when is a snap election in the country but only by the narrowest of margins. bated breath across asia as north korea blocks the high point of its kind and the bad debt it's found out with many worried that young may be compelled to demonstrate its power. in the world renowned turkish piano player is back in court facing up to eighteen months in prison on blasphemy charges over several sarcastic tweets about islam and muslims. new song russia and around the world this is archie with me you hello and welcome to the program. and as the chavez has won the presidential election in venezuela meaning the legacy of the influential leader will continue but the margin between

him and the opposition candidates and retake a privilege was how extremely narrow with the vote split almost fifty fifty so artie's tests are see there is in the capital caracas with the latest for us. well first of all if you talk about the reaction coming from the supporters of mother roy it was almost instant as soon as the results were announced fireworks were going off cars were honking and people his supporters on the street very excited very happy of course about the results but there were there was a lot of waiting really hours of of anticipation people holding their breath because the net the margin really has been very very narrow let me just read to you the latest figures that we have it's fifty point sixty six percent. forty nine point zero seven percent this is out of a seventy eight point seventy one percent participation and this is about ninety nine percent of the votes counted already at this point initial reaction came out

saying that the fight will continue the revolution work will continue alluding very much to google child this is a very and revolution and had come out though. being quite negative he came out say that there were allegations of voting fraud and he wanted a recount which model had agreed to and it will be interesting to see how the supporters of this will react to this news especially since the margin is so narrow it's almost fifty fiftieth's almost half of the country we know that had campaigned really on the platform evoking who really it was at the core and you have to want something new wanted a change in direction and it's evident you know that the diverse opinion of the two men is evident among the people we've spoken to a lot of them in the past few days are very enthusiastic very passionate about their belief the different direction they want to take a venezuela however what's clear though is that all the citizens regardless of who

they voted for a recount was all the problems that they want solved and without a charismatic character like chavez to ask assuage the fears of the concerns of citizens it will be a very very tough challenge for. first of all to unite. a very divided country a second of all to address the problems as we have been finding out in the past few days the campaign has not been long but neither has it been short on passion well we're here in a district that really has support for the. so-called successor of chavez as you can see from all the graffiti here the people really having a very festive attitude and a lot of them selling paraphernalia halley get chavez is really a bastion of chavez a support many people tell me of the kind of benefit that they have got gained for fourteen years of having to have as president talking about education talking about the social mischa's which really is a cornerstone of his popularity and the people here are very enthusiastic about

giving their opinion about why they support chavez let's talk to the gentleman over here and put him. on on. the border for their dollar he was chosen right. he leads the same revolution we can go forward with moderates but with cruz we can do nothing it's clear that for many people here who are staunch supporters of chavez a huge part of playing here is the loyalty they have missed and voting for nicolas maduro while over on the other side of the city where here in the district where the main opposition candidate and we kick up real this is the governor and expected he has a lot of support here most of the people that you see now on the street who have told me that they have indeed voted for a couple listen when you asked him why they did so the word that really comes so repeatedly from their answers is they want a change or let's talk to one of those who actually voted for completeness. why did you vote for the penis well i vote for a couple years because i think that when

a salon it's a better food there and he is the only one that going give us a better future i don't know means think you're ok you're welcome so as you heard her say actually bet opinion is repeated in resonated among the supporters of a. they say that they again they want change from after fourteen years of who go chavis and also it's noticeable that a lot of students and a lot of younger people who are also were coming out into districts a supporting him and voting for him. a new that is now at the helm of your parents' job this is socialist legacy a country with some of the world's largest oil reserves and also nation if you want to stand in problems such as providing infrastructure and double digit inflation of which its citizens are all too aware. of them and lack of security skill in us and statistics prove many people have died at night you can't leave your hey this is a serious problem. i want change by corruption that's the brahman but as for the

corruption the base of the broader economy. everything old but brawling that have been it's really the corruption the oil price the high. the government you know has a lot of. of probably its spending so we are in a lot of that. we now know the winner but the narrow victory has left venezuela polarized the new leader to go back us traces an uphill battle not just to mend the country's economy and improve living standards but also to match up his charismatic predecessor who casts a very long shadow not just within the country but beyond its borders as well just our cilia are to look at our costs with his mother. and professor as sound is said to promote a coalition told us what now lays ahead from a do or under way you might take minnesota. i think it tells us that there are real

