serious crisis tops the agenda as president putin has a british prime minister cameron well the true leaders are seeking to have all the common approach to getting peace through talks. meanwhile washington reaffirms its reluctance to back syria's or radicalized rebels if you for them after russia and the u.s. agree to set up an international conference to bring about an end to the escalating conflict. and a blog does so democracy pakistan braces for saturday's historic general election amid a wave of brutal attacks and kidnappings by the taliban. a

very warm welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our t.v. i'm tell bomb was a live from moscow right working out a common approach to mediating peace in syria is expected to dominate the discussion when president vladimir putin has a british prime minister david cameron late on friday the meeting comes up to moscow and washington patched up some of the differences on the questions and calls for an international conference on syria. has more. well literally seventy two hours after i was meeting john kerry secretary in moscow he's meeting the british prime minister david cameron in the city of sochi the host of the winter olympics in twenty fourteen that's where the russian president fact will be meeting most of his international colleagues over the coming months now this comes of course at the meeting in moscow where

a principal decision on holding an international conference by the end of this month to have both the members of the syrian opposition and the syrian government at the same negotiation table to attempt to find some kind of peaceful solution to the syrian conflict indeed this meeting in moscow was a breakthrough according to many experts because after months of harsh rhetoric the sides of managed to soften their position and agree on something in the long run the positions of the united states and russia have been different just the same story with the position of the u.k. and russia as well for months russia has been criticizing the west for taking one side in this conflict that is the side of the syrian rebels russia has been criticizing the calls in the west to arm the syrian rebels provide them with military training and even possibly intervene into the conflict going on in syria now definitely we also know that russia also said about the syrian conflict that the west has been calling on assad to step down but at the same time never

mentioned that the future of the future of syria must be decided by the syrian people and mosco john kerry in many ways agreed that the syrian people who will have to decide the future of the country in the election at the same time he reached aerated that that washington does not want to see assad in power it's interesting to see whether the same sentiments will be coming from david cameron after he meets president putin here in sochi especially given the fact that he already prompted a statement saying that there was an urgent need to find a quick and peaceful solution to the syrian conflict and that is exactly the reason why david cameron was flying to sochi to meet the russian president of course we'll be keeping our viewers up to date as we get all the details here in the russian city of sochi. the u.k. continues to insist the syrian regime may have recently used chemical weapons despite a top u.n. war crimes investigator saying there is reason to believe such arms were in fact

used by the rebels and despite its official commitment to peace or through diplomacy britain is stepping up efforts to start directly on me in the syrian opposition as sir for its reports. well the prime minister said to m.p.'s in the house of commons recently that there's a growing body of limited but persuasive evidence that the syrian regime has used and continues to use chemical weapons now the u.n. war crimes investigators have said that as yet they've reached new conclusions as to whether either side has indeed used chemical weapons now the one day talk is taking place out of time when there is a growing calls for some form of diplomatic progress to be made in place sites are going to be very much focused on not the prime minister's spokesman saying the u.k. considers russia an important player when it comes to these discussions despite this russian the u.k. has certainly had a fractious past when it comes to the topic of syria both the prime minister david cameron and foreign minister william hague have come out with some extremely strong

rhetoric in the past blasting russia for not having supported cool's for u.n. intervention in the country now the one they talk to say coming at a time when the u.k. it's been seen to try to step up efforts to bring an end to the e.u. arms embargo that would then allow the supply of weapons to the forces of face to the syrian regime a lot of concern from some here in the country and indeed internationally as to who exactly would close to cheat the legitimate opposition given that the same much concern surrounding the other elements inside the country that are also confusing the extremely fractured picture that we're seeing playing out as the syrian conflict continues nonetheless the two sides are going to be pushing ahead with these talks whether or not they'll be able to put that fractious past behind them and come to something cream and remains to be seeing but the u.k.

prime minister's restated his commitment to trying to find some form of diplomatic progress moving forward with russia and the u.s. having agreed to unite their efforts towards mediating peace in syria britain now is hard pressed to reconsider its support for the rebels according to r.t. contributor after returns. it's especially outrageous of the british prime minister just dismissed call upon the u.n. commission into who is using chemical weapons and when in the syrian conflict and at the same time the very rebels that are being sent to the so-called normally full force and equipment and materiel they're defecting to al nusra according to a report in british papers if britain has been exporting say night vision goggles to the syrian rebels and they use them in a sarin gas attack as for indicated by color your point is un report does that mean britain has been backing chemical weapons used in the middle east the fact that

