live from moscow with a blood stained vote deadly bomb blast rocked pakistan as the country holds its milestone democratic election continuing the violence that's the whole thing. but more ballots than bullets in this historic vote here in pakistan update from islamic in just a few moments. so cool to kill the many more severely injured in a double car bombing on the border with syria with suspected kurdish involvement. in space station repairs national emergency space walk to try to fix a leaking system. we've got.

over that evening she has just joined. the new studio from moscow our top story the deadly explosions and gunfire in cities and towns across the nation as pakistan holds the general election marking the country's first translation through the ballot box voting how to be extended by an hour because of the high turnout but counting is no on the way they election commissions declared polls in karachi though weren't free and fair voting should be rerun in some areas some people love paid a high price to exercise their democratic right at least sixty. dozens more injured in a series of bomb blasts in korea more people have died in pakistan's biggest province . where explosions and government targeted voters outside polling stations also the two others fell victim to shootouts between rival political factions violence has

erupted in pakistan's north as well where two bomb attacks cause further casualties in this city of the shower an update on the vote the from pakistan's islam correspondent today and off 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 taliban which has waged a bloody intimidation campaign. of the more than one hundred thirty people they view these elections as being honest lawmakers and have largely targeted the 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the threat of violence there have been some reports of a vote rigging allegations in karate and several parties have withdrawn their candidates in a boycott of the vote but by and large all signs point to a successful a democratic election here and caucus on which is really quite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 but 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 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 and i 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's 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. we surgeons here so a lot of problems for whoever wins. the website more on the latest developments in pakistan as he chooses his next parliament made this song go into bloodshed dot com . international security specialist for to john the road told me the people of pakistan are so fed up with the conditions in their country the courageous enough to head to the 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 and 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 and exercise their right and their voice are becoming victims from an ex turn power and they're becoming victims by their own internal struggles so yeah people become very very tired 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 well pleased to get involved with the big stories of the day as you always do and no we don't know your verdict on the outcome of pakistan's historic democratic translation this is what

you're telling us there's a bit more the last time fifty three percent of you said the ballot won't change a thing is just a spectacle for the benefit of the west twenty seven percent or so again believe the election will be rage across the country forty percent see the convince the poll provide the basis for a functional democracy the rest of you said only three more dysfunction in the government six percent that's the vote plenty of time to have your side still of course. download the official application. 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 r.t. anytime anywhere. double car bomb blast of rock to turkish to the country's border with syria official sources put the death toll at forty with scores more injured.

responsibility for the attack which turkish authorities are focusing on kurdish rebel or syrian involvement we got the latest more middle east correspondent paula . well it does most of the details are still sketchy what we do know is that two car bombs have exploded one was in front of the city hall the other was in front of a local post office in the turkish town of re hundred which is not far from the syrian border according to the turkish foreign ministry at least fourteen people have been killed and more than one hundred people injured now we still don't have anyone or any organization coming forward and claiming responsibility but the turkish prime minister erdogan has said that this is a sensitive time and that the culprits might be people who are unhappy with the way the kurdish peace process is progressing the turkish vice prime minister has gone on record as saying that he feels that that might be the usual approach as said culprits now it is important to remember that turkey shares a somewhat five hundred mile border with syria and in the past and cohen has noted

support to syrian rebels who are backing the syrian presidency of bashar assad and turkey has meant the rebels both a staging say into and an area from which they can conduct their live just sticks so what we're hearing here is that it might in fact be syrian pro government officials and soldiers who are retaliating against syria but as i mention no conclusive proof of this this is an area that does see a lot of fighting between syrian rebel forces and pro side forces and certainly the syrian turkish border is extremely volatile now it's bring up to speed on the international space station you know if i'm watching this for last forty eight hours or so until you get a leak in the coolant system we're looking to leave to nasa astronauts have installed a new pump on the international space station let's get the real up to speed or has been following the story for us other top repairs a bit under where the astronauts have done that space walk how they finished and what's the up well chris cassidy and thomas marshburn two astronauts which you can

