this. is news and the week's top stories here on our. time former prime minister. claims victory in the country's history general election. attacks. turkey blames the syrian intelligence for the deadly cross border bombing of a town that seen as an entry point for syrian refugees and rebels. while russia the u.s. and britain officially converge on a common approach to mediate this in syria despite the ongoing western backing of the insurgency. and. the first anniversary of becoming the french president has to use his popularity his love and drives tens of thousands of his disappointed voters to rally over his

failure to meet their expectations. live from moscow this is our team you with me to say it's eight am yes good to have you company with us this morning. he's been pakistan's prime minister twice and was ousted fourteen years ago in a military coup but no was as she read has claimed an early victory in the country's general election it's also the country's of first a democrat a democratic transition between civilian governments counting still underway but the election has already become the bloodiest in pakistan's history ride to deadly explosions and shootings oh wrong polling day in all four provinces at least eleven

people were killed and dozens more injured in a series of bomb blasts in karachi the more people died in pakistan's biggest province of baluchistan the way explosions and gunmen targeted is outside polling stations people also killed in shootouts between rival political factions violence erupted in pakistan's of north as well two bombs attacks close for the casualties in the city of peshawar and also been following the turbulent vote do you know that there are numerous armed to 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 regard these elections as quote islamic and actually been targeting with the violence largely secular left leaning parties including for example the m.p.

the awami national party which is on the front 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 just fair and defiance defiance did win as a record eighty six million pakistanis were eligible to vote people did turn out in droves we saw immense 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 taking place there were delays in votes and. 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 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 leave it does put mr sharif on the road to being prime minister for a third time in his career and in fact. 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 it 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 stands 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 government has 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. and let's talk to robert naiman who's a policy director just of foreign policy old robert as sharif claiming victory with a huge advantage what does this tell us about what the voters want. well. it's your opinion of the incumbent party which got one from leaving the country to coming in search me defeat for the p.p.p. i think it's jelling dead in the kid being both shereen and cons people like the premier insults came in first and second said look we're going to redefine pakistan for a relationship fuck michigan the united states. and saying it's much more strongly

than cherry red basically the voters choosing between two different formulations and all are going to redefine the relationship he needs to do something what we can conclude from this is that leverage among other missions and they're holding on obviously said you know they're not happy with the status quo but the release to me at seeds of the perception of subservience. he turned to see him back in the trunk strike and think we're going to see change in that direction under our men i'm sure you've written on this the main opposition party so both parties did temp a full rethink of the relationship with washington but what can we expect reading to happen now. well it's because it's going to somewhere in between where we are now and rhetoric. there is not going to be any break it's going to be really go she . is expected to be negotiating with the i.m.f.

we have some monetary fund with the u.s. as. very significant poll most powerful country in the early ship between the two countries militaries will continue but i think we'll see a less heavy hand of the united states and pakistan there's many a transition underway and still u.s. is to withdraw beast most of its forces from afghanistan and hopes to bring a lot of forces and material out to pockets also came for help from the pakistani government in trying to. broker peace settlement a peace negotiation and. there was some kind of power sharing in kabul so i think we'll see a less heavy hitting in u.s. policy of purpose so sharif has been prime minister twice already and neither of

them have been really successful could do the third time be a charm for him. well you know the. the history of is mentioned in your newscast in ned new. democratically elected park just any government was allowed to flourish about its name and hand over power to a democratically elected successor so what would you know. surely if he was deposed in a military coup. in some sense beginning to democracy that's not something that you have to deal with the threat of military coup i think that the fact that there's no there's more recent history where a democratically elected government was allowed to take an up another one who's more auspicious poorer for his new term i think you'll have more freedom from a mover from the military because military rule as they'd been in pakistani

military is promising that it's going to stay out and he's also been able to do it in somewhat different relationship with the military than he has some time he has more room to move or than they need to. sort of speaking out maneuvering and he's also claimed that he is ready to talk to the taliban what exactly could these talks bring. well it is because here you can have argued against military solution to the internal conflict with the pakistani taliban it's hard to see you know these different groups of pakistani taliban some are more. amenable to talk to the government than others there have been. what seem to be somewhat promising negotiations in the past which subsequently broke down the middle east and you could see the new pakistani government be.

