another car bomb causes connotation syria killing at least a dozen people in the northwest of the country less than twenty four hours after twenty last and the combat soldier musket. was. the main obstacle. to the syrian opposition. to come to geneva and sit down and negotiate with the government. the decision of a k c were in opposition group not to attend a russia you as a brokered peace talks and criticizes washington for failing to pressure about. the world's largest board days from defaulting on its debts international lenders begin to panic about the consequences of america's failing to reopen its frozen

government. under murder in the south of moscow leads to violent riots with hundreds are arrested after angry mobs chanting anti margaret slogans storm a shopping center and clash with police. news on russia under around the world this is aussie with me hello and welcome to the program a car bomb in northwestern syria has killed over a dozen people and wounded many more the powerful blast came just a day after twin club bombs rocks they sent over damascus one knee a hotel where international chemical weapons inspectors are staying point to sneer brings us the latest from the syrian capital. car bomb has exploded in

a rebel held northwestern town in the province of it 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 abducted while they were traveling they were shot at by gunmen and taken to 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 would use water shells to rain down on damascus 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 god. 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. after a thousand days of war this is what victory looks like and the eerie silence of what once was the vibrant quarter of. twenty meters from here rebel fighters hold the ground while the army does this to squeeze between a few streets that threw up unexpected heroes from among the rubble have been missing out of

a kind of just was unknown. syria before now i knew nothing of this before the war is cyclical so. two and a half years ago i was a school teacher to twenty nine year old signed up for war that suddenly shattered right inside his car and i saw some volunteered his pain passion for kalashnikov. that something happened because i was teaching at a mortar shell landed in the studio there were a lot of victims i remember as i held one little girl who had been killed and seeing our blood i felt so sorry for her family from africa wish they seem to like beheading even icons and start chances i mean these are the messages they want to send us the syrian army wouldn't waste years there was no military security only in the sense of. some people here were praying for peace and this is one of the bombs that fell the 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 saud. so you hate a backhoe. and this yard was for the children it was also for many families as well they were killed because they refused to be the militants were from. all over the 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 and we're also trying to get the area back to normality to what it when we defeat them we will rebuild the structure and children will once again until your prayers will be heard doesn't matter any more to the a handful of families are starting to return in the ravaged 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 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 all the snipers and. explaining to me that i bet on 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 he's telling me not to be afraid and i don't know if it. was that you ok ok all right i trust him and we're going to make a run for it ok two three. if i can i cannot participate in a. much. if we have to do 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 that some asks me to pray for him and his comrades most of us he says will probably. the next time you visit policy or r t double shot holmes syria. international efforts to find a solution to the syrian crisis how further undermined by the meeting opposition were refusing to attend peace talks in geneva russia's foreign minister said 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. spurgeon 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 savva 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 boyko discussed 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.t. dot com. this and more you just mentioned the geneva conventions and the geneva conventions make it pretty clear that. they were primarily designed to protect people quite not part of the conflict or no longer part of the conflict and so while the geneva convention clearly give protection to civilians or to

combatants they do not leave combatants without any protection not the same protection as civility can go in there will be women is a woman the woman didn't seek according to did she need a convention have the same right to medical treatment as superiors 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 agree to raise the national debt ceiling america will default on its debts and if that happens the shock will be felt well beyond its own borders and he's in eastern 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 trillion dollars of borrowing so you have the rest of the world very wary they're panicking you have the heads of various major financial organizations global financial organizations like the i.m.f. talking about how american legislators need to be responsible but 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 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 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 and normally but on the price of this political stalemate in the u.s. and its effects on the global economy when i joined live by economist. mr vest and welcome to tease good to see you here and in your opinion just how bond. be. oh default would be a catastrophic event you would have the increase in the cost of borrowing for. around the globe you would have inflation in the us increasing on the back of a very sharply falling dollar. and it would basically affect every single country in the world given that the dollar remains from the the key reserve currency right but do you think the u.s.

will make a last minute decision and find an agreement to raise the debt ceiling well i think they will have to given that i said it's going to be a catastrophic event the unfortunate issue is that you have a number of politicians on the republican side the so-called tea party which actually believe that a default would not you know that russia or the u.s. can. can actually handle a default something which i think is very reckless and irresponsible you're looking at a congress that is basically run by children. and you know the fortunate thing is that the people that believe that the default should be manageable is very tiny but if the question win them over. the longer we drag on to the seven seventy five all told the deadline the more concerned with the markets be so far we see quite a sort of calm selloff that we've seen a couple days from the markets actually going up on some sort of believed that some solution would be found which i think in the end will be fine because again this

would be a catastrophic event if you do see a default why would you all make is such a massive decision until the very last moment. well it is an issue of you know just because these are politicians that have to solve their own problems if you go back to two thousand and seven eight we had a financial crisis which was solved by politicians but actually coming together this time you have a political crisis that has to be solved by politicians and given that you have such a split. start to divide along the party lines. and a very small fraction again that actually holds the balance are determined not to get him. so it's really that the negotiations are just continuing and. basically people think that the longer we hold onto it the more the quicker will the other party not cave in which doesn't seem to be the case unfortunately the u.s. population gets stuck in the middle that's right so we're hearing some various calls from different countries from china for example for this so-called

