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

seven am in moscow i mattress i could have you with us here on our team our top story the u.n. security council voted to send observers to syria to oversee the country's fragile cease fire the first monitors will arrive sunday as reports emerge or fresh clashes russia donated a revision of the original u.s. draft to hold all sides in the conflict accountable for abuses are very important i reports from new york. the security council is cautiously optimistic and quite proud of itself that it's finally able to speak with one voice or reach a consensus the first resolution now unanimously adopted on syria it calls for monitors. to team of thirty going to syria immediately to observe this cease fire the fragile cease fire in place there according to russian ambassador to

the u.n. but one russian officer will be part of the group heading to syria the resolution that was adopted also calls on all parties 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 the 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 in gage 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 objective balanced approach that the security council was able to reach a consensus on saturday with. russian. security council members. has been significant. instance of. it'll be an. observer mission according to this resolution the u.n. 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 by their 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 monitoring mission will eventually grow to a team of two hundred fifty people we should note though that it does say in this resolution the house and there is a vague reference that if syria does not comply with what this it here the council is asking for there are measures can be taken and what those further measures are is not clear yet i think at this point all the security council members are hoping that the armed opposition group in the syrian government do comply with what's being asked and peace is finally stablished 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 un backed peace plan. but a fragile cease fire but it does seem to hold a large parts of the country and it would seem to me there is a possibility of peace to push for

a civil war inside the inside so naturally welcome what is the free syrian army a syrian national council capable of getting the f.a.a. of the different groups inside syria to lay down their arms because the opposition is not a unified body in terms of that i don't think assad had any really option but to go along with this enough to have the monitors coming in to morrow i have to see so to monitors even two hundred fifty monitors there is a big country and they are covering a huge space and very difficult these monitors actually affect what is going on if you put a check in it but i think fingers crossed this could come off and we could it could for seoul is looking like a very unpleasant civil war developing inside inside syria. a long awaited talks between six world powers and tehran on iran's nuclear program have wrapped up in istanbul e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton a welcome 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 in a stalemate parties are trying to find measures to build mutual confidence over iran's nuclear ambitions iran which insists its nuclear program is peaceful recently stepped up uranium enrichment despite irrational fears it could be trying to build a nuclear bomb washington's describe the talks as a last chance for diplomacy to work in israel's threatening military strike iran's willingness to speak to talk is surprising under the circumstances according to political science professor for wired is of the university of tehran. there's a long list of things that iran is unhappy about and unhappy about killing five iranian nuclear scientist in the last couple of the. increased sanctions against ordinary people in iran sanctioning. commodities like gas and being unhappy about sanctioning the central bank which is basically a bank which is basically

a country three of the international companies in fact it's somewhat surprising that iranian government officials go through these meetings and basically listen to the other side which is more or less repeating the same demands that. not be acceptable to the iranians asking you don't think it's its nuclear program and then you don't ask them why do you want us to do that they say that we think you are making. and at the same time we hear from the intelligence agencies that these countries the united states even israel iran is not personal and so it is a lot of contradictory signals coming from that aside and that is making the situation somewhat confusing. stay with us here on r.t. still to come in age old solutions to the current debt crisis u.k.'s treasury plans to issue a never ending. scene after the first world war swaddling generations to come with

billions of pounds to repay plus. orthodox christians the world over celebrate easter with one of the most spectacular ceremonies held at russia's main cathedral we'll bring you more from the service in the us. but before we get to that in egypt ten out of the twenty three candidates vying 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 officials from the country's top job but the protest appeared to backfire after the party's own islamised not any tire at all shot or was kicked off the ballot as well among those also blocked from standing as mubarak era intelligence chief omar suleiman the commission said those bar did not meet their criteria but the candidates who have forty eight hours to appeal. are

staying on the campaign now but campaign trail now but moving farther east to india where municipal elections in new delhi have attracted more than two thousand hopefuls the choice though far from obvious for many voters and not because of the overwhelming numbers to choose from authorities preassure to reports up to a fifth of the candidates running already have a shaky past. oh the show 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 and for a minute to serve the public because it gives me some instruction i know their needs but alongside these lofty aspirations are some murky allegations in the show has been charged with a touch of 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 and extortion and robbery and actually in a recent local election ten a family candidates were actually campaigning from an shale go to knock out 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 it's a conspiracy i was in point fighting for the people who want to charge me with full time considerations anyone called a criminal. choke 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. money. money and board. people who make money get to make the anger. while the indian parliament could pass a law to make it illegal for criminals to run for office chill current 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 in beijing to get the job john if you we should not do 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 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 are teen new delhi india you'll find more on this story and plenty more at our website r t v dot com waiting for you there right now the rumor mill was the rumor mill started scribing about obama's dirty dozen after twelve secret service men guarding the u.s. president in colombia for the summit of the americas were sent packing after allegations of improper conduct plus. two face to face book the world's most popular social network promises never to head over user private data despite and despite backing a cyber security bill that could lead to just back. seemingly unfazed by a failed rocket launch north korean are reportedly developing a new long range weapon i doubt more on our website.

