serious trouble truce nationwide rallies flare up along with reports of ongoing killings as the un security council decides on whether to send in cease fire observers. hopes of a breakthrough by breaking the silence with world powers meet with the run over its nuclear program for the first time in more than a year. and voting for villains the indian election we're prepared candidates leave citizens choosing between alleged murder and mafia front serves.

its three pm here in moscow this is r t coming to you live from and he said no way with our top story and syria's three day old cease fire is being put to the task with reports of ongoing clashes and killing the u.n. body is expected to vote on saturday over deploying a monitoring mission anti-government rallies have resumed across the country but there's concern they're being hijacked by the rebels and that's on a board of reports now from damascus. it was good friday for syrian off of 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 and the opposition against 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 and negotiate and table with the government as with all their uprising in the arab spring the bloodiest of clashes in syria have often taken place after friday prayers in what some believe has been and many people. for political ends but in the run up to bad day week the opposition tried a new tactic. comfortably removed from the repercussions of their statements exults revolutionaries made the point the demonstrations and the ceasefire couldn't co-exist and the moment the troops are withdrawn from the cities those people in the government in the regime know very well that hundreds of thousands.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 in libya a soldier was lynched right between calls for elections i suppose 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 demonstrations here i milled banned but those who hit the streets without permission from the interior ministry swiftly arrested and while this official of need some heavy handedness on the part of the government he says it's borne out of the security challenges serious crimes are facing what are. the challenges the government is facing this distinction between democratic rules nesters and armed groups we are not afraid of the peaceful opposition because the screen where the government's own supporters who we are trying to prevent these armed groups using these demonstrations for provocations killing civilians and

blaming the killings on the government especially now when the ceasefire is still in its early stages but it doesn't mean that political discourse is stifled for decades syrians have gathered in the countries many who could cafes where no topic is now off limits of the ground going to go 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 the meaning of freedom where is the free what is it for you. i was. used to. refer to. anybody else that is going. around your friends are asking you to make their mindsets everybody's different.

and that's what continues driving syrians apart as some of fighting for freedom others are fearing for their lives the right to demonstrate is an undeniable human right but is it equal to the right to leave but maybe syrians do recognize that their country's political system needs to be changed but they say first things first and if opposition is genuinely interested in stopping the bloodshed for the time being it may consider responding to the government's cease fire with their own . initiative so the boycott artsy damascus syria. writer and commentator f. william has been closely following serious conflicts since it began he says the u.s. and its allies are fueling the trouble by backing the opposition. the rebels are being armed from outside. and they're being sent in from outside they've been trained by the cia by french intelligence but 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 didn't bring some people i've spoken to ben throughout syria they don't know who they're fighting for fighting against they just paid money given guns and go in there ok you know that hillary clinton is supporting al qaeda if we're to take her literally you have journalists from syria resigning in protest because al-jazeera is refusing to tell the truth about what's going on inside syria this is an armed intervention of the legal violation when charter but united states and various other countries including most likely turkey to try to stabilize the me and to establish regime but should be against the u.n. charter but for the first time in fifteen months international talks on iran's nuclear program have resumed six major world powers in tehran are meeting in turkey there's hope of a solution this time with an urgent need to diffuse tension in the region especially

with israel threatening a preemptive military strike iran has been increasing its uranium enrichment in recent years which it says is for peaceful energy but the right suspects it's making a bomb u.s. and europe have imposed tough sanctions including an oil embargo that comes into force in july and economies have complied but china has agreed to help expand iran's tanker fleet economist patrick young says the punisher's are set to suffer more from the sanctions. it's absolutely tragic for them because just at the point in time work all of the other colors of their civilization are gradually because the fiscal armament is a total disaster they find that the oil debate hard at very reasonable prices is suddenly going to have to go to market rates or will begin to transource from somewhere else so it's one of these curious predicaments who are no one really wants to argue about the politics of the affair got ultimately it's the european

