the. u.n. security council votes unanimously to send monitors to syria to oversee the ceasefire after a vision is to the original draft resolution following objections from russia. back around the table iran and six world powers praised their resume talks over tehran's nuclear ambitions as constructively useful this after a fifteen month break and increased tensions. sunday marks the most important day in the year for millions of orthodox christians around the world in moscow are geisha of thousands have been attending the easter service in the country's main cathedral including russia's president medvedev and prime minister

putin. three am in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on our team our top story the u.n. security council's voting to send observers to syria to oversee the country's fragile cease fire the first monitors will arrive sunday as reports emerge of fresh crashes russia has demanded a revision of the original u.s. draft told all sides in the conflict and conflicts accountable for any abuses or he's worried of course not it has more from the. the security council is cautiously optimistic and quite proud of itself that it's finally able to speak with one voice reach a consensus the first resolution now unanimously adopted on syria it calls for monitors on our monitors up to a team of thirty going to syria immediately to observe this cease fire the fragile

cease fire in place there boarding to russian ambassador to the u.n. to tell you one russian officer will be part of the group heading to syria the resolution that was adopted also calls on all parties in in syria including the opposition to immediately seize all armed violence in all its forms this is what was a sticking point on friday and why the security council was wasn't able to vote on a resolution friday because according to russia's position the u.s. first drafted resolution made many demands of the syrian government and no explicit demands of the syrian opposition or russian ambassador. vitaly churkin said at this critical junction is very very important for all syrian parties including our opposition to comply with the six point peace plan that was laid out by a u.n. special envoy kofi annan on this of course also calls for an immediate cease

fire and for an inclusive political process in syria in which the opposition groups and the syrian government engage in a dialogue the russian ambassador said that moscow from the very beginning has been supportive of mr anon peace plan and is only he said through an objective balanced approach the security council was able to reach a consensus on saturday which was. the number. of draft resolution has been significant. and still uncertain. it is fusion engine. some serious it could be a. mission according to this resolution the un secretary-general ban ki moon will have to report back to the security council on april nineteenth regarding how the resolution is being implemented whether the observers are being granted access

throughout syria whether humanitarian officials are being granted access throughout syria if the syrian authorities and the syrian opposition is complying with what the security council is this monitor mission will eventually grow to a team of two hundred fifty people we should know though that it does say in this resolution the house and there is a vague reference that if syria does not comply with what the security council is asking further measures can be taken what those further measures are or is not clear again i think at this point all the security council members are hoping that the armed opposition group and the syrian government do comply with what's being asked and peace is finally established in syria political analyst chris bambery from the international socialist group in britain doubts the opposition will be able to stick to its part of the u.n. back he's playing. it's a fragile cease fire but it does seem to hold. the country it would seem to me

there is a possibility of peace or civil war in syria not to be welcomed what is the free syrian army the syrian national council capable of getting the same of the different groups inside syria to lay down their own arms because the opposition is not for you to find the tones of that i don't think i thought had any option but to go along with the have a moment that's coming in from all i have to see even though the monitors even two hundred fifty monitors there is a big country they are covering a huge space it would be very difficult for these monitors that actually assess what is going on you could check it but i think fingers crossed this could come all and we. looking like a very unpleasant civil war developing inside syria. long awaited talks between six world powers in tehran on iran's nuclear program have wrapped up in a stand the foreign policy chief catherine ashton welcome the negotiations as

constructive with sides agreeing to meet again next month in iraq discussions have resumed after a fifteen month break with a previous round ending the stalemate parties are trying to find measures to build mutual confidence over to iran's nuclear ambitions iran which insists the nuclear program is peaceful has recently increased uranium enrichment despite international fears it could be trying to make a nuclear weapon washington's described talks as the last chance for diplomacy to work with israel threatening military action iran's willingness to talk is surprising under the circumstances according a politics professor for law from the university of tehran. there's a long list of things that iran is unhappy about and unhappy about. five iranians nuclear scientist in the last couple of the. increased sanctions against ordinary people in the iran sanctioning. commodities like gas and being unhappy about sanctioning the central bank which is basically the iranian bank