problems in venezuela and that mother will have a very short period in which she has to begin to address these issues or will have to will have a confronting a crisis within his own party and among his own supporters he has to address head on the question of crying the question of inflation the question of infrastructure has a real issues that affect real venezuelans and although they felt the pain for a job is a significant number also now begin to criticize and to see that we need to actually carry through and implement change we're going to see a continuation of venezuelans foreign policy i think there's a difference between criticizing us and being anti american i think we'll see a promotion of latin american policy the promotion of a multi-polar world that is the u.s. is not the dominant issue on their agenda they have relations with russia with china with europe with that with latin american countries and we'll see i think a continuity within that that's been part of the strength promoted by the chinese administration and my little boy who should recall was the foreign minister in

charge of chavez's foreign policy so i very much see continuity during this period . so the polls closed and election fever seems to become phasing on the streets of in his other cities the political struggle is still very much up and running on the internet so twitter account of nicolas maduro has been compromised by the laws security of peru to his group so it was filled with a vulgar messages and wish to claim responsibility for the successful time there and his profile picture was also replaced by a troll face so exactly the same happened to the twitter page of the ruling united socialist party have been his wild wild manure is official website also became a target so the government claimed that tonks were the result of the opposition's dispatch. this is all she and so ahead for you this hour of the u.s. citizens taking talks a borden's to a whole new level they're giving out their american passports and becoming tejpal

is all just a plea from will they call on that tugs distribution. and an official report into a missile strike that left twelve people dead including four children during last year's gaza war find these rate of military generally accident with utmost professionalism that's coming up later this hour. and you could test a missile launch or even a military provocation all on the constant as north korea marks the most important day and it's canada a day which experts say may push beyond young to demonstrate to its people the

power of the north and these here it's coincided with a historically tense moment as young engages in a diplomatic standoff with the u.s. japan and south korea warships and bring the north coasts while its own missiles stand ready on launching pads across the country but there have been overtures made with washington declaring it is ready and willing to reach out to pyongyang so long as it abandons its atomic also. reports from the borders of north korea. monday april the fifteenth is known as the day of the sun in north korea when the nation is celebrating its biggest holiday the birthday of the late leader the founder of the north korean republic kim il sung of course the north koreans will be celebrating in the streets in the other present military parades but the eyes of the world will of course be focused not on the celebrations and the festivities in north korea but on whether young will actually decide to hold missile test launches

now the latest reports are suggesting that pyongyang already has mid range missiles called must of done which would be able to hit a target at more than two and a half thousand miles and the reaction of the international community to the possible to launch can be very very serious and could provoke a major conflict in the region so worries are especially high because the doesn't seem to be any breakthrough in on the diplomatic level in the talks between the parties in involved on sunday yongbyon again rebuffed the attempts by saul to hold talks to resolve the issue or at the negotiations table saying that the proposal itself was nothing more than a crafty trick the leadership in most of the countries of the region china north korea and south korea are new. in south korea and north korea moreover the leaders are quite young and with they have obviously morden views on the world and it is

really unclear why china and south korea and japan are not mediating this conflict but clearly it is very interesting to see whether north korea will actually try to hold that this me solid test launches will be see that during the day some reports suggested that north koreans would want to do that on their late leader kim il sung's birthday as it's often happening in the countries like north korea when they want to show something to the world and they do it on a particular date which is memorable to the whole nation it is also interesting to see the transformation of north korea under the embargo under the sanctions which the country has been living in for many years already not only have they managed to build missiles to create missiles which could potentially be dangerous for the whole region and even reach the shores of the western shores of the united states but also there are speculation peculation and there is information that the north

korea may be embarking on the space program so definitely the this crazy twist the crazy saga of korean peninsula is continuing we're watching the situation here in the far east and we'll update our viewers with all the latest developments as we get them throughout the day. and with the while the tension centered squarely on the korean crisis the b.b.c. has been criticized for going just to fall in search of a good story they were to pass cooperation is the least of using students as human shields during a trip to north korea a network and bedded undercover journalist with a group of british alumni visiting pyongyang a crime that would have been many sent off to prison and you can find out the students reaction and all the b.b.c.'s got to say about it on a. the