union's weakest nations that are actually in the direct line to suffer more than necessarily they're really in some cells i mean clearly the e.u. has a series of different issues that he wants to bring forward and one of them is that the european union won't start like some kind of major current power and the problem then is of course the sometimes you have to do things in foreign policy good 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 room 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 steer to whether it be the economy what are their feeling of business or indeed international steel obviously they're trying very very hard to stop around getting a nuclear weapon but at the same time where they don't it is not good for their

economy. their authority of life from moscow on the way for you the challenges of rocket scientists that north korea fails to put a satellite into orbit but still sexy and sparking global fury there by the threat of a high. tech future british generator and will have to bear the brunt of never ending loans that are making a comeback after first appearing during world war one. election should be about choosing upstanding citizens who will do their civic duty but in new delhi on sunday voters will get to choose from alleged fraudsters and murder suspects up to a fifth of candidate seemingly have a criminal past as chris shear explains. show denise has been a councillor 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 as long social work i'm in it to serve the public

because it gives me satisfaction i know there in the south but alongside these lofty aspirations are some murky allegations the news has been charged with attempted murder intimidation assaulting a public servant and arms 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 recent local election a candidate who actually campaigning from in jail. all of the one hundred thirty nine candidates in delhi's municipal election the nisha 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 the arch it's a conspiracy i was in park fighting for the people who want to charge me with false accusations how can anyone called as a criminal case. judge cho carr is working to make indian political candidates backgrounds more transparent to voters he says money often means power regardless of how it's obtained. because one is the money and the most of the. money and most of both. money 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 trouble 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 politicians standing for election whether he's been a criminal in the past or not only we need to see is whether he brings development . 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 another high profile indian nationals being mistaken for a terrorist during trips abroad as art she reports for you online bollywood star chandru com it was detained in a u.s.

airport for the second time in four years apparently because of his name. was mom and the secret service agents in president obama's security detail are sent packing from colombia we tell you why. i'm a traffic cop will going to take no for an answer check out the footage of the vietnamese officer clinging to a bus after the driver tried to escape getting a ticket watch the full video on our you tube channel. there hasn't been anything yet he. used to get the maximum the impact of. the source material used for hopes he was and. we want to try to say. something.

in the wake of friday's failed rocket launch north korea is gearing up to mark a century since the birth of its wartime leader giant statues of kim il sung and his late son kim jong il had been unveiled before a weeping crowd in pound yank but amid the celebrations north korea has been deprived of american food aid in response to the rocket launch it fell into the sea just moments after blastoff but still sparks world contamination violating u.n. rulings north korea is banned from ballistic tast over fears its developing long range nuclear nuclear weapons however career expert john sweeney for things poses little 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 military at this point course has a very large army we're talking about a military that is the client rather precipitously relative to the south korean military and certainly relative to the u.s. military the nuclear program was in some sense some attempt to level the field the fact that it doesn't have much of a nuclear program and. neither of which were particularly successful stride to put a satellite into orbit hasn't been successful that suggested this attempt to level the playing field represents for north korea kind of a baseline of deterrence but a new kind of offensive threat for other countries. still ahead for you this hour

here on r.g.p. when dreams turned them. yes three hundred some remains we had a refrigerated truck parked out here. to help us with overflow the search for a better life comes to a tragic for illegal immigrants trying to cross the u.s. border. but first more of the world's news for you this hour eight shia muslims have been killed in two separate attacks in southwest pakistan gunmen opened fire on a car in the city of quetta killing six people minutes later two more were killed while traveling by brick saw in the same area shia muslims are the minority in pakistan are often targeted by the sunni majority. clashes between troops are now quite a linked militants have left at least thirty four people dead in yemen it follows a military offensive against insurgents who attacked a military camp in the south almost two hundred people have died since the fighting

began on monday took control of several towns in the area during the year of political turmoil to depose president so they. so downs government has launched a counter attack on oil field fields nor its southern border it's also arming civilians after south sudan seized the town of heglig which is home to around half of three downs of oil production border clashes have as school aged since the south gained independence last july. and are some of bin laden's family will be deported to saudi arabia next week after completing a jail sentence in pakistan for illegally entering the country the modern saudi arabian citizenship was stripped almost two decades ago and it's unclear whether the country will accept his widow's they've been into tension since they are quite a leader was killed last may by american special forces. britain has big bills to pay but it's looking to

