bojangles through the violence pakistanis are choosing a new parliament in what has already been called the bloodiest election campaign in the country's history. the same way but different tactics president putin the british prime minister cameron to discuss the approaches to peace in syria as they paved the way for an international conference on the conflict. u.s. military forces in europe are put on alert after some western diplomats are pulled out of libya over the latest surge of post revolution undressed. and then urgent space will get is planned late on saturday to fix and the all morning spotted yesterday by the crew of the international space station.

international news reports and analysis of this is r t it's good to have you company with us this morning. the people of pakistan voting a crucial turning point in the country's young democracy but it has already made history for the president of the election campaign as you see coughing up reports turbulent 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 has 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 haven'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 is questionable the government is still plagued by a growing extremism of sectarian violence and democrats as well as a broken economy down the main opposition comes from the party of former prime minister nawaz sharif looks set 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 as heels of course as iran on the brigadier turned politician and his party had boycotted the last election. but he's made significant gains especially among the youth voters he is calling for an end to corruption and drone strikes as opposed to a reliance on western aid of course he was injured earlier this week and there are some thoughts 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 an end to u.s. drone strikes was a major slogan on punky songs the election campaign trail the strikes were recently declared illegal by pakistan's high court and to war activists in the gene pool yam the big names of frustration with america's drone 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 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. we want to know your verdict on the targeted killings by on men

do you as a prompt in pakistan so far the absolute majority of you at seventy nine percent say that these are war crimes as for the rest nine percent believe the attacks on men to reduce mixed result but it's the cheapest way for the pakistani authorities to kill militants slightly fearful of us seven percent convinced that there's no other option to fly to extremism in remote areas and the remainder say the strikes are fundamentally justified but need to be more precise argy dot com is a way you can have your say. in neighboring afghanistan or the nato pullout in twenty fourteen you want to be the end of the story for america's military presence phyllis bennis a who's a middle east and u.n. issues activism believes that keeping a foothold in the volatile state 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 or oil 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 us 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 russia and the u.k. have agreed to renew limited cooperation between their security services after seventy a lull but the main focus of tolls between president putin and prime minister cameron in the russian resort of sochi was the escalating crisis in syria while the two leaders stress that they still differ on how to bring about peace and they did cement agreement on common goals both moscow and london want the bloodshed to and unified syrian people to choose a new government while being free from blind into extremism an international conference on syria is expected later this month but there was no mention in the salty meeting of which is strong support for the rebels all its intentions are to stop directly arming them but little writer john why does the west is desperate to push its own interest in the conflict. no see the syrian national army enjoying

some significant success in the last few weeks in thinking back. years of the country and i think this is deduced. actually in washington and london which is trying to accommodate to fly. the conflict is not what we were hoping to destroy the assad regime we think of the axis of resistance into the term comprising city of. and iran and selling 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. through. the quit talking to jordan funneling weapons funneling money into the rebels but even so the city national army has mounted. control of significant parts of the country and to

enjoy some success on the ground there is no doubt that despite the propaganda campaign being waged against this out if you still enjoys significant support within syria itself and that is key the u.s. has put its military forces in europe on alert the escalating tensions in libya washington and the u.k. have already pulled some of the a diplomatic stuff from the country hearing an outbreak of violence the latest wave of. nuno. the erroll for szell's up from taking office militia fighters to have made to cease to ministry buildings in the capital demanding the resignation of the country's prime minister splinter groups in parliament have been calling for the prime years dismissal international relations professor says of the western powers who helped gaddafi are responsible for the poor long term lol. we're seeing is deep divisions among the libyan revolutionaries who britain and other nato countries supported as a power struggle over who should control the libyan state and protect the who

control libya's oil and gas if colonel gadhafi had suppressed self-possession to him when it was opened in the streets of last two thousand level possibly hundreds of people would have died but perhaps as many as thirty thousand died since and the country is in the deep state to disorder uncertainty life for most libyans is worse than it was on account of the articles kind of about his regime was supposed by the western countries to be the second bad regime anything must be russia we were told well i'm afraid to say we see that it's not necessarily so clear after all they only english be able to create a situation where armed groups came to power and they have local nomination and there are of course groups who may be welcoming nato bombers but are in fact quite serious and he wants to move some fundamentalist groups who have now been sending parts also to syria so they don't go this is hurting the continued presence of western embassies the british french all the americans as being wholly something

they'd like to see in a liberated as they see libya. telling countries to keep cutting back germany's finding that struggling europeans are loud knocking at it's still. performance which you have to bring to. stay in germany you have to make children as we report soon there's no warm welcome from the e.u. the richest stateful the increasing number of economic migrants who are accused of abusing germany's welfare system plus. you stink you bad people i don't have a home and stinks i can't even see my son you sprayed him you don't want to get close to this machine as it is spray food putrid waste water on pelosi in villages who say it's collective punishment against them by israel on that just ahead.