book about international landlords in the very heart of moscow. welcome back this is our see a world renowned turkish pianist is going to court for a third time over towards allegedly insulting islam prosecutors scientists several a sarcastic messages about believers and islamic concepts of heaven they tried as war brought against brazil say for the first time in june last year a musician who has served as a cultural ambassador to the european union denies that he's a shows and says his surprised his country is treating him this way if found guilty he had to face up to eighteen months in prison and has also he's very afraid no sure of course now it could be signs the secular state of turkey is increasingly dominated by the islamic ideals it appeared to work at almost nine decades ago. all these years i thought murder was a sin then i got new instructions from the good lord himself in his favor language

english the simpsons has kept its humor close to the bone for many years but for turkey's radio and television a supreme council in charge of monitoring media content it's now gone too far. more liberal you can say that yes it's not an insult is a joke but those who are more conservative may feel it and then we'll go on to other of the protection of their beliefs this episode cost a company that broadcasted thirty thousand us dollars the council dominated by the prime minister's party has fined the same media group for promoting smoking through allianz in america and you know balance against women up to show it all over stones alexander who got discovered. i can't imagine how celtic broadcast world we've created for many turkish women real life is far more insulting to them than western movies at first glance they are free to wear and do what they want but the head of the group of women of the republic says there

is a lot of pressure on them. the reformed education system is split into three parts of four yes it's the result thousands of girls leave school before they and encouraging young marriages the state promotes heaven at least five kids only three out of ten women today go to work it's far from a democratic model of society. turkish opposition says there is a dangerous tendency here nine decades off to turkey broke with islamic rule of the ottoman empire in favor of a ninety clerical pro western vision the ideas and values that were jacked it appear to some to be making a comeback becoming only system that tells you what to do what to do what not to do. what not to eat what to eat with islamic ideas comes islamic symbols this form of greek also books church on the turkish plexi coast is currently a museum no service has been held here for fifty years but so on its walls will

once again reign with the sound of prayer this time not led by priests but any mom it's quite a religious conversion a seven century old christian heritage site is about to become a mosque and from that point on will only be open to muslim men access for women will be restricted if they don't want to. close visitors we are coming here for brick for those tourists come here it is good for travelers on their earth often miscue around there i think there are enough i guess sophia has already been used as a mosque durance long history after the ottoman sultan conquered turkey today it seems the country's given itself up voluntarily one example could be the leaks drafts for new uniforms for flight attendants on turkish airlines the shoe the nation's image will be represented by a loan cap turns skirts below the knee and autumn in style fast caps or two months

to develop ultra religious so the. you know laws on sharia and there are. in a secular people in turkey a thing that you know we don't want such a rule and that's changing changing. our troops way of life the security of life did not work in turkey turkey and erdogan has made impressive progress its economy's booming and its role in the region and internationally is increasing but other things are happening too which could put societies journey into reverse. from turkey. and you can read all about this story at our sees website and there's more there besides including. the stop the invisible war hundreds of washington protests against the remote killers at r.t. dot com with gold the inside track on the rallies claiming you have the problems with the slaughter of people all over the globe. and cyprus special

if at least three million euros have disappeared from your account under the e.u. sponsored bailout deal all it seems is not lost you can still early yourself cypriot citizenship so had to compliment all the details that. and israeli military investigation into a missile strike in gaza that killed twelve people including ten members of the same family has said it will not launch a criminal probe into the incident four young children died in that time during israel's military offensive in november last year so they were poor but only put out by the legal body of these really defense force a civilian deaths during the conflict were regrettable but the training early the israeli military acted with utmost professionalism and martin from the palestinian center for human rights believes the military hasn't put forward an adequate explanation for its actions during the war and just a warning for you may find some of the following images disturbing that. there were two cases which were closed in this way the one case is the case of the family

which is one of the. most enduring images of the offensive in november where there were twelve civilians killed and a further six were wounded there were five children of the family that the second cases of the show a family home which was targeted and it's located on baghdad streets and you're in that target saying four civilians were killed and another six were wounded very spend very little explanation as to why these cases have been closed israel has made merely stated that they weren't no prosecutions it's part of a wider problem and in fact already this year since january or thirteen civil cases which p.c. hate. on behalf of victims of operation cast lead have also been dismissed and of course operation cast that happened four years ago so we're facing ongoing impunity for both about offensive and the offensive in november there's been

