i am. urging a through the violence of pakistanis are choosing a new parliament in what has already been called the bloodiest election campaign in the country's history. the same aim bird a different tactic still president putin and british prime minister cameron understands the approaches to peace in syria as the paid for way for an international conference on the conflict. and an urgent just space walk is planned late on saturday to fix me and our money and the leaker sported yesterday by the crew of the international space station.

it's eight am here in moscow good morning to you if you're just joining us here on r.g.p. i'm to bung would say the people of pakistan are very touching a crucial turning point in the country's young democracy but it has already made history for the unprecedented violence of during the election campaign as lucy cavanagh reports. really dramatic and unpredictable that is how many here have described pakistan's general election campaign in a country that has spent most of its sixty six years under military rule is seen as a milestone with thirty five million new voters more female candidates more polling stations and more observers than ever before but also more violence now pakistan's military have dispatched thousands of troops to polling stations in order to prevent militants from disrupting the vote for the pakistani taliban has threatened to carry out widespread attacks today including suicide bombings saying that it opposes the infidel system of democracy here already more than one hundred people

have been killed in attacks by the taliban and other groups in the past four weeks to add to the anxiety unidentified gunmen had kidnapped the son of a former prime minister use of golani on thursday his whereabouts are still on know and now despite the violence this vote will mark the first democratic transfer of power in focused on that hasn't been preempted by a military coup of the candidates the pakistani people's party is campaigning to win a second term although its record just questionable the government is still plagued by a growing extremism the sectarian violence and democrat shown as well as a broken economy down the main opposition comes from the party of former prime minister nawaz sharif. to win the most number of seats this could mean a return to power fourteen years after he was ousted in a military coup he is advocating free market reform and economic growth as a way to sort of tackle pakistan's political problems he's also said that pakistan should reconsider its support for the u.s.

war on terror and has suggested that negotiations with the taliban should has take place on his heels of course is iran on the brigadier turned politician and his party had boycotted the last election reason made significant gains especially among the youth voters he is calling for an end to corruption and drone strikes as well into a reliance on western aid of course he was injured earlier this week and there are some thought that perhaps those injuries could boost support for him but the optimism in pakistan has been clouded by worries that none of the major parties will get a clear lead which raises the prospect of a fragmented parliament and could be weeks of fighting in order to form a coalition government and of course the bigger question still remains will any of the candidates or party be able to tackle pakistan's witch's brew of problems the economy has crashed unemployment is soaring fuel is in short supply while there's an excess of violence whoever wins this election will certainly have a hard time ahead. putting and. was a major slogan on pakistan's election campaign trail this rhymes were recently

declared illegal by pakistan's high courts anti-war activists eugene. frustration with america's joint policy is reaching a tipping point. i think it's a message that certainly will be considered across the atlantic it's a sign of the growing opposition inside of pakistan and to a lesser degree in yemen and in fact even inside of the united states against the u.s. drone policy and certainly to have such a high court say that the u.s. drone strikes should end immediately just continues to add fuel to the fire that is raging around the world about this secretive illegal and criminal campaign being waged by the united states government now obviously they have no intention of stopping their drone campaign but certainly i think this has to be. an item of interest for them. in neighboring afghanistan the nato pullout in twenty fourteen want to be the end of the story of america's military presence for hispanic as soon as the middle east and un issues activism believes that keeping

a foothold in the volatile stage is crucial for washington we know that the agreement signed between the u.s. and afghanistan allows for some number of u.s. troops to remain after the end of two thousand and fourteen the numbers have varied there's been estimates of as low as eight thousand and as many as twenty two thousand that the obama administration would like to keep in afghanistan after the the withdrawal of so-called combat troops this has everything to do with the neighborhood where afghanistan is located afghanistan doesn't have oriel on its own but it has a large territory in the midst of a very crucial neighborhood in terms of oil and in terms of the expansion of power the u.s. wanted for example to keep permanent bases in iraq that it could use as a base from which it could attack iran the iraqis said no the afghans will be asked the same thing will they allow those bases even if it's only nine of them to be used potentially to attack other countries in the neighborhood that's one of the things the u.s. is very eager for on

