chavis wins a snap election in the country but only by the narrowest of margins. bated breath across asia as north korea bugs the high point of its calendar its founder with many worried that pyongyang may become held to demonstrate its power. and a world renowned turkish piano player is back in court facing up to eighteen months in prison on blasphemy charges over several such constant tweets about islam and muslims. international news and comment live from moscow this is all she was reviewed heirship of oliver hello and a very warm welcome to the program so the end of late charges has won the

presidential election that is well that many in the legacy of the influential leader will continue but the margin between him and the opposition candidate enrique capricious was how extremely narrow with the vote split almost fifty fifty . days in the capital caracas for us with the latest. 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 for forty nine point zero seven percent for us this is out of a seventy eight point seven one percent participation and this is about ninety nine

percent of the votes counted already at this point initial reaction with little came out saying that the fight will continue the revolution work will continue alluding very much to google child mrs beauly varian revolution and had come out though. being very quite negative he came out saying that he 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 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 who wants 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 a big 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 support many people tell me of the kind of benefit that they have got again for fourteen years of having chavez 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. the border to find their dollar he was chosen by. heelys the same revolution we can go forward with moderates but with the crew if we can do nothing it's clear that for many people here who were staunch supporters of chavez a huge part playing here is the loyalty they have 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 early 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 us. why did you vote for the completeness well i vote for

a couple years because i think the venezuelan it's a better food there and he is the only one that going give us a better future i don't know birth means think you're ok you know what so as you heard her say actually that opinion is repeated in resonated among the supporters of a. they say that they again they want change from after fourteen years of google chavez and also it's noticeable that a lot of students and a lot of younger people who are also were coming out to districts a supporting him and voting for him. a need that is now with the helm of your parents' job the socialist legacy a country with some of the world's largest oil reserves and also. a good one standing having success of the infrastructure in double digits places of which its citizens are all to where. i'm at the lack of security skill in us and statistics many people have died the night you can't leave your hey this is a serious problem. i want change by corruption that's the brahman in venezuela the

corruption the base of the broader economy. everything old but brawling that have been it's really the corruption the oil price the price. 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 are still you are to know that across what has been a. professor miguel tinka solace at a mona college told us now lays ahead for madeira and where he might take the. 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 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 will see i think a continuity within that that's been part of the strength promoted by the chinese

administration and my little recall was the foreign minister in charge of chavez's foreign policy so i very much see continuity during this period. and as the polls closed and the action fever became to trade on the streets of venezuela the city's political struggle is still very much up and running on that into nut so the tweets not count of nicolas maduro husband compromised by the law and security of her you have to his group it was filled with vulgar messages in which the hikers claimed responsibility for the successful time and his picture was also replaced by a cold phrase exactly the same content to the twitter page of the ruling united socialist party have been as well that while the doers official website also became a target so the government the government claimed that talks were the result of the opposition is just bad. so this is all sense of ahead for you owner of the u.s. citizens taking tox avoiders to a whole new level they're giving out their american passports and becoming stateless just to flee from what they call on that tox distribution.

an official report into missiles trying that left twelve people dead including four children during last year's gaza will find these raided military generally acted with most professionalism that's coming up later this hour. a new grad test a missile launch even a military provocation are all on the cards today as north korea among the most important date and its kind and a day which experts say may push beyond young to demonstrate to its people the power of the knolls and this year is coincided with

a historically tense moment as pyongyang engages in a diplomatic standoff with the u.s. japan and south korea so will ships ring the north coast while its own missile stand ready on launching pads across the country but there have been overtures of late with washington declaring it's ready and willing to reach out to young young so long as it abandons its atomic arsenal. reports not 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 that's of course the north koreans will be celebrating in the streets in the other present military parades but the eyes of the world 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 a 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 do the possible test launch can be very very serious and could provoke a major conflict in the region stories are especially high because the doesn't seem to be any breakthrough in on the diplomatic level in the talks between the parties in volved on sunday young young again rebuffed the attempts by seoul 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 in south korea and north korea moreover the leaders are quite young and with they have obviously more news 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 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. a 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 a formation that north korea may be embarking on the space program so definitely be this crazy twist the crazy saga of grievances 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 world's attention centered squarely on the korean crisis the b.b.c. has been criticized for going just too far in search of a good story the breaking down cost corporation being accused of using students as human shields during a trip to north korea the network embedded undercover journalists with a group of british alumni visiting p. on gun a crime that could have seen many sent off to prison and you can find out the students reaction on board the b.b.c.'s got to say about it on t. dot com. also turkish piano prodigy heads the wrong nose with provocative tweets while israel shocks responsibility for an errant missile strike all that after the break.

