would be soon which grayson. moved from feinstein question. from the start on t.v. don't come. stalemate for syria but the u.n. sponsored peace plan on the rocks just days ahead of us ceasefire that. the syrian rebels with ease the busines demands for guarantees they lay down records before damascus of course its own suits more details in just a few moments. all of egypt's presidential hopefuls have now submitted their applications to fight it out for the vacated seat of hosni mubarak. at moscow valves to secure the return of victor boot that's after a u.s. judge sentenced the russian businessman to twenty five years behind bars for conspiring to think of conspiring rather to kill americans.

for the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly with me rory soon shy the u.n. backed peace plan for syria could be in that block just days ahead of a ceasefire deadline the rebels have refused to give the mask loose any guarantees they will lay down arms when the government troops withdraw our middle east correspondent paula slayer house the latest. the commander of the rebel free syrian army has indicated that he will not give any kind of guarantees that he plans to mate on arms and this is just always after the syrians look forward at a crazed force such explanations what the syrian regime is often for is written confirmation that the rebels when they down on speak with cool they tense and the

troops some population centers now this does placement to derail the peace process just two days before the cease fire and that was put forward by the former u.n. chief kofi annan goes into a sake's what we know is that the rebels are saying that they do not recognize the legitimacy of the syrian president bashar assad's regime and as such they will not be giving any kind of guarantees what they've done stood is for the syrian troops to return to their bases and put off security checkpoints to be removed from the streets but what we're hearing from damascus they say that in the last few days because the and the longing increased environments in risk syrian cities and it puts the blame for this squarely on the shoulders of the opposition who they say a continuing to carry out a vine and there are many an international community who fills that what world powers are doing is actually moving the two sides further away from each other we sort of the some friends of syria meeting which has effectively now become known as

the friends of the syrian opposition and this whole country is not the united states and its allies as well as simple gulf countries saudi arabia qatar and turkey pledging increased support for the rebel fighters what we've heard from countries like russia is that saw from actually hoping to result in a conflict these kinds of sources of support on near the syrian crisis on the ground we also know that the united nations is waiting to take what it's calling for service states against a masters if it does not withdraw its troops by next week's two. state certainly recently the sense is that mean an international community i mean they support city opposition fighters do this whole to help with self-esteem conflict. his policy reporting right there when i mean time michel chossudovsky the director for the center for search and globalization says that are the syrian rebels fed with weapons from outside or simply not interested in keeping up the fight the free

syrian army are the foot soldiers of the western military alliance and there is that either before military handlers we know that special forces on the ground french military officers were arrested in late february that the thing was hushed up with truth is that the western military alliance has been waging a cookbook war using the free syrian army for all of a year no. this free syrian army doesn't represent anybody in syria the opposition is not an opposition is a bunch of thoughts and terrorists and paid by the western military alliance and that the trial cities which are blamed on the government are committed by the free syrian army and ultimately the free syrian army as all appear all of the western military alliance so that you can have a ceasefire called by the so-called international community when the members of the international community are in fact involved in the conflict. you're watching r.t.

the doors of egypt's electoral commission have closed for presidential hopefuls to submit their applications for the first round of the vote next month several candidates are hoping to fill the shoes of hosni mubarak and he's been ousted well now it's ok to more than a year he's a really good tales now from cairo. you can divide the candidates into essentially three groups the first group are the liberals who are those who have the support of mostly the young educated people then you have the second group who are essentially hailing from the camp of hosni mubarak the ousted president we have his former prime minister running for president as well as i'm going to move former foreign minister in egypt but also as the former head of the arab league is also vying for the top job as well as the former head of the intelligence service of egypt a mausoleum on and finally how the third group who probably have the loudest the most rowdy supporters in egypt and they are the islamist parties muslim brotherhood

who from the get go from the first days of the revolution said that they're not going to put forth a candidate for the presidential race here leader not only do they hold the majority of seats in the parliament but they're also saying they have also submitted applications then there's the celica party who also have a very staunch very radical islam is the person writing for it and you finally have a third radical islamist party to mars let me which have also good for their candidate who is actually banned from traveling in france because according to the french authorities he is a preacher who are inside who are just intolerance and hatred the muslim brotherhood have just recently been in washington d.c. insisting that radical islamist groups have been misrepresented that they actually seek nothing more than to install a sharia law in place of the constitutional law some of the things which they have proposed to be put forth in egypt as the law is for example betting alcohol for everyone including tourist for arresting tourists for wearing to the sort of suits

