serious crisis tops the agenda as president putin has a british prime minister cameron but the two leaders seeking to hammer out a common approach to getting peace through talks. meanwhile washington to reaffirm that reluctance to back syria's radicalized rebels a bit further off to russia and the u.s. agreed to set up an international conference to bring about an end to the escalating conflict. and a blood so to democracy pakistan braces for saturday's historic general election the middle wave of brutal attacks and kidnappings by the taliban.

it's one o'clock here in moscow you're watching our live with me to say working out a common approach to mediating peace in syria is expected to dominate the discussion and president vladimir putin has british prime minister david cameron late on friday the meeting comes after moscow and washington patched up some of their differences on the crisis and called for an international conference on syria our desire let's hear the cesky has more. well literally seventy two hours after it was meeting john kerry the 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 it's the syrian people who

will have to decide the future of the country in the election at the same time he reaches rated 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 printed 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 that the syrian regime may have recently used chemical weapons despite a top u.n. war crimes investigator saying there's a reason to believe such arms were in fact used by the rebels and despite its official commitment to peace and through diplomacy britain is stepping up efforts to study directly arming the syrian opposition asked sarah for it 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 use chemical weapons now the one day talk is taking place at a 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 for minister william hague have come out with some extremely strong rhetoric in the past blasting russia for not having supported

a cool for u.n. intervention in the country now the one they talk to say coming at a time when the u.k.'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 a face to the syrian regime a lot of concern from some here in the country and indeed internationally as to who exactly would cause to cheat the legitimate opposition given that there's say 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 some in greenland 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. for some analysis when are joined by russia and european

politics expert professor richard southwell from the university of kent in the end lead professor good afternoon to you whenever the light emitted putin john kerry the results were hailed by some as a breakthrough can we expect anything similar in sochi later today i doubt it on the one side the united kingdom tends to align its foreign policy quite closely with out of the united states so it certainly will impede the achievements of the last few days or you know the hand you know you can do hasn't actually come works major ideas it has with lungs been insisting on arming the insurgents of one form or another and therefore maybe it will back off to allow some sort of conference or some sort of negotiated format to start but so that i think will be the limit of its contribution to the discussion. what will happen there because the britain has said that it will reconsider its plan see directly start arming the

syrian rebels yet they've got to say that those arms are not going to end up in the hands of the extremists that i mean what guarantees do they have there are they willing to negotiate that are with russia. well absolutely none one's arms are into a market like this and as we know the syrian free syrian army is losing forces to them are going to kill forces because quite clearly within the dynamics of the situation within syria cannot be controlled by outside forces so once arms are out there then who knows what will happen to it i think adding extra arms is a dangerous anyway it's quite clearly all of this is lara is part of a much larger geopolitical view of the shifting balance of power in the middle east obviously with iran with lebanon and support for the gulf monarchies and saudi arabia and so on so it's quite clear that lately the british have a particular view of how the system and how the larger geopolitical situation

should change. it's interesting because we're asking do you even know who these rebels are made of all the opposition is made off i mean do we have any clear idea do they know way exactly these weapons with has that actually going into. well i mean you can give it to one law today could end up in the hands of another lot we do know quite a lot about the details of some of the groups involved though the details of the dynamics between them we know very little we do know that the various militant al-qaeda affiliated groups are strengthening because they have been the most resolute what has been the greatest tragedy of this whole thing over the last two or so years is that there has been and always was some gloom in the middle and this is now being squeezed out in part of the fault of the policy of the west but it's not only their fault but clearly they have not facilitated those who are willing to negotiate and to go to the table so therefore the evidence of the last few days are

the first glimmer of hope that somehow or other some sort of negotiated settlement could emerge out of this because syria's very difficult libya it's very difficult and we've got. a very powerful stable forces internally which are beginning now to find that we are trying to find a path to a post conflict situation and i hope that this visit today of david going with the russian and with putin can begin to facilitate this sort of passed out of conflict there is a way out but it means that all sides have to start changing and be willing to give and take a bit more the u.s. defense secretary says that the old order in the middle east is heading out the door what sort of interest does britain have wanted to kill in the region. well i mean it's got a number of motives one of them of course is the continued arms sales to the

conservative gold market that's perhaps more cynical but it's got larger view too and we're steering iran to support israel to ensure no over spill of the conflict into lebanon so there are some genuine concerns about the dangers of this whole conflict spilling out there a larger gauge nawar we saw with israel's intervention last week the bombing within syria which was an attempt oh too mentally to to push the western powers into a more active intervention which i think is an extremely dangerous way of going forward the intervention of the worst well perhaps not some short term effect but in the long term it will do stabilize the very viability of the syrian state and promote into ethnic conflict and impede the development of some sort of political solution right we'll have to leave it right there thank you very much professor richard southwell an expert on russian and european politics at the university of

