would be soo much brighter if you move the sun from funds to pressure it's. still time t. don't come. reports that syria is fragile cease fire is disrupted by further deadly clashes from the un debates whether to send in more observers. back around the table after more than a year of silence and suspicion the world powers meet with the wrong to discuss its nuclear program which tehran insists is peaceful. and the people of new delhi are said to vote in regional elections but it could end up being a choice between alleged murderers and fraudsters of many candidates marred by a criminal process.

but from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he's now it's good to have you with us six pm here in the russian capital five pm in damascus and the third day of cease fire in syria is being prepped for the test with reports of shellings and killings the un security council is expected to vote on saturday over deploying an observer mission to monitor the troops well anti-government rallies have resumed across the country but there's concern they're being hijacked by rebels that's unavoidable reports from the syrian capital. 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 opposition groups not messing about stop provoking for the clashes in syria and actually put

into effect what kofi annan peace plan wants which is to sit down and negotiate 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 and with some believe has been and we need collation for a legion of political aims but in the run up to the day this week the opposition tried to need tactic. comfortably removed from the repercussions of their statements exults revolutionaries made the point the demonstrations and the ceasefire could include exist only moments the troops are withdrawn from the cities those people in the government in the regime know very well that hundreds of thousands.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 kamal journalists were sexually harassed as

protesters demanded more rights in libya a soldier was lynched right between calls for elections for theory and 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 publications 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'm not banned but those who hit the streets without permission from the interior ministry swiftly arrested and while this official admits some heavy handedness on the part of the government he says it's borne out of the security challenges serious crimes are 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 because it's created by the government's own supporters who are trying to prevent these armed groups

using these demonstrations for provocations killing civilians and leaving the killings on the government especially now when the ceasefire students are students but it doesn't mean that political discourse is stifle for decades syrians have gathered in the country's many who cafes were no topic is now off limits of the ground going over to france italy but the. 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 is being imposed in syria now has nothing to do with freedom but you know instead what's being called freedom where is the free what is it for you. know i was in the. woods used to go. there for you so anybody else in the story. sounds. like the feeling of mindsets everybody's afraid of and that's what

continues driving syrians apart some are fighting for freedom others are fearing for their lives the right to demonstrate is an undeniable human right but isn't equal to the rights really 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 genuinely interested in stopping the bloodshed for the time being it may consider responding to the government's ceasefire with their own scenes down my initiative that's not going to artsy 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 back financial ceasefire offer effluvium and all says washington and its allies are only fueling the trouble by the back in one side in the conflict. the rebels are being armed from outside. and they're being sent in

from outside and 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 go these are armed gangs of mercenaries that often we don't even know if it is going to some people i've spoken to ben throughout syria they don't know who they're fighting for or fighting against they're just paid money to give them guns and go in there to eat or that hillary clinton is supporting al qaeda if we're to take her at literally you have journalists from syria resigning in protest because al-jazeera is refusing to tell the truth about what's what outside syria this is an armed intervention to do legal violation when charted what the 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 your. six major role powers and iran have

held the first round of talks in turkey to find ways to remove suspicion that iran's nuclear program has a military commission discussions have resumed after a fifteen month break with the e.u. howling them as positive and constructive the next round is expected in the next few days they're on has a resists recently increased iranian enrichment i mean suspicions a could be seeking a nuclear weapon bashing can call the talks the last chance for diplomacy to work with israel threatening military action the u.s. and europe have imposed tough sanctions on iran calmness and commentator can work sorry believes tehran is doing enough on its part to reach a solution. iran has come forward with good intentions and. i think the biggest compromise you're likely to see your biggest gesture of compromise could have come from the leader of the islamic revolution ayatollah seyyed ali khamenei and he issued a fatwa a big creek which banned all production of nuclear weapons and he did so just to

reassure the p five plus one that no such thing will be taking place within a theocracy iran has eight thousand centrifuges going at the moment and iran has confirmed that none of these centrifuges are producing fuel required for a nuclear weapon they're producing fuel plates for to iran's research reactor really it's unrealistic to think that uranium enrichment could be stopped but i believe that in view of the lack of evidence over deviation in iran's nuclear energy program i believe that the round of talks will concentrate on confidence building and should they proceed we're likely to see an outcome which is acceptable to both sides if there is not a suitable outcome because the crisis will be grave indeed for both parties. coming up on r t eight told solutions to the debt crisis the u.k. treasury plans to issue never ending bonds once again after the first world war

saddling generations to come billions of pounds to repay also. so it's a deadly year the border is absolutely deadlier a dream destination but a fatal power we report from the us mexico border for many illegal immigrants perish as they try to find a new life in america. but first over two thousand counted that's for new delhi municipal elections will try to move voters on sunday but many of my find it hard to make their choice and not because of the overwhelming numbers a fifth of the candidates are standing for office despite a dubious pass as preassure now reports. show pinney she's 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 social work i'm in it to serve the public

because it gives me satisfaction i know the needs but alongside these lofty aspirations are some murky allegations the news 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 recent local election ten i found 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 to conduct it's a conspiracy i was in fact fighting for the people who want to charge me with false accusations how can anyone called as a criminal case. judge the 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 we've. all made of. money and the power of the muscle throwing money and muscle both. money through the. author. 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 past so in a country known for corruption and bribery some voters say they simply want to lap someone who they think can get the job done we should not much with the history of the politician standing for election whether he's been a criminal in the past or not only we need to see is whether he brings developments but in a country where so much development is needed others feel that process is being undermined by shady allegations were candidates backgrounds are now very much in the foreground preassure either r t 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 is gearing up to mark one hundred years since the birth of its founder kim il sung which is on sunday but amid the celebrations north korea has been deprived of american food aid that's in response to the controversial rocket