roughly make out on this live on these live pictures from us they haven't actually found a leak. have replaced those pumps what was white these weight white flakes that was really found on thursday seen by the commander of the space station chris hadfield they these two have been sent out today to try and isolate it define exactly where it was and have not come across any more ammonia coming out does that mean the problem is fixed or well exactly does that mean there's a problem even now well it obviously was a problem somewhere but they think maybe by replacing these pumps they've eliminated the problem maybe when they put him only a back into the system they'll see that cooling system leaking again and they'll have to go and what's the point of the ammonia that kind of outflow could cool in the fridge as it's happening is an electrical coolant for the powering system that comes in from the solar panels that power the i assess there's not a big problem for the access it can handle itself on seven of those power sources

rather than eight but obviously it's very annoying to have one of those down and is a really long term effect both short medium term if they even i guess for the scientific expedition is going on at the moment or is it all ok at the moment it's all ok they can well cope on the power that they've got obviously they need to get this sorted out in fact that that leak is not a new one it's been going on for for some time but it's become worse that's why they could see that ammonia drifting out into space and that's why they decided to to seize the moment now so at the moment all seems to be going well we're across the story of the rest of the night of course we're going to use only tom thanks ever so much. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images.

from the streets of kandahar. operation day. good to know three went well up there now mounting unrest in libya has prompted the u.s. to put its troops on heightened alert and pull diplomatic stuff for example see the u.k. is also recalled all non-essential staff from the country. to libya's ministries and foreign embassies for over two weeks and on saturday. in the capital came under attack libya's government recently granted the militias demand for gadhafi era officials to be banned from senior government roles now they're calling for the country's prime minister to resign its national relations professor mark colvin says western powers are responsible for the instability in the surge of violence that's sweeping the country right now. 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 the who should

control libya's oil and gas if colonel gadhafi had suppressed still positions him when it was opened in the streets of last two thousand of them also be hundreds of people would have died or perhaps as many as thirty thousand have died since and the country is in a state to disorder uncertainty life for most libyans is worse than it was on the congo to her of course kind of the girl whose regime was supposed why the western countries to be the second paragraph she anything must be russia we were told well i'm afraid say we see that it's not necessarily so clear after all they all mean libya which creates a choice sure armed groups came to power and some have local nomination and there are of course. groups who may have been welcoming nato bombers but our current quite serious and he wants to the muslim fundamentalist groups who are now been sending parts also to syria so they don't will go with necessarily the continued presence of western embassies the british french all the americans as well as the

holy something about seeing a liberal to do is they would see libya still to come through this hour an hour to see action against the bailout slovenia's i affected your measures to avert a finance meltdown amid fears it's about to fall it's like it's got more about interesting. technology innovation all the developments around. the future.

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again slovenia is rushing to reform its economy amid mounting concern is next in line for leave the action plan includes the sale of fifteen state companies tax hikes and public sector wage cuts it comes ahead of the european commission report due at the end of the month and e.u. nerves over the situation severely now it's a tiny economy with a g.d.p. of about forty five billion euros and then indebted banking system to burden with about seven billion euros of bad loans so he's now trying to prop it up by transferring the non-performing loans of its largest banks to a newly established bad bank meantime its credit rating was recently cut to jump by moody's one of the lowest investment grade something out to cyprus of course in twenty twelve just a year before it faced punishing bailout terms and other silliness but insisting it

doesn't need help from international lenders your invite over from economic trends magazine told us that sounds familiar everybody who has been in trouble in the eurozone in the last years as in the first phase of the grass is always refused to admit that they are really in trouble and 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 said. it's also been quite clear they're all the countries that came into the danger zone eventually had to ask for oil which is something national governments don't like because then obviously to at least a certain degree their two hands are to do all day to foreign powers be the european central bank the european european commission the i.m.f.

or the treaty together in the famous trachea. well while much of your worries about the next country. largest economy grow but with germany six. countries so the locals are not. just a few. foreign troops leave afghanistan next year but it will be the end of the road for america's armed forces there the u.s. says it will keep military bases open while thousands of private security

contractors are also staying on middle east issues are. told me that's because afghanistan strategic location allows washington to keep a foothold in the region. 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 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. well arty's martin examined american presence in afghanistan beyond twenty forty eight in a break in a set show will correspond margolis has covered fourteen different conflicts compared u.s. military operations there to the british colonial forces in the nineteenth century it's a quick preview of the discussion. you bring an article titled all colonial wars are like where you stated the u.s. is reconfigured its army for colonial forces and warfare how did they do this the

