an. the syrian government says it will not pull its military from cities without written guarantees from armed rebels so they won't move in straight after. the ultimatum from damascus comes next in forty eight hours before the united nations expects a complete withdrawal ahead of tuesday's planned cease fire all the details in just a few moments. twelve are survivors of monday's siberian a plane crash now in stable condition it's thought likely that the failure to spray the aircraft with antifreeze caused the accident. to keep our players in egypt look heads as the muslim brotherhood and the ruling military council their prime

candidates for next month's presidential vote. sunday is the deadline for money with several of the hopefuls already barred from running and the deadline for the short list to do next week. plus moscow for sentencing of booth and vals to bring a few alleged russian arms dealer home this coming after a u.s. court gave him twenty five years conspiring to kill america. with the top stories of the week and of today this is the weekly with me wrong. the latest u.n. peace plan on syria is in jeopardy just days before a cease fires do you buy damascus says it won't on the side of the bargain to stand down the military unless provide guarantees they'll follow suit now let's get all

the latest details now from our middle east correspondent joining us live paula here we have an ultimatum from the syrian government what exactly are the terms of this deal. well damascus says it once written guarantees from the opposition that they will lay down arms and cease with all hostilities before they go through with for all their tents and troops from population centers now this follows last week and standing that the syrian regime was prepared to accept a cease fire put forward according to the former u.n. chief kofi annan according to that cease fire come first choose day the masses will withdraw all its troops from the major cities and then it will be up to the opposition to meet a final deadline of six am tuesday which they would have stopped or fighting following the road would have been paved thought negotiations between both sides but one that we're hearing from damascus is that over the past few days there has

been an increase in violence and that violence is largely being perpetrated by armed opposition groups and that's why today sunday we heard from the syrian foreign ministry saying that that there had been a wrong explanation given in terms of their commitment to pull from the cities by tuesday in fact he said that there had been no undertaking or no commitment given by court in terms of the opposition fighters being prepared to lay down arms and cease with hostilities so what we're hearing from damascus is that they want as written commitments that the opposition will hold firelands and lay down weapons and then they too will come to the party. seriously the flash point of the arab spring last year some though a raising concern of the fact that before five factions that make up the opposition the infighting there possibly in five or bickering between the international efforts do you think the international efforts are united in seeking

a solution to the call for. international efforts in terms of what's happening in syria are certainly far from being united last thursday we heard from the united nations security council in a statement and what could threaten that it would be through the steps if damascus does not end here to its side of the coffee peace proposal and according to that proposal it's a six point peace plan and both sides need to see some of hostilities there needs to be political dialogue there needs to be for military uncovered always but against the backdrop of if it's at this kind of dialogue we have seen open support for the opposition and that has come in the form of friends of syria which really can be interpreted as the friends of the syrian opposition and they have seen the united states and its allies as well as other countries like turkey saudi arabia and qatar pledging increased support for the opposition and we've heard a statement from turkey saying that they may take certain steps if the violence does not stop but we've heard from others i'm international community that must go

warning that as long as you have countries play to support to supply weapons and provide salaries to opposition fighters they can be no way that the syrian crisis is resolved or paul or interest to go over the issues again or that there must be a withdrawal from government troops from the cities on the trail of a complete cease fire for both parties involved parties bullishly about each other very frankly i mean i was some observers say the rebels are reluctant to give up the fight because they have so much international backing. benjamin skep things the armed opposition is putting syria directly into a civil war. getting so many signals. so many forces from the outside are on their side why would they have an interest to make a compromise with the government everyone is blaming the government for the

violence they will. come to actions in order to cause foreign intervention we saw what happened in afghanistan after u.s. intervention we saw what happened to iraq we saw what happened to libya state but it's falling apart now. if. syrian national council of so-called free syrian army will actually succeed to take over then we. will most likely face. very serious serious or in syria with all these different factions fighting each other like muslim brotherhood salafi extremists representatives of certain minorities cetera and of more information on the ongoing syrian crisis just log on to our website our dot com also some of the items are standing by for you there right now including the infamous activist group takes down a u.k. government website with a twitter message saying it was a protest against a quote. surveillance proposals. and. take action or

