who made the statement just a day after taking the baton from his predecessor coffee anon and as artie's a kind of boycott reports it's a position echoed by moscow. russian foreign minister officials have already commented on this latest development the deputy foreign minister of. rats like these is a direct result of the you responsible to arm syrian rebels in the mean time you lost russia. talking to you. thank you once again reiterating that if international players are really interested in trying to put an end to bloodshed they should apply pressure on both sides of this conflict. those demanding the capitulation of just the government forces in syria well it seems on . continue for this position is based on the feeling that these forces are ready to pay an extra price which will be a huge number of human lives. he also said. when it comes to goals international goals in syria russia has absolutely no disagreement with the west russia also wants to see syria free democratic stable state where the main disagreement lies on the means of which goal and whether it could be done through v

of wrecking the lives of thousands of disabled people by unfairly forcing them off welfare and as artie's laura smith reports many think the firm is trying to polish its image by attaching itself to the london games. the paralympics are the ultimate display of troy over adversity a showcase for people who've overcome their disabilities and achieve something amazing but hanging over this event is a shadow cast by may just toss it's the firm the government's paying to assess disabled people's ability to work but it's blamed for humiliating the vulnerable and forcing people off benefits as part of the country. they are making money out of other people's misery quite naturally the old many of them sponsoring the paralympics i think is really lost on them and he seems to divide people into the serving disabled and the un to serving tony bradstock went through an at or sest moment which resulted in him losing his entire income for six months he says he was made to feel like a criminal and the process resulted in him attempting suicide that. was going for the world and. this was it. because we s

ambassador has been killed in line of duty since one thousand nine hundred seventy nine artie's correspondent be on it she can joins us now for the latest on this good to see you there what's america's reaction to the storming of its consulate in libya and the killing of its staff. well condemnation of course condemnation of the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi was the revenge for a movie a largely unknown film which makes fun of prophet muhammad and president obama's statement was quote while the united states rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants and of quote investor chris

the crimea as holiday friendly beaches is at stake due to a danger at the bottom of the black sea artie's alexei to shift ski looks at what lies beneath. locals in the crimea admit that the tourist season this year might have been better but still we're talking hundreds of thousands of stories from all over the world who have come here for summer holidays but none of them are aware that swimming in the sea here might actually be dangerous this summer dozens of dead dolphins washed up on crimean shores ecologists say this is down to an infection and the actions of local poachers but others have connected these deaths to something more sinister divers recently discovered these barrels containing poisonous gas which were dumped in the sea by the retreating soviet army prior to the nazi invasion of one nine hundred forty one if poisonous substances are released into the sea water the consequences could be unimaginable gas can theoretically kill everything within forty kilometers however the state ecological watchdog firmly denies this threat even exists. are divers and specialists from the in

it people in tel aviv have been practicing emergency drills which simulated missile attacks and as artie's policy or reports war preparations have also moved to the ideological arena as well . this fifteen page emergency brochure is being distributed by the israeli army across the country and it puts iran the smiling face on very serious and grim statistics russia takes about what people should do in a state of emergency it says that there was a need for a plan we told the families to get together and talk about what to do if the country is in the states of crisis at the same time it is that anywhere between fifty fifty and three minutes is the time frame that israelis will have from the moment fire when found until there is a state of emergency there and also going to people to go and check that they bomb shelters up to scratch how the pressure doesn't make any mention of any kind of move on the rant but certainly it is giving some kind of urgency and there have been those who suggested that it is really the day to day by israeli politicians in preparation for human and war and certainly

watch the democratic convention probably not why not i don't need to murder do virgins even chaos artie's resident jews roaming the streets of new york amid the fever. thousands of protesters have occupied the main highway leading to behind the capital to demand greater freedoms and a democratic government the demonstrators held up banners and flags urging the release of jailed or dissidents including human rights activist now bill ridge ob for more on the story we're joined by colin cavell a former political studies professor at the university of the rain thank you so much for joining us and mr. cavell now protests in bahrain have been going on for eighteen months now and have seen violent clamp down from the government do you see this boiling over into a new phase of the arab spring. bang the people of bahrain a resolute they cannot be pacified any longer they two hundred twenty nine year. monarchy and the monarchy has become increasingly just their club they are corrupt and the people demand them are pretty they have demonstrated time and again over the past eighteen months since febru

