latest news on the week's top stories on our songs to time follow. me in the country's historic general election. on the tax. turkey syria intelligence for the deadly cross border bombing of a town that's seen as an entry point for syrian refugees and rebels. while russia the u.s. and britain officially come on a common approach in syria despite the ongoing western backing of the insurgency. from first. francois laws up for a senate version of becoming the french president as these his popularity slump and drive tens of thousands of his disappointed voters to rally over his failure to

meet their expectations. it's nine am here in moscow you're watching our g.'s of the weekly with me to obama day it's good to have you with us this morning. right he's been buggin sons of prime minister twice and was ousted to fourteen years ago in a military coup but now was sharif has claimed early victory in the country's general election it's also the country's of or is the democratic transition between civilian governments counting still underway by the election has already become the bloodiest in pakistan's history deadly explosions and shootings rocked a polling day in all four provinces at least eleven people were killed and dozens more injured in a series of bomb blasts here in the kharaj now more people died in pakistan's

biggest province of religious done were explosions and gunmen targeted voters outside polling stations people were also killed in shootouts between rival political factions violence erupted in pakistan's volatile north as well to bomb attacks of course further casualties in the city of peshawar you see cavanagh has 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 park is 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 they've been targeting with the violence largely secular left leaning parties including for example the m.p. the awar me national party which is the brunt of the attacks have 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 the finance 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 or take. in 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 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 just. 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 papa stones 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 that 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. the syrian crisis has taken a deadly new twist twin car bombs a route through a turkish town just across the border killing forty three and injuring more than one hundred others the site has been 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 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 the local post office in the turkish town of ray hyundai 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 pro assad culprits now it is important to remember that turkey shares

a somewhat five hundred mile border with syria and in the past and current has 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 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 is eleven at that stage to the turkish government pointed 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 conn hallinan believes the embattled syrian regime is highly unlikely to have

orchestrated the cross border attack which actually bears a signature of al qaeda 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 their 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 sick recently that it appears as if that was the insurgency didn't use poison gas certainly wasn't gas disappears then this bombing happens car bombs are the particular signature device that are

used by their some of this very extreme islamist rebels in syria so i would be very careful about don't point fingers at this point many people want that but disavow war have the potential to spill over into other areas of the middle east that prediction is coming very true the 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 now been officially bad by the us and britain wasn't in london continued to support the rebels with things even pushing to start directly let's yet assess he 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 principle position has been that it accused the west of. the syrian

conflict that is the side of the syrian rebels 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 russia was concerned 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 rhetoric that a meeting between the u.s. state secretary john kerry and the russian president and the russian foreign minister in moscow would produce something positive nevertheless 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 it 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 on friday the british prime minister david cameron came to the city of. russia. this 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 passing 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 growing increasingly radicalized russian in european politics expert professor richard sampler says the mediating purchase be headed 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 that the various militant

al-qaeda affiliated groups are strengthening because they have been the most tears aleut 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 room in the middle and this is now being squeezed out in part for the policy of the west and 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 that the last two days are the first glimmer of hope exact somehow or other some sort of negotiated settlement could emerge out of. time's up awful mr president say protesters in france of this ill waiting for the vital changes they desperately voted for when choosing socialist francois hollande last may the stories and after the break.

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anytime anywhere. welcome back you're watching r t a year ago this week a daring election pitches and loud pledges but french leader francois hollande to into policy and its heidrun presidential runoff yet today not on top of all ages believe the change and improvement that they were promised on no way to be seen. as a stalling. they say it's up to it was over there i heard you i heard you change. 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 but 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 along 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'll let you know where your promises are come on where are they is said i be 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 prosperity 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 france 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 along to do it in that age to keep is legalizing gay marriage pleasing supporters it also sparking fierce consultation. the way it was all the. things people are 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 are also priorities priority is employment we need to eat it is ok just to is it to blame. if you're the you cannot return to the new president immediately. into the economy one hundred one anyway i just would like to hear your president

which is not making that much province which is keeping some heat on us which is not going to explain that you know they're the magic brissie be the no one has all . yeah yeah yeah. a magic 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 the feel 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 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 a lot is well aware of his unpopularity but says he will weather this storm and prove he can 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 in no need to start changing topics but others like these workers from a recently closed steel plant to eastern france are not even hopeful symbolically laid to rest a lot of broken promises under a heading which removes the trail. does our sylvia r.t. paris. it's not present day is a suffering some pluses in his ratings now because he went a bit to fly in campaigning for the job as i would either been hearing from robert honiss a freelance reporter on french a favor it's not what he's been doing wrong so much is what he did when he was counted it so what he did when he was candidate was to raise everybody's expectations to a level that he couldn't a fulfilled if the results that he knew very well he couldn't fulfill them anyway what he promised for us to do to refocus nato off defensive measures do you start