a number of changes to the israeli legal system which have made it practically impossible for palestinian victims to achieve any form of justice some international news in brief this hour at least five people have been killed and double the injured in a spate of attacks across the north over wrong it's thought most of the bloss will car bombs and one was settled by suicide bomb on the explosions happened just days before citizens vote in provisional elections so fourteen candidates have now been killed in the lead up to the poll. and then to militant politician has been killed in a bomb a child by the taliban in northwest pakistan just a month before parliamentary elections in the country is some of the explosive device was set off by remote control as the party official got into his car a second bomb a town by the biggest on a taliban also in the country's north wounded a member of the provincial assembly along with three of his advisors.

thousands of people have run it in the center of the spanish capital madrid demanding because they were placed with a democratically elected head of state in march marks the eighty second anniversary of the declaration of the last democratically elected republican the country later thrown out with the dictatorship of trying all franco a number of recent financial scandals have taken that toll on the popularity of the royal family that. its tongues day in the your us which means people are preparing to lighten their wallets to call it square with the government but while taxes are often seen as the price to pay for living in a civilized society many believe the amount people have to stump up is not distributed fairly he's based on a very explains no. taxes no one likes paying them but in the us some are willing to go the extra mile to avoid it there are many people who consider it there are people that do it. and there are good really can be great tax advantages for people

who want to give up theirs to u.s. citizenship it might sound quite drastic but last year over eighteen hundred people did just that one hundred buck their american passports so high profile names were among them kung fu star jet li felt he was taking a pounding from the i.r.s. so swap his u.s. citizenship for the us of singapore joining him there is facebook co-founder eduardo saverin who avoided a tax bill of around forty million dollars by doing so. once you've made the decision to give up your citizenship what happens if you change your mind just how easy is it to get back again as long as it isn't found that you gave up your citizenship pretty much purely for tax reasons certainly possible but it's not painless you have to go through this process again authorities are considering introducing tougher laws against the. tax if you will now through u.s.

citizenship and it is determined that you've done this pretty much purely for tax reasons you could face serious issues with regard to ever returning to the united states but is that the only reason people give for renouncing citizenship mike good ski gave my kids u.s. passport because he couldn't the direction the country was taking two thousand and eight there was a lot of talk in the news about. america going to leave all options on the table with respect to iran's nuclear program which of course was code for us where we've deployed nuclear weapons against the people of iran i said to most of the. if the united states. commits another mass atrocity by deploying a nuclear weapon or say deploying chemical biological weapons. i'm just going to give up my citizenship i just you know give up on this country my kids know what is

known as a stateless person as he didn't take on any other citizenship despite now living in slovakia you know the thing and zone is obviously a great place to be for somebody in my situation because if you're going to be in a cage as i say this is a very nice one europe is lovely he says he has no regrets about the decision you know we've got drone killings without warrant of even american citizens and whoever you know and their relatives overseas we've got you know the president has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined despite his campaign promises to the contrary. you know there's a laundry list i don't need to go specifically into obama i think this is a it's a feature of the system be it for tax purposes or personal reasons like mike the number of people choosing to jump ship has risen eight fold since two thousand and

eight making it a serious choice for a growing amount peter all of a c. . and as he's called is coming up next. oh no who lazy bureaucratic trivial censorship strikes again but this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put fines on individuals and legal and to these for using vulgar already. in the media one major flaw of many with this is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vogue or i guess these words are so awful that they cannot even write them down i'm not naïve there has always been and will always be censorship but this where word list is just

silly there is a common expression on the russian internet that russian mainstream media connects up more and i is ation of society russian t.v. does have all the bloody violent action movies as well as scandalous talk shows which are kind of like freak shows and plenty of reality t.v. where young people pretty much act like subhuman animals in a cage they've got all that so the government is basically saying that if some guy on t.v. because there are twenty people blooded limbs flying that that is totally ok for television unless they come out for bid swear while doing it you can show brainless materialistic dimwits sleeping and fighting with everything that moves on a reality show but if they say that one magic three letter russian word then it is over the line this is not a logical way to conduct censorship but that's just my opinion.

about international that in the very heart of moscow. is. welcome to cross the considered i'm peter lavelle whistle blowers are they an endangered species governments around the world routinely training deploy hackers to launch the fifty k. did cyber attack.