would be soon which grayson if you move. from phones to question these. stunts on t.v. don't come. still be for syria with the u.n. sponsored peace plan on the rocks days ahead of a ceasefire deadline. syrian rebels received the busines demands the guarantees they lay down weapons we call damascus the call is its own since more details in just a few moments. all of egypt's presidential hopefuls have now submitted applications to fight it out for the vacated seat of hosni mubarak. and moscow bows to secure the return of victor boot after u.s. judge said this is the russian businessman to twenty five years behind bars for conspiring to kill americans.

nine pm in moscow i mattress or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t you run back peace plan for syria could be in deadlock days ahead of a ceasefire deadline rebels refuse to give damascus any guarantees they'll lay down arms before the government troops withdraw our middle east correspondent policy or has the latest. the commander of the rebel free syrian army has indicated that he will not give any kind of written guarantees that he plans to lay down arms and this is just hours after the syrian forward of a crazed force such explanations what the syrian regime is awesome for is written confirmation that the rebels will lay down arms before with tool of a tense and the troops some population centers now this does threaten to derail the

peace process just two days before the peace plan that was put forward by the former u.n. chief kofi annan goes into effect 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 want to stay is for the syrian troops to return to their bases and for security checkpoints to be removed from the streets but what we're hearing from damascus they say that in the last two days there has been an alarming increase in violence in numerous syrian cities and it puts the blame for this squarely on the shoulders of the opposition who they say a continuing to carry out of wind and there are many an international community feel that what bold colors are doing is actually moving the two sides further away from each other we saw a recent friends of syria meeting which has effectively now become known as the friends of the syrian opposition and this whole countries like the united states

and its allies as well as several gulf countries saudi arabia qatar and turkey maging increased support for the rebel fighters what we've heard from countries like russia is that thoughts from actually helping to resolve the conflict these kinds of situations of support are merely searing the crisis on the ground we also know that the united nations is creating to take what its performing service steps against the mascot's if it does not with for its troops by next week's choose. state denied but certainly you can see the scenes is that mean international community by needing this court t.v. opposition fighters this home to help with sofa syrian conflict. michel chossudovsky director of the center for research on globalization says syrian rebels fred from the outside with weapons aren't interested in giving up the fight for the free syrian army of the foot soldiers of the western military alliance and they are advised by the best foreign military commanders we know that special

forces on the ground french military officers were arrested in late february the thing was hushed up but the big truth is that the western military alliance has been waging a code word war using the free syrian army. for all the media know. this free syrian army doesn't represent anybody in syria the opposition is not an opposition is a bunch of thugs and terrorists and that made by the western military alliance and that the trial cities which are blamed on the uk a bit by the free syrian army and ultimately the free syrian army is on the payroll 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 i'm fact involved in the conflict the deadlines passed for egypt's presidential hopefuls to officially register for the race next month twenty candidates hoping to fill the void left behind by housing mubarak ousted from power

last year the electoral commission expected to announce in the next couple weeks a list of approved candidates. go in cairo reports on who was on the list. so 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 a move former foreign minister in egypt but also as the former head of the arab league he's also wind for the top job as well as the former head of the intelligence services egypt almost still a man and finally how the third group who probably have the loudest the most rowdy supporters in egypt and they are the islamist parties the 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 a year later not only do they hold the majority of seats in the parliament but there are also some you have also submitted applications then there's the cell of the party who also have a very staunch very radical islam is the person running for it and you finally have a third radical islamist party demolish the media which have also put forth their candidates who is actually banned from charlie in france because according to the french authorities he's 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 is 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 with forth in egypt as the law is for example banning alcohol for everyone including tourists for arresting tourists for wearing to these sort of suits for sake of getting 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. this is exactly what they had in mind when they called for liberty equality and justice of course that would mean for the egyptian people to decide the muslim brotherhood's influence and i'm egypt's political life could have a negative impact on the country according to freelance journalist bel troupe in cairo the muslim brotherhood said not being one seat to push social change so i mention it'll be a particle for women with minority groups to christians who obviously are not quite important in this country i think in the midst of what have sown a very strange relationship with the ruling military council and the supreme council the armed forces and i think this is where maybe some issues of the revolutionary groups i mean they paid to have been doing deals with the hind closed doors which can basically mean that there isn't revolutionary change and this i

think will be the warre for the rest in the future of egypt. coming up on r t greece in a rage after an elderly man becomes the people's austerity even harder for boiled over into riots this week after a tired pharmacist killed himself in front of parliament his suicide note said he had no more means to live. and does the survivors from that human plane crash that killed thirty one continuing to get treatment in the hospital as a failure to d.i.'s the wings named as the primary cause of the crash. but first russia's pledge to bring home victor boot the businessman said and stood in the u.s. to twenty five years in jail moscow says it sees the case as political but was found guilty of conspiring to kill americans but maintains his innocence but judge stress there was no proof who would have committed any crime but for the sting operation leading up to his arrest or he's an associate churkin to reports from new york. here is 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 flown to 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 an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the stark forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood are. now required. only army other allied boot 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 award of war. the merchant of death. and you've got him in

