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twin car bomb attacks in a turkish town near the syrian border claimed the lives of forty three people on car is quick to blame the bloodshed on saboteurs and says it reserves the right to take every kind of countermeasure. deadly democracy pakistan is rocked by a series of blasts and gunfire as the country holds its milestone election which has also been dubbed the bloodiest in its history. but there were more ballots than of this historic problem in every election results coming out we'll keep you up to date from islamabad. and in search of a better life as immigration in germany reaches its highest levels in years many germans see newcomers as an extra burden on society.
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and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r.t.m. sean thomas glad to have you with us at least forty three people have been killed and more than one hundred injured in twin car bomb attacks in a turkish town near the syrian border turkish authorities claim they have evidence that the deadly blasts were carried out by people linked to the syrian intelligence agency the foreign minister says the country reserves the right to take every kind of measure in response the bombings come as a prime minister air to one plans to visit washington next week with the conflict in syria being one of the key issues on the agenda artie's middle eastern correspondent policy or has the details. two car bombs have exploded one was in front of the city hall the other was in front of
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a local post office in the turkish town of re hundred which is not far from the syrian border now we still don't have anyone or any organization coming forward and claiming responsibility the turkish vice prime minister has gone on record as saying that he feels that that might be the usual aside culprits now it is important to remember that turkey shares a somewhat five hundred mile border with syria and in the past ankara 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 santa 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. 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 point of fingers at the assad regime this is an area that does see
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a lot of fighting between syrian rebel forces and pro side forces and certainly the syrian turkish border is extremely volatile or trees polish we are reporting for us there now editor of politics first magazine marcos probably believes the syrian government has no reason to carry out such an attack on its neighbor. i really do hope that the next. hold in loss of life because if it sinks that whole the whole of weapons into it into a conflict. and it's very very long it will only bring about more death and destruction but it would go to the allegation expect us to see prime minister today that the usual suspects the usual suspects all presidents that these governments why i would argue that that is once again a baseless and quite frankly juvenile comments to me why would the syrian government when it says fights in a very very serious internal conflict it needs which results is at the moment down
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once is a very very serious is a mist and islamist uprising which is linked to al qaida so it's certainly not in the interests of syria to i'm going to make the front of france against turkey and from syria to northern africa as that tension continues to rise in libya the u.s. and the u.k. have announced they are withdrawing some staff from their embassies are within the pentagon putting its european forces on alert more on that later in the program. accounting is under way in pakistan's general election which will mark the country's first democratic transition between civilian governments now wasn't sure if the two time prime minister alstad fourteen years ago in a military coup is a claiming victory the election has been the bloodiest in the country's history of though now deadly explosions and shootings have iraq pakistan on the day of voting
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at least eleven people were killed and dozens more injured in a series of bomb blasts in karate more people died in pakistan's biggest province in baluchistan and explosions there and a gunman targeted voters outside polling stations people were also killed in shootouts between rival political factions violence has erupted in pakistan's volatile north as well where two bomb attacks caused further casualties in the city of peshawar ortiz losing half an office been following the turbulent vote for us. no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks that took place across pakistan today but we do know that there are numerous armed to political factions the do operate here in pompous son 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
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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 is in 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 ments 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
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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 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 leverage that does put mr sharif on the road to being prime minister for a third time in his career and in fact just. to the stage before his jubilant supporters in lahore to announce an electoral victory for his. party saying that the party thanks 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. cricket star turned politician has seen a large turnout largely among young voters and is poised to become popular second
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largest party which is quite significant also for the pompous on people's party which has formed the outgoing government it shows a mandate for change that shows that pakistanis do want difference in their electoral outcomes and it certainly shows that the large problems that the outgoing governmental have 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. in pakistan for sticking with this story international security specialist patricia de janeiro says the people of pakistan or so disillusioned with conditions that they added to the polls despite threats of violence. 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
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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 who really take risks to get out there and and exercise their right and their voice are becoming victims from an x. tunnel 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 on our website our t. dot com we're asking what's your take on pakistan's historic first a democratic transition let's take a look at what you're saying this hour so far the vast majority of you fifty five percent in this blue section of the pie say that this vote is going to change
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nothing it's just for show really twenty six percent the next level down say that this will plunge the country into further violence thirteen percent though they say that this is going to provide the basis for a working of functional democracy and the rest of you just a tiny sliver in green say that this will bring further dysfunction to the government of course you can head to our tea dot com and cast your vote. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. and of course you are with r t still ahead keeping a presence the u.s. will keep. military bases open in afghanistan even after the planned
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a troop withdrawal in two thousand and fourteen we have expert opinion on why the u.s. is not ready to give up its presence in the region just yet more on that after a short break. leads technology innovation believes developments from around russia we've. covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything is. welcome to the big picture.