which is basically divvy. three of the international companies in fact it's somebody surprising that iranian government officials go through these meetings and basically just more or less repeating the same demands that. not to be acceptable to the iranian side asking iran through its its nuclear program and iran ask them why do you want to do that they say that the think you are making nuclear bomb and at the same time we hear from the intelligence agencies that dispensary is the united states even israel that iran is not listening in the so there's a lot of contradictory signals coming and it is making the situation somewhat confusing still to come here on r t age old solutions to the current debt crisis these days treasury plans to issue a never ending call on the last scene after the first world war saddling

generations to come with billions of pounds for a pay plus. orthodox christians around the world celebrating easter with one of the most spectacular ceremonies held at russia's main cathedral or bring you more from the moscow service. but first in egypt ten of twenty three candidates planning to run for president have been banned from next month's vote the move by the election commission comes after thousands of muslim brotherhood supporters marched in cairo supporting a new law barring former regime the regime officials from the country's top job the protests. backfired after the party's own islamists nominee shot who was also kicked off the ballot among those also blocked from standing is mubarak era intelligence chief omar suleiman it commission also barred those who did not meet its conditions but they have forty eight hours to appeal. and staying on the campaign trail now but in india where municipal elections in new delhi have attracted more than two thousand hopefuls the choice though is far from obvious for

many voters and not because of the overwhelming numbers to choose from as artie's prius reader reports a fifth of the candidates are in the running and have a key are accused of having a shady past. 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 and i'm in it to serve the public doesn't gives me satisfaction i know their needs but alongside these lofty aspirations are some murky allegations denise has been charged with attempted 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 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 ten a family candidates were actually campaigning from in jail not all 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 on a general level the problem in india isn't as serious as it sounds. there's no truth and it's a conspiracy i was in the park fighting for the people who want to charge me with false accusations how can anyone called a criminal case. 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 with. one. running. money and war. are also. money. and wealth. while the indian parliament could pass a law to make it illegal for criminals to run for office cho card that 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 go through so much with the history of the politician standing up 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 still 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. find more on this story and plenty more on our website r t dot com also there right now norway's trial of the century find out why anders breivik who admitted to massacring more than seventy people water the island last summer is reportedly said to argue he was acting in self-defense last. libya's national transitional council suspends a multi-million dollar payout program for former rebels after admitting it was steeped in fraud this other story is a click away at r.t. dot com. every year thousands of immigrants from mexico and latin america try to cross illegally into the u.s. american authorities have beefed up security along the border with mexico but it's not stopping the flow of immigrants and as minorities ramon go into reports the

border has become a final destination for many. 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 under way. so as a mass disaster situation the disaster which doctor has faces is the wrong way a number of unidentified bodies being found along arizona's southern desert body stacked high in a fight for space and perhaps even a proper burial one day and he comes without 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 found along the border even so lack of storage is a major headache three hundred some remains a refrigerated truck parked out here. to help us with overflow as some arrives he expects they will need it again the department of homeland security recently boasted about the sharp drop in border patrol rest so guessing the government's crackdown has helped curb illegal immigration the migrant deaths ever mean 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. border agents call this area below us the

ravine a place where migrants commonly try to scale the wall 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 start pushing the immigrant flow to the deserts will deter migration instead it has led to what some call but death trap internationally migration is. there's attempts to control migration through the same tactic militarization through building walls and we see them in various places and india and pakistan. we thought you know disastrous while attempts. in germany maybe it means found in the desert are merely. making them difficult to identify and force 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 the border does not control migration while politicians argue over who can spend the most money to fortify the border hundreds more a day chasing the american dream will end up here at the people county morgue in tucson arizona ramon the lindo archie the u.k.'s massive deficit continues to balloon and britain's treasury is looking at drastic measures to tackle it the latest plan involves a extending the repayment period so far off in fact that virtually no one alive today may be around to see the debt cleared britain is still repaying money that it always over the cost of the first world war and critics of the latest plan say that it dumps a dead on future generations saddling them with an unmanageable burden or he's ever brought 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 just 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 i think that this stage there are elements of it clearly 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 it because it is a good time to issue them then it's not a good time to buy that there would be buyers at the taxpayer's themselves shouldering the government's crossed one trillion pound debt pile by lending it money also on off a bond settlement sure 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 did 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 got just for inflation which would have seen one hundred pounds balloon it's almost nine thousand so you 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. when governments and the risks are enormous you know the risks of dying or one hundred year. guilt from the u.k. government on historical evidence given inflation patterns in the past would

