms of the ability to fund many of its programs domestically for those countries in which of finance it's a very very big player within their economies they're very very nervous so i think it just gives further fuel to move and of course china has been trying to see if it could coordinate a new order which would be less dollar based you have protests breaking out

especially in the capital here over the weekend a group of truckers came in towards the u.s. capital you had veterans this sunday coming together and coming to memorials so there was thousands of protesters who in fact broke through a barricade on sunday to try to get to a world war two monument they were peaceful just chanting slogans like break down these walls singing patriotic songs but yet there were riot police there ready to go to control these veterans and if the u.s. does go ahead and default of course those protests are expected to get worse not to mention the effects it will have on the rest of the world. wildly you are sloops to stave off a good organ disaster for some other countries it's too late hour later this hour after he reports on the situation in greece where the country's oldest universities are going out of business. police in moscow have

detained over a thousand people at a vegetable market which was at the center of violent riots overnight authorities are looking for a man from the course's return who is accused of the murder of a local resident that sparks the trouble they run is in the south of the city ended in mass arrests as mobs went on the rampage storming a shopping center and clashing with police are he's are in a city utah. their rides didn't start off of violently in fact they started off as a gathering of local residents who are concerned with the investigation of the into the death of a local man who was killed last week in the only witness in his case was his girlfriend who said that the attacker was on slavic origin presumably according to police he is hailing from northern caucasus which is essentially a part of russian federation however those who have shown up for the rally over the weekend most of them seem to have been members of nationalist groups as well as football fans and they have essentially hijacked the rally shouting ethnic as well

as racist slogans and they have turned their anger against migrant workers a lot of whom are working at the shopping center as well as the produce warehouse nearby while some of them were smashing storefront windows others are said to have been looting stores inside afterwards they took to the streets where they were clashing with police overturning cars destroying a kiosk selling watermelons which provided for some colorful and it was somewhat pictures and then they wanted to head on over to the to the produce warehouse nearby they were stopped by riot police however we know several police personnel have actually been wounded at least one of them received a blow to his head with a broken bottle there were fears that words could last well into the night over by midnight police have declared that the scene was essentially cleared of all rioters

and this exactly three years ago in december of two thousand and ten to be precise murder of a football fan of by a representative from the from the northern caucasus region over russia also sparked massive riots in the center of moscow the somme on one there's no square around five thousand people came out most of them again football fans and not just nationalistic groups so the tension is subsided. definitely there still some upper henchmen hanging in the air. and for more than they can you also broke out in southernmost you can go to our website. you'll find a timeline showing what happened in the city over the last forty eight hours as well as dramatic pictures. coming out later this hour assessed for blood gold rapid economic growth forces china to become the largest oil importer in the wild after the break i said the prospects and pressures that rising demand

placing on the far eastern giant. may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional.

the. economic down in the final. days of the old saying i and the rest because i hate it will be every week. actually nothing very good has happened in afghanistan the last twelve years and that's something western media and political leaders don't like to talk about anymore well there's really no actual practicing democracy to speak of in afghanistan what you have is a kleptocratic corrupt. state but we should reframe the question so as long as your stays there there will be violence there will be chaos because as an occupying power it began you know the u.s. wants to keep a footprint there but the longer its footprint is there the more well with women have to say the violence will continue because of occupation you know just the fact

that the afghan government has not yet been able to convince the afghan people that it provides a better alternative. you're watching c.n.n. live from moscow it's good to have you with us but economic crisis in greece has forced the oldest university in athens to close down along with seven others that ministration says they can no longer function after government contracts slashed staffing levels and now students who should have started a new academic here have been enough to name all his anger following reports. students have studied at athens university since the middle of the nineteenth century but today they carry placards not books youth will fight austerity it says the message is black and white. the anger aimed at government cutbacks which you

force the university to close. of course i'm concerned right now a lot of students you know in schools in universities feel that they have no future here. the protesters are heading towards the greek parliament among them administrative workers who've borne the brunt of the redundancies archivist treasury employees and security guards stand alongside students who should be starting a new academic year across town it's a similar story at the national technological university so this auditorium should be full of students right now it has some saluki fortunately it's because of a serious cutbacks in administrative personnel and in public subsidies we cannot work we are to choose not to work because there is no possibility for that in fact empty lecture halls and desolate corridors can be seen it eighteen of the cities

across greece all deciding to shut this cut back slash their admin staffing levels by as much as forty percent back at the demonstration one lecturer shows me a letter being sent to universities around the world asking for their support there is a serious threat against greek universe it's against greek public universities so everybody fears. people who are going to lose their jobs and that public universities will be i think of the past in a few months it is a desperate attempt to protect the higher education system but the greek government at this stage stands for a deal. struck with the e.u. and i.m.f. to secure more bailout funding means four thousand public sector jobs have to be axed by the end of the year and another twenty five thousand posts have to be redeployed and though it isn't going to happen without a fight while this latest demonstration has ended here outside the ministry for

administrative reforms which many people but i mean for the cutbacks all the way through the protests that have been singing chants including people will not say that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expression themselves like they have done today can make a difference andrew farmer. it's. always got more stories for you on line including cultural heritage up for sale intimate planning to put a historic castles of villas and even at the nation island on the market in a bid to keep its debt delayed economy afloat. and also that night raids and extreme temperature is just a few of the markets that were used by god that america is gone tunnel they present to break out of the detainees six months hunger strike and arsenal at arms who dot com.