a permanent basis it's not so much about the immediacy of the taliban everyone knows that the presence of u.s. troops in afghanistan is making it much more difficult not easier for there to be serious peace negotiations between the various factions in afghanistan whether it be the taliban whether it be the afghan government whether it be a host of other factions that are all competing for power. after telling countries to keep counting baggage germany is finding that struggling europeans are now knocking at its door. performance which you have to bring to. the stage drama you have to make children. as we reported soon and there's no warm welcome from the easing richest data for the increasing numbers of economic migrants which use of abusing germany's welfare system. russia and the u.k. have agreed to renew limited corporation between their security services seven-year

lot but are the main focus of talks between president putin then prime minister cameron in the russian resort of sochi was the escalating crisis in syria while the junior leaders as sure as they still do far on how to bring about peace they did cement agreement on common goals both moscow and london want the bloodshed and a unified syrian people to choose their new government walking scene from violent extremism an international conference on syria is expected later this month but or there was no mention june a social meeting of bridges of strong support for the rebels in all its intention to start directly arming them political writer john wyden says of the west as desperate to push its own interests in the conflict zone. no see the syrian national army enjoying some significant success in the last few weeks in thinking back rebel held areas of the country and i think this is deduced. actually in washington london which is frankly the kind of it's been so keen to find. the

conflict is not we were hoping to destroy the assad regime we think of the axis of resistance in the region comprising city of. and iran and certainly not working and not only because politically of russia's political opposition to western military intervention but let's be clear the west is already intervening militarily through. the quit talking. jordan funneling weapons funneling money into the rebels even saw it in the national army as managing to be in control of the significant part of the country and managing to enjoy some successes on the ground there's no doubt that despite the propaganda campaign being waged against this out if you still enjoys significant support within syria itself and its key the united states has one to israel that its plans

to build more settlements in the west bank come to productive meetings three hundred housing units are planned in territories which the palestinians insist belong to them the move could hamper the efforts of the u.s. secretary of state john kerry to be sought negotiations between the bitter rivals palestinian officials have also lemba said israel's decision as seven tonge and a blow to peace efforts israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law with the palestinians insisting building must be frozen before any talks we commence and activities from the settlement watch project told us that they israeli prime minister steadfast saying that not bowing to foreign pressure. we don't see any committed at the moment almost there is no it can vary by it however we did see many promotion of plaque and inside the settlements and construction is going on at pace and what we've just seen is the promotion for two hundred but in any case the. home in the settlement of that which is deep in the

west then meaning that there are no intention to make any constructive moves were in your negotiation it's not in the world would actually be one to initiate peace it isn't in the annals would be brave enough to actually act and decide that this is what he wants to do then he would have to wait for it the israeli left will support him he was a duck and israel supported him and many of the center is the center of israel's what even from his right wing there are people who will support us in the ones that his actions prove otherwise unfortunately in each other that what he's trying to do at the moment is to make a passing an impossible. that's for the fall play going on today with one of israel's cop crowd control sprays. you stink you bad people i don't have a whole stink i can't even see my son you sprayed him you don't want to get close to this machine as it sprays and pointed to the waste water on palestinian villages

who say it's collective punishment against them by israel on that just ahead. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for democracy it's a step forward. carex it is toxic as it looked like spraying and. it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p.

really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. this is. welcome back you're watching our team the u.s. has put its minutes. forces in europe on a let of escalating tensions in libya washington and the u.k. have already pulled some of the diplomatic stuff from the country fearing an outbreak of violence the latest wave of on reza sponsored a new law bearing god-awful officials from taking office and militia fighters have laid siege to ministry buildings in the capital demanding the resignation of the

country's prime minister splinter groups in parliament importing for the prime his dismissal international relations professor mother alman says other western powers who helped oust a get out feet are responsible for the pretty long term oh we're seeing is deep divisions among the libyan revolutionaries who britain and other nato countries supported there's a power struggle over who should control the libyan state and control libya's oil and gas if colonel gadhafi had suppressed still positions him. in the streets and lost two thousand of them possibly hundreds of people would have died but perhaps as many as thirty thousand have died since and the country is in in this deep state to disorder uncertain to life for most libyans is worse than it was on the congo her of course kind of the girl whose regime was supposed the western countries to be the second paragraph anything must be russia we were told well i've heard say we see that it's not necessarily so clear after all they all mean libya which current