suggest that. anything close to current yield like you would lose money on the last time britain issued never-ending loans was off to 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 mountain of debt to be someone else's problem the bennetts. the. internet and smartphones mean we're forever texting tweeting upgrading and downloading what does a world that's increasingly high tech mean we're in danger of getting more lowbrow our he's resident in new york investigates which side of the net is winning the race. in this information sharing digital age is it possible good dumbing down and not

intellectually advancing our society this week let's talk about that do you think it's making societies smarter or dumber dumb or why is that because people use more 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 people 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 internet the subject they had to to give a lot 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 they larry's books i think i guess there are some publishers are considering making books digitally that

have pictures and animations instead of just words now do you think that's going to have an effect. of the literature is worth reading you don't need all the. right so why are they doing that because people going 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 this in can make you smarter or dumber it depends colleague group 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 they really can and to use the polls as advantages do you text a lot yeah do you taxed you or y o u for the word you. just you like i shorten everything yes will make me dumber in school too because i take

you with me in school so you think you're not spelling as well as you say now doesn't it scare you that that's the world over living in yeah. but we're young so we don't we don't think about it whether or not you 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. during now to some other stories making headlines across the globe sudanese jets have strategic targets in south sudan killing at least five people tension escalated after southern forces seized the town of hague league which is responsible for half of sudan's oil production and un wants forces from both sides to withdraw behind borders and for a violence to stop it's the worst fighting along the oil rich friends here since south sudan became independent last july. twelve people killed after al qaeda

fighters attacked a security checkpoint in southern yemen insurgents killed four troops while losing eight of their own more than two hundred have died in a week long battle between security forces and militants al qaeda has seized several towns in the area taking advantage of a year of political turmoil before former president saleh departure from office. of . the rebels freed thirty six gas workers kidnapped earlier this week girls from the shining path group held them hostage for five days had many millions of dollars in ransom from the government earlier a police officer was killed during a massive search and rescue operation by proview and government forces. millions of orthodox christians are celebrating easter with the biggest service held in the heart of moscow in russia's main cathedral around six thousand worth a crisis savior cathedral where the congregation included russia's president medvedev and prime minister putin easter is the most important holiday in the orthodox religious calendar celebrating the resurrection of jesus christ and

marking the end of forty days of life and are changed how martin hasn't. he's the services of the russian orthodox tradition not designed to be both loam services but also very beautiful services stylized maki of the key of the story of christ's death and his resurrection day a key moment of the service this is the east of the church when the priests will circle around the church holding candles. and they also change their outfits three times during the service from black presents. through to the purple represents the passions christ went through and on to your own which represents the resurrection. the holy fire has also arrived here in moscow. as it has done since the eleventh century when it first made that journey from the church of the holy sepulcher in

jerusalem the story surrounding the fire is that a light shines through the church roof of the church of the holy sepulcher every easter in jerusalem and somehow manages to lights two candles wall of which is brought to moscow but it's then taken around to many orthodox churches a very special symbolic moment for the russian orthodox church easter in the russian orthodox church also comes at the end of a great lead seven weeks of fasting no meat a no dairy products but at the end it is time to bring out some special foods with a special connection to easter coolidge a cake sweet and filled with raisins another is named after easter in the russian language it's a sweet dessert. also designed to be a celebration of after the long weeks of fasting and also that universal symbol of

easter eggs many are painted and shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter with holy water and they'll be shared around by orthodox families the world over as will praise in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches and communities around the world a traditional russian orthodox greeting will be said at easter christ has risen and it will be answered with another reply that traditional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. we're back with a recap of the top stories in a few minutes stay with us here on our city.

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