tonight a blood stained vote deadly bomb blast rocked pakistan as the country holds its milestone democratic election continuing the violence which is the whole campaign. but there were more ballots than bullets in this historic vote with preliminary election results coming out we'll keep you up to date from islamabad. also foresee a killed and many more severely injured in a double car bombing on a town in turkey's border with syria with ankara suspecting kurdish all syrian involvement. space station repairs astronauts say the orbiting station's cooling system is now back on line forming an emergency spacewalk to install a new but they failed to detect the source of the leak again we got the latest film

out to. my from moscow just after eleven pm now it's kevin owen here at the new center very good evening chief just joined us ok well first as you just heard pakistan continue to count the votes in its milestone general election following deadly explosions and gunfire in cities and towns across the nation the country's first part transitions through the ballot box is already being dubbed the deadliest poll in its history at least sixteen people have been killed and dozens more injured in a series of bomb blasts in khorat cheap more people have died in pakistan's biggest province of baluchistan as well explosions and government targeted voters outside polling stations also the two others fell victim to shoot between rival political factions fallen souls who erupted in pakistan followed north to bomb

a times cause further casualties in the city of a push our just coming on the map in a minute an update now on the turbulent vote from artie's lucy calf and she's in pakistan's capital islamabad let's catch up with an. eye lucy. lucic out here we go nice to see the election later violence as have been saying has claimed dozens of license campaigning started it's been a very bloody run up to it what do we know about who has been behind it or you can pin it on any one faction. of course well we do know that this no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks that took place across pakistan today but we do know that there are numerous armed political factions the do operate here in pakistan and of course. the pakistani taliban which has waged a bloody intimidation campaign in the weeks leading up to the vote that has claimed the lives of more than one hundred and thirty people here all across the country

now the pakistani taliban regarded these elections as quote islamic and actually they've been targeting with the violence largely secular left leaning parties including for example the m.p. the awami national party which has grown borne the brunt of the tops of has been prevented from campaigning openly which is certainly certain to skew the results in some districts we do have to say though if this election was between despair and defiance defiance did win as a record eighty six million pakistanis were eligible to vote people did turn out in droves we saw in men's excitement at the polling stations but at the same time there were some accusations of voting irregularities for example in the city of karachi where much of the violence has taken place there were delays in votes and in fact the electoral commission has extended the voting in some areas saying that free and fair elections did not take place at certain polling centers there but that is not likely to affect the overall outcome of the results and by and large we

can say that this was a successful democratic election across the country this is significant of course for a country has been ruled by the military for more than half of its history as an independent state so the country is going on at the moment. who the winner is going to be is it going to be as the. as it was projected. we do have preliminary results and based on the outcome so far it looks like the p.l.o. and party which is led by former prime minister nawaz sharif is in significant that does put mr sharif on the road to being prime minister for a third time in his career and in fact just a few earlier late in the evening on saturday he took to the stage before his jubilant supporters in lahore to announce an electoral victory for his party saying that the party thanks all of for and for the opportunity to serve pakistan again

now quite significant here is the turnout that we're seeing the at least according to preliminary results for imran khan the cricket star turned politician has seen a large turnout largely among young voters and is poised to become popular second largest party which is quite significant also for the pops on people's party which has formed the outgoing government it shows a mandate for change it shows that pakistanis do want differences in their electoral outcome and it certainly shows that the large problems that the outgoing governmental had to deal with unemployment economic problems the rising threat of violence they have not been addressed significantly so pakistanis with their ballots are saying that they do want change. should you not be a spokesman says the people of pakistan was so fed up with the conditions in the they were courageous in this despite the violence to head to the polls. 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 affair 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 xterm will 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 because she does you know

are this big to be a bit earlier almost big story of the day is everyone and what you think about the big stories that on our website pakistan's first ever democratic transition what do you make of it it's a mixed bag as you can see it fifty four percent think you can ignore the positive change nothing you think is just a show thirty six percent think it's going to plunge the country into further violence forty percent say it makes many of you positive thoughts think it'll provide a basis for a working democracy six percent you think it'll bring some of the dysfunction to the government let us know what you think that's been changing throughout the course of the evening i mean for a couple of hours yet so you might not change. download the official r.t. application yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch r.t.