for sake of dating schools and making girls go to separate schools for boys and for lowering the age of consent to twelve years of age and whether or not these are the types of laws which those who have been out on the streets of cairo a year ago bringing about the egyptian revolution whether this is exactly what they had in mind when they called for liberty equality and justice of course that remains for the egyptian people to decide. well the muslim brotherhood's influence on egypt's political life could have a negative impact on a country that's according to freelance journalist nobel truth and car the muslim brotherhood have not been one seat to push social trains so i imagine it will be quite difficult for women for minority groups including coptic christians who obviously i'm quite important in this country i think you're missing what have sown a very strange relationship with the ruling military council and the supreme council the armed forces so i think this is where they maybe some issues of the

revolutionary groups i mean they appear to have been doing deals with the past behind closed doors which could basically mean that there isn't revolutionary change and this i think will be the worry for the rest in the future of egypt. you're watching r t it's good to have your company today and still to come for you here in the program that of greece enraged after an elderly man becomes the people's austerity. anger boiled over into riots this week after the retired pharmacist killed himself right in front of parliament in his death no said he had no more means to live. under twelve survivors from the two men plane crash that killed thirty one of continuing to receive treatment in hospital as the failure to d.i.'s the plane is named as the primary cause of the church a day. russia has pledged to bring home victor boot after the businessman who was sentenced in the u.s. to twenty five years behind bars moscow says it views the case as political he was

found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence the judge stressed there was no proof the boot would have committed any crime but for the sting operation to set up his arrest with details on this story as r.t. was a necessity a truck of. years spent by the us to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash forward into a sting operation snatched up from a third country alleged arms dealer victor boot was handcuffed to the u.s. and police in solitary confinement for months before 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 forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood one of.

your requests. that we were any other a. who lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death right and you've got him in your hands right 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 farquhar members a colombian group to 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 thai courts the u.s. reportedly dirty by arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america they're willing to flaunt every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of the trouble to extradite him or i

should say kidnapping boot family also called us actions entrapment and kidnapping but i can accept the possibility that victor 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 and survey territory moscow's request to send him to russia for trial were brushed aside there was no official decision of an extradition and russia called boots extradition illegal and question the validity of his conviction one of the main arguments of the defense that the u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court roots defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real party members this and all he was trying to do was to all the cargo planes get the magic crimes when in fact there is direction and manufactured evidence journalist george matt has attended every hearing in the case he says is 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 whether it be russian citizen writable who are truly they will still be you know sentence right for chemical or privately didn't commit victor boot is the second. since it is in any year to be sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in the third nation this is a major precedence and represents home worrying he was transferred to simply all the legal systems of the other countries is this intricate i see. it is not the only foreigner to endure high pressure extradition to the states persians also handed over citizens m.p. gerard back so once someone is sent to the us it's almost impossible to escape the clutches of the american legal system maybe some cases where it's it's permissible if somebody organized crime it's the only way of getting out the pathing has to be

created with great caution and not be also having under the american system is once people have been entrapped and taken to court you have this plea bargain system where people are faced with you know sixty five years in prison unless they plead guilty to a lesser offense and get a few years i mean this isn't in my view this isn't a legal system this is a this is a system of oppression where people are forced into admitting some kind of guilt very often in order to get a lesser sentence and then you know also face a longer even the they would otherwise in america's barbaric prison system who could resist that kind of pressure if they were arrested and taken to the u.s. you know it's it's an unbelievable pressure on paper and the things that you know our court we should be protecting our own people from that and not surrendering people unless we think there's a car starting case against them i should have to answer in a foreign country. now if you bear in mind to go deeper into our stories just head over to r.t. dot com for example where you can read more about gambling in the u.k. becoming a game of russian roulette for many we report online lady luck is merciless the