david cameron can do this shows him completely out of step after all it was him being trying to lift the arms embargo for the rebels and never countenanced at any point the idea of a talks process of a kind of process that was aside from all the fighting and killing and slaughter and yet john kerry and a lot of the putin seem to have come to an agreement that yes of course they have to talk instead of all this killing the u.s. defense secretary says the old order in the middle east is disappearing although it's still not clear what will replace it chuck hagel stressed the conflict in syria is becoming increasingly more sectarian extremist with the country's collapse now more real than ever but while some u.s. lawmakers make fresh calls for military intervention washington is taking a backseat as can if she can display. after the administration all but accused the assad government of having used chemical weapons vice president joe biden now says

quote we don't know for certain whether they were used by some of the opposition including the radicals who have aligned themselves with al qaeda this is probably the first time we hear someone in the administration talk about the possibility that the rebels may have used chemical weapons just a few days ago the white house press secretary was responding to the findings of the u.n. human rights investigation which said serry nerve gas may have been used by the rebels in syria and he basically brushed off the report saying it's quote highly likely that i'll start forces were behind it that has also been the narrative perpetuated in the media last week chuck hagel said the administration is considering arming the opposition also this week a bill was introduced in the senate that would authorize exactly that chuck hagel delivered a speech at the this conference in washington where several commanders of the free syrian army were also invited in that speech he did not mention or means the rebels he said this secretary kerry and russian foreign minister lavrov announced they

will seek to convene an international conference with representatives of the syrian government and the opposition to determine how to implement a political transition in syria. using the four range of tools the united states will continue to work toward achieving our goal of ending the violence and helping the syrian people transition to a post to sort of story so we see there is a build up of hope for this conference which will presumably take place sometime at the end of may both washington and moscow said they're working on it but as far as the syrian opposition so far they have not clearly come out in favor of a political solution also it's not clear how the idea of a political solution something that washington says it wants to achieve can coexist with the idea of flooding the conflict with more weapons because when you give them orms the message is go fight the messages not stop fighting so it seems that arming the rebels contradicts the core message of this geneva communique and both

washington and moscow say they want this upcoming conference to be based on the geneva communiqué and that message is basically stop fighting and find a political solution. across the border in lebanon the head of hezbollah says that they are ready to receive shipments of advanced weapons from the syrian leadership is even comes just days after israeli airstrikes targeting suspected arms depos near the syrian capital and while border tensions rise the syrian opposition has been increasingly radicalized as a middle east correspondent policia reports. the united nations says that its peacekeeping forces are continuing to monitor the separation of israeli and syrian forces along the israel syrian border but they have said that they've moved some of the units to new positions because of the precarious security situation twice in the last three months un forces have been kidnapped from the very same position according to the martyrs brigade which is the group that detained for filipino u.n.

peacekeepers earlier this week they have been released we're being told that the united nations negotiated a safe passage with the syrian army forces in the area meanwhile we all received reports that the free syrian army which is the main opposition to the syrian president bashar assad is using find his as well as capabilities to is among the forces inside syria in some places reportedly entire units of the f.s.a. have defected and they've moved to jump. which is and those numbers organization with links to al qaida what we're being told is that the main reasons for the defections are better conditions and emissions and of weapons but it certainly does present a dynamic for the united states britain and other governments who provided support to the syrian rebels and also considered arming them with weapons the entire situation is of course also of great concern to israel which is just next door this is why many of these talks between russia and britain to see what they will yield

policy on t.v. tel aviv. right coming up a big probably quit mends is in the high demand the following the boston terror attacks u.s. cities are craving wall cameras but it's got a privacy advocates are worried that this invasion surge will only trump the rights there is today to protect lots. grandma and so that one day we can learn and not to start a prime minister's laid normal lives here now if you can get a job and sometimes made wages for her. three years that's not moving or the future as unemployment hits a new high in portugal's goals of people are seeking refuge from economic turbulence by heading up rule to bring you the details in a few minutes. the

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thanks for staying with us here on our team august on's main political parties have held their final rallies as though it was prepared for saturday's poll when the country's first transition from one democratically elected government to another that's a major step up like his son's democracy but one which has been mobbed by violence across the volatile state as you see kathy reports. week after week these are the images the world has seen coming out of pakistan victims of a brutal wave of violence bomb blasts rippling across the country this is supposed to be a time of triumph for a country that's gearing up for its first ever democratic transition from one elected government to another but recent bomb and gun attacks by militants against religious minorities and secular politicians have called the country's stability into question and sown fear among pakistani voters. everyone is scared of bombs and

