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suicide bombings the deadliest came in damascus on thursday claiming fifty five lives and as sara furth reports there's a growing sense that a third power is creeping into the civil conflict with its own terrifying agenda. it was a little known terror group the al nusra front they claimed responsibility for last week's massive bombing in syria the blast carried out in a busy residential area designed to cause maximum damage damascus which for so long had been through and then sheltered from the conflict throughout the rest of the country has in recent months found itself the target of an increased bombing campaign this latest explosion considered the largest one and you can just see the devastation that is caused. at the scene angry crowds at a quite them as terrorist acts shouting blame at saudi arabia and qatar is playing that many analysts saying these countries actions are undermining the peace process if you. stopped supporting of united states of america. supporting guns to the rebels everything will be finished within two months but if they want to continue supporting them they w

and even though he has tilted towards lessausterity, he talked about defense be t furth. so i know you are going to probably say, or i think you might say, we will have to wait and see what the post election relts a realities are. since we are here on stage and you are such a good source, how do you analyze this? >> of course, we have to wait and see. but i think -- one of the -- one of the unique features of sna tsna -- of nato it is 28 democracies. this is hardly the first time a government has changed while, while i have been there or indeed which is happening all the time. 17 governments have changed in the time i have been here. and this is just the latest. the french socialists -- are not strangers for -- for the united states. they shouldn't be strangers. it's been true that, it's been 17 years since the socialists were in power, had the presidency. of course, they ran the government. about a decade ago, when another was in power. we have always had a very good relationship with any government that, that is there in france. i am confident we will have a good relati

furth furthermore, we see this gap has persisted over time. there's no evidence the gap is closing. in addition if we look at the entire population of the united states, we see that trust and can haonfidence of the police i terrible but it's not great either. around 50% to 60% of the population expresses confidence in the police and, again, that is not increasing. if it we look over the last 30 years we'd see no evidence that trust and confidence in the police nationally is improving. so we might ask the general question why is trust and confidence low? why is it not improving? and why is there this large racial gap that leads to the kinds of things that we see when there is an incident of this type where we see vastly different understandings of the even events and vastly different can confidence in how the authorities will deal with the particular incident. what i would emphasize is that one of the reasons that we see this persistent gap is we do not see that the strategies, policies and practices that the police are using, are focusing on the legitimacy that the police have in th

and the city symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace is right now a city at civil war sara furth r.t. . the turmoil in syria has sparked clashes in neighboring lebanon where a soldier and two civilians were reportedly killed sunday gunfire broke out in the city of tripoli in the north of the country most of the fighting happened between a neighborhood primarily populated by sunni muslims who oppose syria's president assad and alawite who support him the two countries share multiple religious and political traits and there are deep rifts in the lebanese society over attitudes towards assad. meanwhile in bahrain anti-government protesters stepped up their rallies demanding the release of the country's top human rights activist he was arrested a week ago for allegedly organizing and taking part in protests days before he spoke to wiki leaks founder julian assange in an interview aired on r t tuesday rashad himself thinks that's what prompted the arrest and what i said in my tweets at a column that i'm going to meet julian assange and i'm going to instruct him in t.v. program my hous

and the city symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace is right now a city at civil war sara furth r.t. . in bahrain anti-government protesters stepped up their rallies demanding the release of the country's top human rights activist nabeel rajab was arrested a week ago for allegedly organizing and taking part in protests days before that he spoke with wiki leaks founder julian assange in an interview aired on r t tuesday rajab himself thinks that's what prompted the arrest when i said in my twitter account that i'm going to meet julian assange and i'm going to speak to me t.v. program my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and. machine guns. and they realized that i was not at home didn't they just. to tell me to come to the public prosecutor today at four o'clock where i am going to do or i'm going to go back i mean i have to face. journalist in middle east affairs expert option rotund see things very jobs arrest exposes the west selective approach in dealing with arab uprisings. there is no case against in the case against the british and american and european g

