majority. and it will be. keeping a close. we have a look at who is eyeing up the nation's. immigration is of the founding fathers birthday passes by peacefully in north korea approving the occasion. with misguided. and a. ten month suspended sentence so first series of tweets. taking hold of the country.

a pleasure to have you with us here today. live in moscow with your worldwide news in unexpectedly close race venezuelans look to have voted for. success as the next president elect. suggests that chavez is socialist policies will live on after his death from cancer however rival and his refusing to concede and demanding a recount because figures show he's only about two hundred thousand votes behind. the latest report from caracas. talk about the reaction coming from the supporters of mother oh 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 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 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 this is a very and 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 you know that model had a campaign really on a platform invoking. 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 to solve and without a charismatic character like us to ask assuage the fears of the concerns of citizens it will be a very very tough a challenge. first of all to unite a very divided country a second of all to address the problems. now as well as a presidential choice is of great interest abroad as the country sits on one of the world's biggest oil reserves let's talk about a further with aussies business analyst. and it's going now joining us live here on r.t. good to see you today basically trying to sort out the presidential election in venezuela but as they are sorting out the ballots and trying to get a possible recount oil thirsty nations around the world are keeping a very close watch absolutely and of course for good reason as well is actually a very juicy morsel when it comes to oil and gas especially oil it has a whopping two hundred ninety seven billion barrels of oil reserves comparable only

to saudi arabia and actually even higher than saudi arabia which is the world's leading or energy exporter now when it comes to exporting oil it's actually ninety five percent of its export revenues come from energy so that really makes russia's energy dependency pale in comparison so essentially it's a dime in the rough relatively low production levels but a huge potential there huge potential there they just need to. get i suppose of the labor working there and also the infrastructure to get the oil out from underneath the ground but there regardless of what we understand that my daughter who has won the election in venezuela his rival cup really is calling for a recount regardless natasha of who actually takes the top job in venezuela politics how could that affect the energy policy that well the fact could actually be dramatic when we do it's more or less clear a lot of policy continuity and of course we're probably going to see the left as

governments in latin america continue to receive support now with caprice as it's not as clear we could see a complete about face when it comes to energy policies but even if. we see that at the moment that. everything stays as it is it's really a signal that previous has a lot of support not only within that as well but also outside of the country and of course you know u.s. energy companies cannot wait to get back into the country have to being kicked out of there when you talk about u.s. companies or as you were saying earlier with venezuela having such a huge reserve of oil for the world there must be some major global players who are keeping an extraordinarily close watch on venezuela right well essentially it's a fight between russia and the united states with china also being a major player they are not markets u.s. companies as i mentioned were kicked out starting in the seventy's when the oil and gas sector was nationalized but really that policy was cemented during charges

ironically it's still the biggest consumer of venezuelan oil but it's really trying to get back into the country now russia has a major presence there all of the country's oil and gas companies have long term contracts in venezuela and of course china is a huge investor just several years ago china's state owned bank agreed to lend venezuela a whopping forty billion dollars against future crude sales so there you go interesting stuff indeed we'll have to see of this port all pans out of business analyst. pleasure thanks for coming on today. well if indeed a moderator was inaugurated as president of venezuela is likely to continue its strong ties with latin american allies while continuing to pursue an anti american sentiment that's the view of the professor of latin american history i think of solace. well i think 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 will 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 with latin american countries and we'll see i think a continuity within that that's been part of the strength promoted by the chavez administration and my little we should recall was the foreign minister in charge of chalices foreign policy why i think the opposition will definitely be emboldened by the may have a small window to operate the venezuelan constitution permits a recall within three years i wouldn't doubt that unless my little gets traction and addresses these issues significantly and quickly the opposition may mount a challenge again in three years that's what they did to which i was in two thousand and four this is a north korean celebration commemorating its founding fathers birthday are over and fears of a missile launch to mark the occasion have proven unfounded in fact appealing and didn't even hold a military parade showing off its military might something that's become an annual

tradition. the reports from russia's far east. the birthday of the late leader the founder of the country kim il sung could have seen missile test launches coming from the country as all the most of the world media has been reporting the day has now finished here in the far east and we have seen no missiles flying above us in the sky moreover new slow coming from north korea has been practically nonexistent on this day there has been no reports whatsoever even on diplomatic level apart from the fact that north koreans were celebrating their biggest holiday the id it on the day of the sun now such developments have led many experts especially online to believe that this is just another example of how north korea was turned into a media target for the western world for the western media everyone was so excited so crazily reporting about the possible missile test missile launch date that everyone just basically neglected the fact that north korea wasn't really willing

to conduct of those test launches but at the same time the recent history of media coverage of events happening in north korea have created some concerns whether the threat which is being portrayed by the western media is really having anything to do with the reality let it be some war mongering rhetoric coming from pyongyang or even a visit by the former n.b.a. player dennis rodman or google officials to pyongyang everything which relates to north korea creates something of a big scandal in the western media anywhere across the world. well the north koreans our lack of military action is once again leading to questions over the billions of u.s. dollars spent in preparation for conflict something some experts believe is provoking pyongyang even further let's take a look now at the figures and see according to some estimates at least twelve billion dollars are being spent annually on what america calls maintaining peace on the peninsula well apart from that some of the money goes towards keeping almost

thirty thousand american troops in south korea and i just to give you an example of how much the joint drills that anger the north could have cost or just dispatching two stealth bombers to drop dummy bombs well that may well have cost the u.s. taxpayer six billion dollars although with the world's attention focused now on the korean crisis the b.b.c. is under fire for pushing the boundaries of ethics in pursuit of a good story that the u.k.'s top financial school is accusing the british broadcasting corporation of endangering the lives of its students using them to covertly shoot a documentary or the network embedded undercover journalists with a group of students visiting pyongyang and charlie beckett from the london school of economics who also used to work for the b.b.c. he told me a bit earlier he believes the corporation has gone too far. north korea is a very important story