nobody feels safe so very few people will go and vote because they're scared and go to you know those who will be the winner of. the pakistani taliban has vowed to target the country secular parties and they've made good on that threat the awami national party or the a and p. has borne the brunt of the attacks forced to campaign in the shadows. get people who really can't campaign we can't arrange meetings all parties are doing rallies with millions of people but we can only do them with two hundred men and even when we do that terrorists are still targeting us but islam is parties have been targeted to this is the aftermath of an attack against a political party seen as being sympathetic to the taleban but the latter have condemned to democracy as a whole meaning any political party taking part in the elections could be considered fair game by the militant group more than six hundred thousand security personnel including fifty thousand soldiers have been deployed during the election

to guard against the tax but that's not exactly a comforting sight for a country that's been ruled by the military for almost half its life as an independent state the violence isn't just political in a country where the majority faith is islamic religious minorities have accused the mainstream political parties of not doing enough to protect them against attacks that could hurt the ruling party in the polls seem. that people's party iron. parties. made the positive. but give us security for the non muslim and christian some of these but the issues that may shape the outcome of the vote are more clear cut pakistan's economy has been battered by three years of successive floods which severely damaged agricultural heartlands power cuts are in demick with some rural areas getting only four hours of electricity per day clean water and food education and health care remain out of reach for many pakistanis crime and unemployment are huge issues in the cities all the main parties have vowed to

tackle these bread and butter issues but few have outlined exactly how weaving voters skeptical of divination started it's election time politicians make promises to get votes get their seats and then they forget everything about nearly five thousand candidates are running for pakistan's lower house of parliament and more than ten thousand hopefuls are angling for seats in pakistan's four provincial assemblies when it comes to the job of prime minister polls indicate that it's a showdown between former cricket legend imran khan and former prime minister nawaz sharif the latter seems to be heading to victory but khan has ridden a wave of popularity among younger voters with its promise to clamp down on corruption it's a take race that's been overshadowed by violence a landmark election that has so far proven to be the bloodiest in the country's history the attacks are a stark reminder that politics and pakistan is a dangerous game propping up a deadly democracy and of our islamic. right on our website right now rolling

out the big guns in the moscow spring the sunshine you don't call me going to watch the victory day parade of fireworks which while six a.t.'s is a victory over the nazis we've also got movie wartime recollections from veterans themselves. and don't want us those parts and doing when american soldier accidentally triggers is parachuted us post on the plane the footage is online. the boston terror bombings reinvigorated debate over the role of public surveillance in the u.s. new york and other major cities have in recent years expanded the number of cameras using homeland security department grants the multi-billion dollar security industry is growing at eight percent a year the question is who's keeping watch on what brig rather is up to investigate . the video surveillance market in the u.s. has been permanently expanding more than i decade and here at the new york city a s

i s exhibition and conference we are getting an up close look at some of the most latest and cutting edge surveillance technology that is being displayed by many security professionals that technology of course includes facial recognition iris scanning high definition close circuit cameras and other software that was once only seen in side by move now some would say it's appropriate for the site but to be taking place in new york city because after all it was the mayor of the big apple that recently said he wanted to expand the amount of surveillance cameras that were off throughout the city of course those comments came in the aftermath of the boston terrorist attack and the mayor of new york is just one of many officials are out made in states that are calling for surveillance we spoke with some professionals that are here displaying their surveillance technology they say they

have already seen up. in holes and increase and of course that can equate to a peak in sales i hate to say it but our phones have been ringing off the hook since the tragedy and you know it's it's an unfortunate thing but people are starting to think now how they should have been thinking all along you know to be able to provide a safe environment you have to think ahead is there going to be more surveillance cameras deployed and the answer to that is yes because lessons learned have shown us that if you have a bench recording. you can go back and find information that might not have been pertinent while you thought you were filming it but all the sudden if an event happens you need all the information that the experts estimated that this industry would reach revenues of more than twenty billion dollars fight twenty sixteen but now those numbers are being recalculated to be projected even higher because of the time. wrist attacks that took place in boston as government spending on video

surveillance is expected to surge tension between law enforcement officials and privacy advocates is also expected to greet critics say the american public has been forced to see privacy and civil liberties in the name of national security but the payoff hasn't been big after all america's web of spy cams failed to prevent the boston terrorist attacks and even when the f.b.i. finally revealed images of the suspects they needed the public's help to identify reporting from new york arena or not r.t. . and a man who knows all about the absence of privacy is journalist and esquire magazine editor at large a.j. jacobs he filmed two months of his life with a camera. and says a mess of a man is coming big time here's what's ahead in an interview. like this i think that's going to be a problem i actually think you know big brother is

