source material is what helps keep journalism off we. we want to present. something of. your own security council sets its sights on syria with a draft resolution on the table to enforce the fragile cease fire are sending observers. north korea launches its controversial long range rocket and plunges into the sea moments later it's too tough talk of united nations plus. coming soon to a screen name. is highly anticipated new program is on its way to join me for more in just a moment to find out what's the world's most wanted whistleblower has in store.

international news and comments twenty four hours a day this is a pretty serious cease fire is under close watch the u.n. security council considering a resolution to help enforce it and boy kofi annan says forces in the country have not yet fully complied with the terms of the peace deal as reports emerge of crashes that border is going to take and has been looking at the latest u.n. draft. it calls for all parties in syria to immediately cease all armed violence in all its forms as a quote it would also authorize an initial deployment to syria of up to thirty on armed un observers to monitor the sites compliance with kofi annan six point plan will hurt the syrian envoy to the united nations say that syria is ready to accept

the observers and that it's determined to stick to the plan in the meantime the russian ambassador to the u.n. reiterated that russia is very supportive of the plan and does everything it can to make sure the cease fire holds in school for the monitors to be on the ground and to make sure that the new transgressions of the of the got a state of the one and is going to be detected there's a lot of skepticism here in washington about kofi annan is planned the u.s. accepted the plan but almost the designated it as doomed even before the plan had a chance to work but so far it has worked violence has reportedly stopped the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice described this private as quote a brief positive step obviously implying that the cease fire is not going to hold a maybe not to miss rice with too many it's clear that the ball is now in the court of the syrian opposition the last thing we heard from them was that they were going to organize mass demonstrations but we didn't hear much about their plans on

engaging in a dialogue with the government take a listen to what the russian ambassador had to say about that i'm very concerned that in the use of sort of large gatherings of people the possibility of provocations will be greatly enhanced so instead of instead of. demonstrations of position users must finally formulate their attitude towards political dialogue so far the main point of diplomatic big kringle with syria has been the one sided approach of the us in a number of other countries and i would could always sponsibility in the hands of president assad and would never address the. opposition whereas russia's stance has been the same all the way and that is all parties must lay down their arms but with this resolution which appears as more impartial which calls for dialogue and addresses all sides of the conflict one may argue there is finally hope for the much needed consensus in the our national community that is of course if the resolution comes to pass and the chances are it will. well antiwar activists on the

bar believes the armed opposition supported by countries like turkey and the us will continue fighting to bring down the syrian regime the government is willing to pursue peaceful dialogue so far the conditions are such that the opposition has been forced to at least go through the motions but simultaneously they're conducting a terror campaign and we see provocations again from the outside via turkey that are all intended to scuttle this peace attempt cease fire operates against nato you know the united states basically turkey is acting as their proxy but it operates against their goal of removing assad the syrian people clearly or at least content to allow was to remain in power during a transition to another government under the new constitution and perhaps if there's a vote well they may even elect them into power this is intolerable for the united states turkey's working at the direction hand in hand with the united states and so

turkey is going to do whatever it can it is doing whatever it can to see that there is no ceasefire. present assad's reforms being enacted and parliamentary elections due in may syrians hope he win back a ceasefire will help make changes reality and six are going to reports from the country's capital. damascus greeted the ceasefire with a sunny day and high spirits residents took to the parks rather than streets and sprinklers not bullets all the media judging yeah this picture perfect morning was laden with fear and uncertainty as them esteems anxiously awaited news from the north and i am from my biggest wish now deceased want to. rule long when you could walk the streets without fear and could live at least one day without hearing that somebody was killed. that wasn't the case in the rest of the country on thursday proceedings were rocked by three blasts that killed and injured

twenty five harsh though that is in a country that has grown accustomed to a daily death toll exceeding one hundred even that could be seen as a step forward hundred everyone here again is a region once one people syria and it is the capital's all bazaar business is slow many locals are pressed for money and tourists are few and far between the centuries trade was serious best antidote to sick tarion or religious conflict but it's politics that draw a wedge between syria communities and relieved and whether you know here in syria. like. the everyone in the mosque in. the homes and you know we like the east there is the dam a scene stores that once held syria to war there are fewer crusaders some theory

