time and you were. virgins you're a skeptic you care independence party makes huge gains in local elections security over twenty percent of the vote sending a message to award the governing conservative party. usa you america is now considering sending weapons to rebels in syria amid reports of an alleged government led village months ago. five were killed in a baghdad bomb blast the latest deaths in iraq which is something one of the worst waves of violence is that was drawn of u.s. troops two years ago.

international news live from moscow this is actually with me you know shapovalov hello and welcome to the program returns governing conservative parties are dramatically losing seats in local council elections with the former political outside of the euro skeptic u.k. independence party making impressive gains early results show you kate has so far grabbed twenty six percent of the vote while coming second in the by election in south shields pushing the tories into third place on his party boy kerry's falling about as far as which could have long lasting repercussions for british politics. south shields used to be the seat of former labor foreign minister david miliband and it was seen as a real litmus test for how people are feeling at the moment and labor managed to keep hold of that seat but with ukip nipping at their heels so they've come in second and it's significant because what it shows is a pattern is emerging over the past six months ukip have come second in four by

elections most notably in eastley very recently and it's showing that you can't this was a party that was until very recently seen as marginal one senior conservative minister described it described them as clowns only very very recently but it looks like they're having the last last this is a party that's noticeably euro skeptic they want to see britain out of the european union they're not happy with the way brussels dictates policies for the u.k. how much money the u.k. treasury forks out for the european commission every month and the fact that they've got so much against shows how fragile the british people are with the political status quo in this country look pattern emerging is very clear the ruling coalition parties the conservatives i'm a liberal democrats have sustained losses in council seats quite significant ones in fact labor have made slight gains nothing to write home about this was really the night of the u.k. independence party why the count so far they looks like they've gained an average

of over twenty six percent of the vote in the wards where they were represented in so overnight we've seen a real change to the british political landscape because there are now going to be ukip councillors all over the u.k. some might end up holding quite significant power and it's you know this is a party as i said it was seen as a very marginal until very recently it was the place none of the above parties a place where people launched their protest vote because they were so fed up with the established status quo that the lib dems the can see. the labor party but that has all changed overnight we've seen nigel farage the leader of the u.k. independence party appearing on television this morning saying he's delighted with the results so far that he's he says that it really shows that ukip is a long lasting political party their success hasn't been short term and the chairman of the conservative party this morning had to concede that clearly their

party is failing to get their message across and they're going to have a think about what they can do to change that and let's now take a closer look at the early results we have the three main parties and the rising star of the show the u.k. it dependence party and so far the tories are down one hundred and nine seats there we go coalition partners the liberal democrats seem a little less humiliating loss of twenty five sees the labor party did but are there actually six to eight seats up and the unexpected success gold fifty two new council is widely viewed as a sign it could pose a threat to the three traditional parties of the twenty fifteen election under john gaunt broadcaster and columnist her recently joined the ukip himself explains why he feels the party is a better alternative. narry people working class citizens are fed up of the political elites and the political establishment who are running the country for

the past thirty or forty years ukip was a protest party just about being a member of the european union overnight has become a fully fledged political party it's got a fastest growing membership things but ten thousand new members on in the last couple of months because what people want is a party that's going to put the united kingdom first so they want things like they want to get out of the european union which clearly cost britain fifty two pounds a day to remember all they want to have control over their own borders we want to hold him a gratian and drastically reduce immigration over the next five years and if that's what resonates with the federal official politicians who are just further in the nets they want people who have come from all walks of life you have normal jobs. in the kingdom in a different way that's what's happened and as i say it's no longer just a protest vote this is a vote for change and the u.k.

is going to go into fundamental change over the next few years with more supporters of the three traditional parties allured away by u.k. britain's political landscape could be changing and we'll be watching the results rolling in throughout the day to keep ya dead. the wild ongoing economic woes and europe push some people in the hardest hit countries to build a life of crime the details of this meeting welcome to state this. to hold on for two years of fund if it's not considering whether to own this sewer and levels the dramatic twist comes a week after u.s. officials claimed to fund intelligence pointing to the use of chemical weapons by the seaward government washington's possible new approach when the ripples that president assad's forces have carried out and the alleged massacre in the village he's going to cities so far the administration has been reluctant to arm the rebels directly old though its allies have been doing that for the past two years there have been persistent reports of increasing radicalization of anti assad forces you