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those who would it was there were people who. live from moscow this is r.t. glad to have you back with us one of the e.u. newest members slovenia is set to implement a package of tough economic reforms in order to avoid needing a bailout the measures include the sale of fifteen at state companies tax hikes and public sector wage cuts slovenia is a relatively tiny economy with a g.d.p. of about forty five billion euros and an indebted banking system burdened with around seven billion euros of bad loans slovenia is it now trying to prop it self up by transferring the non-performing loans of its largest banks to a newly established bad bank meanwhile its credit rating was recently cut to junk
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status one of the lowest investment grades the same thing has happened to cyprus in two thousand and twelve a year before it faced a punishing bailout terms however slovenia's government is trying to persuade everyone it's better off without brussels money johan van overtveldt from the economic trends magazine says it's a familiar story. everybody who has been in trouble in the eurozone in the last years as in the first phase of the crisis always refused to admit that they are really in trouble and that of course is first of all some kind of psychological game they're trying to play with the markets and with the public at large. but that. being said. it's also been quite clear that all the countries that came into the danger zone eventually had to ask for oil which is something national governments don't like because
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obviously to at least a certain degree death to answer to and to date to foreign powers be the european central bank to europe the european commission the i.m.f. or the tree together in the famous troika of course as always there's more news online at r.t. dot com there for you now the norwegian mass killer brave it fails and his attempts to start a fascist organization with the application being denied by authorities due to incorrect filing and lack of support all the details online plus. the first chinese unmanned drone is reportedly ready for a test flight bringing the asian powerhouse into the stealth technology race find out more are to dot com. download the official are to publication to yourself choose your language stream
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quality and enjoy your favorites from our if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch r.t. any time anyway. 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 non military bases open while thousands of private security contractors are also staying on middle east and un issues an interest phyllis bennis believes that that is 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
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thousand 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
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be the taliban whether it be the afghan government whether it be a host of other factions that are all competing for power. artie's abby martin examined american presence in afghanistan beyond two thousand and fourteen in her breaking the said show war correspondent eric margolis who's covered fourteen different conflicts compared u.s. military operations there to the british colonial forces in the nineteenth century here's a quick preview of their 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 and to guerilla warfare the cold counterinsurgency it's got a 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 quick question that bothers me is the british army in the late
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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 two britons were horribly massacred because they weren't trained for modern 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 tribesmen on the northwest frontier. and you can watch that full edition of breaking the set on our web site or t dot com. now both of the u.s. and of the u.k.
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have announced they are withdrawing some of their non-essential staff from embassies in libya the pentagon has also put its european forces on alert both of the u.s. and the u.k. made the move citing the deteriorating security situation in libya at the end of last month militia men besieged two ministries within the country's capital tripoli demanding gadhafi era officials be banned from taking posts in government while on friday explosion said two police stations in the city of benghazi professor mark almond build can't of built and university rather thinks the violence is a result of the divisions within the ranks of former revolutionaries 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 put it in who should control libya's or and gas if colonel gadhafi had suppressed still positions him when it was opened in the streets of last two thousand of them possibly hundreds of
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people would have died but 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 under congo who are of course kind of the girl his regime was supposed are the western countries to be the acid bad regime anything must be russia we were told well i heard say we see that it's not necessarily so clear after all they only in 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 aren't quite serious and he wants to muslim fundamentalist groups who are sending parts also to syria so they don't will go at this is in order the continued presence of western embassies the british french all the americans as well as being wholly on the way about seeing a liberal attitude as they would see libya. let's take a swing around the globe to look at some other stories making headlines around the
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world this hour in mexico city hundreds have taken to the streets demanding that the government investigate the disappearances of their loved ones a recent report by human rights watch says that almost two hundred fifty people have vanished since two thousand and seven when the government started a war on drug cartels on official accounts stating that over twenty five thousand people have vanished with many relatives unhappy with the authorities response to the disappearances. more than thirty miners have been killed in two separate accidents in southwestern china the first blast caused by a gas leak killed twelve meanwhile state media later reported another explosion had taken the lives of over two dozen china's mines have the worst safety record in the world with poor regulation and corruption often blamed. in new jersey a standoff between police and armed men holding hostages has now entered its second day officials are trying to negotiate with the assailant holed up in the two story
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building it is unclear how many hostages he has with in early reports said that the man allegedly killed his wife and one of his children and had two or three other children at gunpoint well despite further recession it predicted within the european union in two thousand and thirteen germany's economy is showing signs of growth with the blocks largest economy becoming an attractive option for immigrants searching for work but many germans are not happy with the influx of newcomers saying it puts a strain on the country's infrastructure artie's peter all over now reports. 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 surge of people here a few new comers as a burden on society one of those is called schmidt he says he knows families who come from outside of the e.u. as many as five children who live in the state presently. the
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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 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 of mine is already in bali and shows me via facebook how he's living then i would say oh well i go to bernie and as soon as possible immigration here is a twenty year high with a further two million expected to arrive within the next three years along with
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traditional settlers from turkey the bulk of that number will come from with in sight the e.u. 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 and 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 weren't. but those in the turkish community insist it's not easy. sometimes having immigrant status is not just a call 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
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perception that they're draining society is going to prove harder for leaders to avoid there's a general election here just five months peter all of a. and coming up after the break why africa is still starving despite all the humanitarian aid from developed countries our documentary charity diplomacy and business is up next right here on r.t. . 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 han which mean he and she respectively i think the logic of these bizarre gender neutral movements in the e.u.
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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 i certainly wasn't the sports 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 fantastic 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.
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