reports that syria's fragile ceasefire is disrupted by further deadly clashes while the un for bates whether to send in more observers. back around the table after more than a year of silence and suspicion world powers meet with the prime to discuss its nuclear program tehran insists it's peaceful. and the people of new delhi are set to vote in regional elections but it could end up being a choice between alleged murder and fraudsters with many candidates marred by a criminal act.

but from our studios in the central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's good to have you with us four pm here in the russian capital three pm in damascus where the third day of cease fire in syria has been put to the task with reports of shellings and killings the u.n. security council is expected to vote on saturday over deploying an observer mission to monitor the troops antigovernment rallies have resumed across the country but there's concern they're being hijacked by rebels on a boycott reports now from the syrian capital. it was good friday for syrian of those christians but it didn't go well with 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 opposition to stop messing about stop

provoking for the clashes in syria and actually put into effect what kofi annan springs plan wants which is to sit down and negotiate and table with the government because with all their uprising in the arab spring the bloodiest of clashes in syria have often taken place after friday prayers it would some believe has been and many. for political aims but in the run up to the day this week the opposition tried a new tactic. comfortably removed from the repercussions of their statements exult revolutionaries made the point the demonstrations and the ceasefire couldn't co-exist any moment the troops are withdrawn from the cities those people in the government in the regime know very well that hundreds of thousands. of 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. 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 on miliband but those who hit the streets without permission from the interior ministry they're arrested and while this official i'd need some heavy handedness on the part of become and he says it's borne out of the security challenges serious currently facing when one of the challenges the government is facing is distinguishing between democratic protesters and armed groups we're not

afraid of the peaceful opposition pieces created by the government's own supporters who 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 farm going over to france working. so you took a look. in this group of high school friends all have studied or traveled abroad and while they're 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 freedom where is the free and easy for you. i was. it was used to. refer to. anybody else or are you going to work.

around your friends are. religious mindsets everybody's afraid. and that's what continues driving syrians apart 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 rights leave well many syrians do recognize that their country's political system needs to be changed but they see first things first and if opposition is can you be interested in stopping the bloodshed for the time being it may consider responding to the government's ceasefire with their own seize dema initiative some of the r t damascus syria but the u.s. has stepped up aid to the syrian opposition as the rebels and government in damascus are trying to hold onto that fragile cease fire author of william and also as washington and its allies are only fueling the trouble on backing one side in

the conflict. the rebels have been fired from outside and they have been sent in from outside the green trained by the cia by french intelligence what british intelligence and send in there to create these incidents these random shooting into civilian buses school children and so forth and them to play but on the government these are armed gangs of mercenaries that often we don't even know or didn't bring to some people i've spoken to them throughout syria they don't know who they're fighting for fighting against they're 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 zero zero zero zero zero designing in protest because al jazeera is refusing to tell the truth about what's going on inside syria this is an armed intervention and you leaving violations when charter but united states and various other countries including most likely turkey here to try to destabilize the regime and the steps regime that should be against you and charter

six major world powers and iran are holding talks in turkey about ways to remove suspicion that iran's nuclear program has a military dimension discussions have resumed after a fifteen month break and started in a positive atmosphere that's according to the e.u.'s foreign policy chief it's iran has recently increased uranium enrichment amid suspicions it could be seeking a nuclear weapon iraq obama called the talks the last chance for diplomacy to work with israel threatening military action he was in europe have imposed tough sanctions on iran including an oil embargo that comes in force into force in july many countries have complied but china has agreed to help expand the rants tanker fleet economist patrick young says the sanctions will come at a high cost for the international community and especially europe. it's absolutely tragic for them because just the point in time work all of the other colors of their civilization are gradually being kept going because the fiscal permanent is

a total disaster they find that the oil that they hard very reasonable prices is suddenly going to have to go to market rates all of that are going to have to transport us 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 the really incident cells 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 wants to put some kind of major foreign powers and the problem then is of course that 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 goals of multinational scared to whether it be in the economy where they're feeling abysmal and or indeed in international states 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. coming up on our t.v. age old solution to the debt crisis you could transfer your plans if you never ending bombs last seen after the first world war not only generations to come with billions of pounds to repay also. so it's a deadly year the border is absolutely deadly a dream destination but afraid old we report from the us mexico border where many illegal immigrants perish as they try to find a new life in america. but first over two thousand candidates for

new dehli minnesota law will try to move voters this sunday many might find it hard to make their choice and not because of the overwhelming numbers of of the candidates are standing for office despite a dubious past and now reports. 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 is on social work i'm going to serve the public because it gives me some instruction i know there needs but alongside these lofty aspirations are some murky allegations she knew she 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 per cent 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 that only candidates were actually campaigning from and shale. of the one hundred thirty nine candidates in delhi's 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 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 is a criminal case. cho carr is working to make indian political candidates backgrounds more transparent to voters he says money off it means power regardless

of how it's obtained with. all media. one the money and the power of the muscle throwing money and lots of board. money through. anger. 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 elections whether he's been a criminal in the past or not all we need to see is whether he brings to. but in a country where so much development is needed others feel that process is being

undermined by she allegations where candidates backgrounds are now very much in the foreground preassure either she new delhi india. tens of thousands have gathered in a football stadium in pyongyang to show their support for north korea's ruling family the nation's gearing up to mark one hundred years since the birth of its founder kim you know song which is on sunday i moved to celebrate since north korea has been deprived of american food aid in response to the controversial rocket launch on thursday rocket fell into the sea just moments after blast off but still sparked world condemnation of violating human rights in the sense of banned from ballistic over fears of developing long range nuclear weapons. experts on face. 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 not me 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 because north korea really represent a threat well frankly it doesn't have much in the way of a military at this point of course as 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 an attempt to level the field the fact that it doesn't have much of a nuclear program. neither of which were particularly successful tried to put a satellite into orbit it hasn't been successful that suggested this attempt to level the playing field represents for north korea a kind of