a t.v. presenter right there with ya good eggs live on air by a group of masked protesters who managed to break into the studio. all twelve survivors of a plane crash in western siberia on monday are now in a stable condition they were among forty three people on board the plane when it came down just minutes after takeoff in near freezing temperatures thirty one people including all the crew were killed now it's thought that ferry it or sprayed the aircraft with antifreeze may have been the cause from the scene reporting is r.t. stricken graves. i heard an explosion and then we got a call and my commander ordered us to go to the scene in these few minutes you realize something was wrong as the magnitude of the situation hadn't quite sunk in among the first firefighters on the scene yuri immediately spotted one with few

survivors of the first thing we saw was the plane debris on fire and we started putting the flames eight there was this one man standing alone he didn't seem to have a scratch on him then which you can do hospital. but he was shooting he said he was very cool kid on asking to turn the heater on even though it already was on there only twelve other survivors pulled from the wreckage one dying on route to hospital the others remain in a critical condition the investigation here continues but for brief moment those involved start their work as a review family members arrive at the crash site a site where they lost their loved ones in the charts to pay their respects to say farewell word out still to rule the contemplates the the oh. yeah. thrust into grief relatives have been left searching for answers and already some think they know the most probable cause and if it's true

it's a tragedy that could have been averted. you hear feel to the point my look but the investigation is far from over and hasn't reached any binding conclusions. black box flight data and largely intact cockpits may provide says teams scour the flight's final minutes looking for clues right it is of the victims are left to cultivate their last degree r.c. . official investigation into the cause of a plane tragedy still underway but aviation analyst christie yates says that defrosting is obligatory if the flight is going ahead in harsh environmental conditions. you know whenever you're flying any type of aircraft in hostile conditions when you could argue that very bad weather is a hostile condition then it's incumbent upon the the captain of the.

north would necessarily improve the freezing the frosting. on. a tremendously impactful severe impact on the safety of flight. controls. so if crews were out. taking off. it's one of the potentially one of the primary causes of this tragic crash but for moscow this is r.t. still to come for you in the program here when immigration leads to isolation france's president aims to crack down on religious extremism leaving the countries of the muslim community feeling disconnected from the rest of society. ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital and egypt presidential

hopefuls are racing to round up enough support ahead of the first round of the vote next month sunday's the deadline for nominations with several candidates hoping to fill the shoes of hosni mubarak who was ousted now more than a year ago artie's are going to go to school has more from cairo. it is true that the military is still rather powerful and it is also true that among the candidates for the upcoming presidential elections you can see some of the names which were very familiar during the mubarak era for example his former prime minister is running for the presidential seat as is the head of his intelligence that was one of the most recent surprise nominations after especially after it came three days after marseille him on that is the man's name after he stated that he is not going to run of course he changed his mind a little bit later on now you cannot forget that there is also a very strong piston its presence and that is probably the strongest strongest r.-t. that is where it is strongest parties which are presenting their candidates for the

presidential post of course the muslim brotherhood which initially from the getgo right after the revolution said that they're not going to to put forth a candidate with a presidential elections and of course take their leader they made waves by putting forth one extremely wealthy businessman known for his brother rather radical views but then apparently they're having doubts of whether or not he's going to gain supports he put forth a second candidate so you have two candidates from the muslim brotherhood you have several of the more liberal sort of left tribes left left wing politicians who are also of course in the race but they are not as vocal their supporters are not as rowdy as those for example as for the islamists one of the candidates from the saudi party already said that he wants to make. you know for example drinking alcohol absolutely illegal even for tourists that he wants to ban

swimsuits from being worn on egyptian beaches and he also wants to segregate women from men when it comes to education and to lower the age of consent to bow to twelve years of age so they're not washington or any other western countries. should see the islamist radical islamist as a threat of course remains to be seen until after the elections. they're ridiculous for putting what a boost its international standing the muslim brotherhood sent the first official delegation to washington this week as coming off a decades of mutual distrust u.s. based analyst salvato says america should think twice before teaming up with an democratic arab force the white house you know we would hope that they're looking at the best case scenario but they need to be a little bit more cautious about the worst case scenario and that includes arming rebels in syria the arming of and aiding of rebels in libya when in fact we knew