ratings are in freefall as waste war and economic weaknesses take their toll on the public and as artie's tesser our senior explains traditional means of dealing with stress just stand cutting it anymore. france may have lost its title as the country with the highest per capita consumption of antidepressants but the french certainly have at last a peasant is that now with even more reasons to be unhappy because the new record unemployment levels an economy that's just not growing and great prospects all around and when they look to their new president they don't expect much of a future either so much so that sixty eight percent of french people are fearful for their future close with a record high of seventy percent in two thousand and five shortly after jacques chirac was reelected for a second term but france did manage to beat all other presidents in unpopularity after just one hundred days on the job. came after nine years in government and. bad ratings after only four months. so it's catastrophic situation for you when you vote for change and you relate as the president doesn't have

keepers so the sinai peninsula which for some time is a really nice day is the place to be so i was artie's possibly or in cairo will stay up to date with all the latest developments there by following her twitter feed. author and journalist afshin rattansi believes this unrest was a long time coming out it isn't going to end anytime soon. and there are twenty different countries terrible here about the deaths of people that are sensibly over this ridiculous film that has to wear diplomatic relations like the leaders of those countries are we telling washington if they indeed have relations with washington. and it seems like the chicken is going on to roost it's difficult to see how it could have been averted the people who made her feel she designed this to happen we don't have foreign a granny creating the grouted theater is in effect the arab world the global south countries that have been devastated by centuries of colonialism of those decades of us imperialism and nobody can obama's policies in the last five years even so. debilitating to so many millions of people it's not a case of a

come into force thousands gathered in greece's second largest city protesting against the measures artie's peter all over reports. greek prime minister antonis samaras has said that he will do everything within his power to make sure the greece remains within the euro zone however he did acknowledge that the cuts that is government to are making were both unfair and painful for the greek people but as unfair and painful as they are he says that the necessary as without being in the eurozone greece would die as a nation he also says the important is in terms of the country meant taining any credibility that it has left on the global financial stage and not credibility is set to be tested quite soon is all that is from the so-called troika arrive in greece to see whether they've fulfilled their part of the bargain when it comes to making the cuts that they were asked to do on whether they received the next round of bailout money a massive thirty one billion euros worth of assistance whether those cuts are necessary they're certainly not popular here in thessaloniki we've seen thousands of pe

was dismissed in one of the most expensive cases in british legal history artie's laura smith in london has the story for us. the final verdict in this case found against bodies which means that he won't receive a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was asking for for. what i want to promote himself was not in court but his old scheme was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system but once the verdict was being read he held his head in his hands and as he was leaving he appears to have lost confidence in the british legal system now this is a case that has opened up for the viewing of the general public the milky world of russia's mega rich and what they got up to back in the nineteen ninety's the wild east as we called it back that we're talking about sums of money offshore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash. or of kools five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the strength of a handshake with no documentation which of course has made

be taken towards some countries including russia but critics have questioned much of what was said artie's going to church or can comments. mitt romney is now officially barack obama's opponent for the white house and he's talking tough throwing rocks well verbal rocks not only the president but also nations at the republican convention where he accepted his nomination mr romney did not fail to once again highlight his any masorti towards russia he criticized the president for not being hard enough in his view on russia when it comes to missile defense mitt romney says under his administration quote mr putin will see less flexibility and more backbone end of quote and of course that adds up to his earlier statements that russia is america's number one job political enemy and that they need to reset the reset that's actually what he says on his website as part of mitt romney's foreign policy agenda so yes a lot of tough talk i heard experts say that's how mitt romney makes up for lack of charisma what's interesting about the backbone comment is that mitt romney himself is often characterize

happening in europe asia and australia the violence has left at least a dozen dead over the last week artie's polis leader has the latest from cairo. classes of iraq to study says we are watching where at least one person has been killed and some possibly as an injured as thousands of people clashed with security forces knocked off on the u.s. consulate building in the city now the police fired warning shots into the air they used tear gas as well as commons to try and disperse it was also on sunday there were demonstrations held in various cities across the country in the city of disallowed hundreds of people of a local business who want to make port for the american ambassador to pakistan to be expelled they will support the boycott on what you do is goods and services now because some authority substance blocked access to this on you tube it is a fifteen minute train out of a film that has been titled innocence of muslims we believe praying to office for the students of placement in the united states has since been released although he has gone into hiding also on sunday to meet the needs

