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world news and comments twenty four hours a day you're watching r t on kerry johnston. syria's three day old cease fire is being put to the test with reports of ongoing clashes and killing when a top body is expected to vote on saturday about deploying a monitoring mission anti-government rallies have resumed across the country was concerned there being hijacked by the rebels as a son of michael reports from damascus. it was good friday for syrian orthodox christians but it didn't bode well for the country at large three people lost their lives in demonstrations nationwide threatening the fragile ceasefire before it even reached the end of its second day of the opposition start messing about stop provoking for the clashes in syria and actually put into effect what call finance peace plan wants which is to sit down on the groceries and table with the government as with all their uprising in the arab spring did largest of clashes in

syria have often taken place after friday prayers in what some believe has been and many. for political aims but in the run out to doug day this week the opposition tried a new tactic. comfortably removed from the repercussions of their statements themselves revolutionaries made the point the demonstrations and the cease fire couldn't co-exist and the moment the troops are withdrawn from the cities those people in the government and the regime know very well that hundreds of thousands. freedom seeking crowd have become a glorified image of the arab spring but in reality demonstrations often resulted in crime and violence in egypt female journalists were sexually harassed as protesters demanded more rights and libya a soldier was lynched right became calls for elections syria there are fears that

rallies may be deliberately used to derail the peace process i am very concerned that in case of sort of large gatherings of people the possibility of provocations will be greatly enhanced so instead of instead of talking about. demonstrations opposition leaders must finally formulate their attitude towards political dialogue . here on the band but those who hit the streets without permission from the interior ministry if they are arrested and while this official admit some heavy handedness on the part of the government he says it's borne out of the security challenges serious currently facing when action of the one of the challenges the government is facing is distinction between democratic protesters and armed groups we're not afraid of the peaceful opposition because it's created by the government's own supporters who are trying to prevent its armed groups using these demonstrations for provocations killing civilians and blaming the killings on the government especially when the students are restrictions but it doesn't mean that

political discourse is life'll for decades syrians have gathered in the countries many who could cafes where no topic is now off limits of them going out to france italy working. so you talk about. in this group of high school friends old have studied or traveled abroad and while they are perfectly familiar with the notion of western liberties they say what's being imposed in syria now has nothing to do with freedom and what's free or is it free and easy for you. i wasn't it. was used to. refer to. anybody else in the front of. your friends are the feelings of mindsets everybody's afraid of and that's what continues driving syrians apart some of fighting for freedom others

a feeling for their lives the right to demonstrate is an undeniable human right but is it equal to the right to leave well maybe syrians do recognize that their country's political system needs to be changed but they say first things first and if opposition is can you really interested in stopping the bloodshed for the time being it may consider responding to the government cease fire with their own. initiative some avoid artsy damascus syria where writer and commentator with a mango has been closely following serious conflict since it began he says the u.s. and its allies off the trouble by backing the opposition. the rebels are being armed from outside and they've been sent in from outside they've been trained by the cia by french intelligence by british intelligence and sent in there to create these incidents these random shootings of civilian buses school children and so forth and then to play but on the government these are armed gangs of mercenaries

that often we don't even know what it is some people i've spoken to ben throughout syria they don't know who they're fighting for a fight against they're just paid money given guns and go in there to al qaeda that hillary clinton is supporting al qaeda if we're to take her literally but you have journalists from al-jazeera resigning in protest because al-jazeera is refusing to tell the truth about what's going on outside certainly this is an armed intervention in the legal by lation when chartered by the united states and various other countries including most likely turkey to try to destabilize so that any steps regime that should be against you and charter. the first time in fifteen months international talks on iran's nuclear program have resumed six major world powers on tehran a meeting in turkey there's hope of a solution this time around to move to the tension in the region especially with israel

