latest news on the week's top stories here on our songs a two time former prime minister nawaz sharif claims victory in the country's historic general election. attacks but more balanced on bullets in saturday's historic vote r.t. brings you the latest from outside of the parliamentary right here in islamabad. turkey blame syrian intelligence for the deadly cross border bombing of a town that's seen as an entry point for syrian refugees and rebels. while russia other u.s. and britain officially converge on a common approach to peace in syria despite the ongoing western backing of the insurgency. and from first to flop

along for a sudden burst of becoming french president sees his popularity slump and drives tens of thousands of his a disappointed voters to rally over his failure to meet their expectations. you're watching r t a live from moscow with me to say this is the weekly. he's been buddies sons of prime minister twice and was ousted fourteen years ago in a military coup but that was sharif is claiming an early victory in the country's general election it's also the country's first democratic transition between civilian governments counting still underway the details now from march. despite the threat of violence pakistanis came out in record numbers to vote in the election which will determine the fate of the country for the next five years and

as the votes are counted the man poised to come out of the very top is not was sharif and his party fourteen years after being ousted in a military coup he is on the road to a third term as pakistan's prime minister you have numerous problems to deal with from chronic power to a taliban insurgency will be pushing for create free market economic policies and further strain ties with the united states but the cold has also crushed the hopes of millions of pakistanis who want to see real change in the entrenched political system they were counting on cricket legend imran khan and his p.t.i. party he had rallied massive support here in the country with calls to end corruption and to end u.s. drone strikes especially among young voters but it wasn't enough to put him at the top still a significant victory for his party now the pakistan people's party which formed the outgoing government took a beating in the polls paying a price for being seen as failing to tackle corruption unemployment and violence while in power of course this in many ways is

a historic election it's the first time a democratically elected government is replaced with another the first time that a staggering sixty percent of voters turned out but also on a darker note the first election to go down as the bloodiest in pakistan's history now a string of bomb blasts disrupted election day killing dozens of people the violence came on the heels of a bloody intimidation campaign by the pakistani taliban which has claimed one hundred thirty lives leading up to the vote the group is fighting to topple poppy stands u.s. backed government which it sees. as quote on islamic now there were also some allegations of voting irregularities and problems in certain areas mainly in karachi new voting will be held at forty two polling centers where officials said elections were not free and fair overall however a successful largely successful election here in pakistan will of course keep you updated on the latest reporting from islamabad. the policy director ed just foreign policy. victory would mean many changes for pakistan. and.

first it's. going to redefine pakistan for the united states. on the issues of defaulting on obviously. not. really. the. right to see direction and i'm sure you've written on this the main opposition party. very significant most powerful country. between the two countries. to you but. the.

one of the most successful campaign points in pakistan's election was america's ongoing war on terror being fought in its territory in a few hours it will bring you the ball also met almost like a stunning ambassador to the u.k. . debate jones who just started now the problem as i see it is with it's one sided there's one side of the debate which is how americans see. the usefulness of drones what they're not seeing is the impact the drones are having across the world on local tribes local communities where entire communities are being shattered so you may have one or two or three intended targets being killed the bad guys but then you have one hundred two hundred three hundred completely innocent people being killed women children and these are recorded you can look up the stanford university board new york university united nations there are many many reports on

this confirming this i have interviewed people in waziristan to have that information in the book now what that is doing is that creates hundreds of more enemies if you take out one enemy and you end up by creating one hundred one of these. the syrian crisis has taken a deadly new twist twenty car bombs are read through a turkish tom just across the border killing forty six and injuring more than one hundred others the slide 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 to mask is directly responsible on middle east correspondent policy it 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 rate which is not far from the syrian border now we still don't have anyone when

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 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 pro-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 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 political commentator mad because. believe the embattled syrian regime is no position to stage an attack on its nato neighbor. i really do hope that the united states government would take note of the hold in loss of life because if it thinks that pulling more weapons into the into a conflict well actually was over and it's very very long it will only thing about more death and destruction but in regard to the allegations made by turkey's deputy prime minister today that the usual suspects the usual suspects our presence at these governments why i would argue that that is once again a baseless and quite frankly a juvenile comments to make why would the syrian government when it is fighting a very very serious internal conflict it needs which resources at the moment put down once is a very very serious islamist uprising and islamist uprising which is linked to al

qaida so it's certainly not in the interests of syria to open up another front or a chance against turkey. the escalation comes amid a renewed international push it 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 but washington and london continue to support the rebels and are considering arming them directly. 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 moscow's principal 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 russia was particularly

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 they have to choose their new future now hardly anyone expected after all months of these of this 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. yes 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 sorts in 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 shift fundamentally 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 extremists so i strongly support the conference that mr love role 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 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. times before mr president say and fronto this in a way people are vital. that will. last me. the only way is. professionals who say they have no choice but to head for we'll have more. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got this huge

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welcome back you're watching a year ago this week a daring election pitches and loud pledges up with french a leader of france saw alond into power in a thai drawn presidential runoff today. his believe the change and improvement they were promised by no way to be seen has the story. 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 but for a very different reason this time they're asking the 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 but you know i thought it. i miss you know where your promises are come on where are they it's 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 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 actors. 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 please and supporters it also sparking fierce consultation. i think all the. 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 there are also priorities a priority is employment we need to eat it is ok just to is it to blame. if you're the. new president immediately. into the economy what i would like anyway i just would like to hear your president which is not making that much promise which is keeping some kid on which is not going to explain that you know there imagine received no one has the or.