more or less the opposite by feeling in mali and. he's initially a ten year old very aggressive stance on syria and iran it's very noticeable that he's got quiet on syria and quiet on mali although the french have not withdrawn from it i think search engines or. you know the traditional thing if things are not going well at home you cause a bit of a stir or a broader distracts attention and you look good you know presidential but the as for the french are beginning to say to each other in the media and so on that in a sea colony stupid the first hair was happening in mali or syria they care what's happening in france the problem in prophecy is record unemployment and those no sign it's going to get better. victory day celebrations have continued across

russia throughout the weekend there is a mug's sixty eight years or since the nazis surrender in world war two the trademark ground to military parade in moscow was of course at the centerpiece of made the night thousands of troops and tons of the hardware swept across red square with 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 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 europe are rolling all the way to the top of the race in. a series of violent protests overwhelmed bangladesh throughout the week as hundreds of hardline islamist clutch with police protesters demanded the introduction of a new blasphemy law and to reinstate pledges to

a law in the constitution police used tear gas rubber bullets and water cannons to try disperse the angry mob the government so far refused to give in to the demands we did a music campaign against war crimes or says this lab is won't back down either. they never exhibited the really secular identity of the magician and over the last forty two years that they haven't actually conspired against him he knows of a secular state and they are trying to convert it to another state like pakistan trying to make peace and govern state by creating anarchy and whatever you are seeing is actually the result of all the terms they have been trying. for the last forty years for some of the major political parties including the main opposition party that has been supporting the. middle as the twenty fourteen nato withdrawal from afghanistan approaches getting india worried it's concerned that with foreign troops out of the volatile state the taliban will gravitate to india controlled

kashmir south asia expert deepak to party says ever growing violence throughout the region is feeling concerns his main concern is that. afghanistan will become much more unstable what's nato troops withdraw. and pakistan the intervention might increase. there may well be another round of civil war and that will. turn afghanistan into much more of a breeding ground for terrorism and of course. unstable part of india and once taliban and other militant groups in afghanistan. and in pakistan's tribal areas. become more and there's no control over them then they couldn't fill trade in greater numbers in kashmir and that's all of course all of the one when i am the first steps of greece and spain portugal the unemployment has

hit a record high this week and as our teams pulled out of i found out of the descent disintegrating economy is forcing more and more people to seek a better life elsewhere. leaving home in search of a better future it's not wanting to or outside portugal it's needing to work outside part victor is a journalist he's heading off to angola to work for a magazine because there just isn't work in portugal that allows him to support his family he says this is a problem that affects all portuguese society you have. people working in construction ok so with with low education and then you have the middle class upper class journalists financial direct. commercial direct. advertising agencies portugal is in the midst of an unemployment

epidemic around twenty percent of the population are out of work and those with jobs off basing salary cuts with many families trying to live on under five hundred euro month as more and more portuguese people look to make a new life for themselves abroad just how easy is it to make that dream become a reality this is where ricardo comes in he often rates a website telling people what to expect when they decide to make the move. of marketing. and so it's not book everybody i saw a lot of people decide that they would move to somewhere like brazil only for it not to work out i tell them what to expect and how to make the right choice also there are so many scams out there people saying that they will help you get a work visa disappear right after they get your cash he's emigrating himself at the

end of the year but he worries about the country he's leaving behind. you are facing a serious brain drain in portugal oakum three educates people but can't employ people. so we're left with a grain corp. that's graying population are all too aware of where the current situation will leave them here several times you stop my pension gets god time and time again soon i'll get nothing but. i'm waiting for the day they ask me to go back to work. for young people like a nation yo the decision is clear they are off to presume for a new life in a country they say can give them what portugal just can't ask them in the fuzzing kids who don't want to they reach out and move in for the money where i move in so that one day we can earn enough to start a family leave normal lives here now if you can get

a job it's all slave wages for perhaps three years that's not living. peter all of the. portugal. we let into the reasons why africa is still starving despite all the humanitarian aid from developed countries. 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. 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.

according to the law usaid is allowed to particular up to seventy five percent american products and transport the. only on american ships. and that means that the shippers have a lot of interest in food aid policy and have been an incredibly effective lobby to fight for the status quo of sourcing in and shipping from the united states the u.s. government is the only government in the world that hasn't made substantial movements in the direction of enabling local procurement of food aid in developing countries in order to respond faster and more cheaply to food emergencies as they arise. so even today the food must first be balt then loaded on a ship in american harbor and then travel for several months in order to reach africa. that would be approximately four to six months from where it has been

termed that we want to participate in in a particular appeal and so when the food arrives. the g.a.o. where mr leto works issued a report which presented the problem to congress president bush tried to change the system so that a portion of the food would be procured from local markets and arrive. and cost less. they failed and they failed because of the lobbying efforts the highly successful and very sophisticated lobbying efforts of those who benefit from the status quo and u.s. food aid programs from the american taxpayers' money only forty percent goes for the purchase of food aid for the starving people in africa there are maining sixty percent goes to the shipping companies.