pentagon has had to train its troops for guerilla warfare the call counterinsurgency it's got more helicopters less heavy equipment less tanks and heavy artillery and it has to develop all kinds of or reconnaissance techniques and tactics doctor and they call it in the military how to use this thing to hunt small groups of lightly armed combatants but the quick question that bothers me is the british army in the late eighteenth hundreds was similarly trained and equipped to fight its colonial wars on the northwest frontier of india plays in zulu wars when the british ran into real soldiers at the some in one thousand nine hundred fourteen sixteen in the in the western front the britons were horribly massacred because they were trained from our war of the united states is now announced that it's pivoting towards asia and u.s. military development will have to take china into account how do you do that with

an army trained to fight tribes and on the northwest frontier. so the full story much more break in the set is eight hundred thirty g.m.t. tonight stills available to website streaming and if you want to get it out see dot com talking about as well we find out how the world's biggest hacker groups fighting fire with fire if want to check that out today the government in the u.s. is taking a pay. journalist cyber activist book and its relentless battle against online attacks and go speed on the other click away allowed to use you tube channel windows have blown out in combat said you might recall that there's been an explosion in the czech republic will check police have released c.c.t.v. footage now of that gas explosion that ripped the office off the riffle front of an office building in the heart of prague so it's only you chew channels.

with the e.u. looking down the barrel of yet another year of recession the blocks past germany's doing relatively well as the only member state is managing to eke out growth and as a result it's attracting more and more people escaping financial troubles in debt stricken southern europe and outside the e.u. a trend as art has played a role of a found out is becoming frustrating though 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 bertelsmann foundation poll shows two thirds of people here a few new comers as a burden on society one of those is culture schmidt he says he knows families who come from outside of the e.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 and i see that my friend of mine of relative of mine is already in bali and shows we facebook how he is 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 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. there's a general election here just five months peter all of the. lead. coming up next month skies a puts more a big bank has more of the global finances on the ropes in his latest reports off

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news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images both world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser scottish independence no not the adult diapers the real people of scotland they want their freedom from english rule or at least some of them do offer the bloodless way toward independence it seems

some of the good people of scotland aren't so sure they want it stacey yes max this has been a big topic here and it appears that it's difficult to determine whether or not they're going to vote for independence because apparently some of them only like to dress in blue and run down hills a spear is that's the sort of independence they want to win but the other issue is george osborne has been visiting scotland and warning them that if you leave the union then you will not be able to use the pound sterling so this is a problem because alex semin with a scottish national party he wants to stay in sterling now alex semin refuses to rule out separate currency alex salmond has refused to rule out a separate scotland adopting a new currency and faced accusations of being clueless on how a multibillion pound pension shortfall would be resolved yeah well i was born starting out as bottom as a scholar's got all the oil they've got the creative spunk they've got it all

scotland twenty first century yeah i was born just fear mongering and nobody should listen to him anyway he doesn't always talking about there are many ways to run a currency and i thought like if they're going to adopt a new currency the big corn is a great currency for them sure stylishly the duck bitcoin as the national currency and it would help power that country to be a competitor of the global four x. market as big coin takes over the global forex market a four trillion dollars per day market for trading currencies bitcoin is making a big inroads there but a country like scotland behind it would certainly help the cause and don't. wrong of course you could then do whatever it takes to get him that weasely nut job out of the country well also to go further on why because it would make a good currency for scotland i thought let's look at some of what people are saying around the world regarding those lenders may create bitcoin rival's says new zealand bank group commercial banks may create a digital currencies to rival bitcoin the virtual money whose u.s. dollar value collapsed by forty six percent in twenty four hours last month the

head of new zealand's banking lobby said today so you see the propaganda embedded in there saying it dropped by forty six percent in that brief little flash crash flash rise and then flash crash but here you're seeing the banks themselves are saying well we want to create our own one because of course of the efficiency of transmitting and a very genuine globalised currency why not leapfrog ahead of everybody else scotland by having this genuine globalized currency where you can make transactions globally instantly no four x. exchange no three day wait instantly and think with complete trust that it's a genuine transaction a genuine cash the big quick cash you're being handed coin is a virgin currency that will remain forever virginal the bank of england's pound sterling is an old hag that will remain all was in for.