a preemptive military strike iran has been increasing its raining which is what kid says this is for energy with the west suspects it's making a bomb less those tough sanctions including when it comes to force why many countries of comply china has agreed to expand to three. was touching you know the suspension is awesome to suffer movement sections. it's absolutely tragic for them because just at the point in time where all of the other colors of their civilization are gradually died because the fiscal permanent it's a total disaster they find that the oil but they hard at very reasonable prices is suddenly going to have to go to market rate a little bit they're going to have to try and sort of from somewhere else so each one of these curious predicaments who are no one really wants to argue about the politics of the affair thought ultimately it's the european union's weakest nations that are actually in the direct line to suffer more than necessarily they are

really in some circles i mean clearly the e.u. has a series of different issues that it wants to bring forward and one of them is that the european union would start like some kind of major foreign powers and the problem then is of course to sometimes you have to do things in foreign policy the well to use an old irish expression you end up cutting off your nose to spite your face in other words you end up with a problem because actually economically you can hurt your own people rather than somewhere else but again i think the problem with this is it's a kind of growing pain for the european union because they haven't really got their head around how they can manage to juggle all the different balls of multinational stated whether it be the economy where they're feeling abysmal or indeed in international standards who are obviously they're trying very very hard to stop around getting a nuclear weapon but at the same time the way that they've done it is not good for their economy. on the way the challenges of rocket science as north korea fails to

put the satellites in orbit still succeeds it's rocking global fury. threat over hyped. and future british generations will have to bear the brunt of the branding loans to make a comeback on first appearing during one point one. elections should be about choosing upstanding citizens who in their civic duty in new delhi on sunday voters will get a chance on a bench to food students and murder suspects on to a fifth of candidates seemingly have a criminal past that's pretty shrewd about spence. show denise has been a counselor representing one of the wards in india's capital city for five years he's up for reelection this year and says he wants nothing more than to serve his community for being in politics is long so sure i'm in it to serve the public is that gives me some instruction i know their needs but alongside these lofty

aspirations are some murky allegations denise has been charged with attempt to murder intimidation assaulting a public servant and armed rioting he says he's not guilty of the charges but he's not the only candidate in this year's municipal elections facing serious allegations according to the association for democratic reform about fifteen to twenty percent of candidates from both major political parties have a criminal background many actually have pending cases involving serious allegations like murder kidnapping extortion and robbery and actually in a writ the local election and a candidate who actually campaigning from an shale. of the one hundred thirty nine candidates in delhi is municipal election the niece has the second highest number of charges pending against him but he says the allegations are bogus

and that on a general level the problem in india isn't as serious as it sounds. there's no truth in that it's a conspiracy i was in the park fighting for the people when they charged me with false accusations how can anyone called is a criminal case. cho car is working to make indian political candidates backgrounds more transparent to voters he says money often means power regardless of how it's obtained. the money and the. money and both. make money through it. and. while the indian parliament could pass a law to make it illegal for criminals to run for office choke our doubts it will happen since almost a quarter of the lawmakers themselves have troubled pasts in

a country known for corruption and bribery some voters say they simply want to elect someone who they think can get the job done we should not bother so much with the history of the politician standing for election whether he's been a criminal in the past or nerves we need to see is whether he brings to bear with me. but in a country where so much development is needed others feel that process is being undermined by shady allegations where candidates backgrounds are now very much in the foreground preassure either r t new delhi india. well while some alleged criminals are running for office and other high profile the indian national is being mistaken for a terrorist or in trips abroad something reports online bollywood superstar khan was detained in the u.s. airport for the second time when this happened because of his name. also online today the secret service sleaze twelve agents in prison for down

a security detail saying hacking to colombia can tell you why. and a traffic cop who wouldn't take no for an answer but check out the footage of this mutinies officer can you tell us not to drive to try to escape get tickets to the video in food cheap and. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . is to get the maximum political impact of. the food source material is one hopes he was an honest. we wanted to present. something about. the way friday's failed rocket launch north korea is gearing up to mark a century since the birth of its wartime leader john statues of kim il sung and his