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 to make up on the quickly. in the memo the 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 with 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 as well aware of his unpopularity that says he will weather this storm improve he can't keep his promises at the end of this five year term don't want all that he needs time fine we are here to tell him mr president time is up you know need to start changing topics but others like these workers from

a recently closed steel plant of eastern france are not even hopeful symbolically laid to rest a lot of broken promises under a heading which reads the trail. does are cilia r.t. paris as told president in a london suffering sup losses in his ratings now because he went a bit too far in campaigning for the job as artie's been hearing from robert thomas a freelance reporter on french affairs it's not what he's been doing wrong so much press 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 to fulfill it was always knew very well he couldn't fulfill them anyway but he promised for us to to refocus the nature of defensive measures you start more or less the opposite. feeling in mali and. he's initially a tenner. on syria and iran it's very noticeable that he's gone quiet on

syria and quiet on mali although the french have not withdrawn from. 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 look presidential the as for the french are beginning to say to each other in the media and so on that. it's the economy stupid the first hair what's happening in mali or syria they care what's happening in france the problem in proxy is they have record unemployment and those no sign it's going to get better. victory day celebrations continued across russia throughout the weekend marking sixty eight years since the nazi surrender and world war two the trademark grand military parade in moscow was of course the centerpiece of made in line thousands of troops

and tons of hardware swept across red square with planes flying overhead it's one of the most celebrated dates in russia in all of us 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 rushed back to liberate all of eastern europe falling all the way to me at the top of the rock star in bringing. a serious of violent protests overwhelmed to bangladesh throughout the week as hundreds of hardline islamist plaster with police protesters demanded the introduction of a new blasphemy law and they want to reinstate pledges to a law in the constitution police used tear gas rubber bullets and water cannons to try to disperse the angry mob the government so far refused to give in to the demands we did today who's

a campaign against war crime says the islam is won't back down either. never exhibited a really secure identity obama dishes over the last four two years that they have to conspire against the toes 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 what do you assume is actually the result of all the terms they have been trying. for the last four years for some of the major political parties that you can be the main opposition party has been supporting. meanwhile as the twenty forty nato withdrawal from afghanistan approaches its getting india worried it's concerned that with foreign troops out of the volatile state the taliban will gravitate to indian controlled kashmir south asia expert or deepak to parties says the growing violence throughout the region is a fuelling concerns. his main concern is that. it will become much

more unstable to. withdraw. and understand the intervention might increase. there may well be another round of civil war that will. turn afghanistan into much more of a breeding ground for terrorism and of course. i'm still group part of india and one. taliban and other militant groups in afghanistan. and pakistan struggle area has. become more and there's more control over them then they could infiltrate didn't greater numbers in kashmir and of course all of the what. the around the world read some more of the today's top stories rather first to iran where a powerful earthquake which has left a child dead unless several other people injured to dredge a six point two on the richter scale and the epicenter was near

a remote city in the southern province of hama the quake severely damaged around seventy villages and that to a series of aftershocks last month iran suffered its biggest eth quake in fifty yes . thousands have marched across central tel aviv over propose all seventeen measures jute to be debated by the israeli government on monday you're expected to raise taxes and cut welfare protestors or even baghdad the newly installed finance minister yet let the election campaign was built on supporting the middle class were likely to be get caught by his. crowds gathered outside bulgaria's problem and after hundreds of thousands of illegally printed ballots were seized just hours before sunday's parliamentary election it could prove to be a tough challenge for the european union's of course member as thirty eight parties and seven coalitions are in the running the former prime minister was forced to step down in february and the nation one trees worsening state right now twenty two

percent of bulgaria is a live under the poverty line and twelve percent unemployment. following in the footsteps of greece and spain portugal unemployment at a record high this week and has put all of us found out the disintegrating economy is forcing more and more people to seek a better living elsewhere. leaving home in search of a better future it's not wanting to or outside portugal it's needing to work outside port 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 they sing 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 for 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 but 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 were facing a serious brain drain in portugal oakum three educates people but can't employ people so we're left with a green population. graying population are all too aware of where the current situation will leave them shallow time you start my pension gets cut time and time again soon i'll get nothing. and waiting for the day they ask me to go back to work. for young people like a nation yeah 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 fuzz. we don't want to be reach aren't moving for the money we're 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 on slave wages for perhaps three years that's not a living. these are all of the. political. that's it for me for now but i live in the company of one of the documentaries we look at famine rabbits and went back to me. 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 movement 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 a 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 wacko 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.

in july two thousand and eleven the horn of africa was struck by a wave of famine.