a little bit of a problem but i think a little brother is going to be more of a problem by that i mean other people will be videotaping you all the time so you do something embarrassing someone else is going to be videotaped and put on you too and we'll be humiliated you know you won't be able to slip on the banana peel you know anymore without it going on the into this is what we're going to be doing where all of our lives are going to be on the record so we're all going to be like politicians whatever we say will be recorded. well let's take a look at other world news now there's been a leak at the internet station but he says there's no danger to the group the american space agency says or the i assess is leaking chilled ammonia which is used to the station so to areas in orbit the leak might require a shutdown of the affected cooling with the now working on rerouting power sources

it's not here clear if we're morny a flow that comes from the same lee to which a crew tried to fix last november. the palestinians are choosing israel of trying to jeopardize the terms to restart peace talks that after the country approved construction of almost three hundred new homes in the occupied west bank the move could undermine washington which is now at pains to force both sides of the negotiating table israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law with the palestinians insisting a building freeze before any examination of. the main suspect in the ohio kidnapping case and may face aggravated murder charges which carries the death penalty one of the captives as said as she was abused and stop the pregnancy to trigger miscarriages fifty two year old ariel castro is accused of keeping two teenage girls and a young woman hostage for

a decade beating and sexually assaulting them it only came to light after one of them managed to escape. over a thousand people are now confirmed dead in the bangladesh garment of actual collapse disaster there's still no official estimate of the number of those who remain missing from the tragedy which happened on the outskirts of dhaka two weeks ago the factories owners are said to have ignored safety regulations after cracks in the building structures were found it's the world the deadliest industrial disaster since the one nine hundred eighty four bhopal toxic explosion. portugal's unemployment level has hit a painful eighteen percent with close to half of young people now out of work and while the figures are threatens to grow even further scores of people are jumping ship for jobs and a decent living outside the home country bettered by debt peter oliver has met some of them. leaving home in search of a better future it's not wanting to or outside portugal it's

needing to work outside viktor is a journalist he's heading off to angola to work for a magazine because there just isn't work in portugal that allows him to support his family he says this is a problem that affects all portuguese society you have. people working in construction ok so with with low education and then you have the middle class upper class. journalists financial direct. commercial direct. advertising agencies portugal is in the midst of an unemployment epidemic around twenty percent of the population are out of work and those with jobs are facing salary cuts with many families trying to live on under five hundred euro a month as more and more portuguese people look to make

a new life for themselves abroad just how easy is it to make that dream come i read . this is where ricardo comes in he often rates a website telling people what to expect when they decide to make the move. of marketing. and so it's not for everybody i saw a lot of people decide that they would move to somewhere like brazil only for it not to work out i tell them what to expect and how to make the right choice also there are so many scams out there people saying they will help you get a work visa disappear right after they get your cash he's emigrating him self at the end of the year but he worries about the country he's leaving behind. you were facing a serious brain drain in portugal oaken three educates people but can't employ people. so we're left with a grain population. that's graying population are all too aware of where the

current situation will leave them here several times you stop my pension gets caught in time and time again soon i'll get nothing for my bus or go to nursery and where will the day they ask me to go back to your spirit world being able to be going for young people like a nation the decision is clear they are off to position for a new life in a country they say can you give them what portugal just can't ask them cinema fuzzing cues we don't want to reach out and move in for the money we're movin so that one day we can earn enough to start a family as their slave normal lives here now if you can get a job it's all slave wages for perhaps three years that's not a living cells feature all of the party portable. coming up legs up into little bells that gets a roll up his sleeves fold some old crosstalk. you

know i've been asked a few times if i believe in conspiracy theories which is kind of an odd question i mean just in general believe in conspiracy theories like all of them even the ones that contradict each other i mean j.f.k. could have been killed by the mob the cia the k.g.b. and very secret societies at the same time or could he have been know what you just declare themselves official conspiracy theories that's silly obviously it isn't could just go around fishing for evil plots to explain every situation the mainstream media sure does lie a lot but i think they're telling the truth about that whole sky being blue thing but on the other hand if you never question what the glowing box in your house tells you that just makes you a sucker the kind of sucker who bought that there were magical mysterious invisible weapons of mass destruction in iraq and you know what in all honesty there's

actually been real evil conspiracies that have been exposed like the tuskegee experiment and the fascist coup attempt against president roosevelt in one nine hundred thirty s. over all people think it spirity theories are a matter of belief but in actuality they're completely a matter of facts and there's a lot of good evidence to support a conspiracy and good arguments that maybe you should consider it but if someone tells you the president is actually a reptile in from the cosmos you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle global gun control the only.