late son nick you mentioned will have been on the trail before we bring crowd and carry on with the celebrations north korea has been deprived of american food aid in response to the rocket launch explode into the sea just moments after blastoff still sparked world condemnation of violently rulings korea's apparent call for the state tests from users to run from them going from korea weapons career experts wrong i thought that poses a threat to anyone. in many respects north korea is technologically quite advanced and has been for many years for many decades its major problem of course is money it costs half a billion dollars to launch one of these rockets and that's a lot of money in north korea they don't have a lot of money to continually test these things so failure frankly is more likely than success on the side of threat does north korea really represent

a threat well frankly it doesn't have much in the way of a military at this point has a very large army we're talking about a military that is declined rather precipitously relative to the south korean military and certainly relative to the u.s. military the nuclear program was in some sense an attempt to level the field the fact that it doesn't have much of a nuclear program i mean it's held to task neither of which were particularly successful try to put a satellite into orbit it hasn't been successful that suggests that this attempt to level the playing field is. represents for north korea kind of a baseline of deterrence but no kind of offensive threat for other countries. that's to the head of you this when dreams deadly. three hundred some remains we have a refrigerated truck parked out here. to help with the overflow so it comes to attract

the goods and that's. the world's news for you about. eight shipments names have been killed in two separate attacks and so on gunmen opened fire on a car and since you've quit and six people it's later we were killed. or in the same area shia muslims are the minority in pakistan. and the majority. pressures between troops and al qaeda linked militants have left at least thirty four people dead and then follows a military offensive against insurgents who attacked a military camp in the south almost two hundred people died since the fighting began on monday. took control of several towns in the area during a year of political turmoil perms presence. sudan's government has imposed the counterattack on the oil fields there it's sort of you know that it's also arming

civilians are the sorts of alan sees the turn of just home to around the heart of some problems on production border clashes of escalated since south sudan gained independence last reduction. some of bin ladin is the family portraits of saudi arabia next week after completing a jail sentence of stone from entering the country. saudi citizenship was stripped almost two decades ago and it's not clear whether the country will accept his withers a little detention since their. last may. special forces. britain has big bills to pay but is looking to a century old solution when times were tough but never ending loans to cover the cost of the first world war are still being repaid today but the treasury tree is turning more and that means a financial headache for the next generation as a bit reports. strapped for cash and deep in debt the u.k.

government has a plan but buyers beware all's not as it seems chancellor george osborne wants to bring back never ending loans dumping the government's crippling debt on to future generations it'll still be pouring only this is money george and friends won't have to pay back sounds too good to be true that's because it is but fingered estates. this is a good time for the u.k. tax buy for these to be issued but that begs the question of who would buy it if it's a good time to issue them then it's not a good time to buy there would be buyers at the taxpayer's themselves shouldering the government's past one trillion pound debt pile by lending it money also on off a bonds that will mature after one hundred years these workers if the government taking out a very generous mortgage in a beating from its current rock bottom interest rates for another century bad news for whoever's lending the money the only way you could actually make money here is

if there was no inflation between now and the year twenty one twelve a very optimistic outlook take the last hundred years for example if i had bested one hundred pounds back in one nine hundred twelve iterates of three point four percent say this year it would have almost three thousand pounds sounds ok in itself but it's nothing compared to what i would have got just for inflation which would have seen one hundred pounds it's almost nine thousand so who would fall for such a cheap trick well no one of course but that's where the government gets its own investment rules would force pension funds to buy against their will not exactly fair play and this is a monopoly with only one winner you know this is what happens. when governments into the risks are enormous you know the risks of buying a one hundred year. gilt from the u.k.

