moscow at nine pm blood staying vote deadly bomb blast rocked pakistan as the country holds its milestones democratic election continuing the violence which is marred the whole campaign. but more ballots than bullets and that's a story about here in pakistan update from islamic in just a few moments. unconfirmed reports and other explosions struck the town on the turkish syrian border where forty people were earlier killed in a double car bombing with our own chris suspecting kurdish involved. and space station repairs astronauts perform an emergency space walk to try to fix a leaking cooling system on board the orbiting lab.

all over again even for me kevin only if you just joined is coming to you live in our top story deadly explosions and gunfire in cities and towns across the nation as pakistan holds that milestone general election marcie the country's first translation for the ballot box well voting had to be extended by an hour because of the high turnout counting is now underway the election commissions declared polls in kharaj weren't free and fair and that voting should be rerun in some areas some people though have paid a high price to exercise their democratic right at least sixteen people were killed and dozens more injured in a series of bomb blasts in karate more people have died in pakistan's biggest province baluchistan where explosions and government targeted voters outside polling stations also the two others fell victim to shootouts between rival political factions violence also wrapped in pakistan's volatile north as well where

two bomb attacks cause further casualties in the city of push our with an update on the turbulent vote from pakistan's capital islamabad his calf 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 in the run up to the vote claiming the lives of more than one hundred thirty people they view these elections as being on a lawmaker and have largely targeted to secular leaning parties but these elections are more about the ballot box than bullets i have to say as the millions of pakistanis turned out eagerly eagerly in droves despite the threat of violence there have been some reports of the vote rigging allegations in karate and several parties have withdrawn their candidates in a boycott of the vote but by and large all signs point to a successful a democratic election here in pakistan which is really quite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 was 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 anti western aid of course the kind of that the candidate that many experts expected to do quite well is now 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 son 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 has benazir bhutto the late prime minister's party which has been accused of sort of festering adama's. corruption and we've seen massive unemployment power outages still plague that country and of course a growing sectarian violence as well as an islamist resurgence here so a lot of problems for whoever wins. will devalue that the website of the latest updates on the developments in pakistan as it chooses its next parliament amid the bloodshed a website of course. international security specialist patricia de janeiro spoke to me she says the people of pakistan is so fed up with the conditions in the 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 around them here 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 who really take risks to get out there and and exercise their right and their voice are becoming victims from an ex general 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 you become absolutely exhausted with this continuous type of reflection in your reality it's sometimes it's hard to to be so courageous so the question of the day on a website called what do you think about pakistan's first historic democratic transition this is what it's telling us thanks for voting if you have so far so i website out

so you don't call fifty three percent if you think it's going to change nothing it's going to be a show twenty seven percent think it's going to plunge the country into further violence you're not at all optimistic even after what's happening there forty percent of you think it provides a basis for working democracy again six percent of it is the minority but you're not seeing the positive so you think it's going to bring the dysfunction to the government comes a place to say. download the. application. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from. your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. ports of a third blast or coming in from the turkish border. forty lives. sponsibility

. focusing on kurdish rebel or syrian involvement middle east correspondent paula as the latest. 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 the 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 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 pro assad culprits now it is important to remember that turkey shares

a somewhat five hundred mile border with syria and in the past and current has lent it support to syrian rebels who are backing the syrian presidency of bashar assad and turkey has lent the rebels both a staging center and an area from which they can conduct their logistics so what we're hearing here is that it might in fact the syrian 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 two nasa astronauts sort of stalled a new pump on the international space station's cooling system of six an m o d a leak the crew says everything appears we would be normally after they completed the installation and told me more about the orbiting troubleshooting mission. they haven't actually found

a leak they have replaced those pumps what was this white these weight white flakes the labels that was really found on thursday seen by the commander of the space station chris hadfield the 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 there obviously was a problem somewhere but they think maybe by replacing these pumps they've eliminated the problem maybe we're putting money back into the system they'll see that cooling system leaking again and they'll have to go over what's the point of the ammonia that kind of outflow could cool in a fridge does it it's happening it's a little coolant for the powering system that comes in from the solar panels and that power the i assess there's not a big problem for the access it can handle itself from seven of those power sources rather than eight but obviously it's very annoying to have one of those down and it is a really long term effect both short medium term if it even i guess for the scientific

expedition is going on up there 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 try to seize the moment now. 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 the country i'm going to billing siege to libya's ministries and foreign embassies for over two weeks on saturday a ninety militia demonstration the capital came under fire libya's government recently granted the militias demand for gadhafi or officials to be banned from senior government roles now they're calling for the country's prime minister to resign international relations professor mark colvin says western powers are responsible for the instability in the surge of violence there sweeping the current . we're seeing is deep divisions among the libyan revolutionaries who britain and

other nato countries support there's a power struggle over who should control the libyan state and particular who control libya's oil and gas if colonel gadhafi had suppressed still position him when it was opened in the streets of last the two thousand cost of the hundreds of people would have died but perhaps as many as thirty thousand died since and the country is in deep state to disorder uncertainty life almost libyans is worse than it was on account of that our 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 all ming libya to help create a situation where armed groups came to power and they have local domination and there are of course. groups who may be welcoming nato bombers that are in fact quite serious and he wants to move in fundamentalist groups who have now been

sending cards 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 would see libya. coming up in a program action against the bailout system a new package of measures to. meet face is about to follow cyprus will it bring up speed on the very short.