that they had ties to radical islamist groups and especially and specifically al qaeda a when you're talking about trying to divide the world in the arab world it's a very hard thing to do you won't see ready allies for the west especially in some of the. i'm going to use the road for lack of a better word regimes that have taken over in some of these countries that have experienced the arab spring they're not friendly to western culture or western ideals although they might like the financial backing that would come you see a lot of these the factions leaning towards the installation of shari'a law is something that is paramount in their constitutions so to try and ally with someone who is putting sharia law in place especially when it's so antithetical to our u.s. constitution. requires twirling in the air on that. it was an odd scene moscow is

vowing to use all legal means to bring victor boot back home after the russian businessman was sentenced by a us court it was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence the judge gave boot a minimum to twenty five years stressing there would be no evidence of crime had it not been for the american sting operation that set up his arrest. for. years spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash poor into a sting operation snatched up from a third country alleged arms dealer victor boot was handcuffed flew into the u.s. and placed in solitary confinement for months before a trial found him guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use and acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide

material support to the fark the forty four year old russian air cargo business men fascinated hollywood that's one of our very well. requests. and we are on the other over who'd lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion one before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death. and you've got him in your hands or he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as farkle members a colombian group team terrorist in the u.s. but not by many other countries and the u. when met with and then arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after twice being found not guilty by type courts the u.s. reportedly play dirty by arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america

they're willing to flaunt every international water get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of the extra kidnapping boots family also calls us actions entrapment and kidnapping i can accept the possibility that the boots might have some information that might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves there is someone who has some interest in information and why don't those governments just drive those people onto their territory moscow's request to send him to russia for trial were brushed aside there was no official decision of an extradition russia called routes extradition illegal and question but a litany of his conviction one of the main arguments of the defense that the u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court would stiffen says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fark members and all he was trying to do was sell to all the cargo planes the maginot crimes when in fact the jurisdiction

and manufactured evidence journalist george map has attended every hearing in the case he says as one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play i feel that victor in this particular charges that were brought against him that he is innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man. russian citizen writable or troy davis to be you know sentence to life or america or crying and pleading victimhood is the second. since it isn't three years since a sentencing on american certainly for little crimes committed in the third means that both cases the major precedents and represents how worried it was tried to simply override the legal systems of other countries is this a trick in our hearts in. washington used a legal loophole to entrap and convict i think to a period that's according to american lawyer dr list that the u.s. government takes a very aggressive approach extraterritorial like if someone is in london and wire

transfers a sum of money to an individual and berlioz unbeknownst to them the money kings through citibank in new york that pinging that touching of u.s. jurisdiction is sufficient jurisdiction for the united states government have to charge both of those individuals with money laundering the both facing extradition proceedings if they both lose they're looking that up to twenty years from parole twenty years without parole as a risk placing a federal judge in manhattan the u.s. government decided they wanted him say for a full food food for manufacture in my view jurisdiction not illegally a form of entrapment where they were able to pull mr boot into the jurisdiction of the u.s. courts and placed him and him in extradition proceedings apply where you. thailand had the next provided to the united states. this is artsy over in bahrain nonviolent demonstrations against the government rage on with your thora to use

weighing in with force several protesters were injured on saturday when police fired tear gas and rubber bullets thousands rallying on friday were also met the crackdown they marched in support of a human rights champion who's serving a life sentence for speaking out against the government he's been on a hunger strike for two months vowing to achieve freedom or death the regime has been for rights violations by international watchdogs but the u.s. continues to support the terrain as a key arab ally middle east expert early risk says the case will help to expose the truth these hunger strikes i think they do contribute they would do which if their goal because what they do is they reveal the real tactics which are being pursued by the regime in order to clamp down on the protesters shows more and more such acts i think although they're exposing the truth all the truth practice which the regime using and what they are that the puts more pressure on certain western