more cautious in the use of military force in. question are here for a political solution i think it's not entirely de the in the police actions piers next p.t.i. which kenyan second nationally actually came in first in the in the provincial election. khyber indicate the problems. with which borders when serious tensions. in the tribal areas so. i think that could help. graeme the conditions under which there could be a broader political rather than military solution to the internal conflict with the pakistani taliban robert naiman we'll have to leave it right there thank you very much from just our foreign policy all. the syrian crisis has taken a deadly new twist says twin car bombs a read through

a turkish town just across the border killing forty three and injuring more than one hundred others side towns in an entry point for refugees and radical rebels but turkey has been quick to blame syrian intelligence for the attack while stopping short of saying damascus is directly responsible a middle east correspondent policia has more. 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 of re hyundai which is not far from the syrian border now we still don't have anyone on your 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 approach aside culprit's now it is important to remember that turkey shares a somewhat five hundred mile border with syria and in the past ankara has limited 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 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 israel and 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. foreign policy analyst dr khan held in and believes that the embattled syrian regime is highly unlikely to have all of the cross border attack which actually bez the signature of al qaida linked extremists . you have to ask will the onset of government. be stupid enough to pick an open fight with

a country on its border that has the second largest army in in the north atlantic treaty organization i don't see the sense in them i mean it would suggest that the us of that regime has a suicide complex and they haven't demonstrated any any of that in the past the timing is certainly very suspicious you know a couple of weeks ago the syrians were used of using poison gas and then call it a party from the united nations said recently that it appears as if that was the insurgency that used poison gas certainly wasn't gas disappears then this bombing happens car bombs are the particular signature device that are used by their salafist very extreme islamist rebels in syria so i would be very careful about to point fingers at this point many people want that that disavow war have the potential to spill over into other areas of the

middle east that prediction is coming very true they escalation comes amid a renewed international push to bring about peace in the region russia's long running efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution have not been officially backed by the u.s. and britain wasn't in london continued to support the rebels with me even pushing to stop them directly and the has more on the latest diplomatic developments. after months of fiery exchanges on the syrian conflict the major international players russia the united kingdom and the united states have managed to find a common ground principled position has been that it accused the west of supporting only one side of the syrian conflict that is the side of the syrian rebels moreover russia has been particularly concerned with the calls across the atlantic to arm the syrian rebels to provide them with military training and even possibly intervene into the conflict by force also. with statements

in the western countries that bashar assad must step down at the same time the western world has never been saying that it's the syrian people that have to choose their new government to have to choose their new future now hardly anyone expected after all of these. between the u.s. state secretary john kerry and the russian president and the russian foreign minister in moscow would produce something positive never the less international conference which is to be called by the end of this month was the direct result of the meeting in moscow that a conference is expected to have both the members of the syrian opposition and the syrian government at the same negotiation table at the same time a press conference between the russian foreign minister lavrov and john kerry took an interesting twist when a reporter asked about the bill to support the syrian rebels with weaponry which is now being considered by the u.s. congress the reply from the u.s. state secretary was that if the united states finds substantial proof that chemical

weapons were in fact used by bashar assad's troops in syria something which hasn't yet been proven of course then this bill will ultimately become reality which many experts have already described this as a certain leeway for the united states to still have a certain leverage in the syrian conflict now also. the british prime minister david cameron came to the city of. russia. and the biggest intrigue of that meeting was whether david cameron would sing to the same tune as john kerry did in moscow it's no secret that we have had differing views on how best to handle the situation but we share fundamental aims to end the conflict to stop syria fragmenting to let the syrian people choose who governs them and to prevent the growth of violent extremism so i strongly support the conference that mr lavrov for mr kerry agreed this week to deliver a political solution a solution which has

a transitional government based on the consent of the syrian people as a whole so clearly the events of the of this past week have given us a clear indication that there may be interesting things to come in terms of the syrian conflict and this conference can actually produce something of a peaceful solution to the syrian conflict the western backing for the armed opposition is being blamed for the movement going increasingly radicalized by russian and european politics expert professor richard says the mediating pushes spearheaded by moscow opens a chance to turn that trend around. we do know quite a lot about the details of some of the groups involved though the details of the dynamics between them we know very little we do know is that the militant al-qaeda affiliated groups including because they have been the most years alone what has been the greatest tragedy of this whole thing over the last two or so years is that there has been and always was some gloom in the middle and this is now being

squeezed out in part a fault of the policy of the west but it's not only their fault but clearly they have not facilitated those who are willing to negotiate and to go to the table so therefore the evidence of the last few days on their first glimmer of hope that somehow or other some sort of negotiated settlement could emerge out of this. time's up full mr president say protests as in france are they still waiting for the vital changes they desperately they to follow yet when choosing a socialist francois hollande last may. technology innovation. development around russia. the future