americanization of the world but is anything changes have has anything changed since the crisis of two thousand and eight when the crisis two thousand two thousand and seven it was a financial crisis that was the whole success of the solved by politicians this time you do have a political crisis that has to be solved by politicians so that's the real change. to actually dear merican our system calling it is going to be if it's going to happen a very slow process but given that we see time and time again these political crisis appear in the us i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependency in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil but it has to be a very slow sort of gradual process do you think there is any other single currency capable of replacing the u.s. dollar in international transactions. near term there's no real

currency that can replace the dollar i mean the euro will be the best candidate but if you look at the other currencies people i've been talking about we have talked people mentioned the remember in china even the russian ruble however these kinds are not convertible and also you have to reprice most commodities that are priced in dollars you would have to reprice in these currencies so there's no quick sort of. alternative to the dollar us we see it right now right the u.s. doesn't actually have the highest debt g.d.p. in the world but why are people losing face that. well in this case is not really about the level of debt it's the ability to repay the debt they actually have. with the new ceiling with the old ceiling they can pay thirty billion dollars what they owe on the seventy if it's going to sixty billion so it's basically defaulting on its debt or having to reduce spending elsewhere to find the money to pay the debt

any options of those would probably bring the u.s. back into recession and therefore also have ripple effects into the global economy so the distrust is really sort of a little about us actually being able to repay the debt it's not actually about the debt level. right peter thank you very much indeed for your time. stan equities strategist and economist for russia based brokerage thank you. thank you. while the u.s. will extend a stable economic disaster for some other countries it's too late and after the break also he reports on the situation greece where the country's oldest you know best state has gone out of business. and also has a rapid economic growth makes china the biggest oil importing the wold have the prospects and pressures that rising demand days placing on the far eastern giant.

as afghanistan prepares for a presidential election many in the political and media mainstream speak of the country's first democratic transition but it's less talked about is the dire security situation on the ground where the karzai is angling to succeed him so the powerful presence of the taliban so whether the u.s. will ever actually leave afghanistan. right the city. first struck. and i think the true. reformers twitter. and instagram.

you're watching l c n live from moscow it's good to have you with us let's move on now. 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 month from the caucasus region who is accused of the murder of a local resident as the sparks the trouble the rallies in the south of the city ended in mass arrests as morgues went on the rampage stormie a shopping center and clashing with police on she's going to chicago has the details for us. the 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 of known slavic origin those who have shown off the rally over the weekend most of them seem to have been members of nationalistic 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 personal

have actually been wounded at least one of them received a blow to his head with a broken bottle there were fears that riots could last well into the night over by midnight police have declared that the scene was essentially cleared of all rioters something very similar happened about three years ago december of two thousand and ten after a murder of a family representative from the from the northern caucasus region over russia also sparked massive riots in the center of moscow the square around five thousand people came out most of them again football fans and not nationalistic groups so the tension is subsided but definitely there is still some upper hand and hanging in there are. also the broke out in some in moscow you can go to our website dot com where you'll find a timeline shiling what happened in the city over the last forty eight hours as well as dramatic pictures. big konami

crisis in greece has forced the oldest university in athens to close down along with seven others that ministrations says they can no longer function after government cutbacks slashed staffing levels and now students who should have started a new academic year have been left in limbo artes and reform report. 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 america the anger aimed at government cutbacks which you force the university to close. of course i'm concerned right now a lot of the 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 standing 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 absolutely fortunately it's because of a serious cutbacks in a ministry at the personal level and in public subsidies with a lot of work we have to choose not to work because there is no possibility for that in fact empty lecture halls and desolate corydoras 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 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 for the cutbacks all the way through the protests i have been singing chants including people will not say that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expression themselves like i have done today can make

a difference andrey farmer far seeing things. and remember always how for you online including cultural heritage for sale wanting to put its historic console's villas and even of the nation island on the market in a bid to keep its debt legs economy afloat. and also the night raids and extreme temperature is just a few of the methods that were used by gangs of america's gun tunnel if a prison to break out of the detainees six months hunger strike find out more at r.t. dot com. i .

oil. in china making the biggest energy input on the planet and as you can see here beijing has increased its oil purchases stepped in it in recent years finally placing the u.s. last month on a rapid growth of industry and infrastructure ass created the insatiable demand for huge all. of the benefits and implications of china's ambitions. 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 to 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 role in it 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 this is catherine of r t moscow. and now

a look at some other global headlines in brief now a u.s. registered ship seized on thursday in disputed waters off of guyana has been escorted by pulled by venezuela's navy the vessel was reportedly conducting a study is for a texan oil company awarded a contract to search for oil close to ghana but to venezuela claimed and to the territory the crew included five americans will be held on board while the owners say they're working with the u.s. government to secure the release of the ship. mari low panda leader of france's far right national front is celebrating after a by election when party in the province town of oil that the winner of a fifty percent of the vote in the conservative candidate from the party of former president nicolas sarkozy this comes just days after polls revealed one in four votes in france plan to vote for the national front in mexico year's european

parliament elections pulling ahead of mainstream parties for the first time. and to china now on this dramatic video showing dozens of people blundering into water when a wooden bridge used to board a ferry collapsed fortunately nearby park employees were able to throw a live rings then ten people still needed hospital treatment and assignation is being held into why the bridge which was only opened in september collapsed. and up next piece of the ballot he's going to discuss what the next he has an election in afghanistan will bring any positive changes to the violence plagued nation.

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 says a 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 it's 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 switzer.