countries also in european powers in order to change their stance because of the visibly in the regime on the train the focus is all on syria and what's going on in syria who are setting aside the training are we all know the proof. does exist we also know and i think this is the main issue here that the training is a very close ally of saudi arabia and saudi arabia hence is one of the allies would be us so when we speak about the blackout being put on the train i think first and foremost that this is a saudi arabian wish because a saudi arabians also fear that there might be a domino effect which could happen in the persian gulf beginning from one hundred and then spreading the spreading to study arabia the international community is still focused somewhere else that i think that all contributes to the anger which we witnessing the popular anger which in the end i believe will achieve the end goals. i starting with pakistan let's get to some other international headlines in

brief with the r.t. world update pakistan's military says there's little hope of finding any survivors of a large original gulf the military encampment in the mountainous kashmir region one hundred thirty five people are thought to be dead the search involving more than one hundred fifty soldiers sniffer dogs and helicopters has recovered over a dozen bodies so far. that collapse mine shaft in peru has left nine miners trapped underground a shaft a cave you know side lima on thursday after work to set off an explosion to destroy . the rescue teams are supplying the men with oxygen and drinks through a hose of police and firefighters work for freedom mining accidents are fairly common in peru more than fifty people died in the country's mines just last year. in britain a political activist who destructive the traditional oxford cambridge university boat race has been charged for causing a public disorder trenton oldfield forced the rose to stop when he swam into their

part of the roast resumed after he was safely removed from the river and a cambridge went on to take the title after oxford broke and this was the first incident of its kind of the one hundred fifty eight year history of the race. christians are throughout the world have reason to celebrate today marks palm sunday orthodox christians of the day jesus entered jerusalem before being crucified and protestants and catholics are observing east earth day of christ's resurrection the vatican has kicked off celebrations with its annual mass and blessing in some peter's square at the orthodox calibur marks easter sunday next week. well the french president nicolas sarkozy has unveiled his vision for the country on thursday in preparation for the upcoming elections he reconfirmed his plan to cut immigration to france by half just two weeks after the shootings in the city of toulouse rocked the country because artists are australia reports sarkozy's

policies have left many muslims feeling isolated this may be a film about the struggle to live in a french suburbs but this. is reality. the shooting of seven people in the loose by a frenchman of algeria and the serbs was the latest incident to intensify an already heated debate on security immigration and its aggression in a country with the largest muslim population in europe. firstly i must say this is an isolated case fortunately most young immigrants in france do not have this kind of behavior i think this is a result of his personal journey he felt that it was out of place in france probably humiliation just criminal nation and therefore personal kind of feeling of hatred hatred of france in the words of this second generation muslim immigrant

many like yourself don't feel french. in the suburbs there is this feeling of rejection by france and the government socially when we say i'm from the suburbs they're not taken seriously the truth when young people apply for jobs and the sun resumes and have a suburban address it causes many problems some employers tend to favor people from central paris or sometimes she says favor a more french name and therein lies a problem the french republic's values of liberty equality and fraternity seem to exclude those living on the periphery like this parisian suburb of mont there where we chanced upon a lawn there in protest do you need i claim the right to live like everyone else if you earn between one thousand and thirteen hundred year olds you live in as you live in the middle of electromagnetic waves with leaves in unsanitary conditions just five minutes from posh areas like. people dying here and it's all in different

i see no no i denounce that fact in france we'll have a revolt there's a french saying to describe the country today loosely translated as a frazzle moving a two speeds up to the young people by themselves stuck on the slower moving frame some say they belong to a generation already lost by the stay. they find a sense of belonging elsewhere and by the time that happens any efforts to bring them back a likely to be futile and where some may find solace is anyone's guess so we may not only on people but there are those who create heroes like robin hood today it's the lights over some of the lot of other so-called leaders who create is there's a new generation that is hungry ambitious and aggressive if there is a conflict the internet creates an easy access to information freely and easily and the worst is ignorance that is reinforced that internet this is a huge danger to the youth in response politicians bombard the public with proposals for even more policies like policing internet behavior reducing the

number of new immigrants or stripping some of their citizenship which critics say are holo president sarkozy has been really trying to espouse the line of the right wing. party here as well. and you know ways attacking immigrants talking about. making issues covering so muslim girls are used to become major issues in france rather than the question of creating jobs and perhaps the question of how to bring back the very basics of a society that calls itself a gala tarion tesser cilia r.t. paris. all right i recover the headlines on more news to come with me will receive a show here on our team in just a few minutes. there

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