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i am. utterly. was. welcome back you're watching art is a weekly a year ago this week a daring elections pitches pleasures a but fragile leader francois hollande into power in a tight one presidential runoff and today on top of a long voters believe the change and improvement they were promised and nowhere to

be seen tessa still yet has the story. on. the change was a year ago thousands of people had gathered at this very place to celebrate the victory of socialist president francois hollande but here on the thousands of people are again gathered for a very different reason this time they're asking their president where are the changes that he had promised asked by the very same people who had voted left and put a long didn't place recent poll shows popularity has plummeted to less than twenty five percent the biggest force for any french president in the past fifty years. i let you know where your promises are come on where are they is said i'm just sure it is not me and i'm yet this is the mission that from now on will be mine to give

the european construction a dimension of growth employment and first priority you have france's hit record unemployment of three point two million people in march the biggest source of public anger it's also scratch hopes of cutting the budget deficit to three percent of g.d.p. by two thousand and thirteen and the european commission's most recent forecast shows frasse will be in recession until the end of the year the seventy five percent income tax on the super rich is also a no go after france's constitutional court overruled it on the very talk of it pushed french actor gerard depardieu to give up his citizenship for a law should one one promise a law and it didn't that it's to keep is legalizing gay marriage pleasing supporters it also sparking fierce consultation. i think we've all. seen people happy with gay marriage but it doesn't feed our families it doesn't

give us food there are realities that are good to say but there are also priorities priority is employment we need to eat it is obvious is it to blame. if you're the. new president immediately. into the economy one hundred one anyway i just would like to get your credit which is not making that much. which is keeping some heat on which is not going to explain that you know there are emerging receive no one hundred four. yeah yeah yeah. and that chick recipe this film. her says is nonexistent he made this video during last year's presidential campaign to show the country's lack of choice. in the memo that when you listen to the media you'd

think there were a lot of differences between the two but that's just on a superficial level on the most important things they agree do we need to intervene in another country to fight they will agree to intervening in other countries because the weapons lobby will always be behind it a lot is well aware of his unpopularity but says he will weather this storm improve he can't keep his promises at the end of this five year term. that he needs time fine we are here to tell him mr president time is up and you need to start changing things but others like these workers who were recently closed steel plant in eastern france are not even hopeful symbolically laid to rest or laws broken promises under a heading which reads the trail just are cilia arty paris as sort of president a longer suffering shopper losses in his ratings not because he went

a bit too fine campaigning for the job as always been hearing from robert thomas a freelance reporter on french a face. it's not what he's been doing wrong so much is what he did when he was candidate so what he did when he was candidate was to raise everybody's expectations to a level that he couldn't a fulfilled if he resigns then he knew very well he couldn't fulfill them anyway but he promised for us to to refocus nato off defensive measurements they used on more or less the opposite. feeling in mali and. he said initially a ten year old very aggressive stance on syria and iran was very noticeable that he's gone quiet on syria and quiet on mali although the french have not withdrawn from it i think that. you know the traditional thing if things are not going well at home you cause a bit of a stir abroad and distracts attention and you look good you know presidential put

the as the french are beginning to say to each other in the media and so on that and. see how many stupid the french hair what's happening in mali or syria care what's happening in france the problem in proxies record unemployment and those no sign it's going to get better. victory day celebrations have continued across russia throughout the weekend thursday marked sixty eight years since the nazi surrender in world war two the trade mart a grand a military parade in moscow was of course the centerpiece of may the ninth thousands of troops and tons of hardware swept across red square planes are flying overhead it's one of the most celebrated dates in russia in honor of the surviving veterans and more than twenty six million soviet people who perished in the war the country bore the brunt of the brutal nazi war machine for several years before the

red army pushed back to liberate all of eastern bureau falling all the way to the top of the race in brooklyn. the two. this week we saw a symbolic revolution on russia's political stage when a leading architect of the government's strategy stepped down after thirteen years vladislav surkov a hand in his resignation as a key deputy prime minister is often referred to in the media as are the great cardinal of the kremlin where he had been in charge of a wide range of domestic affairs of let me to putin's a return to the presidency last year suga off was transferred to the prime minister's cabinet giving him arguably less influence he and the rest of the government recently came under criticism from within over the implementation of key reforms. not explained why he quit nor mentioned what he's planning to do next.

