north korea go flying as if exactly conducted that said nuclear test defying a ban from the the world body will hold an emergency meeting of the security council later today. also this hour with the pope throwing in the papal towel experts question the legacy of the outgoing benedict the sixteenth i would sex abuse scandals plaguing the catholic church worldwide. security forces were probably yet another topic on the presidential palace in cairo with tear gas and water cannons as a self styled on of his group's imagines as a key player in the regime street. does iran holds a new round of talks with atomic inspectors will call for

a lack of basic medicine due to sanctions has many lives in the country humming by its read. this is coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. breaking news story north korea has confirmed carrying out its third underground nuclear test it says it was aimed against what it called outrageous you us hostility the communist state is already under a set of international sanctions and had been banned from any atomic activities by the yuan the country had previously carried out two nuclear tests and is believed to possess a small stockpile of nuclear weapons an emergency meeting of the view on security council is to convene later today and journalist every margolis as pyongyang is

simply lashing back at military pressure on its borders. north korea always reacts very strongly to what it calls provocations with the u.s. either sends more forces there or particularly every year the u.s. and south korea hold joint military exercises which are clearly a war games and aimed at attacking north korea and north korea's been almost crushed by the u.s. sanctions more limited nuclear arsenal which we should understand is really designed for defensive purposes this is a hallmark of north korea's national pride and independence of north korea's not about to launch a nuclear war against the united states inspired work around one reads in the western media it's very important for north korea to conduct another underground test if it wants to have a credible no clear deterrent force and that that's its objective if you don't test

people won't believe that you actually have a nuclear warhead that you can send there been a lot of question about north korea's previous nuclear tests that they have fizzled they haven't produced full of explosive power so this is the obvious course for north korea once it has perhaps four missiles that can deliver a light weight were it north korea will will be able to proclaim that it can defend itself and it will feel more secure and asia specialists to tame bail things for and sanctions will fail to rein in north korea's nuclear ambitions as pyongyang can only be at peace through negotiations. i don't know if anyone in the in the american new toppling really thinks they know will and in fact they say what they claim they think they will say it's really uncertain no country really changes

policy on the sanctions the alternative the boches being quiet them is worse than the sanctions and that is the case that. north korea in the sense could could surrender to could acquiesce to american arms. but that in fact narrow eyes worse than what the americans can do to them was actually so they will they are severe. severe until the americans down to the negotiating table. whether that will happen because look the matter. and let's hear about russia's reaction to this from this kind of who is here joining me live in the studio how are they your so we've heard we've heard international reaction coming in fast so what's the foreign ministry has to say that well see russia and north korea are neighbors in this port of there in that area so any nuclear tests

on north korean territory quite an important issue for russia these are questions of possibly even national security and moscow is one of the key negotiators when it comes to the north korean nuclear program so the foreign ministry stands trickly on north korea. working on lee in accordance with all the u.n. security council resolutions which stand against any nuclear test so moscow has condemned this latest nuclear test that has been conducted in north korea but the thing is south korea is also calling for the u.n. security council to have a next. meeting so this is a very important issue for everybody but the thing is apparently north korea does have nuclear technology now a nuclear weapon so you may like it or not but i guess the international community will just have to find ways to work with north korea because these tests rule out

any possible military intervention you go thank you very much indeed for that update and of course we'll be all be gauging more reaction from the russian foreign ministry as well as the international community on that matter thank you. and we're able shawn has shaken the catholic world after pope better sixteen hours to he would step down from office at the end of the month in the papal abdication and sentries the development of followed a series of allegations about the point of trying to hush up sex abuse scandals plaguing the catholic church across the globe piece on a house. well it's described by one cardinal as a lightning bolt from a clear blue sky it certainly caught some of benedict's most senior advisers on the hope his spokes person said that it being left flabbergasted by the news that the pope will be stepping down at the end of the month now benedict is eighty five

years old obviously not a young man but the cardinals knew that when they elected him and he was supposed to be there for a lot longer than this i think they would have thought it's not unprecedented but it's not really done that often in fact the last time a pope stepped down was six hundred years ago it's certainly not been an easy ride it's not been the longest papacy just under eight years but in that time the certainly being plenty of drama no nice includes one of the one of the reasons that benedict said that he has to step down as he thought his age made him physically and in some cases mentally unable to deal with the everyday life of being the pope in the modern world one of the series of scandals that we've seen involve the so-called vatileaks similar to wiki leaks a series of documents that were distributed online which well apparently showed a cd a series of shady dealings done by the vatican this type of thing of course not something

your average eighty five year old has to deal with but they included. including the fact that the vatican colluded with silvio berlusconi's government in italy to try and get pressure taken off the church of rome to paying taxes on properties which it own and there is also a list that was published of well less than savory clients for the vatican bank which included some people alleged to be sicilian mafia bosses and of course one of the major scandals that is will be remembered for benedict's papacy concerns child abuse now in his previous job before he became pope he was essentially regarded as the john paul of seconds papal bulldog he was the defender of the doctrine of fair for faith and not role he is accused of covering up sexual abuse scandals all around the world but also here in germany in fact in recent times