situation were armed groups came to power and some have nomination and there are of course. groups who might have been welcoming nato bombers but our current quite serious and he wants to muslim fundamentalist groups who are sending parts also to syria so they don't necessarily the continued presence of western embassies the british french or the americans as well as the holy something about seeing a liberal to do is they see libya. later on saturday two nasa astronauts will conduct an emergency six hour space walk they will try to fix in our morning a leak at the international space station arches sean thomas early explain to a marina joshie how bad the situation is. so tell us what's happening there exactly i mean apparently they saw some flakes there but how serious is the problem exactly well of thursday may ninth astronauts who are you know reviewing the space station and what do they see if they see these white crystal flakes dissipating into the

vacuum of space now from the area where they saw this coming from they determined that it was a coolant leak specifically an ammonia type movement in the to be system. system that they have had problems with in the past now it is something that they're looking at it is pretty serious but nasa says that astronauts are not in danger this time what this system does is it cools the electronics that you deal with the big solar arrays which provide power to the space station so if this doesn't get fixed if something goes wrong there could be some serious consequences but in two thousand and six they did notice a problem with this same thing it was fixed in two thousand and eleven they went up with the idea to top it off and then periodically top off this ammonia leak as they needed but then it developed more problems pretty rapidly they did a spacewalk they fix the problem there's no idea now they don't know if this current problem is still part of the same problem or if it's a different problem with the same system. but online if there's a raise on to be a red planet behind me yeah i have

a seventy eight thousand people have applied for a one way ticket to be among the first human to step along plants and coal mines ation by twenty twenty three won't that now excite plots. to begin the worst cyber threat to the world that might be the u.s. government all because of its relentless fight against its. right to add to the night. and develop more are than aria audience members sold friedman. nazi. germany and i would say dot com they report on the production cancelled for being too. last night.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. one of the eighty's most recent members of any m was once of the rising stock of the blogs economic success but if he is in there the euro have seen a lump into recession unemployment double since two thousand and eight and its banks on the verge of going under so vain is trying to sort itself out without brussels help but that's proving to be tough the editor in chief of the trans economy magazine told us that all the indebted countries went through this stage everybody who has been in trouble in the eurozone in the last years as in the first phase of the crisis always refused to admit that they are really in trouble and

that of course is first of all some kind of psychological game they're trying to play with the markets and with the public at large. but that fact being said. it has also been quite clear that all the countries that came into the danger zone eventually had to ask for help which is something national governments don't like because they're obviously to at least a certain degree there to hansard to and to obey to foreign powers be the european central bank to europe the european commission the i.m.f. or the treaty together in the famous trachea. and the other end of the e.u. is a wealth scale germany's got problems of its own immigration is at a twenty year high as a financial quagmire of many e.u. states have feels that the flow of people escaping problems at home our

correspondent in berlin appealed to all of us are some germans what they think of the newcomers those coming to germany in search of a new life might find one of the biggest challenges in the shape of the german people a bertelsmann foundation poll shows two certs of people here a few new comers as a burden on society one of those is coal schmidt he says he knows families who come from outside of the u. as many as five children who live on the state presently. the main performance which you have to bring to stay in germany you have to make children if you have no drop in germany and normal social flat hundred square meters in five children you get another three thousand euros that month social eight call runs a motor scooter hire company in berlin and claims to represent many upset at what

they see as a free ride given to migrants. if i would live in africa and i hear that and i see that my a friend of mine of the relative of mine is already in bali and shows me via facebook how he's living then i would say oh well i go to bernie and as soon as possible immigration here is a twenty year high with a further two million expected to arrive within the next three years along with traditional settlers from turkey the bulk of that number will come from with in sight the e.u. as the jobless countries like spain and greece look for better opportunities in the much wealthy in north as the mediterranean situation worsens wealthier countries like germany are a magnet to provide work for their fellow e.u. citizens but even those who weren't even born in germany worry about the influx of . i came here in one thousand nine hundred four and now there are so many

immigrants in germany who are not working not doing anything this leads to problems they live better than those who work. but those in the turkish community insist it's not easy. sometimes having immigrant status is not just a call to get a good job which leads to a lack of prospects and in some cases people turn to crime but this is not the majority how to handle surging immigration numbers or even the perception that they're draining society is going to prove harder for leaders to. there's a general election here just five months. more world news now and the retrial of egypt's former president hosni mubarak is jude to begin with barak along with his interior minister and security chiefs are to face court for their part in the deaths of anti-government protesters in twenty eleven egypt's former leader received a life sentence last june but was granted