anytime anywhere. more big stories of the day now double car bomb blasts of rocked a turkish town near the country's border with syria authorities put the number of dead there at forty two with scores more injured no one claimed responsibility for the bombings but turkey is focusing on kurdish rebel or syrian involvement middle east correspondent paula slit with the latest. 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 winning 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 approach aside 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 limited 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 telling eighteen 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 is 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. turkey's deputy prime minister called syria's military and intelligence the usual suspects in this case but it's over politics first magazine marcus papadopoulos told me doesn't see this is a plausible scenario and thinks there could be even a turkey in the attack. why would the syrian government when it is fighting a very very serious internal conflict it needs which resources at the moment put down what is a very very serious is the midst of prizing and islamist uprising which is linked to al qaida so it's certainly not in the interests of syria to organize not a front or a chance against turkey but i would just like to make two very quick points there have there has been violence earlier this year between syrian refugees in turkey and the turkish authorities and that it was so in some casualties however ours also say that a couple of years ago some turkish generals were actually found guilty and sentenced

to prison by a turkish court shortage 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 slow going are a nato shunts in syria i would argue that it shouldn't be ruled out that it could be a turkish hands at play here the ammonia leak at the international space station that we've been talking about appears to be thick stuff the two nasa astronauts installed a new cooling pump in the system crewman chris cassidy and thomas marshburn took nearly six hour long space walk to try to tell what caused the leak which was first spotted on thursday and what they didn't find the exact source of the escape replacing a new pump at the suspected problem spot seems they say taking care of a problem says crews still monitoring the situation looking into what may have caused the incident. coming up as well action against the bailout this is

still ahead in the program slovenia's package of measures to avert a financial meltdown amid fears it's about to follow cyprus to talk about that in fact in just a few moments. we

speak your language. or music programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you. a little too much of angles stories. here. the spanish find out more visit. hello again slovenia is rushing to reform its economy amid mounting concern is next in line for an e.u. bailout plan includes the sale of fifteen state companies tax hikes and public sector wage cuts it comes ahead of a european commission report due at the end of the month and e.u. nerves over the situation in slovenia it's a tiny economy with a g.d.p. of about forty five billion euros and any debted banking system with about a seven billion. in year of bad luck fur in the non-performing loans of its largest

banks to establish bad bank made time is tried it rating was recently cut to junk by moody's as one of the lowest investment grades as it sounds the same thing the cost to cyprus back in twenty twelve the year before it faced punishing bailout terms now slovenia for now saying it insists it doesn't need help from international lenders you're on but other than the economic trends magazine though says that 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. they're. being set. there'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 death to hansard to do or be to foreign powers be the european central bank or europe british the european commission the i.m.f. or the treaty together in the famous trachea. well while much of europe worries about the next country in line for a bailout its largest economy still managing to grow but with germany's success comes a flood of immigrants from debt stricken neighbors and other non e.u. countries some of the locals on the all happy about reporter martin freeman. foreign troops are said to leave afghanistan next year but it won't be the end of the road for america's forces there in any way the u.s. says it will keep nine 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 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. to the exulted militant presence in afghanistan beyond what he saw today latest break in the show war correspondent eric margolis who's covered fourteen different conflicts compared. to the british colonial forces of the century is quick preview of the discussion. you've written article titled all colonial wars are alike where you state that the us has 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 doctrine they call it in the military how to use this thing to hunt small groups of lightly armed combatants but the 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 were trained from our war of the united states is now announce 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.