a baseline of deterrence but no kind of offensive threat for other countries. you can get more on that story on our website dot com also on line norway's trial of the century find out why anders bradley the midnights occurring over seventy people on a holiday island last summer is reportedly said to argue he was acting in self-defense . and tens of thousands rally in egypt in support of banning former president hosni mubarak's officials from running for the country's top job next month all the details on that and much more at our g. some of today's world news in briefly you this hour eight shia muslims have been killed in separate attacks in southwest pakistan in the first incident gunmen riding a motorcycle ambushed a car and shot dead six people minutes later they killed two other travelers in a rickshaw same area shia muslims are the minority in pakistan and are often

targeted by stream as among. some through downtown's repelled an attack by the sudanese army out the disputed border region as a way to go after southern forces seize the town of heglig sponsible for half of sudan's oil production un wants forces from both sides to withdraw from hind borders and violence to be stopped the fighting along the oil rich from here is the worst since south sudan became independent last july. a roadside bomb targeting a security patrol has killed two policemen west of the iraqi capital their vehicle was destroyed in the blast which in which one more police officer was also injured most of iraq's recent violence has been blamed on sunni militants trying to shatter the country's shia led government. and five days of clashes between

yemeni troops and al qaeda linked militants have left over two hundred people dead thirty seven were killed alone on friday and follows a military offensive against insurgents who attacked a military camp in the south to took control of several towns in the area during a year of political turmoil to depose president. but the u.k.'s debt is growing steadily and the treasury is looking at drastic measures to tackle it it suggesting never ending loans to make a reappearance that's despite the fact that previous ones issued to cover the cost of the first world war are still being slowly repaid today a new loans will mean a future generation that will inherit nothing with debt as long as he's ever been it 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 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 nothing if they stay here a limited period this is a good time to be ok text by at least to be issued but that begs the question of who would buy it if it's a good toy to issue them when it's not a good time to buy the would be buyers of the taxpayers 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 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 at a rate of three point four percent say this year it would have turned into almost three thousand pounds sounds ok in itself but it's nothing compared to what i would have gotten 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 you know this is what happens in markets when governments and risks are enormous you know the risks of buying a one hundred year. gilt from the u.k. government on historical evidence given inflation. in the past would suggest that. anything close to current. you would lose money on the last time

britain issued neverending 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 want to burn it r t london. so become free of the sour is the digital drive dumbing us down. do you text you or y o u for the word you. just you like shorten everything. make me them are in school to. take you with me in school. or in the big apple to find out if getting a weapon wise means taking our grammar. first every year thousands from mexico and latin america try to make it to the u.s. but for many this journey becomes their last want to stop the flow of illegal

immigration american authorities have beefed up security along the border with mexico and as remote glinda reports it's becoming the final destination for scores of people. 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 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 it 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 a 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 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 at 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 the migrant deaths every mean consistently high so if the bed near the border is absolutely deadly more than six thousand have that allowing the us mexico border since one thousand nine hundred four according to human rights groups that's when operation gatekeeper 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 us the ravine a place where migrants commonly try this. all the while to get into the u.s. for the scores we 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 immigrant floaters deserts would deter migration instead it has led to what some call a death trap internationally migration is. there's attempts to control migration through the same tactics militarization through building malls and we see them in various places in india and pakistan you see this in health and in israel you've seen we saw you know disaster as well attempts. 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 injured. chasing the american dream and here are people a county more in tucson arizona ramon the lindo. now the internet and smartphones mean we're forever taxiing or tweeting upgrading or downloading but that's a world that's increasingly high tax mean we're getting more and more low brow artists rather than in new york investigate what side of the net is winning the race.

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 for stuff to do stupid things smarter. information sharing information immediately which i think is really important but there's a lot of misinformation being shared to let people see on the internet they think it must be true oh i hope. we all reply a teacher's 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 is and always right right right we don't look for it and the libraries that pool i

think yes there are some bushes 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 is that. all of the literature is worth reading you know. right so why are they doing that because people don't want to read. do you think that's a product of the information and. i think every generation story there always been people who didn't like to read this in can make a smarter or dumber it depends how you group you take it what do you think the youth of today is doing with that. i think in years in use it as if he were to pull a and they really need to use the polls as advantages do you text a lot. yeah do you taxed you or y. o. you for the word you. just you like i showed in everything yes so that

would make me dumber in school too because i. take you with me in school so you figure it out spelling as well as you so now doesn't it scare you but that's the world that we're living in yeah i kind of go where young so we them we don't think about it whether or not each 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. millions of orthodox christians around the world are preparing to celebrate easter marking the resurrection of jesus christ on the most important holiday in the calendar on saturday i believe or straight traditional food to church which is the last after west after the morning service this includes painted a traditional cake and occurred spread noticed pasta which is what used to is called in russian in across our worst person to greece so one witness the so-called

only fire miracle on the flame appeared from the tomb christ the fire will be brought to moscow tonight in time for the main service which will be led by russia's patriarch a real i will bring you live coverage from moscow surprise the savior cathedral and later tonight church ministers will talk us through a key part of the traditional proceedings. so with us here in our team moscow out on the weekends sport with paul or just ahead for you after this break and the headlines.

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