there's been further controversy over this as the church here in germany canceled an investigation into child abuses that range but the 1940's since stopped that investigation apparently according to the man who was conducting it because they weren't happy with what would be made public so there's certainly been controversy and it will be something that's picked over for a long time to come after benedict steps down at the end of this month and barbara doris the child abuse can paint as as the outgoing pope has failed to solve the core problems within the catholic church. we believe that he uttered words he said there was filth in the priesthood he apologized to the victims but he took no action he didn't discipline a single church official for hiding enabling children to predators or you know moving them from country to country from diocese to diocese so until he does that

nothing has changed and we believe the words were just empty empty promises if the people be protected these predators are promoted by cardinal law was in boston the scandal was huge and yet cardinal law managed to land in in the vatican allen the most powerful committees that exist within the vatican so to the message we believe he sent was if you are unable shield and protect the predators you will be rewarded and we don't feel that's the right message we feel that he should be taking action we have a bishop in the united states that was convicted of child endangerment and is still being allowed to run a diocese what kind of a message is that to send to the world i would expect more of the same since those that enable and shield and protect continue to be promoted to continue to be given the most powerful positions within the vatican the message is clear if you follow the company line if you keep this secret if you put the reputation of the church

above this of the children then you will be promoted what a terrible message to send many people no longer trust church officials like they did in the past and that's a very sad statement that you can't trust your bishops. and of course we're always interested in hearing your thoughts so head to our web site to vote on the catholic church's future after pope benedict the sixteenth of may his final balcony appearance at the vatican and here is how you've been voting so far so two thirds of you literally don't have any faith in the institution or its leadership a little under a quarter say when the white smoke rises above the vatican it will be benedict who gone and forgotten it seems only five percent believe this to be a moment a new testament if you like consigning all the scandals and allegations to history while in equal amounts believe the catholic church has been caught so unawares of the falling on his holy sword so it will have absolutely no idea who to replace him

with so do tell us what you think at r.t. dot com. i am. going to leave. the place in cairo i have been trying to repel attacks against the presidential palace with tear gas and water cannons after gives howard sterns and days crowns the banners followed a march by thousands of demonstrators hokies egypt's current leader of repression and tightening his grip on power the protests take place on the second anniversary of the toppling of hosni mubarak as i first saw over the country last across three

decades meanwhile a trips public prosecutor orders their arrest of a muslim cleric for saying the natives of the opposition should be condensed to death under islamic law of course to overthrow president morsi and earlier i spoke to author and journalist ransey bird who believes the country has become immensely parise. for the last two years egypt has not been allowed to have a strong central government that is key booboo pushing the political process forward and thus the economy of the country the social cohesion and everything else as a result you have the huge vacuum and this polarization and that is allowing egyptian society to be open for exploitation what has been happening is not exactly a popular a unified popular uproar against the addictive nature but rather a political polarization that has swept through the country for the last two years

reaching the point of both sides justifying violence against one another and as a result you have this this. using number of casualties some of it indeed due to police brutality and group calling itself the blog blog that has a much to as a new force in this latest string of clashes and we had a chance to speak now to one of its members lets out have a listen. we call upon the interior ministry to deliver justice for those who have been killed and we will continue our demands until they are met our actions are in self-defense we are protecting ourselves but have never attacked anyone no one listens to our demands and the proof is the number of people who are being killed so do you believe in the peaceful nature behind the intentions of these young men and blind. no not at all there is a possibility that in sound and the are outside those who are trying to brother and fuel to the fire that is already. taking over egypt at least in the urban centers

from cairo to boresight it's a phenomenon that i think resulted from the frustration disenfranchisement and just the general feeling of betrayal that the youth of egypt are feeling right now the issue is not the black bloc in particularly but why would they even appeal to the youth of egypt in the first place unless there was that vacuum and there was that the need that was a created by the lack of sensuality and the lack of confidence in the political process in egypt with or coming from the government or from the so-called opposition. still to come this hour sanctions do have an effect where we assume we're told are going to national restrictions on a run of fatally leading to more when will people being denied basic medical aid that store and north just ahead.

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is. the u.n. nuclear watchdog is holding another round of talks with iran on its atomic program after a failed negotiations last month the only way hopes this time to convince to iran to open up its the senate is suspected of making bombs they trances main focuses they parchin military base as find ways believes iran test of explosives relevant to the production of nuclear weapons iran denies all western accusations insisting its program was meant for power and the magical however increasingly severe international sanctions up hurting a squeeze on everyday life and making it harder for rain is stopped in basic medicine and. reports now from tehran the drug deficit in many cases leads to

a lethal outcome. well behind this smile lies pain and despair a bason a run in with blood a cancer has just received his medicine but there is no guarantee he'll get it tomorrow all the best jokes about patients being patient but sadly has no choice. it's so hard to get treatment these days it's not that i don't get any at all but you have to wait a long time and if you get it that only means someone else has missed. the reason for the drug shortage sanctions imposed by western countries republic they're not directly targeting the from a suitor call on medical sectors but they hate bangs his trade restrictions attack . unfortunately many foreign companies stopped selling us drugs they're not allowed to have created relations with iran and people prayed to price with their lives.

