early. voting through the violence pakistani's on choosing a new parliament and what has already been called the bloodiest election campaign in the country's history and. the same aim by a different tactic so present them british prime minister cameron discuss the approaches to peace in syria as they pave the way for an international conference on the conflict. u.s. military forces in europe are put on alert to offer some western diplomats are pulled out of libya over the latest surge of post revolution under arrest. and an urgent a space walk is planned later on saturday to fix them all morning just for today yesterday for the crew of the international space station.

has just gone day here in of the russian capital you're watching live with me to bum with a it's good to have your company with us. the people of pakistan a crucial turning point in the country's young democracy but there's already been bloodshed at least eleven people didn't fly throughout the country containing the wave of i'm president of violence during the election campaign half enough has the story 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 the pakistani taliban has threatened to carry out widespread attacks today including suicide bombings saying that it quote 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 known now despite the violence this vote will mark the first democratic transfer of power in pockets don 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 is questionable the government is still plagued by a growing extremism sectarian violence and demick corruption as well as a broken economy now the main opposition comes from the party of former prime minister nawaz sharif who 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 on. it's heels of course as imraan khan 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 to drone strikes as well as an end 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 leader which raises the prospect of a fragmented parliament and could lead to 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 is

an excess of violence whoever of the wins this election will certainly have a hard time ahead. loosies a sweeping updates from pakistan during if his story she says won't banned from polling stations will feel suicide bombers she's also a precinct and supporters of the main contenders are costing them. putting an end to u.s. drone strikes was a major slogan on pakistan's election campaign trail the strikes were recently declared illegal by pakistan's high court and to war activists eugene. frustration with america's joining 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. we want to know your verdict on the target take killings by on men to you is a craft in a pakistan the let's take a look what you said a safe watch the absolute majority of us seventy nine percent said that these are war crimes as all the rest nine percent believe the attacks on men to produce makes result but it isn't the cheapest way for the pakistani authorities to kill militants like you view of of us seventy percent say it's a no other option to fight extremism in remote countries and the radio says the strikes are fundamentally justified but needed to be more precise r.t.

dot com is where you can have your three. news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. during operations through the day. in afghanistan of the nato pullout in twenty fourteen one be the end of the story for america's military presence for those bene's the middle east and un issues activism believes that keeping a foothold in the 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 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. russia and the u.k. have agreed to renew limited cooperation between their security services after a seventy year law but 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 two leaders a stress that they still do phone how to bring about peace they did cement agreement on common goals it's moscow and london want the bloodshed to end and a unified syrian people to choose their new government being free from violent extremism an international conference on syria is expected later this month but there was no mention joining the sortie meeting which is a strong support for the rebels all its intention to start directly arming them political writer john white says the west is desperate to push its own interests in the conflict so. 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 one of the partners which is trying to become a bit insulting to fly to russia i mean if the conflict does not go and we were hoping to destroy the assad regime we think of the axis of resistance in the region comprising city of hezbollah are 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 gulf states seventy quid talk to see. jordan funneling weapons funneling money into the rebels but even so the syrian national army is managing to. control of significant parts 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 is still enjoys significant support within syria itself and that is key. the u.s. has put its military forces in europe on alert over escalating tensions in libya washington and the u.k. have already pulled some of their diplomatic stuff from the country fearing of an outbreak of violence but as a wave of and reza was sparked by a new deal barring gadhafi era officials from taking office and militia fighters have laid siege to ministry buildings in the capital demanding the resignation of the country's finest splinter groups in parliament has been forming for the time is dismissal international relations professor mark elanders says the western powers who helped oust gadhafi are responsible for the for the long term what 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 the abuse or

wouldn't pass if colonel gadhafi had suppressed still positions him when it was open streets and lost two thousand of them possibly hundreds of people would have died or perhaps as many as thirty thousand have died since and the country is in in this state to disorder uncertainty and life for most libyans is worse than it was on the commodore who are 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 what current situation were armed groups came to power and certainly have local combination and there are of course. groups who may have been welcoming nato bombers but her and her quite serious and he wants to muslim fundamentalist groups who are sending parts also to syria so there you don't necessarily the continued presence of western embassies the british french or the americans as being wholly something about seeing in a labor of tutors they would see

a movie or. telling countries are cutting baggage germany's finding that struggling europeans are now knocking at its door. performance which you have to bring to. stay dry money you have to make sure that as a report soon there's no warm welcome from the e.u. the richest data for 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 that stinks i can't even see my son sprayed him you don't want to get close to this machine as it sprays a noisy aiding a waste water on palestinian villages who say it's collective punishment against them by israel just ahead.