government pleas as artie's guy nature can explains that decision is in keeping with washington starts not from too long ago. film may not have been the only reason behind the mass rage in the muslim world but it did provide the spark that lit the power to catch the eye of. the obama administration began their damage control efforts by bashing the film this video is disgusting and reprehensible but the same time maintaining that internet freedom cannot be curtailed we do not stop individual citizens from expressing their views no matter how distasteful they may be when the rage against the u.s. spread like wildfire with people in different countries storming u.s. embassies was the white house asked you tube to quote review the video to see if it was in compliance with their terms of use end of quote the company determined that the video was within guidelines but they did block it in a number of countries including libya egypt pakistan india and indonesia but i don't think there's much that they can do about the fact that there's social network tools are now in play in a situation where

artie's you've got this going on there who's covering the story for us in tbilisi and you can follow latest developments on his twitter feed political analyst eric draitser he believes the roots of the problem can be found within the regime itself . we've seen over the course of a number of years the saakashvili government has demonstrated that they have little to no regard for human rights we only need to look at the conflict in south and in a positive to see what the saakashvili administration actually is interested in they're not interested in human rights they're interested in aggression and most importantly they're interested in shoring up their relationship with the united states darkish really is without a doubt one of the most egregious violators of human rights and human dignity anywhere in the world and i stress that once again that saakashvili cannot exist without the united states we remember really is close close relationship with the bush administration released desires to put nato into the to put georgia into the nato spear of influence into nato's orbit and so yes the

meanwhile the tactics employed by the opposition on the ground are raising even more questions as artie's lucy kaufman found out. it was another disturbing example of the many atrocities committed throughout the syrian war a truck bomb with homemade explosives headed for a checkpoint to the entrance of syria's largest city. but the men that are loading it aren't assad forces they're one of the many groups fighting under the banner of the free syrian army and their captive is said to be a member of the should be a militia with very close ties to the outside government the video filmed by the new york times and turn into an on air segment by the b.b.c. captured what human rights groups called evidence of an attempted murder a potential war crime under international law review of rebels from the free syrian army trying to use a prisoner as an unwitting suicide bomber in there are times when government forces the cameras didn't follow the prisoner who had no idea that while being blindfolded he was actually embarking on a suicide mission he simply thought that he was being given his freedom t

to is nationalists try to convince fellow scots that big and britain is a drain on the success is artie's jacob grieves. the event taking place in edinburgh is being trumpeted as a stepping stone to the referendum to be held on independence in two thousand and fourteen the organizers want similar demonstrations to take place on the annual basis building up to that vote trying to gain some momentum on the issue any issue indecision when it comes to independence likely to be thrashed out here in the building behind me in westminster and here is where alex town the head of the scottish nasa party just this week met david cameron the prime minister he also though sam received a beaut from the work and pensions minister he said sound and the scottish national party wouldn't be able to handle the welfare state independently as something that sounded supporters to say it is a soul thing an attitude that really few calls for independence are top of that one the main issues that is fueling the fire when it comes to independents has been the handling in westminster of finances on the back of the fi

interview that was artie's policy reporting no tension over the hotly contested islands in the east china sea culminated in an actual water cannon battle some forty taiwanese ships including six patrol vessels entered the waters of what japan sees as its own territory japanese ships fired water cannons when the flotilla tried to get to the largest of the islands turning the hearses away taiwan became the third power to lay claim to be occupied to go further aggravating the high stakes route between tokyo and beijing the conflict over the ownership of the uninhabited islands exploded after japan nationalized three of them earlier in september. the investigative journalist james corbett warns the row was threatening to turn into a full scale confrontation. i think we have to understand this entire dispute not in terms of the islands themselves which most average japanese and average chinese people i think don't don't really care about i think this is being played up as a as a nationalist sentiment nationalist fervor it has the potential to get bigger and right now australia is being propose

said that some foreign forces are in fact urging al qaeda linked militants in syria to fire on airs artie's marine important from new york. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov talks about a variety of issues but clearly syria dominated his speech foreign minister lavrov says he believes and russia believes there is still an opportunity to and the conflict in crisis in syria but it will require some fierce international consensus he says the international community must come together to demand a cease fire in syria by both the government and the opposition to demand the release of prisoners and hostages and allow for humanitarian assistance russia's foreign minister said that he believes that one of the very big problems is that all members that signed the geneva communique are not fulfilling their responsibilities and obligations he said is very important for the six point peace plan that kofi annan outlined many months ago for that peace plan to be the foundation of which there could eventually be. resolved to the crisis that's escalating in syria but he said what is most troubling for