kent joining us they live i think the u.s. defense secretary says of the old order in the middle east is a disappearing although it's still not clear what will replace it chuck hagel stressed the conflict in syria is becoming increasingly more sectarian extremists are the country's collapse now more real than ever but while some u.s. lawmakers make fresh calls for military intervention washington's taken a backseat as ganesh again explains. 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 qaida 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 all such 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 bail 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 does not mention or means the rebels he said that turkey jerry 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 a full 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 thore 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 all arms 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 that geneva communique and that message is basically stop fighting and find a political solution. right across the border in lebanon the head of hezbollah says they're ready to receive shipments of advanced weapons from the syrian leadership because they've been comes just days of the israeli airstrikes targeted suspected

odds to pose near the syrian capital and while border tensions rise the syrian opposition is being 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 young martyrs brigade which is the group that detained for filipino at the u.n. peacekeepers earlier this week they have been released we're being told at the united nations we go here today safe passage with the syrian army forces in the area meanwhile we are receiving reports that the free syrian army which is the main opposition to the syrian president bashar assad is using fine tunes as well as capabilities to get the most in says inside syria in some cases recruited 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 who are being told is that the main reasons for the defections are better conditions and emissions and 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 on me stalks between russia and britain to see what they will yield policy on team tel aviv. coming up big brother group members in the high demand the following the blossoms are you know it's not easy. craving wall cameras but privacy advocates worry that the surveillance will only trump the rights of the supremes.

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welcome back you're watching our tea party songs main political parties have held their final rallies as varied as prepared for saturday's poll in the countries for us transition from one democratically led to government to another let's all take a closer look at the front dramas in the ways the outgoing ruling social democrats the punk who stands up paul peoples party founded and led by the paul full bhutto. family has topped the polls of five times before however so far they are expected to fall behind the conservatives the pakistan muslim league and headed by two times

of former prime minister now as a shafiq is plessy and the u.s. led war on terror in pakistan should his party win the race rather dark holes all over the race is that none other than cricket legend turned politician imran khan and his movement for justice or the p t r i's supported by pakistan powerful military action is a major step for pakistan's democracy but one which has been marred by violence across a volatile state as lucid have enough 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 go and vote because they're scared and go to who will be the women. the pakistani taliban has vowed to target the country secular parties and they've made good on that threat the national party or the and p. has borne the brunt of the attacks forced to campaign in the shadows. we can't campaign we can't arrange meetings all parties are doing rallies with millions of people which we can only do them with two hundred men and even when we do that terrorists still target 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 taliban 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 attacks 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 islam 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. people's party iron. but security. 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 leaving voters skeptical it's election time politicians make promises to get votes . 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 his promise to clamp down on corruption it's a tight race that's been overshadowed by violence a landmark election that is proven so far to be the bloodiest in the country's history the attacks are a stark reminder that politics in pakistan is a dangerous game and that democracy can be deadly music out front of our team

islamabad pakistan. rolling out the big guns in moscow spring sunshine and. the election day parade and fireworks. over the nazis we've also got the movie water time and reflections from the south. and here's what happens when your rep yourself in an american soldier accidentally triggers his parachute and is pulled from 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 up to eight percent a year the question is who's keeping watch on my big brother or in a part my investigates the video surveillance market in the u.s.

has been permanently expanding from 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 stuff some would say it's appropriate for the site 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 all 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 throughout united states that are only for surveillance we spoke with something rational that are here displaying their surveillance technology they say they have

already seen heat in polls and increase and of course that can equate to a peak in sales i hate to say it but our phones been ringing off the hook since the tragedy and you know it's a fortunate thing but people are starting to think now how they should have a think wall you know to be able to provide a safe environment you have to think ahead if you're 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. 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 and the experts estimated that this industry would reach our revenues by more than twenty five billion dollars quite twenty sixteen but now those numbers are being recalculated to the projected even higher because of the terrorist 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 reach its 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 are to. a man who knows all about the absence of privacy is journalism a squire magazine editor at large a.j. jacobs he filmed two months off his life with a camera attached to his ear and says a mass civilians is coming big time he is wanted as is ahead in his interview on friday i. think that's going to run well 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 tube 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 tree this is what we're going to be doing we're 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. and i coming out of this a break at end sign to see the battle against devastating hunger in the horn of africa when you're watching.

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 various secret societies at the same time or could he have been no it's just declare themselves official conspiracy theories that's silly obviously it isn't good 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 they 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's pearcey theories are matter of belief but actually 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 rip tilling from the cosmos you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion. according to the law usaid is allowed to procure up to seventy five percent american products and transport them only on american ships. and that means that the shippers have a lot of interest in food aid policy and have been an incredibly effective lobby to fight for the status quo of sourcing in and shipping from the united states the u.s. government is the only government in the world that hasn't made substantial movements

in the direction of enabling local procurement of food aid in developing countries in order to respond faster and more cheaply to food emergencies as they arise. so even today the food must first be balt then loaded on a ship in american harbor and then travel for several months in order to reach africa. that would be approximately four to six months from when it has been termed that we want to participate in in a particular appeal and so when the food arrives. to g.a.o. where mr alito works issued a report which presented the problem to congress president bush tried to change the system so that a portion of the food would be procured from local markets and arrive faster and cost less.