a retrial in general because of a number of trial irregularities mubarak was ousted as a president in february of twenty eleven following an uprising that left hundreds of activists killed. d.n.a. tests have confirmed that the man from ohio accused of kidnapping and holding three women hostage for a decade is the father of the six year old girl also discovered at his house ariel castro who's fifty two is charged with rape and kidnap and could face execution if he's also charged with aggravated murder the women were rescued from his house on monday after one victim managed to escape. while the mall is former dictator has been sentenced to eighty years in prison for generous lives eighty six year old a frame that i as want was found guilty of killing more than one thousand seven hundred indigenous mayan suspected of aiding rebels trial and heard harrowing testimony from dozens of victims about mass rapes and murders in the early one nine

hundred eighty s. the verdict seen as a landmark for where tamara which is wrestling with the trauma of the decades long civil war which killed more than two thousand people. it's a stand you just a condo wash of israel's been using its skunk a mellow durandal spray on palestinian crowds or since two thousand and eight to say it's also being sprayed of people's homes and on peaceful demonstrators is our middle east correspondent policia with more. first it was the bullets then the tear gas and now it's probably the worst smelling substance you will ever smell in your entire life. you stink you bad people i don't have a home it stinks you made it smell i have nowhere to go i can't even see my son you sprayed him developed by israeli security forces this foul smelling liquid is used

to disperse palestinian demonstrations and it's proving to be pretty effective if it hits you in the eyes it could be painful and it could cause redness and if swallowed it can cause stomach problems it's important to. state that this material has never been used against israeli jews in only jewish demonstrations it's the on thirty years old search by the israeli military for an alternative to tear gas to control crowds the skunk is an anti-riot means that we employ in order to live up to our philosophy of containing rights at a safe distance while also ensuring the safety of everyone involved but those on the receiving end claim it's been used as collective punishment it's sprayed not at stone throwers but generally simply people participating in nonviolent marches and very often is that the skunk a spray that homes gardens at people who are not participating at all in any

demonstration take a tele to me for example he shows me the damage to his house from the so called skunk his wife was forced to throw they too old daughter from an absolute safety below after the windows of her bedroom shattered the israeli forces come from this side in the sewage car stops the start spraying while at the same time the soldiers throw the tear gas on their houses. if we find a it's usual to see clashes here in the west bank village of not be silent between israeli soldiers and palestinian demonstrators villages came a nearby israeli settlement is being built on their land as you enter not be silent this is the sign that welcomes you dozens of tear gas canisters that have been collected just over the past few months a stark reminder of the excessive force the israeli army uses against the small village it remains unclear what's actually inside the liquid i. mean this water is very dirty and has a very bad smell once we left the house for three weeks because of it it's water

based and has various ingredients that create a very pungent smell but it is household in credence as well whatever it is the one thing both sides agree on you would not want to be sprayed with this policy r.t. not be silent in the west bank. r.t. is a prime interest conscious of the numbers and breaks down the financial news a message by the others in a couple of minutes. well . it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. admission is free. free. free. free free.

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limits so good at least. just see them and. tell me i'm a little. good afternoon and welcome the prime interest i'm sorry i'm boring here and washington d.c. it's your headline. uncle sam is rolling in it revenue from end them taxes to fannie and freddie bailout repayments the u.s. is in the black but only temporary and treasury released his budget figures today for april a reported one hundred twelve point nine billion dollars surplus is ahead of

expectations of one hundred seven point five billion dollars for the future might not be so rosy of the treasury is expected to run a deficit again next month we'll talk about the u.s. debt and budget with abby martin the host of breaking the sat in just a bit. and what a way to close the week for jamie dimon earlier the fed began investigating j.p. morgan for energy market shenanigans and shareholders threatened to pull diamonds from the board but yesterday the state of california filed suit against the bank alleging new a rampant robo signing fraud and this time it's not about mortgages but credit card debt what's next on a loan anyways as the result of the suit to the bank giant estimates it could face sixty billion dollars in losses beyond reserves already set aside that's about one wells worth of hedging that are giving school. and finally after taking years to simply define what a swap is under john the commodity futures trading commission is close to another landmark called.