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the book about international airport in the very heart of moscow. you're watching also you live from moscow welcome back a world renowned turkish pianist is going to court for a set time over towards allegedly insulting islam prosecutors cited several sarcastic messages about believers on the islamic heaven the charges were brought against brazil say for the first time in june last year a musician who has served as a cultural and boss of the european union deny thank you say shows and says he is surprised his country's treating him this way if found guilty he could face up to eighteen months in prison and this also has more if it all started full stop that could be signs the secular state of tech is increasingly dominated by the islamic ideals he said. history trip almost decades ago. all these years i thought murder

was a sin then i got new instructions from the good lord himself and his favorite language english the simpsons has kept its humor close to the bone for many years but for turkeys radio and television a supreme council in charge of monitoring media content it's now gone to far. more liberal. yes it's not an insult it's a joke but those who are more conservative may feel it and then we are of the protection of their beliefs this episode cost a company that broke lasted thirty thousand u.s. dollars the council dominated by the prime minister's party has fined the same media group for promoting smoking through allianz in america and your violence against women up to show it all over stones alexander without discussing. i can't imagine how celtic broadcasting 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 women of the republic says there is a lot of pressure on them the reform education system is split into three parts of four years it's the result thousands of girls leave school before the end encouraging your majesty 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 after 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 on me. 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 they don't want to. close visitors we are coming here for breakfast tourists come here it is good for travelers on earth often miss 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 to date seems the country's given itself up voluntarily one example could be the leaks drafts for new uniforms for flight attendants on turkish airlines they show the nation's image will be represented by long captains skirts below the knee and

autumn on style fast caps or two months to develop ultra religious. you know laws on sharia and there are many secular people in turkey a thing that you know we don't want such a rule and that's changing that's changing as a turk's that our troops way of life the secular way of life did not work in turkey turkey and ever gone has made impressive progress it's 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 of course you can read all about this story at his website and those much more that besides occluding. still be invisible hundreds in washington protests against the remote killers and sassy dot com with gold the inside track on the rise blaming us drones for the slaughter of people all over the globe.

and cyber special if at least three million viewers have disappeared from your account under the e.u. sponsored bailout deal all it seems is not lost so you can still only yourselves cypriot citizenship so had to r.t. dot com to learn all the things. an israeli military investigation into a missile strike in gaza that killed twelve people including ten members of the same family has said we 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 the report by the legal body of the israeli defense force says civilian deaths during the conflict were regrettable but that generally the israeli military acted with most professionalism and martin from the palestinian center for human rights believes the military hasn't put forward an adequate explanation for its action during the war and just about a warning for you you may find some of the following images disturbing 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 injuring 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 at the second cases of the actual family home which was targeted and it's ok stand by dad streets and cheering that taiga saying at for civilians were killed and another so. swear wounded 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 a wider problem and in fact already this year since january fourteenth civil cases which piece the hate choice that they showed 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. so international news stories of brave at least twenty two people have been killed and hundreds injured in the case of bomb attacks in towns in the north and some of the wrong most of the blasts were called bombs and one was settled by suicide bomber the explosions happened just days before citizens vote in provincial elections fourteen candidates have now been killed in the lead up to the poll. the u.s. and the philippines are conducting annual joint military exercises in the southeast asian country the drills involve eight thousand soldiers a set of military aircraft and three naval vessels they're being held despite a turns on some affair between the philippines and china over disputed territories in the south china sea. thousands of people have rotted in the center of the

spanish capital madrid demanding the cane be replaced with a democratically elected head of state the march marks the eight his second anniversary of the declaration of the last democratically elected republican the country later thrown out with the dictatorship of general franco a number of recent financial scandals have taken their toll on the popularity of the royal family. it's times today in the u.s. 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 petone of explains 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 to do it. and there are the really can be great tax advantages for people who want to give up their stuart citizenship it

might sound quite drastic but last year over eighteen hundred people did just that one hundred back their american passports some 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 that 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 give back his u.s. passport because he couldn't condone 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 yes what we've deployed nuclear weapons against the people of iran i said to myself then if the united states. commits another mass atrocity by deploying a nuclear weapon or say deploying chemical or biological weapons. i'm just going to give up my citizenship you know i give up on this country my kids now what is known as a stateless person as he didn't take any other citizenship despite now living in slovakia

you know the 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. his campaign promises to the contrary the others 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 our belin. coming up the latest edition of our

report on the haitian patient region of chechnya he. oh no who lazy bureaucratic and 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 conducts

more and i was 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. comes there are twenty people blooded limbs flying that that is totally ok for television unless they come in 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.

the news about international airport in the very heart of moscow. taxi driver is up to a month off lives and works in grozny the capital of the chechen republic. the city had been reduced to ruins by years of war. chechnya has survived two military operations to curb separatist militants and repel a clear danger from terrorist groups in the region this center was completely dead . and the most vicious fighting took place here the presidential palace was completely destroyed.