bloodstain vote down the lead bomb blast rocked pakistan as a country holds its milestone democratic election continuing violence which has marred the whole campaign. but more ballots than bullets in this historic vote here and pakistan update from islamic body in just a few moments. the space station repairs astronauts perform an emergency spacewalk to try to fix so leaking cooling system on board the orbiting laboratory . embassies all are the u.s. and u.k. are pulling nonessential diplomatic staff out of libya with security fears fueling after militants besieged ministries at last month.

it is five pm in moscow you're watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program. deadly explosions and gunfire in cities and towns across the nation as pakistan holds a milestone general election marking the country's first power transition through the ballot box voting has been extended nationwide to cope with a high turnout but some are paying a high price to vote for the national assembly well at least eleven people have been killed and dozens more injured in what's been reported as a series of bomb blasts in karate more people have died in pakistan's biggest province of blocky stone were explosions and gunmen targeted voters outside polling stations also there are others fell victim to shootouts between rivaling political factions and violence has erupted in pakistan's volatile north as well were

a roadside bomb caused further casualties in the city of. all respond as he often of his in pakistan's capital where the latest no one has claimed responsibility for the violence that has been reported across the country today there are a number of armed groups who operate in pakistan as well as the toll of on which has waged a bloody intimidation campaign in the run up to the vote claiming the lives of more than one hundred thirty people they view these elections as being on islamic and have largely targeted to secular leaning parties but these elections are more about the ballot box than bullets i have to say as millions of pakistanis turned out eagerly eagerly in droves despite the threat of violence there have been some reports of vote rigging allegations in karate and several parties have withdrawn their candidates in a boycott of the vote but by and large all signs point to a successful a democratic election here in caucus on which is really quite critical for a country that has been ruled by the military for more than half of its existence as an independent state the big question now is of course who will win these

elections well it's going to be a few hours before the preliminary results are released but i have to say just from speaking to the voters at some of the stations here in islamabad a lot of support for emraan khan. the former cricket star turned politician who has really been able to seize on the youth vote here in pakistan he seized his gun the empathy and the sympathy of millions of pakistanis who feel disillusioned with the established political parties that have really run the country for four decades and he's been pushing a platform of change anti corruption anti-u.s. drone strikes anti western aid of course the kind of the candidate that many experts expect to do quite well is not was sharif he has served as prime minister twice before he is running yet again here and he is running on a platform of free market policies he thinks that economic solutions will really help pull papa stan out of its economic nightmare and it really has seen the economic problems under the ruling coalition headed by the pakistan people's party

that is benazir bhutto the late prime minister's party which has been accused of sort of festering an atmosphere of corruption we've seen a massive unemployment power outages still plague that country and of course a growing sectarian violence as well in it as an islamist resurgence here so a lot of problems for whoever wins. we'll have to our website for the latest updates on the veldt in pakistan who chooses its next parliament amid the bloodshed that's r t dot com. international security specialist patrice should again our own the people of pakistan are so fed up with conditions in their country that they are courageous enough to head to polls despite the danger. these things are very tough though you know we saw the same thing in afghanistan with the taliban threatening and you know as we're seeing they're very very serious about these threats and and it's difficult for people that don't have a lot of of ability maneuverability around with so many threats going on of around

that goes a long way particularly when you don't know when it's going to happen and you're looking around at every corner. but you know people really take risks to get out there and exercise their right and their voice are becoming victims from an extra hour and they're becoming victims by their own internal struggles so yeah people become very very tired but you know remember when you're so traumatized and and you become absolutely exhausted with this continuous type of reflection in your reality it's sometimes it's hard to to be so courageous when we want to know your verdict on the outcome of pakistan's a story first democratic friends issue let's take a look at how our respondents in the viewers voted so far this hour we're just so over half say the ballot won't change a thing and it's just

a spectacle for the benefit of the west over a quarter of those who participated in the poll believe the election will trigger muslim rage across the country now fifteen percent think you are in the in fact are convinced the poll will provide the basis for a functional democracy and the rest say that it will only bring more dysfunction the government well do let us know what you think by logging on to our tea dot com and leaving your vote there. to neighboring afghanistan now where the u.s. seems reluctant to give up on its mission of keeping some of its military there past of the twenty fourteen foreign troop withdrawal date. and we want america looks out to continue. military presence here after nearly twelve years of boy conflict costing billions of dollars. download the. application itself choose your language stream quality and enjoy