and the city symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace is right now a city at civil war sara furth r.t. . how was fear syria will slide back into full scale violence on our website we've been asking for your thoughts on who might benefit most from such a scenario well let's take a look at the site now in the picture that we have there as you can see so far the vast majority of the viewers which is over seventy percent think it's the u.s. and israel who would eventually get rid of iran's closest ally if syria plunges into a civil war. well less than twenty percent believe that it's radical islamists who are looking to take over the country and seven percent say syrian bandits are i'm most interested in chaos as the old would then be able to plunder at their leisure on little fewer believe that syrian people will be the winners because they eventually get a fully democratic government i can participate in the site vote by logging on to r.t. dot com let us know what you think. now coming up later this hour here on r t locked in deadlock greek political parties and talks still struggli

population and the city symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace is right now a city at civil sara furth r.t. . there's a fear at the u.n. peace mission in syria is being undermined from abroad as the director of the complex form organization explained to our team having militarily experienced witnesses on the ground who can tell what is a mortar shell and what is a burning tar being fired on the top of the roof more than an ordinary journalist can does help but please bring this thing that maybe possibly will contribute to stabilizing it of course military observers any sort of a con deal with a few determined. who wish to infiltrate the country and place explosives in the middle of a time the head of american intelligence assessment james clapper himself said that americans believe that the earlier bombings were done by groups infiltrating from iraq into syria to places it's most likely those that are sponsoring these groups will be in the gulf states will be gulf states who will be by the funding it all stimulating these sort of attacks it doesn't take a great deal of investigation to

and the city symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace is right now a city at civil war sara furth r.t. . coming up later this hour here in our locked in deadlock greek political parties are still struggling to form a government as fears amount the country is closer to being that you're old than ever with chaotic consequences. plus there were out of new laws and rules for the olympic games in london are leading to accusations of a police state stay tuned to find out why the hardline regulations are drumming up discontent. russian businessman victor borge has slammed the american justice system after being convicted of armstrong in the u.s. he compared it to a medieval style inquisition in an exclusive interview was the first one is given to an english language channel since his extradition from thailand where he is now preparing to be sends to a super maximum security prison to serve his twenty five year term against the recommendations of the judge in his trial dubbed the alcatraz of the rockies the supermax jail houses some of america's most dangerous criminals russians lawyer ha

and the city symbol is the olive branch the symbol of peace is right now a city at civil war sara furth r.t. . under still plenty for you. more for you this hour including a look at a reigniting euro crisis europe's on edge faces new elections with. divisions over austerity bailouts preventing the greek parliament forming a coalition government. mistrials all the rooftops while some people are banned from london's olympics altogether criticism of full blown paranoia over the u.k.'s security for the games. russian businessman viktor boot has compared the american justice system to a medieval inquisition he gave a rare and exclusive interview to watch after being convicted of alms trafficking in the u.s. it's the first time he's spoken to an english speaking channel since being detained in thailand the federal bureau of prisons ruled he will serve his twenty five year term in a super maximum security jail in colorado lawyer has already fallen appeal to the russian is currently awaiting a decision in his new york prison with details. this was victor boots first interview to an english lang

renewing its calls for another approach a meeting at the plant's defeat but as our furth reports from damascus many syrians hope the upcoming parliamentary vote will also bring some stability to the conflict torn country. syria's gearing up for parliamentary elections next week and all across the capital damascus right now you can see these campaign posters that have been put up around the city now this comes as the u.n. observers in the country during around different areas toss with verifying the implementation u.n. envoy k. financed peace plan now casey and. that i mean he's planned despite reports of it into violations from both sides is back on track now that statement came against the backdrop of the pressure we've seen being increased by some of the international countries we've seen the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton was in china this week because it applies the sanctions on syria now really the message the u.n. envoy spokes person with this is a trifle does not mean going on more than a year is not going to be solved in a day it's not going to be solved overnight it'

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we cannot meet -- the furth erance of a national partnership. we need to help k-12 keep that pipeline coming, practices on how to improve and sustain language capability once they come in our door, and further partnerships with congress to help keep this pivotal national issue. >> thank you. ms. north? >> since 9/11, countered intelligence related matters with the fbi have increased significantly. we do not see that trend reversing. we think the trend will only continue to increase. the challenge for us is translating all the materials we collect. we are never going to be do that because of what we collect and the volume that continues to come in. we need to partner with our other agencies in the intelligence community and the civilian community so that we have the resources we need to remain flexible so that we can meet those new and emerging threats as they appear. as years go along, the languages that are in demand are going to change. he cannot predict what those languages will be 20 years from now. we have to try our workforce for those lan