financial climate and fears for the euro's future as the reasons behind the single currency snub artie's brussels correspondent us are silly as all the details will kariya is posing the latest blow to the embattled currency you know it has put on hold its long held plans are joining the euro bloc and interesting we build area in contrast to a lot of bigger economies has managed to reduce its budget deficit to two point one percent of its g.d.p. and that is safely within the three percent of rule set by the e.u. a number consistently met mentioned by german chancellor angela merkel but now that they've actually qualified all the rules they don't they want to back. and put this on hold of the prime minister of bulgaria as well as the finance minister had both said that there are two main reasons for this one is the increasing of vulnerability and uncertainty of the future of the euro in the bloc it's clear it's been going on for a couple of years now and also the deteriorating economic conditions are still the clear way out of the crisis and secondly and i think importantly for the leaders

of wrecking the lives of thousands of disabled people by unfairly forcing them off welfare and as artie's laura smith reports many think the firm is trying to polish its image by attaching itself to the london games. the paralympics are the ultimate troy diversity a showcase for people who've overcome disabilities and achieve something amazing but hanging over this event is a shadow cast by may just. it's the firm the government's paying to assess disabled people's ability to work but it's blamed for humiliating the vulnerable and forcing people off benefits as part of the country's.

connection with the case of sergei magnitsky russian lawyer who died in custody more on that from artie's polly boyo. russia's ambassador to the u.k. wants an explanation from the u.k. foreign office after it emerged in the sunday times that the u.k. home secretary had sent a list of around sixty russian officials to the british embassy in moscow in order to ban them from traveling to russia now the list contains the names of russian judges prosecutors and intelligence officials who london believes are involved in the death of the russian based lawyer so again magnitsky he worked for the london based company hermitage capital fund and he died in pretrial detention back in two thousand and nine in moscow now that he was jailed for tax evasion and awaiting detention his family say that he died because of repeated beatings and being refused medical care now the investigation into the case in russia is still ongoing but it's had a big resonance both at home and abroad earlier the u.s. said that it had also banned around sixty russian officials from traveling to the u.s. speaking often magnits

will the maker of the anti islam fill the country's leadership denounced his move as artie's gannett's can reports the video is not the only thing stopping anti-american anger. the white house keeps saying it was just the anti islamic video that calls the muslims wrath across the world this is not a case of. protest or wrecked it at the united states writ large or at u.s. policy this is in response to a video that is offensive but that's a claim no one is buying the administration wants us to believe it's not the administration's policies that have generated this behavior it's this one idiotic piece of so-called film which is what out there for two months well if you think it's stupid film that nobody's seen causes people to assassinate ambassadors to storm embassies and the question the us media keep asking why do so many millions of dollars almost hate the usa but the answers they're getting are the answers very few in the u.s. want to hear if you were to point to one thing that makes some muslims hate the usa it would be. hypocrisy over democracy. while america the government now pr

attention to troops in afghanistan but how much do americans really care for pre-election exchanges artie's resident in is in new york to find out. in the u.s. republicans and democrats are holding their national conventions and here the media and politicians talk about them that the most important things going on right now so who's watching and what have they seen this week let's talk about that have you been watching why not because i don't like either one of those guys so you don't watch and you don't vote and that's that no i do but i like voting for the work who's who's not the worst of the two. but do you need to watch the conventions to be informed know it's all crap have you been watching it all absolutely none of it why now i hate the republicans you know watch the democratic convention probably not why now but i don't need to do you think there is actual information being said a sad at the conventions or a say just kind of b.s. but i think it's sort of you know sounds good on camera do you think that these conventions actually do anything. spend money our money our money how do yo

artie's little lives. limitless split. lip. joining our team for our one on one exclusive interview is kristinn hrafnsson the spokesperson for weiqi leaks mr hobson thank you very much for sitting down with r.t. that's where the reports have come out that the u.s. now has officially majoring assigned and wiki leaks an enemy of the state what does that mean for joining us on tender hearings well it means that he has a very serious concern that if you actually did it here you would be treated as them enemy an enemy combatant. and we all know what that entails this is an indication that we see going in documents that have surfaced and were were produced yesterday that show that that communicating with we can loose and provided we can use with information in considered is considered communicating with the enemy which is aiding the enemy. we can use is the enemy. and what is we can use it's a platform for whistle blower to get information out to the public we are doing what any media organization should be doing we are doing journal