your hands where he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars a so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as far members a colombian group to terrorist in the u.s. but not by many other countries and the u.n. 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 plea dirty 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 extradited marshall kidnapping route family also called u.s. actions entrapment and kidnapping but i can accept it was the belief might have some information that's might be of interest to someone but why is it that other countries don't just injure 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 boot 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 rules defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real far members and all he was trying to do was sell to all cargo planes get magically crimes manufactured jurisdiction 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 if you live 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 citizens who are truly davis to be you know sentence right for chemical crime and if they didn't commit it to boot is the second. since it is in any year

to face sentencing on american territory for little crimes committed in a third nation book peace is a major precedence and represents how worried he was transferred to simply override the legal systems of other countries as they see trip in other parts. are tired pharmacist became the most public victim of greece's austerity measures this week after the seventy seven year old shot himself dead in front of parliament he left a suicide note blaming the cuts for destroying his livelihood some two thousand people came to pay respects to demetrius christoulas saturday some comparing his death with murder his suicide sparked riots with anti are staring protesters clashing with police and hurling petrol bombs officers responded with tear gas greece has been a ramping up spending cuts since two thousand and ten to get vital new when i am at cash economic analysts next three kids says the cuts policy needs a major rethink. at this point inside we

have about a third of the population in greece living underneath the poverty line we've got about a million people of employed and probably half a million kids who really don't we very well at all all we need something like these to catalyze opinion and send us into deep reflection i think the more austerity cuts i was on two counts to pensions public sake the wages tax increases are an absolute nightmare it's like putting it out a wreck sick on a very strict diet it's going to backfire what we really need here is more structural reforms some sensible privatizations to clamp down on waste and corruption and actually kids from the very rich to pay their share as well because at the moment it's the unemployed people it's the pension is and it's the middle classes that are suffering while the people that have stashed away close to a trillion overseas have gotten away with it. bus month's deadly shooting spree by a french minute algerian descent into lou's reignited

a debate about immigration in islam in the e.u. presidential hopefuls in france jumped on the story with front runner and incumbent nicolas sarkozy promising to cut the flow of immigrants by half that's making the country's muslims feel increasingly isolated as our key steps are slowly reports. this need be a film about the struggle to live in the french suburbs but this. it is reality. the shooting of seven people with the loose by a frenchman of algerian descent was the latest incident to intensify an already heated debate on security immigration and it to gratian in a country with the largest muslim population in europe. firstly i'm no see this is an isolated 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 this in the words of this second generation muslim immigrant many like yourself don't feel french is in the suburbs there is this feeling of rejection by france and the government socially resale and 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 there in lies the problem the french republics 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 protest she didn't need i claim the right to live like everyone else if you were between one thousand and thirteen a hundred year olds you live in as if you live in the middle of

a little magnetic waves with lease and sanitary conditions just five minutes from posh areas like three people guy different i say you know. i denounce that fact in france we'll have a revolt there's a french saying to describe the consulate today losing translated as a france and moving a two speeds after the young people find themselves stuck on the slower moving frame some say they belong to a generation already lost by the. states may find a sense of belonging elsewhere by the time that happens any efforts to bring them back a likely to be healed style and where some may find solace is anyone's guess this may not only on people but there are those who create heroes like robin hood the city it's the wife of osama bin laden other so-called leaders who created it is there's a new generation that is hungry and pushes and aggressive it creates a conflict on the internet creates an easy access to information freely and easily

and the worst is if that is reinforced by a dinner this is a huge danger to you 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 should exceed our hall of presidents are closed he has really trying to espouse the line of the right wing. nationalist party here as well. you know we always attacking immigrants talking about. making issues. muslim girls these have become major issues in france rather than the question of drugs and perhaps the question of how to bring back the very basics of a society that calls itself a gala tarion tesser sylvia r.t. paris. go deeper into our stories online at our t. dot com there you'll find a major victory for a hard line sharers as we report

a california judge has made an extra special ruling when he says one x. rated movie is ok for free downloading. and a global day of friendly bashing thousands all over the world and doris in hello fighting leaving streets covered with betters watch the video on our you tube show . the. security forces in bahrain fired tear gas and water cabins at protesters as thousands marched in support of a jailed human rights activist on friday he's serving a life sentence for taking part in last year's anti-government uprising and there's been a hunger strike for two months the middle east expert ali rizk says the man's case will put more pressure on the ruling regime. these hunger strikes i think they do contribute there you do what you have their goal because what they do is they reveal the real crack picks which are being pursued by the regime but also to clamp down on the protesters. more and more such acts i think will call that exposing the

truth of nature or the truth tactics which the regime use using and what they are that the hence cause it puts more pressure on certain western countries also the european powers in order to change their stance because of the visibly the regime in bahrain the focus is all on syria and what's going on in syria who are setting aside the train we all know that the fifth fleet does exist we also know and i think this is the main issue here that bahrain is a very close ally of saudi arabia had saudi arabia hence is one of the allies of the u.s. so when we speak about the blackouts being put on the plane i think first and foremost that this is a saudi arabian wish because the saudi arabians also fear that there might be a domino effect which could happen in the persian gulf beginning from behind and then spreading spreading to saudi arabia the international community is still focused somewhere else that i think that all contributes to the anger which are we witnessing the popular anger which in the end i believe will achieve the end goals

