serious crisis tops the agenda as president putin hosts british prime minister cameron and with the two leaders seeking to hammer out a common approach to getting peace through talks. meanwhile washington reaffirms its reluctance to back serious radicalised rebels any further after russia and the u.s. agreed to set up an international conference to bring about an end to dance collating conflict. and a blood soaked democracy pakistan braces for saturday's a story general election amid a wave of brutal attacks and kidnappings by the taliban.

it is to be on the russian capital you're watching our team with me maureen and josh working out a common approach to mediating peace in syria is expected to dominate the discussion when president vladimir putin hosts british prime minister david cameron later 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 or dislikes he or she has more. well literally seventy two hours after it 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 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. 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 sort you 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. now 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 through diplomacy britain is stepping up efforts to start directly arming the syrian opposition etc first now 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 has certainly had a fractious past when it comes to the topic of syria both the prime minister david cameron and fermina so 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 talked 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 inclement remains to be seeing but at the u.k. prime minister's restated his commitment to trying to find some form of diplomatic progress moving forward. and the western backing for the armed opposition has led to the movement growing increasingly radicalized but thanks to the mediating push

spearheaded by moscow there is now a chance to turn that tranda around that according to russian european politics expert professor richard. we do know quite a lot about the details of some of the groups involved so 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 years aleut 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 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 that the last few days are the first glimmer of hope that somehow or other that some sort of negotiated settlement could

emerge out of this because syria is very difficult libyan it's very difficult. you have a very powerful stable forces internally which are beginning now to find trying to find a path to post conflict situation and there i hope that this visit today if they're ever going with you asher and with groups we 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 now 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 and extremist where the country's collapse now more real than ever but while some u.s. lawmakers make fresh calls for military intervention washington stake in a back seat has got it she can now 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 qaeda this is probably the first time we hear someone indeed. be 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 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 does not mention army the rebels he said this 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 the 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 opposed 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 across the border in lebanon they have has been lost as they are ready to receive shipments of advanced weapons from the syrian leadership statement comes just days after israeli airstrikes targeted suspected arms devils' near the syrian capital and while border tensions rise the syrian opposition is being increasingly radicalized as our middle east correspondent policy are now reports. the united nations says that its peacekeeping forces are continuing to monitor the situation 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 is in the midst of forces inside syria in some cases reportedly entire units of the if they say 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 the missions and weapons but it certainly does present a dynamic for the united states britain and other governments who provide that 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 in these talks between russia and britain to see what they

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welcome back you're watching our team now pakistan's main political parties have held their final railways as voters prepare for saturday's poll in the country's first transition for one democratically elected government to another well let's now take a closer look at the front runners in the race. so the outgoing ruling social democrats the pakistan's people's party founded and led by the powerful bhutto family has topped the polls five times before however so far they are expected to fall behind the conservatives the pakistan muslim league and headed by two times former prime minister nawaz sharif well he's pledged to to end the u.s. led war on terror in pakistan should his party win the race however the dark horse

of the race cricket legend turned politician emraan khan. and his movement for justice or the p.d.i. supported by pakistan's powerful military now the election is a major step for pakistan's democracy but one which has been marred by violence across the volatile state as a confidence now 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 so on 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 to

go to you know those 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 m.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 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 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 to 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 seem. that people's party iron. parties. made the positive. to give us security for the non muslim and christian so many 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

leaving voters skeptical of starting its elections aren't politicians make promises to get votes. 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 tight race that's been overshadowed by violence a landmark election that was 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 and a moscow spring sunshine at archie dot com watch the victory day parade of

fireworks which marks sixty eight years this victory over the nazis also god moving war time or collections from veterans themselves. and here's what happens when you wrap yourself in knots an american soldier accidentally triggers his parachute and is full of food it is online. now the boston terror bombings reinvigorated debate over the role of public surveillance in the u.s. you'll york and other major cities have in recent years expanded the number of cameras using homeland security department grants the malton billion dollar security industry is growing at up to eight percent a year the question is who's keeping watch on what big brother is up to investigates. 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 movie 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 on route 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 made it states that are only 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 six teams but now those numbers are being recalculated to be projected even higher because of the time. as the talks 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 that 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 marty. a man knows all about the absence of privacy is journalist and esquire magazine editor at large a.j. jacobs film two months of his life with a camera attached to his ear and says mass surveillance is coming big time here's what's ahead in his interview for t.v. later on friday 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 but 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 you tube 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. now portugal's unemployment level has hit a painful eighteen percent with close to half of young people now out of work and while the figure threatens to grow even further scores of people are jumping ship for jobs and decent living outside the home country battered by dead people all over 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. so with with low education and then you have the middle class upper class. journalists financial direct. commercial director. opposing 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. 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. quantum 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 that they will help you get a work visa disappear right after they get your cash he's emigrating himself 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 i'll come to educate people but can't employ people. so we're left with a grain completion. greying population are all too aware of where the

current situation will leave them here several times you stop my pension gets god time and time again soon i'll get nothing but i'm waiting for the day they ask me to go back to work. they should be going for young people like a nation yo the decision is clear they are off to presume for a new life in a country they say can give them what portugal just can't ask them enough. we don't want to reach out and move in for the money we are movin so that one day we can earn enough to start a family there slave normal lives here now if you can get a job and its on slave wages for perhaps three years thats not leaving the. beach all of the. portugal. and coming out the news you need to know when it comes to money prime interest is next here on our team figure.

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 is 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 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's pearcey theories are 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 rip till him from the cosmos you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion. good afternoon welcome to prime and tourist i'm perry and boring and here is the topics that we're following today. game on as well the big bang surfing club syfy that's regulator speak for too big to fail is going on the off it

executives from five of the biggest banks met in private to discuss their p.r. problem they also hired several former bush and obama administration officials to lobby congress their pitch well every additional dollar in capital they're required to hold translates into eight to ten dollars less to lend but according to the fed the biggest twenty five banks are already sitting on over six hundred billion dollars in extra cash which is not being lent from two thousand and seven to two thousand and eight but fannie and freddie tighten loans standards and eventually stop purchasing subprime loans altogether we all know what happened next well looks like they're getting choosy again a new rule by the federal housing finance agency which oversees the housing giants would take effect next january and it would again thailand's living standards no word yet from know what obama's new nominee to head the agency but we'll get to him later now the dow hit fifteen thousand this week it is up substantially again today .