a series of violent protests to overwhelm the bangladesh throughout the week as hundreds of hardline islamist clashed with police protesters demanded the introduction of a new blasphemy law and to reinstate pledges to a law in the constitution with used tear gas rubber bullets and water cannons to try and disperse the angry mob the government so far refused to give in to the demand be did day who's a campaign against war crimes are says the islamists are want to back down either. they never executed the really secular identity of them that they should get over the loss for the two years that they have been actually conspiring against to the ito's all for a secular state and they are trying to convert it to another state like pakistan and they're trying to make these on the government and state but creating gnocchi and whatever you are seeing is actually a result of all the terms they have been trying or guys in for the last forty years for some of the major political parties including the main opposition party has

been supporting. some americans and dead as a ticket to prison instead of help to pay it back they get says it's resorting to the previously obscene practice of throwing the ball into jail plating to settle the air and the story is just ahead here on the. mission and free credit take three months for charges free. range month free. free studio time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media dog our teeth dot com. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't do or don't learn about anything turns mission to teach music creation and why it should care about

humans and world this is why you should care watch only on the dog. more news today in harlem says once again flared up. these are the images called world leaders and seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are only day. this is a team the american civil liberties union is warning the us public against being bogged down in too much debt the troops revealed figures showing a rising number of people who failed to pay their debts and fines and up behind

bars without a court verdict the practice is being a criticize as unconstitutional but it's alive and kicking in the state of ohio as marrying up of my explains. a midwestern u.s. state. internationally recognized for being the battleground where america's next president is decided let's talk about the importance of ohio and in the battle for ohio state eighteen electoral votes means so much elbows pay a lot of attention ohio ohio. you're probably going to decide the next president of united states for the past thirty six years no candidate has entered the white house without winning this swing state while ohio undoubtedly wields an enormous influence in the arena of u.s. presidential politics the state is currently garnering headlines for its presence specifically the medieval type punishment being imposed on countless citizens who

are drowning in debt. according to a report released by the a.c.l.u. of ohio thousands of citizens are illegally being locked behind bars because they are too poor to pay their debt and we saw some really troubling numbers one case that we looked at out of mansfield ohio there is a gentleman and his crime against the community was he let his dog walk in his mobile home park without a leash he was fined thirty dollars and he ended up being found in contempt of court and was sent to jail for not paying for a thirty dollars from what we're. doing is going to change that fifty five year old jack jolley was incarcerated three times for failing to pay nine hundred dollars in fines every ninety days you had a jail date. and if you weren't working well you're going to jail. i didn't have a problem while i was working paying on my fines that they set me up on

a payment program which was reasonable for me but upon losing my job i had no income debt prisons violate the u.s. and ohio constitutions according to the a.c.l.u. most of the defendants weren't given hearings before being jailed for outstanding fines if the court had taken any time to ask whether or not they couldn't afford to pay that they would see that these were people who just simply cannot pay they were individuals who are homeless many who haven't worked for months if not years people who are disabled people who are taking care of disabled family members these are people who are working and just don't feel like spending the money these are people who literally have no money people like dante stiles who is unemployed and says he often has to choose between feeding his two children or paying his fines a far more so back and forth back and forth in court back before of conflict you

know ten days here fifteen days here and while the cash strapped citizens are incarcerated in debtors prisons. there are fines keep growing like credit card interest it's described as a vicious circle it was seven hundred thirty thirty seven dollars ok at the eleven days when i went back to court at the court course and paranoid the public defended it went up actually two hundred dollars more than one point eight million ohioans reportedly live in poverty and more than four hundred thousand are unemployed i want to get it behind me dolly lost his job last year after missing work for a ten day sentence in debtors prison i had just started the job i was probably there. not quite a month. i was expecting a paycheck so i'd gone in early to get a paycheck so i could go in and pay on my forum. was terminated from our job jolley has received fifty dollars credit for each of the sixteen days he was illegally imprisoned but most like styles have not and the state revered for predicting

america's presidents has garnered a new reputation for how it punishes the poor. archie ohio. there's more news online at r.t. dot com the region masculine that has been a victim feels like in his attempt to study fascist organization but their biggest in being divided by a. great five me and let's go support all the details online. the first chinese on mended road is reportedly ready for a test flight to bring in the asian powerhouse of. technology great. britain is just to get its austerity according to the government's annual plan that was delivered in the queen's a speech but with tens of thousands of jobs expected to be slashed by mid twenty thirteen in the financial sector some presell wondering whether it's time the want

to he committed to the cuts as well playboy reports. my minister's first priority will be to reduce the deficit and restore economic stability at the same time the creed is set to get a five billion pound pay rise this year thirty six point one million pounds from the u.k. taxpayer will go towards the queen and her residence says her royal chefs and footman cost an estimated ten million pounds a year thirty six million is divided into money which runs the royal household of the queen and the duke of edinburgh most of it goes on salaries also on the upkeep of royal palaces such as buckingham palace and windsor castle and all more royal trouble at home and abroad the british monarchy has become synonymous with the image of britain because it is the world's most high profile molecule the queen of ages seven and