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your mobile device you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. welcome back you're watching r t late on saturday two nasa astronauts will conduct any emergency six hour spacewalk to fix the ammonia leak on the international space station bought in a joins me now for more tom good to see you and nasa says the league's worsening although the space station is still running will fix all of the valve to fix this yes interesting question to bring i think that's exactly what the crew on the assess are trying to establish now this spacewalk is going to take place the leak going back till thursday that's when it was first noticed diocese command chris hadfield talking with the ground establishing what exactly was going on as i think

we can hear now. very steady stream of. flakes or bits coming out of coming to your neighborhood i rotate in towards the forward you know as the truss is rotating we're just waiting for to rotate now or we get a few of you out of the jam. so two crew members going out outside the international space station to try and identify first of all exactly where this ammonia leak from the cooling system is coming from and perhaps if they can to try and fix it if not they'll try to do that later so at this point they don't really know if the incident is it is serious but it would become a serious blow to the actual mission any scientific work as a whole at the moment both nasser and the crew up there saying no not at the moment it's not serious even if they were they have to shut off one of the power sections the power channels that come from those solar panels there's eight of them they can still operate on seven without many problems as that's what spokesman say at the

moment it is as they characterize it a serious problem but more of an annoyance rather than anything particularly dangerous they also say that three crew due to come back to work monday at the moment that seems to be going ahead of schedule you know it all watching from home we always think oh being at the eye and says is so exciting it's been the ice has been orbiting for the last twelve years where on earth it's been quite a lot of cosmic work hard heaven it really has that starts a good way of putting it i mean obviously some people would say it's getting on a bit this station but that sort of to miss the point a bit of how the whole s.s. works in two thousand and seven there was another leak just like this one in roughly the same place in two thousand and ten one of the cooling systems really had quite a violent problem that they had to sort out and in two thousand and twelve more works were done on this very cooling system again so the think that the whole point of this is that the i assess is a constantly evolving space station there's bits being taken away new bits being

brought up it's very likely say nasa spokesman that that space of space junk it might be in very small hit this particular point of the space station and what have been slowly looking for a long time and that they could let go became a bigger leak but at the moment. sort of things are going on. life is going on and it seems that the mission i'm street station at the moment are ok mission will continue tom watson in the studio with me thank you very much for updating us on the that i it says will be working later on the i assess. right of the race also on to be a red planet pioneer over seventy eight thousand people have applied for one we take it to be among the first humans to settle on mas plans to start home isolation by twenty twenty three on that online plus. now of the biggest the

worst cyber threat in the world might be from the usa we report online how the government is taking a page out of the hackers book and the relentless fight against them. and could this v.v. and the u.s. allows the use of pesticides are linked to wiping out hives chemicals recently banned in europe for their possible catastrophic ramifications r t dot com reports on the state in this tick. one of the most recent members of slovenia was one of the rising star of the blogs the economic success but it's of years in the euro have seen it slump into recession unemployment double since two thousand and eight and its banks are on the verge of going under slovenia is trying to sort itself out without brussels help but that's proving to be tough the editor in chief of the financial magazine trends a 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 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. that fact being said. 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 then obviously to at least a certain degree death to hansard to and to obey 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 other end of the e.u.

is a wealth gale germany has got a problem of its own immigration is at a twenty year high as a financial quagmire many east asia feels the flow of people escaping problems at home a correspondent in berlin peter all of our some germans what they think of the newcomers those coming to germany in search of a new life might find one of their biggest challenges in the shape of the german people a bertelsmann foundation poll shows two surge of people here a few newcomers 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 flat 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 friend of mine of 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 and 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 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 early. right now straight to do cairo with these are live pictures where the read trial of former egypt's president hosni mubarak has begun mubarak along with his interior

ministers and six of security chiefs are facing court for their part in the deaths of antigovernment protesters in twenty eleven egypt's of 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 president in february twenty levon following an uprising that left hundreds of activists killed and worked out. another news a d.n.a. tests have confirmed that the men from ohio are accused 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 kidnap he could also face execution if he's also charged with aggravated murder after one of the victims claims he was a systematically beaten to induce miscarriages the women who were rescued from his house on monday after one victim managed to escape.

the tomatoes former dictator has been sentenced to eighty years in prison for genocide eighty six year old frame that rios montt was found guilty of killing more than a thousand seven hundred indigenous a mayan 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 guatemala which is wrestling with the trauma of the decades long civil war which killed on more than two hundred thousand people. israel's planning to build nearly three hundred housing units in territories always the palestinians insist belongs to them that's despite the fact that washington's already warned the country that moves are counterproductive this could also hamper the efforts of u.s. secretary of state john kerry didn't 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 continue to protest a decades long occupation but israel's a dishing of the dirt in a whole new way against even peaceful demonstrators as policy here explain. 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. you stink you bird 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 answer to a years old search by the israeli military for an alternative to tear gas to control crowds the skunk as 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 is sprayed 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 absence bill kmita 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 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 silly in the west bank. so look at the flight against the hunger in west africa. thank.

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