we'll see more of that you want show breaking the set again twenty one thirty g.m.t. tonight's also relevant to website any time r.t. dot com. mounting an arrest in libya has prompted the u.s. to put its troops on heightened alert and diplomatic stuff from its embassy view has also recalled all non-essential stuff from the country to the government 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 libya's government recently granted the militias demand for gadhafi. dear officials to be banned from senior government roles now they're calling for the country's prime minister it's resigned to its national relations professor mark colvin told the western powers are responsible for the instability the said your vote it's leaving the country again. we're seeing is deep divisions among the libyan

revolutionaries who britain and other nato countries supported there's a power struggle over who should control the libyan state and control libya's oil and gas if colonel gadhafi had suppressed still positions him when it was opened in the streets of loss of 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 commodore her article scuttled about his regime was supposed are the western countries to be the acid 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 mean libya helped create a situation where armed groups came to power and so they have local nomination and there are of course. groups who may have been welcoming nato bombers but our current quite serious anti western muslim fundamentalist groups who are sending parts 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 about seeing a liberal to do they would see libya. checking some stories. like you take a look at if you get a minute we find out how the world's biggest hacker groups fighting fire with fire these days the u.s. government is taking a page out of the cyber activist book in its relentless battle against online attacks more about that online also just a click away at our choosey r.t.g. chief channel two windows blown out cars battered check police now released the c.c.t.v. footage of a gas explosion a couple weeks ago you may recall it ripped open office building in the heart of prague got a picture. with the e.u. look at the other barrel of yet another year of recession the block's powerhouse germany's doing relatively well it's the only member state is managing to eke out growth and as a result is attracting more and more people escaping financial troubles in that

stricken southern europe and outside the e.u. a trend is artie's paper all over right now reports that's 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 bertelsmann foundation poll shows two thirds of people here a few new comers as a burden on society one of those is coal 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 flat if i'm not square meters if i have children you get another three thousand euros a month social eight call runs a motor scooter hire company in berlin and claims to represent many upset at what

they see as a free ride given to migrants. if i would live in africa and i hear that when i see that my friend of mine of the relative of mine is already in bali and shows me via 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 avoid there's a general election here in just five months peter all of a r.t. . because more the big bankers and more of the global fund sees on the ropes as late as the pool on air after the break.

and yet another step along the pointless anti gender crusade activists in sweden are pushing to promote a new gender neutral pronoun these activists want the term hen to replace the pronouns han and haun which mean he and she respectively i think the logic of these bizarre gender neutral movements in the e.u. is that they really feel that it's awful to force someone into a role that doesn't fit them you know i can kind of see this i remember back to when i was a boy in school and with me there was a kid what kind of only female friends and he certainly wasn't the sport's a toy trucks kind of kid if you understand what i mean you know i could see this guy having all those male stereotypes shoved down his throat you know made his life at school really unpleasant but the whacko liberal answer to some tiny amount of people being pushed into gender roles they don't like is to force everyone else into a genderless world they don't like fan stick i guess gender neutrality advocates

can speak swedish how they like and they're free to use this word hen but don't force everyone in the country to do things your way the overwhelming majority of the world is very happy with its gender thank you very much but that's just my opinion. welcome to the ca's a report on max 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 stacy 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 and speer 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 yet osborne's talking out of his bottom is a scholar's got all the oil they've got the creative spunk they've got it all

scotland twenty first century yeah osborne is just fear mongering and nobody should listen to him anyway 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 scholarship adult bitcoin as the national currency and it would help power that country to be a competitor of the global four x. market as bitcoin takes over the global forex market the 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 do it ever takes to get him that weasely a nut job out of the country well so to go further on why would make a good currency for scotland i thought let's look at some of what people are saying around the world regarding this lenders may create bitcoin rivals says new zealand bank group commercial banks may create a digital currency is to rival bitcoin the virtual money whose u.s.

dollar value collapsed by forty six percent to twenty four hours last month the head of new zealand's banking lobby said today so you see the propaganda bedded 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 in 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 queen cash are being handed out is a virgin currency that will remain forever virginal the bank of england's pound sterling is.