have an al qaeda affiliated group operating there and the opposition generally welcomes their efforts of the concerns are there now the administration says it's rethinking or being syrian opposition fighters secretary hagel said he administrated is considering a range of options he also said he personally has not decided whether it would be wise to provide weapons to the rebels so there is nothing definitive in those remarks at this stage but the context of recent events has created a certain momentum in this kind of momentum may end up bolstering those forces on the ground and actually result in more violence because those fighters want weapons and they want heavy weapons now president obama said there is proof that assad government also forces if used chemical weapons in syria that would be quote a game changer again he said the u.s. had evidence that the weapons were used but had no conclusive evidence to tie it to the assad government right now both the rebels and the assad forces blaming each

other for the alleged chemical attack in the middle of march in aleppo the syrian government requested the u.n. to send a mission to investigate the incident the u.n. fact finding team has been on standby and ready to deploy. but then the u.n. chief appears to have changed his plans for the investigation there's russia's foreign minister with more on that the syrian government asked the secretary general to deploy a team to investigate this particular situation the secretary general state that he is ready to do this but the globe is later she sent a letter to the syrian government demanding a nexus for the international exports to all territory to the entire its director of syria as well as access to in his site and any person this team would like to talk to or to visit and this is something which really defeats the purpose of immediate. investigation into a specific reported case of the use of chemical substances to have texas in your

sights to any person in syria. resembles very much the security council resolutions regarding iraq and we all remember the end of that story so now instead of investigating a concrete incident the year one wants access to all sites and this inquiry has once again fluff the united nations into the center of a possible plan for weapons of mass destruction where he places the go. the fear again is that politics may get ahead of fact. iraqi authorities say a bomb blast at a sunni mosque north will become little but done it has killed five people during friday prayers become trees suffering some of the worst violence as there was to all of us troops in twenty love it the u.s. says more than seven hundred people were killed in iraq last month alone clashes between security forces and sunni protesters started in care kirk sparking a wave of violence that quickly spread many iraqis accuse the government of corruption and political unrest and when the prime minister to resign there also

now fear is that tensions could escalate and see a return to full to a full blown move on he's losing confidence examines now the impact of national struggles on every day. and. bombs may still haunt baghdad but these young men are more concerned with burning the rubber in a country where daily life is based on trying to avoid dangers these iraqis are turning to danger as a way to avoid reality tasting the thrill of speed and testing the authorities it's an unexpected sight in post-war iraq for the fun a grim statistic half of the country's growing youth population is unable to find work. the biggest problem is financial support day everyone is constantly trying to find work but in baghdad there are very few jobs and myself i'm unemployed.

ten years after the war a lie but iraq is full of contradictions but for young men like omar the motorcycle is one way to escape the daily perspiration is of life here in iraq and reading about. and taking on uncertain future. adrenaline may be one way of coping with uncertainty but not for salva hasan hussein she now spends most of her days at home with her daughters trying to rebuild a life shattered by corruption in the household chores are a far cry from her former career as a journalist. but she's too scared to return to work she had been investigating corruption and prison abuses when she herself was detained and thrown behind bars the charges have been dropped but the family have to sell nearly everything they own is just to cover the thousands of dollars and bribes to secure her release. in this country money can buy you can buy your high position and it can buy your freedom and if you get accused of something in iraq you could be executed just

because you can't afford to pay to save your life. it was a year long ordeal that by her account involved beatings and sexual assault she says that she's become a victim of the same corruption she once tried to expose. victims to victors a country better known for violence and divisions this youth football school is one of the few bright spots that stands out sunni shia and christian kids played around the same field and that's exactly why the school was opened fourteen year old ali doesn't like to talk about the day his father was killed instead he spent his time training on the field hoping to one day play on iraq's national football team but for now a more pressing desire. so i want the security situation to become peaceful elsewhere maybe one or two people are killed each day be him many people are killed every day by explosions and even bad things so i want to iraq to become

safe like other countries. it's a wish that's undoubtedly echoed all across iraq for the past decade left nearly everyone with a tragic story to tell and yet somehow life goes on you see catherine of our team. for years the wrong has been divided by roadblocks and checkpoints they're meant to make the lives of iraq is safer but also trumped thousands in similarly endless traffic jams see that report and the two page right now. of course much more to come here on r.t. including a hunger for change the force feeding a man may still refuse to eat at guantanamo bay leads to an outcry from the yuan go fast on the council the lawyer has visited his hunger strike your client at the prison about. and also have been a just

a gallery opening of the new stage of st peter's by as we're now and very. if there is a son says the donald has in its mission to rival the best venues around the world . a cousin and brings his special coverage of the don't you just a few miles but still stay with us on. the. world. series technology innovation called the least of elements from around russia we've gone to the future or covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.

on. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations rule today. this is all she coming to you live from moscow welcome biog lawyers say more than two thirds of the detainees at guantanamo bay are taking part in the hunger strike which has now lasted almost three months dozens of extra medics were sent this week to care for the prisoners twenty three await chance shackled and force fed through the nose twice a day attorney lieutenant colonel barry when god who recently visited his client

that says there's no indication the u.s. is trying to resolve this cars. my clients in actually very bad condition has been forced on it now for about two weeks is fine if the passages are inspected and forced to use more and more painful every time i'm always amazed when i come to guantanamo bay i read in the street. trying to resolve the hunger strike the one year i. performed in fact. prisoners report. happening in three solitary confinement no effort whatsoever to keep on staff or the men who are suffering well i guess that's why you have an offshore prison so you can pretty much do what you want to release to the media whatever you want it to be but me being a client today i've been here eleven and a half years. charged with a crime i mean we're going to get a trial you want to hold me forever you won't let me live in peace you want peace

in the twenty's that you don't teach you do you need for this kind of country that you come from and how many other people were slipped. the news in brief around the world now starting in the u.s. when the pushing a massive wildfire covering eight thousand acres in southern california those many big almost one thousand firefighters are battling the blaze which wrote count down says they morning go through the full the evacuation of schools a university and currents russians over two thousand homes and businesses and we're bringing live pictures from telephone you're right now. also charlie three card the top prosecutor investigating the murder of a minister benazir bhutto was ambushed a shot dead in the competent islam a bad charges have been brought against ex-president pervez musharraf in relations due to his death in two thousand and seven and i want to claim responsibility for

friday's a time meanwhile the national election and a year old son were dead on their way home from friday prayers. u.s. refueling plane has crashed after takeoff near the kurdistan kazakhstan border in central asia there are so far no knead on the four crewmembers according to a regional representative the plane broke into three pieces and it went down in a area after leaving because this man it was used by nato in its war on terror in afghanistan the u.s. is yet to comment on the reports earlier this week an american congo plane crashed in afghanistan killing all seven people on board. while some citizens are living in europe's most debt ridden countries have been resorting to increasingly desperate measures all these peace all of about one such man returns to quiet after these after three decades of honest labor in order to make ends meet . portugal is certainly beautiful but its current financial woes are making it a living hell for some with one portuguese man claiming that the crisis has driven

him to trying. to work for over thirty years in construction before being laid off today he's a convicted bank robber no money. i needed a few hundred euros for medication also we had no food at home this is what i bought for the money that was stolen i think about a thousand euros. turn to crime after he couldn't afford to pay the medical bills for his now ex-wife who suffers from m.s. . by own branch because of what they did to me he gave me loans and crazy interest rates so as have to take more loans to pay for them they robbed me so i robbed i'm not proud but i think the state forced me into the position so what's going through your head as you're walking down here knowing that you're about to commit a crime. and i had a small plastic toy guns that moment as i was approaching the band saw a policeman nearby there was a bag near the street so i said the coffee should check it out i hope this would be obstruction then i went into bank and did what i did it was all over in five

minutes. he bought what he needed then turned himself into the police after spending a year behind bars part of the conditions of his release that he maintains a twenty meter distance from the bank remains angry with the portuguese government who he says are encouraging this type of behavior with an unfair welfare system saying. it's so disgusting their mentality they give me nothing when i needed it most in the now that i've broken the law and i'm on their radar they give me help they don't notice people unless they get into trouble also. concerns echoed by those who represent the rights of workers in portugal. the government worried more about pleasing germany than looking after its own people there is a lot of anger out there and the more people think they aren't getting a fair deal the the more. nobles this is the danger of keeping people in the limits of poverty. portugal has high unemployment and crippling

debts of one hundred eighty billion euros around one hundred twenty percent of your production the end of the crisis is certainly nowhere in sight asked if he feels remorse for his crime. it's very clear some of them are i feel remorse for what i did to the bank workers and really scared the hell out of them so for getting what i needed any way i could. i don't feel the slightest bit sorry for taking from. r.t. lisbon. after months of sound checks and acoustical tweaks saying pitt is than sumerian skiff arafat has held its opening golla on its. such as a new stage this seven hundred million dollars tech venue is the first new russian opera house to aspire to global significance this time of designers and let's now go live to our tease about a lot say it was that to see how long. i stick you looking great all