a moment and it's very difficult to get in there so all journalists have to use to seat in a way if they're going to get into north korea it's reported what i think though happened here was that the b.b.c. went too far in not just deceiving the north koreans but deceiving both the students and the london school of economics that the students are addictive verbal consent some of them. at a late stage of the trip but there's never anything written down so the process is weren't followed properly the b.b.c. says that that was a risk worth taking because the public interest to get in a great story out would be worth it we're not so convinced we think that we worked way to see whether this documentary goes out tonight is so remarkable that it tells us things that we wouldn't have known and i would argue there were other ways of

going in normally this going on and acting as tourists the difficulty of the elysee in this in particular is not just the risk to these students which was real but also to the risk to the real elysees reputation. this is all a t. still ahead for you in the program israel commemorates its fallen soldiers and celebrates its hard for independence from six decades ago the shadow of the ever present palestinian conflict looms large as it ever has more on that story after a very short break.

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thank you for joining us here on r t today just a moment on the world update israel's marking memorial day for its fallen soldiers which will be followed by celebrations for the forming of the state over sixty years ago. ceremonies will be held at a time when peace with the neighboring palestinian territories seems as far away as ever blog from the independent plus nine seven two magazine he thinks that ignoring problems has become a whole mock of israel's policy people are not celebrating you know the absence of peace talks of the presence of or absence of hope they're there celebrating everything but that basically they're forgetting about you know politics they're forgetting about relations with the palestinians or syria every everything that's sort of a new style in israel to simply forget about all she's just going on for several years most of the public doesn't want to think about it doesn't deal with doesn't see anything that can be done so it's it's basically a country living in denial and that's what that's what's going to be happening

after this evening and tomorrow in the on independence day celebrations people will forget about all the things that are not happening all the things that are not going well and enjoy have a good day there's a lot of things to celebrate in israel that have nothing to politics. right now particularly at this hour civilian deaths justified. an official report into a missile strike that killed twelve palestinians including four kids during last year's gaza war the report. with utmost professionalism. from human rights organizations all. sale in cyprus. disappeared from your account to pay for the e.u. bailout although last citizenship is compensation the full story on our website.

this is a ten month suspended prison sentence has been handed down in turkey to a composer and pianist for a series of tweets that mark is. charged with denigrating religion in june of last year facing up to eighteen months behind bars at the time the musician once a cultural ambassador to the e.u. is a high profile critic of the islamic law. and says it's punishment is purely political . explains one rejected conservative islamic ideals are returning to the country. trying to become a member of the european union. all these years i thought murder was

a scene then i got new instructions from the good lord himself in his favor language. has kept its humor close to the bone for many years between television a supreme council in charge of monitoring media content it's now down to. are you feel more liberal you can say that yes it's not an insult it's 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 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 after showing oliver stone's alexander without discovering. i can't imagine how celtic broadcasting world will be 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 reformed education system is split into three parts of four years it's the result thousands of girls live score 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 miscue around there i think there are enough i guess sophia has already been used as a mosque during sloan 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 in style fast caps or two months to develop ultra religious so the basic 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 turks that our troops way of life the secular way of life did not work in turkey turkey and every gun 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. to iraq to open up the ante world updated where at least thirty two are being filled and two hundred injured in a spate of bomb explosions it's thought that most of the blasts were car bombs with at least one attack carried out by a suicide bomber the explosions happened just days before provincial elections fourteen candidates have now been killed in the lead up to the poll. the deadline

passes today for thirty eight french ministers to publicly declare their assets and register will include a list of bank deposits on the property held by officials and president francois hollande came up with the idea to calm a scandal over the budget minister who was forced to resign last month he's been charged with tax fraud linked to a secret bank account. and forty seven people have been arrested outside the naval base in scotland housing the u.k.'s nuclear terror and the submarine mounted trident missiles the group called scrap trident as a rallying to demand the weapons a disarmed and the funds rather spent on disability benefits education and welfare and the earlier stages similar protest in the center of glasgow with trade union members scottish m.p.'s and anti austerity activists all taking part. now this week the u.s. senate will introduce a bipartisan bill allowing undocumented immigrants to apply for permanent residency

if they fulfill certain criteria but figures reveal the rising number of americans are actually giving up their own citizenship while tax reasons are being cited there are also those who see the action as a sign of protest against washington's foreign policy is that he's pretty all over reports. 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 go 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 there were 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 you 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 those who skip out 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. 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. 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 i give up on this country my kids now 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 in 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 half an hour's time it's bill daughter for now in just a moment it's crosstalk with people of.

all i know how lazy bureaucratic trivial censorship strikes again but this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put fire. individuals and legal and to these for using vulgar in the media one major flaw of many with this is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vulgar 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 could accept more and eyes 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 could forbid 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. download the official publication so choose your life stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't sit well with

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o n welcome to cross all things are considered i'm peter lavelle whistleblowers are they an endangered species governments around the world routinely train and deploy hackers to launch the physic aided cyber attacks against their real and imagined enemies but when individuals use some of these same tools to expose lies and government abuse they're labeled traitors in criminals is there a war on telling the truth. to cross out whistleblowers i'm joined by jeannie myrow in new york she is the president of the international association of democratic warriors and in washington we cross to mark levine he is a senior fellow with the truman national security project and talk radio host right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want j.d. is there a war against whistleblowers.