thousands of addicts who throw the dice hoping to get their money back of course they really. underscore free world view of indiana jones the construction of an olympic site in sochi on earth is an ancient byzantine. read about the precious find at r.t. dot com. a quarter past the hour here in moscow a retired pharmacist became the most public victim of greece's austerity measures this week that's after the seventy seven year old man shot himself dead in front of parliament he left a suicide note that blamed the cuts for destroying his livelihood some two thousand people came to pay their final respects to demetrius because crystal this on saturday some comparing his death with murder suicide sparked riots with anti austerity protesters clashing with police and throwing petrol bombs officers then

responded with tear gas greece has been ramping up its spending cuts since two thousand and ten to secure vital e.u. and i.m.f. bell outs financial analyst patrick young says that athens wants to survive and he's to default on its debts and leave the u. . the greek government is bankrupt the greek government cannot afford to stay in the euro and pay its debts it must the fault ultimately that may be a terrible problem for a great many financier's and investors but at the same time i have to say any bank that bought greek debt in the course of the last ten years was stupid so making that absolutely clear the simple fact is greece must have thought on it it probably needs to leave your room egypt lee it must deflate its currency it is going to still have many problems but the truth of the marker is that when you do get to this sort of extreme only this sort of extreme measure is going to be possible to

resolve your situation and ultimately it really beggars belief that we have a greek politician the most highly paid politicians in the whole of the european union turning round and going oh well that's very start one of our constituents killed themselves when they themselves make fifteen thousand euros per month without any difficulty whatsoever as a backbencher and b. which is a nafta managed to pay for dozens of pensioners are going on in new austerity greece live from moscow this is our two now last month's deadly shooting spree by a french one of algerian descent into lives reignited the debate about immigration and islam in the new presidential hopefuls in france jumped on the story of frontrunner and current incumbent nicolas sarkozy promising to cut the for immigrants by half however that's making the country's muslims feel increasingly

isolated as artists are sillier aborts. this may be a film about the struggle to live in the french suburbs this. is reality. a shooting of seven people had to lose by a frenchman of algeria and dissent was the latest incident to intensify an already heated debate on security immigration and its a gratian in a country with the largest muslim population in europe now more difficult for us and firstly i must say this in isolation case unfortunately most young immigrants in france do not have this kind of behavior and i think this is a result of his personal journey he felt that it was out of place in france probably humiliation discrimination and therefore personal kind of feeling of hatred and hatred of france in the words of this second generation muslim immigrant many like herself don't feel french food suffered from the suburbs there is this

feeling of rejection by france and the government socially when we say i'm from the suburbs here not taken seriously the truth when young people apply for jobs and the sun resume raise and have a suburban address it poses many problems some employers time to favor people from central paris or sometimes she says favor a more french name and variant 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 low that in for a test you didn't need and i claim the right to live like everyone else here that if you earn between one thousand and three hundred yr olds living as investors you live in the middle of electromagnetic waves with leaves and unsanitary conditions just five minutes from posh areas like. people dying here and trolling different i

see no no i denounce that fact and france will have a revolt there is a first saying to describe the country today losing translated as a france and moving up to speeds of the young people will find themselves stuck on the slower moving frame some say they belong to a generation already lost by this. states may 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 it's a pleasure and may not only own people but there are those who create heroes like robin hood it's the wife of osama bin laden or other so-called leaders who create a diest there's a new generation that is hungry ambitious and aggressive and it creates a conflict then and it creates and these accidents by reason freely and easily and the worst is in there and all that is reinforced by dinner and this is a huge danger to you in response to all the titians 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 our whole president sarkozy has been really trying to espouse the line of the right . nationalist party here as well. in ways attacking immigrants talking about. making issues head coverings of muslim girls these have 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. i know still ahead here in the program here are two how much to the british drink on an average night how. i drink about to go the line and. find out how the u.k. is fighting the growing problem of binge drinking which is ultimately costing the

country billions of pounds. but few survivors from a plane crash in a russia's two man region on monday remain in hospital but the conditions are said to be stable the aircraft went down soon after takeoff just a few kilometers from the kill thirty one failure to deal with the plane it's been named as the primary cause of the tragedy from the scene reporting as our teacher craves. i heard an explosion then we got a call and my commander ordered us to go to the scene in d.c. billets you realize something was wrong as a magnitude of the situation hadn't quite sunk in among the first fighters on the scene yuri immediately spot if one list you survivors of the first thing we saw was the clean debris on fire and we started putting the sleeves eight there was this one man standing alone he didn't seem to have a scratch on him then we took him to the hospital. when he was shaking he said he

was very cool kid on our skins turn the heater on even though that already was on. people lost their lives in a tragedy this shocked the country twelve survivors remain in a critical condition the investigation here continues but for brief moment those involved start their work. family members arrive at the crash sites sites where they lost their loved ones and the charts their pay their respects to say well no doubt still to rule the cons of plates. the. 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. the plane you know whenever you're flying any type of aircraft in hostile conditions were.