your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch our t.v. anytime anywhere. welcome back you're watching our t.v. while to nasa astronauts have already started their six hour spacewalk to fix the ammonia leak at international space station we have tom barton here in the studio to tell us more about what's going to be happening there in the implications of all this well tom tell us is this is six hours really enough to fix a problem. this leak was discovered on thursday ammonia spitting out little snowflakes as they clear the mountain to space since then there's been this hurried preparation for this space walk two astronauts now outside the space station trying to work their way along the side of it towards the site where they. roughly seen

this ammonia leaking from they're going to try and pinpoint that we heard from station commander chris hadfield earlier discussing with mission control what exactly was going on very steady stream of. profits got out of the common curator and i rotated in towards the storage area directly on the truss rotating surface later to i think they're always getting a few out of the jam. so that spaceport continuing now over the coming hours we'll see how it turns out what exactly i mean we know that there are sophisticated equipment involved there but how exactly will the tackle the problem you have they're going to work their way over to the site where they roughly thought that the leak was coming from and they're going to try and pinpoint it's it's coming from one of the the cooling systems which helps to cool the electrics from the the solar panels which supply power to the international space station once they've pinpointed that they hope if they have enough time left they could try and sort out

some kind of repair perhaps replacing a pumping system that they think may of mouth function. well i mean at this point the question is how serious is this leak and what sort of consequences might it have for other missions i says at the moment both nasa spokesman on the ground and the crew is saying it's a serious leak but it's not dangerous it's more annoying they say than than anything else really they're going to try and look at the impact of all of this at the moment there are eight power sources coming from those from those solar arrays they're going to have to shut down one it seems likely if the ammonia runs out and then the power will will be ok coming from those seven other sources all right well tom thanks very much indeed for the subject and of course we're keeping our fingers on the pulse of what's happening there right now we know that the nasa astronauts are already out there in space fixing that ammonia leak and their work will continue for six hours we'll be bringing you more updates here on r.t.

to stay with us for that. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. mounting unrest in libya has prompted the u.s. to put its troops on heightened alert and pull diplomatic staff from its embassy the u.k. is also recalled all non-essential staff from its embassy in tripoli armed gunmen have been laying siege to libya's ministries and foreign embassies for over two weeks now and on saturday an anti militia demonstration in the capital came under attack maybe as government recently granted militants demand for gadhafi era officials to be banned from senior government roles now they're calling for the

country's prime minister to resign international relations professor mark almond says western powers are responsible for the instability and the surge of violence that sweeping the country. 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 to control libya's or wouldn't pass if colonel gadhafi had suppressed still positions him when it was opened in the streets of loss of two thousand live and also be hundreds of people would have gone but perhaps as many as thirty thousand died since and the country is in deep states to disorder uncertainty liason for most libyans is worse than it was on the commodore who are of course kind of the girl who is where she was supposed to live the western countries to be the second paragraph she anything must be russia we were told well i'm afraid so we see that it's not necessarily so clear after all they all mean libya which creates

a choice and were armed groups came to power and so they have local coordination and there are of course. groups who may have been welcoming nato bombers but quite serious and he wants to muslim fundamentalist groups who have now been sending parts also to syria so they don't necessarily the continued presence of western embassies the british french or the americans as being wholly something about seeing a liberal to do so they would see libya. so the comfort of this hour israel's building on controversy yes tell me began again is that going out to the construction of hundreds of new homes in the west bank despite being branded as illegal under international law. and against the bailout slovenia's i package of nazareth to a virgin financial meltdown and it appears as bad fall aside for us foreign doubt in just a moment here in our team. speak

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arabic to find out more visit our big. dog called. welcome back you're watching our new line from moscow to israel has given the green light for the construction of a further three hundred homes at a west bank settlement it's feared the move could swaret recent attempts by u.s. secretary of state john kerry stewart himmel peace talks between palestinian authorities and israel so far this year israel's army has a victim almost four hundred palestinians from the west bank and dismantled over two hundred houses the number of such incidents has risen sharply since a new israeli government even stronger opposition to a two state solution took office in march and authorities policy are now reports the israeli defense forces are ready to use almost anything to back their government's orders. 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 came 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 homes gardens at people who are not participating at all in any going to. 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 an absence balcony to safety below after the windows of her bedroom shattered the israeli forces come from this side and 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 so 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 one thing both sides agree on you would not want to be sprayed with there's. now be sunny in the west bank. now in our t. dot com we find out how the world's biggest hacker group is fighting fire with fire . the u.s. government is taking a page out of a cyber activist book and its relentless battle against online attacks. and