right yesterday the fair to world affairs and world's eyes watched the ceiling lift opening but only be eyepiece saw it live today at the mariinsky to opens its doors to everyone for the past performances please tell us more. you know it was a yearly i have to tell you that critics it was silence from yesterday's gala it was just a magical and just spectacular from the performances to the stage and it was just as i believe that the risky theater company hoped and wished that everybody would be able to see how what they really wanted to achieve at the end of the day now schools today is open to the general public you have to have gotten the ticket a little bit earlier as today is dedicated to russian at taste and ups and culture so most of the staging will be just russian performers from the marine stevia to a ballet company who are all looking forward to seeing some of the teachings on

stage and the productions they'll be staging today now i have to tell you that outside of this still some question a resume to me about this building particularly how it looks like inside of course it's not disappointing but people are still asking that one question should classical suits is the building modern now yesterday i spoke to the architect of money and stevia to diamonds who had this to say. when someone six to see doors open people thought it was terrible and to school were in charge most people formed whose first kind of conservative that was true of song and good company the point about simply just one of the most beautiful cities in the world does amazing continuity over the streets story so in order to make it more equal limits we have been moving away. from elegance for a comparable would just. stand in controls to the streets to show world war two

memorial stands and controls to its enclosure it stands three hundred churches. and it's good to get to the importance of the owners because it's really the holy of holies in. ride with me is martin the entries and we're going to talk a little bit about actually what we saw yesterday most and you went inside of the auditorium you experience it what do you precious particularly about this techno serving that's all of this theater that we've heard so much about well i was excited i'm going to admit now that i sneaked in last night so what's part of the color concept and i was amazed staggered overwhelmed this is not a loss for words now just trying to think of the experience i one point there was a bali sequence and entire full stage floated to the car platform it was just overwhelming so much so i came to right out to get the produces and then i was let

back in again so tight security but what i want amazing lights and how glamorous we've got different different representatives from the scholar from the royal opera house we had to come pelosi i mean it was football cultural it was it was a very glamorous night it was amazing and many people have said that you know this ugly building from the outside it was given the name by many locals is the golden potato but i think that it's certainly made its mark on the city and i think it will turn into the golden apple so that's certainly a statement that it's a great success with the golden apple perhaps even a cultural emblem of us in petersburg will have more for you and the coming hours or so stay tuned to rewind here on our t.v. as we bring you more from the money in. thank you guys you're looking amazing thank you very much looking forward to talking to your crew is thank you very much tom and i and not matters that you think it is about thank you. now you as the bank executives are continuing to caution big despite the world's financial downturn

that much more coming up in just a few minutes here on. prime interest ok state kid. famous american political figure ron paul has decided to create his own liberty oriented homeschooling curriculum at ron paul curriculum back to give parents not turn it into standard public education you know when i was a kid homeschooling was only for like the kids of wacko's and cultists if you met someone who was homeschooled you always look at them with some sort of suspicion like what's with that kid with what's with his parents i mean who would home school their kids well let's look at it this way who would grow their own food when american supermarkets are stocked with pure healthy and natural food the problem is that food in stores is now loaded up with all sorts of mystery chemicals and g m o's and it makes perfect sense that nowadays people are in droves starting to grow

their own food and this logic applies to education too when public education becomes so dismal it is perfectly logical and reasonable to try to educate your kids yourself the no child left behind program did a fine job of making the american education system lower the bar down to the very basement of the lowest common denominator i mean if you think there should be more in a high school graduates had besides reading right now to richmond to that homeschooling might be for you as art sports and music and science programs all across the nation to the lack of funding is wrong post libertarian curriculum what's best for your kids i can't say but it's definitely worth taking a look at other alternatives given the d. minus quality of public education nowadays but that's just my opinion.

good afternoon to welcome the prime interest i'm perry and boring here in washington d.c. here's the stories that we're tracking today. rolling stones that tell you the way to end on ground vitter the tough new banking bill that was introduced last week he had some harsh words regarding a report that was issued by standard and poor's which is one of the girls critics tavi wrote the paper essentially hands about forcing banks to retain more capital could lead to world of financial collapse the onset of a new i used age mahmoud's growing to perhaps. however as of yesterday's close climate change futures were not yet pricing in this chilling boss ability. this morning president of the european central bank mario draghi cut the main refinancing rate so historically low a half

a percent and he has an open mind on the issue of brains charging depositors for the privilege of holding their money and what you don't go around with helicopter money that was actually the feds i believe made no comments on cyber it's. been surprise surprise according to american banker at the pay a bank its c.e.o. is rose eleven percent in two thousand and twelve but it's not just top bankers who are cashing in bank dog trader and male dance iger and his i mean he's been known to have a quid pro quo lation ships with brokers accepting off compensations in the form of lavish do.