. if you survivors of a plane crash in russia's two main region on monday remain in the hospital their condition said to be stable craft went down soon after take off just a few kilometers from the airport killing thirty one people failure to the plane's been named as the primary cause of the tragedy or he could grease reports. i heard an explosion then we got a call and my commander ordered us to go to the scene in the c.b.d. is something wrong with the magnitude of the situation hadn't quite sunk in among the first fighters on the scene yuri immediately spotted one with few survivors we with the first thing we saw was the clean debris on fire and we started putting the flames out there was this one man standing alone and he didn't seem to have a scratch on him then we took him to hospital. that he was shaking he said use very cool kid on our skins turn the heater on even the already was on. people lost their lives in a tragedy that shocked the country twelve survivors remain in

a critical condition the investigation here continues but for brief moment those involved their work that's the reeve family members arrive at the crash site a site where they lost their loved ones in the charts their pay their respects to say well no doubt still to rule so-called plates. the. thrust into grief relatives have been left searching for answers and already some think they know the most probable cause if it's true it's a tragedy that could be you know hurt if. you hear. the plane you know whenever you're flying any type of aircraft in hostile conditions one could argue that very bad weather is a hostile condition that it's incumbent upon they become some of the. so you.

can go on the would necessarily include people so you. believe this case is far from over has a deep binding inclusions black box flight data and the launch she intends culprits may provide says the last team scoured the flight's final minutes looking for clues relatives of the victims left a cold to play dead loss degrees c. . we turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a huge car bomb exploded near a church in central nigeria easter sunday thirty eight people were killed many more injured and no group has claimed responsibility for the strike hundreds of nigerians have died in religious and ethnic violence in recent years with most attacks blamed on radical islamists. nobel prize winning german author gunter grass

has been banned from visiting israel this fall is the publication of one of his poems in which he described the jewish state as a threat to world peace ross also condemned germany for weapon sales to israel and out to prevent any military attack against iran israel bad him under a law which bars former nazis from entering the country across admittedly two thousand and six he'd served in the often s.s. during the second world war. in afghanistan in the us have cited below concerning controversial night raids by u.s. forces this means such missions will now be controlled by local leaders deadly raids have fueled tension between the afghan government and the u.s. but president karzai condemning the aerial bombings his state of nato has planned withdrawal from the country by the end of twenty fourteen. while in afghanistan the u.s. is decreasing its influence the opposite story is playing out in the asia pacific region as the first batch of a new deployment of u.s. marines has arrived in australia more than two hundred marines will be based in the north that number could eventually reach twenty five hundred personnel. this adds

to the u.s. military footprint in the region an area of iraq obama has called a priority u.s. is also it has seen alliances with japan south korea the philippines and singapore all countries in china's backyard new zealand based asia specialist specialist tim beal warns hospitality may backfire on the host nations for the see the united states is very worried about china and is taking moves to counter that now we haven't really is going into this new facts based on a not have leading spaces of the base as you might imagine noted because he has the govt at substantially more to do it as we have this fundamental problem although declining united states who whines and china and then we have. countries. plains. and. australia new zealand who want to know who they have to work out how they

invest in the country is. who should be getting themselves into this relationship if you're reacting one can hear a thing a ship in the united states in china and then really need to think seriously about it finally in this news block a group of californians are in a spin over the golden state's going green communities say they're blighted by government subsidized wind farms that are damaging the environment in danger in wildlife but in a coach in over a ports are living in the shadow of the giant generators. vibration in the east and flushing grants troops at night not exactly environmentally friendly save those living right next to these rotating joints are all completely paid by taxpayers subsidies clearly rate increases of complete corruption are politicians and it needs to be stopped now robert moran and his wife are running it contained to stop energy companies building the windmills even closer to his home

a battle being fought in many small rule towns in the whole it's sort of a money pit where our taxpayer money is growing in that the they're destroying thousands of acres they're actually hurting the environment that they're really balanced proposed turbines on her doorstep with almost daily letters to her local governments and she succeeded with the energy company abandoning its plans but her case was very much the exception to the rule for more than thirty years now when our industry and its largest have promoted it as a green and clean but for many who live directly with the impacts of this energy was more about the color of money with huge government handouts wind farms began popping up all over the place but it was subsidies in the bank the high maintenance costs a couple with a relatively small power generation have seen many now lying idle all guy been x.

one company executive believes the industry should have to find its own place in the energy field instead of encouraging companies only interested in the government handouts we should not subsidize where anderson for energy that is the wrong way to develop or new avoid it if. we should treat renewable energy just the same way we treat electricity from any other source whether it's coal or nuclear. gas or oil the frenzy of windmill building during the winter rush didn't just ruin the view but it also devastated wildlife many of these farm stand on my grade three pounds for birds so thousands with hundreds of birds and bats being killed by the huge blaze after a year. it seems the green and clean future has generated little more than brute kill and huge amount of animosity when you look which the majority reporting from

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