or. in china make news the biggest energy impulse on the planet as you can see here beijing how's increased its oil steadily in recent years finally in the u.s. last month the rapid growth of industry and infrastructure has created be in stable demand for fuel. the benefits and implications of china's ambition. yet again china is number one this time surpassing the united states as the world's biggest importer of oil what's more according to u.s. government findings china is expected to remain the top global gas guzzler well

into the next year part of the reason is china's economy is growing as well as rising auto sales that has increased demand as a result china has used more oil than it can actually produce having to turn to outside sources in order to fill that gap americans still consume more oil per person but china is slowly catching up on the one hand it is a sign of progress the economic boom has raised incomes and to china's influence around the world china's economy may be cooling but it's still expected to grow by nearly eight percent this year which is well above forecasts for the united states but this is one world beating achievement of the chinese leaders may not actually want they've seen the experience of the united states economy often hostage to political instability in the middle east importing more also means less energy independence it's forcing china to rely on countries like saudi arabia as well as a wrong un and communist leaders see that as a weakness because of instability in the gulf as well as iran's political isolation

. well over and over again china has proven its capacity to surge ahead and to beat out rivals the question is whether china will be able to avoid its rivals mistakes . r t moscow. that's not the world news in brief this sound a u.s. registered ship seized on thursday in disputed waters of guyana has been escorted to pulled by venezuela's navy the vessel was reportedly can including conducting studies for attacks an oil company awarded a contract to search for oil close to ghana but that is while it claimed it ended its territory including five americans will be held on board while the owners say they are working with the u.s. government to secure the release of the ship. to china now on this dramatic video showing dozens of people blundering into walls one a wooden bridge used to board a ferry collapsed fortunately nearby park employees were able to throw

a life rings in ten people still needed hospital treatment and investigation is being held into why the bridge which was only opened in september collapsed. some two million muslims have traveled to saudi arabia's holy city of mecca to begin the annual five day hunch the pilgrimage is a central pillar of islam and includes a march to do you know where the prophet muhammad is buried this year the number of programs has been restricted by this saudi government due to concerns over tori virus centered on the arabian peninsula. and coming up next the concept of u.s. exceptionalism and how it affects the world.

switzerland will soon vote if they should start giving out thousands of dollars in cash to every adult citizen in the country you heard me right there's a grassroots campaign that is trying to get the government to give out to every adult citizen two thousand five hundred swiss francs approximately two thousand eight hundred dollars per month the motivation for the project is that many in switzerland fear that the financial crisis has caused wealth inequality to skyrocket you know i'm not an expert at swiss culture so maybe people there are different but if they gave out thousands of free dollars per month anywhere i've lived you would see the majority of people going into early retirement and not working at all and sort of like how they tell people not to feed the bears at parks because then the bears lose their instincts and will go hunt because getting a sandwich thrown at them is a lot easier i mean why go through the effort of auditing when the sandwich just magically appears handouts often creates law according to reuters some people are proposing a much better law for switzerland limiting executive pay to being twelve times higher than that of the lowest paid employee although this point isn't making

headlines it seems like a much better idea because it doesn't to motivate people to be productive and yet it would create almost utopia like levels of wealthy quality also if the bosses salary is tied to the employees that a lot of people be getting raises very soon this one to twelve p. ratio is much better than the free swiss francs and it gets my seal of approval but that's just my opinion. actually nothing very good has happened in afghanistan the last twelve years and that's something western media and political elites don't like to talk about anymore well there's really no actual practicing democracy to speak of in afghanistan what you have is a cleft. craddick corrupt. state but we should reframe the question so i was only yes stays there will be violence there will be chaos because there's an occupying power. again you know the u.s.

wants to keep a footprint there but the longer its footprint is there the more. the violence will continue because of occupation you know just the fact that the afghan government has not yet been able to convince the afghan people that it provides a better alternative. this is. going to be. an exceptional american exceptionalism

testimony to american exceptionalism american exceptionalism the united states is indeed exception america is exceptional what makes. this except. some may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. in part because we have shown a willingness through the sacrifice of blood and treasure to stand up not only for our own narrow self-interest but for the interests of all. i agree america is exceptional but what's exceptional about my country is that. we did exceptionally bad things we do it well. we do it. we do it and no one else can. taking action and doing things without accountability that other nations cannot get away.