iran's officials warn it may have an impact far beyond its borders. if we have a disease or pedantic and are unable to vaccinate the population it could spread easily to neighboring countries and that there are too many outside iran. iran produces ninety six percent of its own medicine that the roma tears for half of them come from abroad more than fifty vital medicines have disappeared from a running conversation since international sanctions came in because the foreign in britain c m a from can no longer make their way into iran people with cancer and jim ophelia wait often ended with bad news that their drug is not available their chances of survival are getting ever slimmer as sanctions heat patients instead of politicians officials estimate a total of six million iranian patients could be in danger because of the drug deficit in the vendor local and international media reported on the first death

apparently caused by the shortage. a fifteen year old boy who suffers from hemophilia couldn't get the medicine he desperately needed despite a friend to by his family and he died in hospital on a. the west you know used predator now they tried sanctions on the military sector they realized we actually started making progress there but they wanted to weaken destabilize the country and the government is their aim this is why they now target people so that people get angry and take to the streets protesting that. and people indeed take to the streets this is a meeting of organ donors and some whose lives have been saved by transfer funds a process now complicated by the like of medicine for that such as. i thank god and the donor who return me to life i had heart problems and now his heart beats in my chest and i'm again a lie but the problem is that many too many are still waiting surgery became

extremely expensive and the number of donors decreased will they have enough time. to run in doctors find themselves facing a very hard to to ration having to decide who will get the medicine and who will not in this race and they wrote an s.o.s. letter to the un chief they're still waiting for an answer brief an ocean r.t. from iran. recent studies in britain suggest the country's most rapidly growing demographic is muslim and the trends star in trouble with native brits who say that governments to scared to face the problems caused by the immigration point of work i went to investigate. it's what britain is known for a vibrant multicultural society and it looks like u.k. babies are testimony to it in east london seventy seven percent of new mums were born in britain nicoletta is from romania two thousand and seven i have been here

when my husband together so. i'm through him to sit cine recently moved here from sri lanka and it is a big. deal that is more dear he. has three children i was born in bangladesh could do to keisha good living standard of living so here prefer to live in you kid overseas london is so ethnically diverse that white britons and now a minority here as well as in three other british cities between the years of two thousand and one and two thousand and eleven nearly four million immigrants came to the u.k. as part of an immigration boom under the former labor government at the time westminster said that britain needed working migrants to propel the economy this is tower hamlets in east london a third of the residents here a bangladeshi in fact they outnumber the white brits in this area by two thousand

people so if you want to just say that they're baffled at just how quickly the number of indigenous brits has diminished over the past decade some put it down to a case of white flight they say that caucasian brits i'm moving out of the country's most diverse areas there are people in this country who have racist motives who simply don't want people because of the color of their skin. in the city but there are a lot of genuinely decent people who do have concerns that even the labor party has discovered recently that the vast majority of people is right those who would. actually vote. for the labor party have conserves and that's something that no government can ignore the leader of the opposition labor party recently admitted that his party got it wrong on immigration and to those who lost out we were too

quick to say like it's all input the truth is the public were ahead of us in seeing some of the problems of migration because they were seeing them in their own communities. and they were ahead of us in seeing the costs of migration as a whole poll after poll shows that the people living here are worried about the speed and the size of the influx. for my opinion i don't think you. need more immigrants at the moment i do love the movie. critics say the government is too frightened to address what person will look like in fifty years time it's going to look like. it's going to be a complete population change the indigenous population is shrinking anyway the younger generation and the younger muslim generation is becoming increasingly radicalized and i think it's been. about twenty

twenty five twenty. demographers say that if immigration continues on a similar scale the white british population throughout the country will become a minority after twenty sixty six but with less than half of londoners already describing themselves as white british some say that a quiet and irreversible revolution has already taken place in britain. at sea east london. where uk obama is set to deliver his first state of the union address of his second term with immigration gun control and the troubled economy high on that trend the president's also expected to touch upon america's foreign policy as the u.s. administration seeks to justify the killing of terror suspects including american citizens with a drone strikes abroad and human rights lawyer stanley cohen says these targeted assassinations are actually. we're not at war in pakistan we're not it war in yemen

we're not at war in lebannon we're not in war in somalia if you want to clear war if you want to follow international law if you want to make your case you play by the rules the fact of the matter is no matter what you call this it's murder it's assassination it's illegal we're talking about murdering civilians we're talking about attacks by drones in countries that are our allies if there were a person is there that we all want that are wanted american citizens yemenis citizens pakistanis citizens somali citizens for crimes here you go to the countries yeah extradite him you charge him you bring him to trial the united states under international law cannot must not enough to no stretch of the imagination is justified in the use of drones in the execution and the extrajudicial assassination of not just americans of anyone overseas for years we

have charged people we have extradited people we've indicted people we've convicted many people charged with crimes of terrorism and it's worked before but this is an administration which is a namrud with clean murder with clean killing that's what president obama likes and now we're just trying to clean it up further. now they ns and downs of the wont of big money on to the microscope next to nazi and they kind of have a poet.