why the turn for moscow bloodstain vote deadly bomb blast rocked pakistan as the country holds its milestone democratic election continuing the violence which is marred the whole day. but more ballots than bullets in this historic vote here in pakistan from islamabad in just a few moments. forty killed many more severely injured in a double car bombing on a town near turkey's border with syria with ankara suspecting kurdish or syrian involvement. and space station repairs astronauts perform an emergency space walk to fix the leaking cooling system onboard the all the.

joint is kevin on here live with you just after ten pm moscow time this is r t international our top story deadly explosions and gunfire in cities and towns across the nation as pakistan holds a milestone general election marking the country's first transition through the ballot box voting out to be extended by now because of the high turnout but counting is now underway the election commission has declared polls though in karachi were free and fair and the voting should be rerun in some areas some people have paid a high price to exercise their democratic right let me take you through it at least sixteen people have been killed and dozens more injured in a series of bomb blasts in karachi many more have died in pakistan's biggest province of baluchistan where explosions and gunmen targeted voters outside polling stations also there two others fell victim to shoot between rival political factions follow up today as well in pakistan's volatile north as well two car bombs

there causing further casualties in the city of shower. there it is let's go over the map with an update on the turbulent vote them from pakistan's capital islamabad is out. now. 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 and to mediation campaign in the run up to the vote claiming the lives of more than one hundred thirty people they view these elections as being honest lawmakers and have largely targeted a secular leaning parties but these elections are more about the ballot box than bullets i have to say as a 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the threat of violence there have been some reports of a vote rigging allegations in karate and several parties have withdrawn their candidates in a boycott of the vote but by and large all signs point to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 what is 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 iran 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 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 adama's. corruption that 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 terror resurgence here so a lot of problems for whoever wins. we're going to do a web site for the latest updates on the developments in pakistan as he chooses his next parliament amid the bloodshed a website a party to. get some sort saw no it was proven to be very shaky election day in pakistan for most of maliki's editor at the daily do newspaper his number about masood hi there thanks to you the time to be with r.t. we do appreciate it these bloody attacks have shaken the country none the less we've seen a very high turnout have. people it seems risked their lives to go to the polls

it's all for the good yes. and there's a lot. of. the people who got the award. for the. possible use of us and it was. all this was for them if. i want to someone's operation whatever suits you know most of. the attacks are mainly aimed where they are people in places to do with the election but they'll judge you by the turnout you just talked about i guess the taliban taking no comfort. i think the how about where the man objective was to stop the people who come out and are

a football team the police are what they are and that the boat. owners and what the team they would normally call it or lose that are loaded out. in the back and we have a hell they have targeted some of those those and some. political cycles have spent their lives in offices and valued by the. i mean both enjoy it but at some incidents took place and this hour and some other part of the fences but over the fact that the election of a terrible irony of that seven process i believe that the people. the people of arkansas saw a lot of ways to as well go out there in that to despise all of. them to the level of the polls and. news you know right through elections and i think exactly the people have voted against this terrorism and the

military and they have. rejected this and they're going my suit even as the car continues across the country after the election commission says the polling corrupt she was free was it fair to ask to recount all the thoughts about that tonight. oh of course it was a problem because there are. religious parties and some of. those are in doubt but it is. a local. political rally. last will be as you know in some blogs the incidents of terrorism but. yeah this you know they will go. you know be more or less or something like that but i think that all of us are just that was not my flaws and. if there was some problem. but i think that. this is yet and they're very.

good at this isn't about it. and the rest of the. rest of the country it was and all of that. participated in the l.s.m. and i think that a lesson that was that you know there's the scholars that the field is the beginning or the end game there's a bit in the. us in says you know there are lessons. i mean possible they will have a. massive we don't leave it there thank you very much masood malik editor of the daily did you do appreciate your time thank you and we appreciate your time as well of course if you've taken part in a web poll r t they'll com we're talking all about this today was likely to get involved in the stories of the day this is of course one of the big words of pakistan's first ever democratic transition what do you think about it if you're not voted yet pleased to good to hear from you this is what you're telling us fifty three percent no change last hour after say think it's going to change nothing just

to show you think for the west twenty seven percent think it will plunge the country to further violence as you can see there fourteen percent it will provide a basis for working democracy you're optimistic six percent of you by the twenty seven here are not so optimistic though you think it'll bring dysfunction to the government pretty tough to have your say r.t. dot com. download the official r.t. application if you choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite t.v. if you're away from. your mobile device you can watch our t.v. any time anywhere. with big stories today no double car bomb blasts of rockets a turkish town near the country's border with syria authorities put the number dead at forty two scores more injured officials recently reported third blast is

unrelated to the attack however no one claimed responsibility for the other bombings but turkey is focused on kurdish rebel or syrian involvement artie's middle east correspond with the latest for you. 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 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 winning organization coming forward and claiming responsibility but the turkish prime minister abdul gone 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 aside culprits now it is important to remember that turkey shares

a somewhat five hundred mile border with syria and in the past and quite has lent of support to syrian rebels who are battling 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 pro-government officials and soldiers who are retaliating against syria but as i mention no conclusive proof of this it is perhaps important to remember that back in february there was a car bomb in the same eleven at that stage to the turkish government pointing fingers at the assad regime 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. as to where there's no show with marcus papadopoulos editor of the u.k.'s politics first magazine thanks very