launch on thursday the rocket fell into the sea just moments after it lost but still far from condemnation by the u.n. resolution of korea is banned from the list to task over fears of developing long range nuclear weapons however north korea expert john pfieffer thinks poses the threat i mean. in many respects north korea is technologically quite advanced and has been for many years for many decades is 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 does north korea really represent a threat well frankly it doesn't have much in the way of. military at this point of course as 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 and it's held to task neither of which were particularly successful tried 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. you can get more on that story on our website r t v dot com also an online norway's trial of the century find out why anders breivik was admitted massacring over seventy people on a holiday island last summer is reportedly set to argue he was acting in self-defense. and tens of thousands rally in egypt in support of granting 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 top. coming up a quarter past the hour let's have a look at some world news in brief separate attacks in southwest pakistan have left eight shia muslims dead in the first incident gunmen riding a motorcycle ambushed a car and killed six people and minutes later they shot dead two other travellers in a rickshaw in the same area shia muslims are the minority in pakistan and are often targeted by extremists among the sunni majority. sudanese jobs have bombed strategic targets in south sudan killing at least five people tension escalated after southern forces seized the town of heglig responsible for half of sudan's oil production the un wants forces from both sides to withdraw behind borders and for violence to be stopped the fighting along the oil rich frontier is the worst since south sudan became independent

a lot. a roadside bomb targeting a security procedural has killed two policeman west of the iraqi capital the vehicle was destroyed in the blast and which one more police officer was also injured most of the rocks recent violence has been blamed on sunni militants trying to shatter the country's shia led government. and twelve people have been killed after al-qaeda fighters captured a security checkpoint in southern yemen insurgents killed four troops while losing eight of their own over two hundred have died in a week long battle between security forces and militants took control of several towns in the area during a year of political turmoil to depose president someday. the u.k.'s debt is growing steadily and the treasury is looking at drastic measures to tackle it it's suggesting never ending loans should make a reappearance not despite the fact that previous ones issued to cover the cost of

the first world war are still being still be repaid today and the new loans will mean future generations will inherit nothing but debt is never 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 never ending loans dumping the government's crippling debt on to future generations it'll 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 there he states there are elements of the period this is a good time for the u.k. tax by for these to be issued but that begs the question of who would buy because it is a good time to issue them when it's not a good time to boy there would be buyers at 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 work as 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 did bested one hundred pounds back in nineteen 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 got just from inflate said 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. when governments into 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 yields we 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 i've been it r t london still to come for you this hour is the digital drive dumbing us down. you text you or y. o. you for the word you. get if you like

a short in everything you will make me dumber in school to. take you with me in school. or in the big apple to find out if getting wise means taking out hammer to grammar. every year and thousands from mexico and latin america trying to make it the us states to stop the flow of illegal immigration american authorities have beefed up security along the border with mexico and as for among going to reports it's become 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 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 you know 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 we're 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 three hundred some remains 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 the migrant deaths every mean consistently high so if the border is absolutely deadly more than sixty thousand have that along the us mexico border since one thousand nine hundred ninety four according to human rights groups that's when operation gatekeeper a program for defined international crossing with high priced benzene thousands of agents and high tech surveillance was launched border agents call this area below us there of the in place where migrants commonly try to. well 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 the immigrant flow to 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 tactic militarisation through building walls and we see them in various places and india unpack them you see this in health and in israel you've seen. asterisk wall 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. day chasing the american dream here people county morgue in tucson arizona ramon gill indo archie. now the internet and smartphones mean

we're forever taxing or tweeting upgrading or downloading does a world that's increasingly high tech mean we're getting more and more low brow ridges resident in new york investigates what side of the neck is winning the race . in this information sharing digital age is it possible were 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 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 retired teachers so we used to have

children. i mean pupils at school and sometimes they're only paid to on internet the subject they had to to develop and and sometimes they copy stuff that's just not true because the internet is and always right right right with look for it and hilarious it will 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 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 says they're always been people who didn't like to read or listen can make you smarter or dumber . you take it what do you think the youth of today is doing with it.

i think it can mean years in use it as a game to play and say rarely can a to use the old is advantageous do you text a lot. yes do you taxed you or y. o. you for the word you. just you like i shorten everything yes so that will make me dumber in school to. take you with me in school so you think you're not spelling as well as you so now doesn't that scare you the bets the world that we're living in yeah. but we're young so we won't we don't think about it whether or not even 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 preparing to celebrate easter

marking the resurrection of jesus christ the most important holiday in the calendar on sunday believers take additional food to church preaches glass started a morning service this includes painter vegs traditional cake and a curt spread of oscar which is easter in russia in the past few hours worshippers in jerusalem witnessed the so-called holy fire miracle of flame appeared from the tomb of christ the fire will be brought to moscow tonight in time for the main service to be heard by russia's patriarch real will bring you live coverage from moscow surprise the savior cathedral later tonight church ministers will take us through key parts of the easter traditional proceedings. then a few moments remove the survivors of the world's worst and vast real disaster who are still forced to live in contaminated areas but first i'll bring you the have

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