RussiaToday-Video-News-World:Merry Merkel: Conservatives lead in German vote with 'super result'

Voting has now ended in the German parliamentary election and the first exit polls have been released. Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat Party has done better than expected - and some projections suggest it could even end up with an absolute majority. It would be the first time in more than half a century a party has been able to govern without forming a coalition.


The US economy will remain on life support -- Katie Pilbeam questions how much longer the patient can survive on the 85 billion dollar monthly medicine. Plus - protests rattled the streets of Athens this week, fueled by the public's resentment over the choking spending cuts the government is enforcing. The head of Saxo Bank - Lars Christensen -- explains what changes need to be done in Brussels to avoid such social disorder. And RT's Sean Thomas gives us an insight into his unique trading techniques with company cash as well as corporate news.


The US is pushing Russia into approving a UN resolution that would allow for military intervention in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, in exchange for American support of Syria's accession to OPCW.


In the twenty years tasers have been on sale, the British police force has been an enthusiastic customer. It now has an arsenal of the so-called non-lethal weapons. But after a string of fatalities, human rights activists have grave concerns over the real extent of the dangers they pose.

Dozens people were killed and almost 200 others wounded, including foreigners, after Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen stormed an upscale mall in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, according to a government minister