that syria may become the target of yet another one in the western conquests but with again seek to impose its values this time trying to for a century weapons. bludgeon of the infallible demisting thoughts isn't part of this possible for syrian seeing themselves as a nation of great warriors who value boller about everything else. revolutionary violence train the country more and more syrians are far more eager to amplify the other part of their cultural heritage that i was a peace loving peace cherish a nation. at least true that syria doesn't have a long record of political pluralism the main rallying cry of the opposition but there are efforts to change that nine political parties support fragile state in recent months some of them openly seeking to challenge the dominance of the ba'ath party. we used to have three taboos religion sex and politics at least we can talk

about politics now the fear itself is a member of the party of supporters it can boast only for two hundred people so far they're still figuring out the details of their political agenda but the first says he's pretty certain of guineans it will not use to achieve it. it's true that the regime has a long way to go to make our political system more inclusive but we also have to agree that using any kind of violence in politics is unacceptable all exist about compromising with your rivals and you can't do that while shooting many here say that if there is any force that can unite syrians these days is the opposition the opposition to war. artsy damascus syria. well with more news and videos twenty four hours a day of r.t. dot com writing for you right now taking from the poor british the seizing of desperate what was forcing them to pay astronomically high interest rates also.

i just have to wait and see whether there's any explanation for that but certainly it's very interesting to find my name on that list correspondent discovers that it has labelled him a threat to the country tells us he wasn't doing. it's quite warnings that it was defying international law and north korea went ahead and those states controversial long range rocket early on friday but within moments they have plummeted to the sea was no word on what caused the failure with simply admitting a satellite there in rocket never reached orbit even so there's anger at the u.n. security council which is what action to take against the country. later resolutions buying it from throwing out. russia maintains the north has a right to peaceful space program and the russian is all through diplomacy and just stress test to deal thanks north korea wants to ease tensions but can't afford to

show weakness. some of partly a negotiating ploy while we in america. actually make some concessions to the same time they have to stand up for what they regard as a sovereign rights and russia and china are quite right to point out every country has a right to want to launch satellites to have. peaceful space exploration the freedom you want your satellite violates international law i think it is not quite correct thirdly it's violating the united nations sanctions you know that is really the american friend there right around there is a lot of tension around. and. ultimately doesn't really come from john young young young years desperate to get an economic back and have

a decent sanction. coming your way late in the program true thing national identity over diversity france's far right gangs grabbing the presidential race it's kind of it's already against the cultures. the wait is nearly over wiki leaks are. just coming to you next week in the show who will feature in cities and powerful people from around the world a london correspondent has more. the first episode of the show will be broadcast on tuesday april seventeenth so that's this choose day coming and we and julian together really hoping this is going to be an explosive new show i can't tell you the name of the first guest you'll have to chew name yourselves to find that out on tuesday but i can tell you that they are all opinion formers some of them this isn't and some of them have never been interviewed before on english language

television the first guest is particularly controversial and according to julian in the wake of the interview highly charismatic and find out what that's all about i met with him recently i went down to the secret location where he's been filming the show and i talked all about the show how he changed his guests why he decided to do it and of course he spent a lot of time sitting on the other side of the interview his desk and he told me a bit about his disenchantment really with the mainstream media and why he chose r.t. to broadcast first this show that we're trying to report not being heard and accurately in the mainstream press when we look at what works. for the good of the. current century or not this week coming up the week in which the first show is going to be broadcast is really a week of round of verse three for him both personal and professional it's going to be five hundred days since the investigation into these allegations of sexual

assault by two swedish women began now we've seen that at the request for his extradition go through the courts here in the u.k. right up to the supreme court. and that case finished at the beginning of february that's ten weeks ago now we still don't have a verdict we are expecting it possibly to come next week but there's still no set date that verdict to be handed down and still after five hundred days no charges have been laid against him it's also five hundred days since the wiki leaks bank accounts were first phrases. so that has made funding for wiki leaks very difficult and threatening that whistle blowing organization all together and really that's what makes this program so unique the fact that it was conceived else thought of while our source was virtually living under house arrest here in britain awaiting this verdict on his extradition there's two reasons first of all being on the house from some sort of mob it's nice to have an occasional visitor and to learn more