government on historical evidence given inflation patterns in the past would suggest that. anything close to current. you would lose money on the last time britain issued a never ending loans was after world war one a massive deficit still burning a hole in the taxpayers' pocket even today and now this government's doing the same offloading its own mountain of debt to be someone else's problem for bennett r t london. and soon we ask is the digital driver done in this to help. each accept you or wyo you for the word you. you like a short memory think you make me dumb or in school to. take you with me in school let. me go to assess it getting weather wise means vital language skills

losing out. of. any thousands of people who try to start a new life in the us the door is not open to everyone that can prove fatal hundreds of illegal immigrants go missing every year or longer than their reports the body count as as well. the wind blows through the rugged sonora desert in arizona helping shape its rocky valleys and spectacular peaks it's a treasure of the american southwest but this is also a frontier land where deadly conflict is underway. it's almost a mass disaster situation the disaster which dr harris faces is the growing number of one identified bodies being found along arizona's southern desert bodies stacked high in a fight for space and perhaps even a proper burial one day and becomes one out so much for it to

determine why that person died it becomes an effort to sort out who's who were inside of the pima county cooler at the medical examiner's office which has a capacity to hold hundreds of bodies now this the city is much larger than other places around the country pacifically because of the issue of bodies being found along the border even so lack of storage is a major headache three hundred summer means we had a refrigerated truck parked out here. to help us with overflow some arrives he expects they will need it again the department of homeland security recently boasted about the sharp drop in border patrol rest suggesting that government's crackdown has helped curb illegal immigration the migrant deaths have remained consistently high so if the border is absolutely deadly more than six thousand have died along the us mexico border since one thousand nine hundred ninety four

according to human rights groups that's when operation gatekeeper program for defined international crossing with high priced fanzine thousands of agents and high tech surveillance was launched what are agents call this area below us there are being a place where migrants commonly try to ski. all the while to get into the u.s. for the scores who try to make a crossing here there are many others who choose a much more treacherous and sometimes deadly route into the u.s. policymakers thought pushing the flow to the deserts would deter migration instead it has led to what some call. internationally migration is. there's attempts to control migration through the same tactics militarization through building walls and we see them in various places and india and pak. you know disastrous. in germany many remains found in the desert are merely bone

fragments making them difficult to identify you know there are cases remains of the missing are never found leaving hundreds perhaps thousands of families wondering what happened to their loved ones during their journey north the reality is militarizing borders does not control migration while politicians argue over who can spend the most money to fortify the border hundreds more. day chasing the american dream here at the pima county morgue in tucson arizona ramon girl endo archie the internet has undoubtedly opened up a world of knowledge and learning but the way we're using technology to communicate something on language skills back to the dark ages we're in new york next to see if people there are thinking i'm a grandmother. in

this information sharing digital age is it possible we're dumbing down and not intellectually advancing our society this week let's talk about that do you think it's making society smarter or dumber and dumber why is that because people use more stuff to do stupid things smarter. information sharing of information immediately which i think it's really important but there's a lot of misinformation being shared too many people see on the internet they think it must be true oh i hope. we'll reply a teachers so we used to have children. i mean pupils at school and sometimes they only copied on the internet the subject they had to to do for law and and sometimes they copy stuff that's just not true because the internet doesn't

always write write write we don't look for it and they larry's. i think yes there are some publishers are considering making books digitally that have pictures and animations instead of just words now do you think that that's going to have an effect if it is a. full rich or is worth reading you don't need all the. right so why are they doing there because people don't want to read. do you think that's a product of the information and. you know i think every generation stories there are always been people who didn't like to read that much. smarter or dumber the parents call we grew from you take it what do you think the youth of today is doing with it. i think said to me in yours i'm using this again to play and say really to use the holes in the n.t. just do you tax the law. yeah do you taxed you or y. o. u.

for the word you. just you like a short merry think you. are in school to. take you with me in school so you think you're going as well as you say now doesn't it scare you the best the world that we're living in yeah. but we're young so we don't we don't think about it but they're not even think this digital age is dumbing down or raising up our society the bottom line is there's probably not much we can do about it anyway because the internet isn't going anywhere anytime soon. it's easter weekend for millions of christians around the world it's christianity's most significant festival the russians are marking a home. takes. a good spread and. used to. take us to be blessed. carol that's

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