much for being with us mark turkey's deputy prime minister says that syrian intelligence and military the main suspects in the bombing see it one of the motives for the attacks and if we follow that through. can i just say first of all that once again the world has been served a chilling reminder today of just how volatile the middle east is and i really do hope that the united states government would take note of the hold in loss of life today because if it thinks that the more weapons into into a conflict will actually was older and it's very very wrong it will only thing about more death and destruction but in regard to the allegations made by turkey's prime minister today that the usual suspects the usual suspects our presence at these governments why i would argue that that is once again a baseless and quite frankly a juvenile comments to make and it demonstrates the extent to which president assad has been demonized in a very similar way to as president relevant heritages the human eyes and presence lot with slobodan milosevic was demonized. it's far too early to start pointing

fingers it only happened a few hours ago to what i would say is that this week. kurdish fighters from the p.t.a. came actually started we drove in from turkey now it could be a possibility to try and scar the peace treaty at the moment between the turkish government and the kurds but also we should take notice well there's a great center now by turkey's prime minister that was going to come on to that he thinks it could be some sort of kurdish involvement is that more feasible than. it's possible certainly there will be elements within the p.k. k. that will not be happy with the priest with the peace treaties let me say look i just want to turn this on its head very mildly saying that yes i completely understand it's too early to blame people however you are very mentally so you cannot be syria tell me therefore why it cannot be syria maybe well the question i would ask is why would it be syria why would the syrian government when it is

fighting a very very serious internal conflict it needs. which resources at the moment put down once is a very very serious islamist uprising an islamist uprising which is linked to al qaida so it's certainly not in the interests of syria to open up another front of france against turkey but i would just like to make two very quick points there had there has been violence earlier this year between syrian refugees in turkey and the turkish authorities and that it was in some casualties however ours also they say that a couple of years ago some turkish generals were actually found guilty and sentenced to prison by turkish cools for plan in a war against greece the details of that was that turkish planes were going to be shot down by their own side. and blamed on greece given that turkey has is playing a very very strong role in the syrian conflict at the moment and it's try and not

a nature of france in syria i would argue that it shouldn't be ruled out that it could be a turkish fans at play here russia agreed to work towards an international conference sums on syria could that if it made to try and the rail that the still no concrete date but it's on the cards. once again anything is possible i just think it's too early to start comments in on who could be behind it and what their motives are but i certainly think that we should step back and we should consider all possibilities i think the. negotiations this week between the russian and american delegations i think that's a positive step because the conflict in syria can only be resolved through political means and says he not through violence but once again turkey has been pushing for intervention in syria western military intervention has been pushing for a no fly zone over syria in northern syria given that turkish gen was

a couple of years ago would plan in to provoke a war with grace why is it implausible that turkish generals or members of the turkish intelligence services wouldn't be doing the same today trying to broker a war against syria and thereby bring in one thousand nine hundred for for maybe mark as we go to leave their mark is probably the opposite is for politics first magazine thanks for your time thank you. now to what's happening above our heads to nasa astronauts serve installed a new pump on the international space station's cooling system in an attempt to try to fix an ammonia leak the crew says everything appears to be working normally now after they completed the installation of these tom blanton a bit earlier a bit more of the orbital troubleshooting mission going on they haven't actually found a leak they have replaced those pumps what was this white these weight white flakes that will see 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 what 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 the law may be and by replacing these pumps they've eliminated the problem maybe when you put ammonia back into the system they'll see that cooling system leaking again and they'll have to go and i think what's the point of the ammonia it kind of outflow could cool in a fridge does it it's happening it's an electrical 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 assess 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 there any long term effect or both short medium term afraid 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 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. partly sorted out now keep you posted of the changes of course still to come the action against the. package of measures. to follow cyprus we examine not just moment. technology innovation all the developments around russia. covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else. and realize that everything you thought.

was a big. download the. application you 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 on t.v. anytime anywhere. so when is rushing to reform its economy amid mounting concern it's next in line for the action plan includes the sale of fifteen state companies tax hikes and public sector wage cuts it comes out of european commission report at the end of

the month and the e.u. nerves over the situation in slovenia it's got a tiny economy with a g.d.p. of about forty five billion euros and debts of banking system burden with around seven billion euros of bad loans no. doubt 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 that's one of the lowest investment grades as it sounds the same thing happened to cyprus in two thousand and twelve a year before it faced punishing bailout terms but insisting it doesn't need help from international lenders but your moldova from economic trends magazine says that kind of sounds very 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 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. it's also been quite clear there all the countries that came into the danger zone eventually had to ask for elp which is something national governments don't like because then obviously to at least a certain degree death through hansard to do all day to foreign powers be the european central bank to europe which the european commission the i.m.f. or the treaty together in the famous troika foreign troops are set to 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 nine military bases open while thousands of private security contractors are also staying on middle eastern u.n. issues activists phyllis bennis believes 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 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. monson examined american presence in afghanistan beyond twenty fourteen in a breaking to set show will correspondent eric margolis who's covered fourteen different conflicts compared u.s. military operations there to the british colonial forces in the nineteenth century is a quick preview of that discussion. you bring an article titled all colonial wars are like where you stated the u.s. has reconfigured its army for colonial forces and warfare how did they do this the pentagon has had to train its troops for guerrilla warfare the cold counterinsurgency it's got more helicopters less heavy equipment less tanks and heavy artillery and it has to develop all kinds of or

a 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 core 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 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.

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a plastic centerpiece plus this new apple called arctic apple will have talks of pesticide residue and surprise surprise won't be tested by the f.d.a. and of course thanks to america's exceptionalism to food labeling we won't even know that it's been genetically modified isn't that come. no testing to make sure what you put in your body is safe thanks america and for what to keep our apples from turning brown think about it is that what we should be wasting our time and money on right now food that is loaded was so much stuff that it doesn't even age naturally if the thought of your fruits being fake bugs you as much as it does me then join me and let's break that. letter where you are saying anything like that.