georgian jail demonstrators now want the prosecution of several fish also resigned over the outrage and artie's a go to school for ports from the georgian capital for us. a group of activists tried to break through a police ring around one of the government buildings and people are demanding the arrest of the former interior minister he resigned after these shocking videos when's public but many here say that's not enough they want all the officials responsible to be prosecuted in fact the shocking footage of the alleged torture and sexual abuse of georgian rates by the authorities is widely complete here moved back from guantanamo except maybe caus us terror suspects while here we're talking about ordinary georgian inmates that's why it's causing a huge wave of public anger on friday a group of journalists was allowed to enter the. prison of one of the main ones in the country and spoke with some inmates and they say that they are still afraid that the abuse is going to continue even though president saakashvili has temporarily substituted the staff of all prisons across the country with polic

of the two asian giants but news of this alliance is already causing concern across the pacific as artie's priya sridhar explains. this is a historic trip for india as a chinese defense minister has been visited this country in nearly a decade on the top priority for the list of things to discuss on this trip are strengthening the india china border and promoting a stronger cooperation between the two countries armed forces many people believe that india and china because they have two of the fastest growing economies in the world should be rivals but a lot of analysts i've spoken with have actually said that a partnership between the neighbors actually makes more sense with forty per cent of the world's population and at a time when these two countries' economies are growing while many of the traditional western powers their economies are decreasing many people say that a partnership between india and china could actually be detrimental to a country like the united states the united states actually exports eight point four billion dollars of arms to india every year and india is actually

fellow live at nine pm from moscow you're watching artie's very good to have your company it's kevin owen here with the news this hour u.s. diplomatic missions across the muslim world are being targeted by more anti-american protests which is now into the second weekend tens of thousands of nigerian muslims held a peaceful march earlier on saturday meantime in the capital of bangladesh hundreds of protesters clashed with police there with scores reportedly hit and fresh rallies are also taking place in pakistan at least nineteen were killed on friday a pakistani minister's offered one hundred thousand dollars for the death of the maker of the islam mocking film that's rest meantime in libya demonstrators they're venting their anger at the bases of islamist militias suspected of killing the american ambassador of a country while the controversial video itself is cited as the prime cause of theory some observers say the seeds were sown long ago. the cause of the. we're seeing here today is many decades of foreign policy. interventionist type of occupation in countries around the world

well arty's business keeping us up to date with the apec wheeling and dealing ongoing in the last. global business heavyweights focus on the internet that crisis the euro and in france for instance in the asia pacific region well get all the details about what is happening emphasis varies in business later this hour. are you watching r.t. live from moscow syrian television reporting that a bomb has exploded outside a mosque in the north of the capital damascus killing at least five of the news comes amid reports that spies from the u.s. are increasing their presence on the syria turkey border to advise and assist the anti assad forces in the fight the americans have so far resisted calls to engage in militarily limiting their supplies to the opposition mainly to communications equipment meanwhile french people about have admitted paris is considering supplying heavy artillery to the syrian rebels in order to help them build a provisional government and britain says it's only sending non-lethal aid like medicine and generators to antigovernment fighters but as artie's smith reports

mohamed merah a self-styled military who killed seven in the french city of toulouse in march as artie's laura smith reports there could be fighters with u.k. passports on the rebel side as well. to most britons going about their everyday lives the war in syria seems worlds away but for a few it's a struggle they feel personally involved in as the u.k. government portrays president assad as an evil dictator and this evidence britain's all going to syria to fight for the opposition but again. area m.p. khalid mahmood says some in his community have already gone there is particular individual who's actually now gone back to baghdad at the moment and is going back in a few weeks time who's been engaged in fundraising supporting people and putting people together to go back to their people who say they. support the aid work and other. broad saying that they're going to support the resistance some says mahmud of british syrian extraction others of british muslims who feel their faith makes this their struggle but whatever their reasons for going the fear is what they'll be when they return th

mayan message has been shot by a sniper while reporting on a about today's twin blasts in damascus artie's looks on a boy can spend some time in syria covering the conflict and knew him personally i met. on one of my trips to damascus i was the one who actually reached out to him i wrote to him on twitter saying that we should form a collage of the wrong side of his to reporters that city reference to one of the white house official camas that iran the russia china was on the wrong side of history when it comes to syria now he responded in a very humorous manner is a. very well known reporter in damascus he was receiving a lot of threats for his reporting both by phone and on his twitter account anyone could see it i relied on his knowledge sometimes on his contacts extensively as did a lot of reporters he was reporting for an iranian station but he was a syrian and he obviously to great care about his own country and he was concerned about what was happening there and he wanted to bring what he saw as the truth to the rest of the world because he always tried to go and talk to various fac