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hello again slovenia is rushing to reform its economy amid mounting concern is next in line from a bailout the action plan includes the sale of fifteen state companies tax hikes and public sector wage cuts if it comes ahead of a european commission report though due at the end of the month and the nerves over the situation in slovenia it's to time the economy with a g.d.p. of about forty five billion euros and indebted banking system to burden with about seven billion euros of bad loans so when is no time to prop it up by transferring the non-performing parts of the loans two of its largest banks to a newly established bad bank but its credit rating was recently cut to to junk by

moody's that's one of the lowest investment grade same thing happened to my record of cyprus in twenty twelve a year before it faced punishing bailout but slovenia but insisting on the less it doesn't need help from international lenders. from economic trends magazine told us that kind of sounds from any other everybody who has been in trouble in the eurozone in the last year is as in the first phase of the grass is 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. there. being said. there's also been quite clear there all the countries that came in 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 they're two hands or two and two or b. two foreign powers be the european central bank you're appreciate you being commissioned the i.m.f. or the tree together in the famous trachea. while much of your worries about the next comes the line for a bailout is largest economy still managing to grow but with germany's success comes a flood of immigrants to get stricken neighbors in other countries so the locals on the report about a. foreign troops are set to leave afghanistan next year but it won't 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 and u.n. issues activist phyllis bennis told me that's because afghanistan's 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 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 . 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 us 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. monson exam and american presence in afghanistan beyond twenty four to you know breaking to such will correspond gotos who's covered fourteen different conflicts compared u.s. military operations there to the british colonial forces in the nineteenth century it's quick preview of discussion. you've written article titled all colonial wars are like where you state that 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 cold counterinsurgency it's got a more helicopters less heavy equipment less tanks the heavier tillery and it has to develop all kinds of 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 them 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 two britons were horribly massacred because they weren't trained for border war the united states is now announce that it's pivoting towards asia and u.s. military develop. we'll have to take trying to into account how do you do that with an army trained to fight tribes on the northwest frontier.

so the full story much more break the set. just over an hour's time source available on a website as well r.t. dot com talking of our website online there is where we find out how the world's biggest hacker group is fighting fire with fire the u.s. government's taking a page out of the cyber activists book in its relentless battle against on lot of times when i read a more about that and another quick away and i. hope windows are blown out and cars battered police released c.c.t.v. footage of that gas explosion may recall a couple of weeks back that ripped open office building in the heart of prague we've got the pictures there the photo of. the e.u. looking down the barrel of yet another year of recession the block's powerhouse germany's doing relatively well it's the only member state this managing to eke out economic growth and as a result is attracting more and more people escaping financial troubles in debt stricken southern europe and outside the e.u. the trend is artie's people all over found out this 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 foundation poll shows two thirds of people hear a few new comers as a burden on society one of those is karl 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 set 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 the relative of mine is already in burnley and. value of facebook how he is 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 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. voids there's a general election here just five months peter all of the. oxys prime interest show crunches the numbers and breaks the financial news misspelled the others in a couple of minutes time is off to the break up again in about forty minutes time with more news like for most of them.

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 know what you just declare themselves official conspiracy theories that's silly obviously it isn't could 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 a kind of sucker who bought that they 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 spears the 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 reptile in from the cosmos yeah you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion. good afternoon and welcome to time interest i'm very i'm boring here in the washington d.c. gets the headlines. uncle sam is rolling in it never knew that from end game

taxes to fannie and freddie bailout were payments the u.s. is in the black but only temporary and treasury released of budget figures today for april and reported that 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 sabbath in just a bit. and what a way to close the week for jamie dimon earlier the feds began investigating j.p. morgan for energy market shenanigans and shareholders threatened to pull diamonds from the board but yesterday the state of california filed suit against the bank alleging new a rampant robo signing fraud and this time it's not about mortgages but credit card debt what's next on a loan anyways as the result of the 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 that are giving school. and finally after taking years to simply define what a swap is under john brain the commodity futures trading commission is close to another landmark how to make electronic markets for swaps them out and this is no little deal now we're talking about a three hundred trillion dollar market so we're wondering how long it will take for high frequency trading to migrate to this soon to be liquid market and how long it will take to see the market anomaly and much less a wash and who cares if one hundred million dollars or so vaporizes from the balance sheets of j.p. morgan and duration bank in just fifteen minutes just wondering make sure to keep those will be handy boy all right let's get to what's in your prime interest.

the last time congress voted to increase the debt limit they kept at sixteen point four trillion dollars this means that the government's not allowed to issue any of that amount but earlier this year congress. and the president signed a bill into law called the no budget no pay act and this bill temporarily suspended the debt limit until may nineteenth under this condition congress would have to pass a budget or else they would not get paid now come eighteenth that's right around the corner this is the day the debt limit will be reinstated and we capped at whatever amount the debt is on that day as of yesterday our debt was at sixteen point seven trillion dollars so we racked up just three hundred billion dollars in

a few months now congress has decided not to get into another debt debate right away instead they're going to rely on the treasury to use their extraordinary measures to pay their bills according to the bipartisan policy center yesterday one of these extraordinary measures comes from fannie mae who will be paying the treasury fifty nine point four billion dollars after reporting record profits last quarter so essentially one of the driving factors bailing us out of another debt ceiling crisis it's only temporary is the housing market due to rising prices and cheap money in part thanks to fed manipulation now i have with me abby martin the host of breaking the set to weigh in on this everything for joining the q this does is amazing. well we're certainly in extraordinary times in budget history calling for extraordinary measures are.