another click away on our t.v. you tube channel windows are blown out and cars battered always released c.c.t.v. footage of a gas explosion that ripped open an office building in the heart of prague. slovenia's rushing to reform its economy mid mounting concern it's next in line for an e.u. bailout the action plan includes the sale of fifteen state companies tax hikes on public sector wage cuts it comes to have a european commission report due at the end of the month and even arabs over the situation and slovenia well it's tiny economy with a g.d.p. of about forty five billion euros and debt a banking system burdened with about seven billion euros of bad loans. so many is now trying to prop it up by transferring the non-performing loans of its largest banks to a newly established bad bank meanwhile its credit rating was recently cut to junk

by moody's one of the lowest investment greats in the same thing happened to cyprus in a twenty twelve a year before it faced punishing bailout terms however slovenia has been insisting it doesn't need help from international lenders you know and then overfilled from economic trends magazine says that sounds very familiar everybody who has been in trouble in the eurozone in the last year is 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. being said. that's 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. to. foreign powers in central bank. the i.m.f. or together in the famous troika. and while much of europe worries about the next country in line for a bailout its largest economy is still managing to grow. with germany's success comes a flood of immigrants from debt stricken neighbors and other non e.u. countries something the locals are not so happy about our report on that in just a few minutes here on our team. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world eighteen people have been killed and twenty two injured in a double car bomb attack near the turkish border with syria reports say turkey has arrested five people including three syrian nationals in connection with the

explosion so far however no one has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack. why must former dictator has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the genocide of seventeen hundred indigenous mayans during his first year rule in the eighty's eighty six year old fran rawest mond started his military career in. a coup in the fifty's and built close ties with the reagan administration a verdict seen as a landmark for guatemala which is wrestling with the trauma of a decades long civil war which has killed more than two hundred thousand people. foreign troops are set to leave afghanistan next year a but it won't be the end of the road for america's armed forces there the u.s. says it will keep nine military bases open while thousands of private security contractors are also staying on middle east and un issues activists phyllis bennis

believes that because of ghana stance strategic location allows washington to keep a foothold in the region 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 along 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. now with the e.u. looking down the barrel of yet another year of recession the block's powerhouse germany is doing relatively well it's the only member state that's managing to eke out growth and as a result it's attracting more and more people escaping financial troubles in debt to stricken southern europe and outside the e.u. a trend as art has peed all over in our reports is becoming frustrating for many germans 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 bird holzman foundation poll shows two suits of people here a few new comers as a burden on society one of those is called 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. 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 a 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 of set 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 mine is already in

bali and. 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 within in you 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 avoid there's a general election here just five months peter all of her r.t. . now artie's prime interest crunches the numbers and breakdown the financial news missed by the others and couple of minutes here and. you know i've been asked a few times if i believe in conspiracy theories which is kind of an odd question i

mean just in general believe in conspiracy theories like all of them even the ones that contradict each other i mean j.f.k. could have been killed by the mob the cia the k.g.b. and various secret societies at the same time or could he have been no it's just declare themselves official conspiracy theories that's silly obviously it isn't good just go around fishing for evil plots to explain every situation the mainstream media sure does lie a lot but i think they're telling the truth about that whole sky being blue thing but on the other hand if you never question what the glowing box in your house tells you that just makes you a sucker the kind of sucker who bought that 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 spirity theories are matter of belief but actually they're completely a matter of facts and there's a lot of good evidence to support a conspiracy and good arguments that maybe you should consider it but if someone

tells you the president is actually a rip tell him from the cosmos yeah you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion. good afternoon and welcome the prime interest i'm sorry i'm boring here and the washington d.c. gets the headlines. uncle sam is rolling and it doesn't do that from end game taxes to fannie and freddie bailout were payments the u.s. is in the black but only temporary the treasury released of budget figures today for april and reported

a 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 as 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 diamond 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 suited to bank giant estimates it could face sixty billion dollars in losses beyond reserves already set aside that's about one wells worth of hedging for those that are giving school. and finally after taking years to simply define what a swap is under john bring the commodity future.