the streets trying to block the entrance to the stock exchange the police resorted to using forces artie's marina portnoy's saw. the day began with hundreds of optimus and their supporters storming through lower manhattan some attempting to block the entrance of the new york stock exchange now out of the day progressed we saw many clashes between the new york city police departments and activists that were walking through lower manhattan chanting we are the ninety nine percent and pioneering a message that began twelve months ago a message that started in new york city and then to you but nationwide and ultimately global but the most important thing to note on monday when these optimists gather together for the one year anniversary is that they are still very much committed to their fight against income inequality against corporate influence on us politics but what also for me was the heavy handed tactics used by the n.y.p.d. against optimus some participating in civil disobedience on many occasions we saw that might be pushing optimus to the ground a lot of us feel disillusioned and kind

embassy in jakarta all right now with the latest on these outbursts artie's paula slayer. police and protesters have crashed in the indonesian capital to costa and not least classes took place when hundreds of hog line is mox the confines of the american embassy they took the police by surprise when they started hurling rocks at them because until now all the demonstrations that have been taking place across into egypt which is the world's most populous muslim nation have been spilled the police responded with tear gas with lots of comments and watch one shots in the day to disperse the crowd but not peaceful protesters have the chance to throw the mortar cocktails to the entire police it's a six explosives goes through monday there's not much to stun this is happening in the last weeks of the country where these one protests that has been killed hundreds of protesters sit quiet to a government office building as well as to a. office and this is a major because they were complaining that the demonstrations in pakistan until now have not been receiving enough media attentio

with his finger on the pulse of the markets artie's down your bushel good to see you again anything to report your world markets are looking up for the first time in a long time it also looks like russia's a major roles in after closing in on teeing k b p the state firms reportedly in talks to borrow fifteen billion dollars to buy the british venture from b.p. president vladimir putin held a surprise meeting with b.p. executives late tuesday in sochi it was focused on expanding b.p.'s presence in russia with the british eager to keep a presence in this country let's check markets because europe's edging up of the japan announced an unexpected boost to its acid purchase program on the cards is the euro's losing to the dollar again the russian ruble is weakening to both currencies for a third day but growth growth of the week over in new york off the unexpectedly good us home sales has the figures in the opening few twenty twenty five minutes we are in now and the main loser on the my six this sell is russia's top climate gas producer and nova take it out on growing fears the government

explosions four people have been killed in the suicide attacks carried out by the rebel free syrian army artie's policia is in the region. two massive explosions rocked the syrian capital of damascus on the waynes day about what accounts they were targeting the military command center of the damascus regime now the moment the blast was caught on c.c.t.v. cameras if you look at it as footage that was released by the government you can see a white van driving past the military headquarters before it exploded according to syrian state television there world cost suicide bombers that detonated these explosions there also reporting that four military guards died and an additional fourteen people were injured among them military personnel as well as civilians now the bloss occurred just ten minutes apart from each other with the first one happening at just before seven o'clock local time on wednesday morning they also happened near a landmark square in damascus the result was that they shattered the glass of windows of nearby buildings and several residents kilometers away reported hearing the blast m

the bombing comes just a day off to another opposition group blew up a military academy in the city artie's policia is in the region and brings us the details. two massive explosions rocked the syrian capital of damascus early on wednesday morning they happened to near the command headquarters of the army and the air force they were just minutes apart they also happened not far from one of the main squares of the capital city now they shattered the glass of windows of nearby buildings with some people reporting hearing those explosions several kilometers away in fact some eyewitnesses have gone as far as to say it was the largest explosion in damascus since fighting broke out there several months ago the ambulances rushed to the scene the police have cordoned off the area to prevent traffic and people from getting closer we were also receiving reports that the ministry of defense was on fire and all of the syrian information minister has said that the explosions were caused by two roadside bombs one of which he says may have been planted inside the grounds of the army command headquarters t

making up half of the world's economy are gathering for a summit reporting from of lot of our stock is artie's daniel. they're charged with brainstorming ideas to fight so global financial slowdown preparation here is in full swing up police are everywhere insurance security it's an important meeting for world leaders really the head of the international monetary fund is here as well a pick seen as a counterbalance really to the economic power of the g eight apec states that make up over half the world's economy and talks that have become a pick free trade zone which would be bigger than the e.u. president putin is already here before arriving he gave the first interview since his inauguration spoke to all see discussed really a spectrum of world problems today the syrian crisis was obviously talked about as always straight to the point he was rather skeptical about the syrian rebels even comparing them to guantanamo detainees yet the with giving the rebels money supporting them despite widespread accusations of atrocities on the ground france even said to recognize an opposition government so