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thankful saying with us here on our team later on saturday two in the last the astronauts will conduct an emergency six hour space walk they will try to fix and i'm on a leak at the international space station is sean thomas early explain to learn of just how bad the situation this. 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 were 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 two and in the to be system. system that they've had problems with in the past now it is something that they are looking at it is pretty serious but nasa says that astronauts are not in danger at this time what this system does is it cools the electronics that 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. there's a reason to be a rebel one of them hired neo with seventy eight thousand people have applied for a one way ticket to be among the first humans to settle on marvel plans to own my position by twenty twenty three one that online plus. the biggest of the worst cyber threats in the world might be the usa we report on why and how the government is taking a page out of his books the relentless flight i gates.

and the line to feel proud that ended up war over the heart of the net aria audience members sold a treatment for shock after attending a nazi being devalued right in germany at r.d. dot com will report on the production now canceled will be june well. today violent games flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. one of the most recent members slovenia was once the rising star of the blocks economic success but as the years in the euro have seen it slump into recession

unemployment doubled since two thousand and eight and its banks are on the verge of going under them so the brain is trying to sort itself out without brussels out but that's proving to be tough the editor in chief of the financial magazine trends or told us that all the indebted countries went through the same stage everybody who has been in trouble in the eurozone in the last years has in the first phase of the grass is always refused to admit that they are really. 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. they're. being set. 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 obviously to at least a certain degree they have to hansard to date to foreign

powers be the european central bank or europe reached the european commission the i.m.f. or the treaty together in the famous troika at the end of the e.u. as well scale germany's got problems of its own immigration is at a twenty year high as a financial quagmire when e.u. states feels of the flow of people escaping problems at home our correspondent in berlin and peter all of our also 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 surge 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 off 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. if 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 when i see that my a friend of mine of 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 that 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. i came here in one thousand nine hundred four but 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 stickle 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. yes there's

a general election here just five months peter older. more world news now and the retrial of egypt's former president hosni mubarak is due to begin with barak along with his interior ministry minister and six security chiefs are to face court for their part in the deaths of anti-government protesters in twenty levon egypt's former leader received a life sentence last june but was granted a retrial in general because of a number of the trial irregularities mubarak was ousted as president in february of two thousand and eleven following an uprising that left hundreds of activists right . d.n.a. tests have confirmed that the man from ohio like years of kidnapping and holding three women hostage for decades is the father of a six year old girl also discovered at his house ariel castro he's fifty two is charged with rape and kidnapping and could face execution if he's also charged with

aggravated murder women where rescued from his house on monday after one victim managed to escape. while the male as a former dictator has been sentenced to eighty years in prison for genocide it is six year old efrain rios montt was found guilty of killing more than one thousand seven hundred indigenous mayans suspected of aiding rebels the trial 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 what tomorrow which is wrestling with the trauma of the decades long civil war which killed more than two thousand people. the united states has warned israel that its plans to build more settlements in the west bank are counterproductive nearly three hundred housing units are planned in territories which the palestinians and says belong to them the move could hamper the efforts of u.s. secretary of state john kerry to restart negotiations between the bitter rivals israeli

settlements are considered illegal under international law with the palestinians insisting building must be frozen before any talks we commence meanwhile gangs of palestinian youths will continue to protest the decades long occupation but israel's dishing the dirt in a whole new way against even peaceful demonstrators as policia explains. first it was the bullets then the tear gas and now verse it's probably the worst smelling substance you will ever smell in your entire life both of 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 being 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 holmes 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 sky his wife was forced to throw the two old daughter from a nap still to safety below after the windows of her bedroom shattered the israeli

forces come from this side in the sewage car stops the it starts 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 this. water based and has various ingredients that create a very pungent smell but it is household in credence as well. whatever it is

one thing both sides agree on you would not want to be sprayed with this policy r.t. now beside me in the west bank. so we look back at the wave of famine ravaged the west africa back in two thousand and eleven and put millions on the brink of starvation. 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 nor should 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 the one nine hundred thirty s. over all people think it's pearcey theories are a 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 rep to lead from the cosmos yeah 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 us 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 there . 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. any particular road appeal and so when the food arrives. the g.a.o. where mr leto 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. they failed and they failed because of the lobbying efforts the highly successful and very sophisticated lobbying efforts of those who benefit from the status quo and use food aid programs from the american taxpayers' money only forty percent goes for the purchase of food aid for the starving people in africa the remaining sixty percent goes to the shipping companies.