very bad weather is very hostile condition and it's incumbent upon the captain of the. before taking off and would necessarily be frosting be. believe this case is far from over and hasn't reached any binding conclusions black box flight data and a largely intact cockpit may provide answers but once teams scour the flight's final minutes looking for clues relatives of the victims are left to cold to play their last degree assy. all right are starting with nigeria let's get to some other international headlines for you i'm free for the r.t. world updater a huge bomb has exploded near a church in central nigeria this suffering on easter sunday officials say at least five people have been killed witnesses earlier put the number of dead much higher

at this point no group has claimed responsibility for the attack and hundreds of nigerians have died in religious and ethnic violence in recent years most of the attacks blamed on radical islamists. afghanistan and the u.s. have signed a deal concerning controversial night raids by american forces it means such missions will now be controlled by local leaders deadly rates of fuel tension between the afghan government and the u.s. with president hamid karzai condemning aerial bombings it's all ahead of nato as planned withdrawal from the country by the end of two thousand and fourteen. nobel prize winning german author. grass has been banned from visiting israel and it follows the publication of one of his poems in which he described the jewish state as a threat so world peace grass also condemned germany for weapons sales to israel and he vowed to prevent any military attack against iran israel banned him under

a law which bars former nazis from entering the country grass admitted in two thousand and six that he had served in the waffen s.s. during world war two. now deaths from liver disease are soaring in the u.k. and a binge drinking is among the main causes the british government will soon introduce a minimum price for alcohol in an effort to curb it and what is odd about it i joined a pub crawl to gauge the extent of the problem. this is your average friday night now in britain is not yet midnight but many people have already drunk well over the limit of what's considered binge drinking. i jinxed about people in the line and don't. know is fifty six yeah take pipes yeah. maybe a couple shots. fired maybe if they succeed it's this kind of heavy

drinking that's being blamed for the soaring numbers of this for a liver disease in the u.k. eleven and a half thousand people die each year from the disease twenty five percent more than just a decade ago according to medical data most of those deaths down to alcohol abuse so how much is too much the recommended daily limit is four units of alcohol so around two points of being but even if you drink. nights so pints of beer binge drinking and according to experts seriously damaging your health but even lease is nothing compared to what many get three come last orders for a very for the. bombs of the parts. but not a few shots of. the public that you can quote an amount six times more than what's considered safe by alcohol and by screwfix well there is

a very great need to address the al called misuse issue in the united kingdom the short and long term side of his on the short term you know the issues around getting weight getting in trouble potentially putting yourself at physical risk or you know violence or something along those lines those are all short term issues that need to be addressed then you have the longer term health issues which are issues around heart disease cancer liver disease the government blamed supermarkets for selling booze that rock bottom price is just twenty. pounds can buy you as many as forty cans of strong cider it now wants to ban these multi buy discounts and impose a minimum price of forty pence per unit it will force supermarkets to effectively double their prices on the cheap lease drinks but the industry's adamant it's not cost that's causing the trouble the heaviest rain because people who drink problematic levels of alcohol a least likely to be deterred from drinking but price rises in france a minimum unit price would do is raise the price for millions of ordinary consumers

live there is a section of society likely to be holistic it's the poor it's those on lowest income so it seems very unfair on a policy that's not actually going to be successful in tackling the problem drinkers at the moment that falls to the police the punch drunk punch ups a familiar sight come closing time the government claims ending bargain boozing would instantly cut crime and messily reduce alcohol related deaths but with the bulk of binge drinkers already paying over the proposed minimum it's clearly not the town that will bar them from having another destructive nights on the tiles michael bennett party. well if you can stay with us for a couple of minutes shorter we have an unhealthy mix of the euro crisis bell outside austerity all combine into one fun filled interview that are becoming your way after the headlights.

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