every year thousands of immigrants from mexico and right in america try to cross illegally into the u.s. american authorities have stepped up security along the border with mexico but it's not stemming the flow of migrants as remote 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 deadly conflict is under way. it's almost a mass disaster situation the disaster which dr headspaces 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 you have so much 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 this is because of the issue of bodies being found along the border even so lack of storage is a major headache three hundred summer means we had a refrigerated truck parked out here. to help us with overflow some arrives he expects they will need it again the department of homeland security recently boasted about the sharp drop in border patrol rest suggesting the government's crackdown as helps curb illegal immigration the migrant deaths every made 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 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 they were being 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 thought pushing the immigrant flow to the 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 the militarization through building walls and we see them and various places them in india and pak and see this in health and. we thought you

know disastrous while attempts. in germany many names found in the desert are merely bone fragments making them difficult to identify force in other 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 the border does not control migration well politicians argue over who can spend the most money to fortify the border hundreds more john and jane with a case in the american dream well end up here at the pima county morgue in tucson arizona ramon the lindo archie. and you kids massive deficit continues to balloon and britain's treasury is looking at drastic steps to tackle it latest plan involves extending the repayment period so far off in fact that virtually no one alive today will be around to see the debt cleared britain this story paying

money over the cost of the first world war and critics of the plan say that it dumps debt on future generations saddling them with an unmanageable burden arkan's either better explain. strapped for cash and deep in debt the u.k. government has a plan that roy's b. where 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 and this is money george and friends won't have to pay back sounds too good to be true that's because it is buffing at this stage there are elements of it to me this is a good time for the u.k. tax by police to be issued but that begs the question of who would buy it if it's a good time to issue them then it's not a good boy there would be buyers of the taxpayers 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 and if it's in from its current rock bottom interest rates for another century bad news for whoever's lending the money the only way you could actually make money here is if there was no inflation between now and the year twenty one twelve a very optimistic outlook take the last hundred years for example if i did bested one hundred pounds back in one nine hundred twelve iterative three point four percent say then 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 inflate said which would have seen one hundred pounds balloon into 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 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 we would lose money on the last time britain issued neverending 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 of floating its own mountain of debt to be someone else's problem other than it's r t london. based on the internet in the smartphones were forever texting tweeting upgrading or in downloading but does that mean the world they're being that's becoming increasingly high tech or one that's becoming increasingly lowbrow arsons

resident new york investigates which side of the net could be winning. 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 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 too and people see it on the internet they think it must be true oh i hope. we all reply a teachers 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 and sometimes they copy stuff that's just not true because the internet doesn't always write write write we don't look for it and they larry's. i think yes there is somebody who shows 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 that all of the world richer is worth reading you don't need all the. right so why are they doing that because people don't want to really. do you think that's a product of the information age you know i think every generation stories there always been people who didn't like to read that much arison can make you 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 hundred million years in use it as a gave to play and they really can actually use the old

advantages do you tax the lot yet do you taxed you or y o u for the word here just you like i shorten everything yet the admiral mike me dumber in school too. hey you even in school. you're not spelling as well as you sound now doesn't that scare you that that's the world that we're living in yeah. but we're young so we don't we don't think about it but they're not eat 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. right 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 hager lead which is responsible

for half of sudan's oil production the u.n. wants forces from both sides to withdraw behind borders and for violence to stop it's the worst fighting along the oil rich friend here since south sudan became independent us to live. a little just north korea marking one hundred years since the birth of the late kim il sung with mass organized celebrations in the capital pyongyang for the man who founded the nation in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight thousands gathered for a huge military parade where the current supreme leader kim jong un spoke in public for the first time so liberations came a day after a failed rocket launch brought international condemnation on the already isolated state. of. a truck tore through a talon southwest colombia after security forces forced the driver away from a police station vehicle was loaded with explosives and headed for the police post but was stopped by gunfire from officers forcing the driver to flee it's the fourth explosion since the start of the americas summit in bogota friday with visiting

leaders including president obama authorities have blamed before rebel groups for the bombing campaign. fireworks in greece but nothing to do with politics or economics instead of ancient tradition on the island of cheap. it's true church congregations and asian a so-called rocket war every easter the bell tower the arrival church the parish that scores the most hits wins but as tradition goes both sides claim victory only to agree to suddenly disappear next year. now to quieter easter festivities and the orthodox christians around the world celebrating their most important day of the religious calendar with the biggest service in or with the biggest service in russia held in the heart of moscow around six thousand attended at the christ the savior cathedral where the congregation included russia's president medvedev and prime minister putin easter celebrates the resurrection of christ and marks the end of forty days of lent parties tom party has zero easter services of the russian

orthodox tradition are designed to be both long services but also very beautiful services stylized markings of the key moments in the story of christ's death and his resurrection day a key moment of the service this is the east of vigil where the priests walk in a circle around the church holding candles and they also change their outfits three times during the service lot which represents lent through the purple which represents the passions of christ will through an old to go on which represents it was wrenching it's. the holy fire is also rives here in this easter as it has done since the eleventh century when it first made that journey for the church of the holy sepulture in jerusalem the story surrounding the fire is that a light shines through the roof of the church of the holy supple every easter in

jerusalem i'm somehow manages to light two candles one of which is brought to moscow and is 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 great lead seven weeks of fasting no meat and no dairy products but at the end it is time to bring out some special foods with a special connection to easter what is collidge a cake that's 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 after the long weeks of fasting and also that universal symbol of easter eggs many are painted it often shared with family members and all are taken

to priests at easter for blessing with holy water and they'll be shared around by orthodox families the world over as will list phrase in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches and their 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 for additional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. up to date with all our stories on the back with a recap of our current headlines in a few minutes. suppose

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