a consul the duke of edinburgh at ninety one are remarkable examples of public service and of national unity but the cost of the public purse rises steadily as austerity sets in the five million pound increase in the queen's expenses from the state represents a fifteen percent rise vital services are being lost while the queen gets this big pay rise i think it's very unfair given that she is personally one of the wealthiest people in britain where the personal wealth of in excess of three hundred million pounds the royal family has over seven hundred servants six palaces they can quite clearly afford themselves to cover any increased costs they shouldn't be begging for the state it's a royal spectacle such as the daily changing of the guards at buckingham palace the proven terrorists from around the globe but in these times of austerity some of

beginning to question why the windsors haven't tighten their belts a. but the rest of the queen's subjects last month the guardian poll found that eighty eight percent of brits were happy with the pay rise think this should give more to the poor not to get too much money to be sure not overly impressed to be honest i'm sure she's got more than enough money to survive when she named spare clothes she brings in quite a bit on the toys some whatever but where does it go where where does it come people there i'm less because i work i'm ok where karin you know they're being kept well where does it our progress going on money elsewhere in europe royals have had to rein in best spending in the face of public opinion the spanish royal family's budget has been reduced for a third year in a row the british monarchy actually stands out around the world it's completely different to almost every other molecule that you can think of in the sense that they are still surrounded by so much home and circumstance and all the marching

bands in the. horses big wide alongside the fronts of carriages the published figures suggest that the royal family the queen and everybody else tosses around something close to forty million pounds a year but doesn't take into account all the extra security all the police work for that that's involved in protecting her in the rest of the world family and it doesn't take into account the money that she lost to the because she and prince charles in particular get lots of tax privileges that the rest of us aren't entitle to and while the government has pushed through budget cuts to the national health service and slashed welfare as part of an unprecedented austerity drive there are those that say that prime minister david cameron's promise that britain is all in it together doesn't include the queen of england. r.t. london one country which a really no is what it's like to suffer is greece in a few minutes the government spokesman a talks about his country's never ending fight against recession.

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market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on march. first of all thank you very much for joining us here on out thank you for coming in two thousand and twelve. with us on your country managed to keep the your and fears of the country's immediate bankruptcy have receded is greece over the worst of it greece is over the worst of it but it's not over yet we still have things to

do. our first but our government came to power on june and the climate was a very very negative i would say we were was. practically out of the good it was over but we managed to win the first battle of the battle for the euro zone now was the second battle the battle against an employment because i'm playing with the greece has risen to levels nobody could imagine twenty seven percent among all the collection sixty percent. among the young people. because in the beginning it was only austerity asperity and nothing else. that didn't work that's why we have the fourth to get over session that's why unemployment rose to those levels

now. the new program has policies full development and these tools we are using them to create jobs in any case greek economy desperately needs new clean money clean i mean by loans and this can be achieved and two ways. by. exports of venting are exposed and by attracting investments in both of these ways russia is an ideal partner and that's the reason that here in russia we present that for the first. the new investment glowing greece this tell us a little bit more about that investment. well i'll tell you two things that are quite significant on the high level. we have the fast track procedure high level i

mean big investments we have the hype of a fast track procedure which is that means that practically whoever invests more than fifty million euros in greece well we will take the investor by the hand and guide him to the fulfilment of his investment we have made certain procedures that for example or permissions all necessary permissions will be by one service they won't have to go through this marathon labyrinth of the service to get permissions this bureaucratic. it's an easier procedure were battling bureaucracy who are simplifying things something else in the low level something that they believe will be attractive an attractive idea for many russians is that we will have any russian that buys a house in greece. up above

a certain level which i believe will be around two hundred thousand euros he and his family have. a visa a five year visa will which will be renewed if he keeps the house well as i can see greece is moving towards. closer. stronger relations with russia but not everybody's happy we know that greece expected to raise fifty billion euros in privatization among other things as sallie natural gas assets and there are media reports suggesting that u.s. and european authorities are advising greek authorities know not to sell it to those of us think we are going to do good carry on the procedure as it has been planned the best offer wins and we welcome the russian proposals the russian companies that are entering that have been to the procedure as as far. i know they

have very good proposals its two main factors that are important the sum of money that is offered but also the gas plan because you can understand especially for an economy which wants to get out of a crisis we want the cheapest possible energy for the next five to ten years but did your government receive any sign any advice from western authorities not to you know the only advice came from articles in newspapers well i'm also a journalist and i know how some articles appear it's just media speculation on the best man wins the best offer in our case ok so as i as i understand that all sounds like no more austerity for greece is that correct we can't stand the greeks have sacrificed very much the average income of a greek has.