a century old solution when times were even tougher never ending loans to cover the cost of the first world war still being repaid today but the treasury chief is planning more and that means the financial headache for the next generation was over bennett 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 a never ending loans dumping the government's crippling debt on to future generations it will still be borrowing only this is money george and friends won't have to pay back sounds too good to be true that's because it is putting their they state their limits are you claiming this is a good time to be taxed by fees to be issued but that begs the question of who would buy it because it is a good time to issue them then it's not a good time to boy there would be buyers at the taxpayer's themselves shouldering

the government's vast 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 benefiting from its current rock bottom interest rates for another century bad news for whoever is lending the money the only way you can 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 nineteen twelve at a rate of three point four percent say and 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 from inflation which would have seen one hundred pounds balloon into 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 but this is a monopoly with only one winner this is what happens in markets when governments and the risks are enormous you know the risks of buying a one hundred year. gilt from the u.k. government or historical evidence given inflation patterns in the past would suggest that. anything close to current yield you would lose money on the last time britain issued 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 either bennett r.t. london. many thousands of people try to start a new life in the u.s. but the doors are open to everyone and that can prove fatal hundreds of illegal

immigrants go missing every year and as remote island of reports the body count is rising. the wind blows through the rugged sonora desert in arizona helping shape its rocky values and spectacular peaks it's a treasure of the american southwest but this is also a frontier where a deadly conflict is underway. it's almost a mass disaster situation the disaster which doctor has faces is the growing number of unidentified bodies being found along arizona's southern desert bodies stacked high in a fight for space and perhaps even a proper burial one day becomes not so much an effort 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 the capacity to hold hundreds of bodies now this facility is much larger than other

places around the country pacifically because of the issue of bodies being pounds along the border even so lack of storage is a major headache when 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 the government's crackdown has helped curb illegal immigration and migrant deaths every mean consistently high so it's deadly here the border is absolutely deadly and more than sixty thousand have that along the us mexico border since one thousand nine hundred four according to human rights groups that's when operation gate keeper. a program for defying the international crossing with high priced benzene thousands of agents and high tech surveillance was launched border agents call this area below is the

ravine place where migrants commonly try to scale the wall to get into the u.s. for the scores we try to make the crossing here there are many others who choose a much more treacherous and sometimes deadly route into the u.s. policymakers thought pushing me anywhere floaters deserts would deter migration instead it has led to what some call but their track internationally migration is. there's attempts to control migration through the same tactics the militarization through building walls and we see them in various places in india unpack and see this in health and in israel you've seen we thought you know disastrous wall attempt. in germany many remains found in the desert are merely bullet 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 the 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. today chasing the american dream up here at the pima county morgue in tucson arizona ramon dillon though archie. the internet has undoubtedly opened up a world of knowledge and learning the way we're using technology to communicate could be sending our language skills back to the dark ages we're in new york next to see if people there are taking a hammer to grammar. 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 richer because really important because a lot of misinformation being shared to people see on the internet they think it must be true oh i hope. we all reply a teacher who so we used to have children. i mean pupils at school sometimes they only copied on the internet the subject they had to to do for law and sometimes they copy stuff that's just not true because the internet doesn't always right right right with look for it and the libraries. 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. worth reading you don't. write so why are they doing that because people don't want to read. interrupting for some other live coverage here on r t let's cross directly to jerusalem where the ceremony of what also marks christians called the holy fire miracle is taking place you can see the flame was led by just a couple of seconds ago and it's already been passed on to the individual candles there what worshipers believe is that the fire appears why it was spontaneously from jesus' tomb on the day before easter sunday of course it's orthodox sunday this week and it's seen as a message that jesus has not forgotten his followers sort of very important events taking place in jerusalem right now live pictures you can see of the ceremony taking place in the holy city the fire will be brought to moscow tonight in time

for the main orthodox service at christ the savior cathedral we have coverage of course of this ceremony taking place in jerusalem for you on line and we will have live coverage of the orthodox main ceremony here in moscow for christ the savior tonight on the night. i. i'll be back with the headlines here on r t after this stay with us.

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