about the world and given the conversations we were having according to still work for the people of the story that's one reason the second reason is food as someone who has given the water before and it's been receiving in a very aggressive. when i found that i wasn't getting much from writing or pretty quickly. or keeps you know sort of principle it's problems so people don't take the context that i want to have a different sort of reproach to the people and why that approach has been difficult in some ways i think it's also succeeded but the reason that we have really beyond science or very interesting important people are going to not normally because they're not dealing with. things you most want to do some of the house and. of course your political problems the principal so you can see the full version of

that interview on monday the sixteenth of april and that will be followed hot on the heels by the first episode of the program on shoes day the seventeenth of april we're still awaiting the verdict on julian assange has extradition but we are quite glad that he's managed to make this program before whatever happens to him happens to him obviously his main fear has always been that he will be extradited from sweden to the u.s. . there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism we. we want to present. something else. but still to come this hour the problems at the pulpits find out why this author of

the truth of the woods has given the russian church a school for instance still on the. subject of immigration always stokes voters come election time and seeing a french far right presidential candidate of the true colors street reforms if elected. in our reports there's a fear that if we think bring fencing france presse permanent anti immigration anti euro antiglobalization and advocates of protectionism all in the name of the french state and national identity. there is not a single french person not one european who does not know that i am a sworn enemy of the european single currency buskers its radical islam as a direct consequence of mass immigration that the left and the right imposed on us for decades is met no. conditionally on the fringes of france's national

politics the rhetoric of today's far right may no longer be as far off for its citizens as it once was opinion polls suggest that presidential candidate marine le pen of the ultra right wing national front party is third with potentially ten million votes its biggest support base ever there is no party surfing figure if friends. so you don't speak french. it doesn't bother anyone but. we don't want. to play klingon so we will. have different communities but don't speak together of. ours and i don't think it's liberalization destroy the state and. enter the pen with her calls for economic patriotism prioritizing france over europe its native citizens over others and giving the french back their jobs. and center right incumbent nicolas sarkozy stands accused

of jumping on the far right bandwagon some say for the ballot sake. our integration system is getting worse and worse why because we have too many foreigners in our territory threatening to withdraw from the schengen border free agreement by no coincidence at a time when europe is seeing an influx of refugees fleeing conflicts in north africa and the middle east this is a phrase clift so we would have to see the thing is related to what he will do with us. sarkozy knows pretty well is that he was elected in two thousand and seven only because he was able to catch. up to the national front and no the situation is quite the same some say that what was once a protest vote is now a more permanent part of the french political spectrum so. there is certainly a part of the electorate who vote for the reasons of dissent but i think it must

now be recognised even if it's difficult to accept that the vote for the national front is increasingly a vote of support. we increasing problem it's a right with rhetoric in france especially the lead up to the presidential elections it's clear what's more difficult to decipher is whether this grows support for the right reflects the direction the fungicide lvalues has taken or is simply a knee jerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country just are so your artsy part. not of some other news making headlines around the world molly is back on the civilian the interim president is taking over three weeks after a military coup and now has forty days to organize elections me seized her what it saw as the previous leaders failed to tackle. this instance surgeons and since declared independence from the north. bushels who served under egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak banned from running for the top drawer leaving any prime

minister in the past. so the plans of former vice president mustn't revealed his surprise kind of a see last week the new law first has to be approved by the ruling military council which took power last year. the u.n. is demanding an immediate end to fighting on sudan's southern border with south sudan seized the town of heglig which is home to around half of sudan's oil production is a plea for forces to withdraw presidential summit to be held tween the conference to resolve the conflict. which is escalating since the pendants last. but it ceased weekend for orthodox worshippers the russian church already has its hands full dealing with punk protesters and doctored photos of its leader and he said no way has more on the damage and destruction. leading up to the most celebrated russian orthodox holiday of the year the church found itself surrounded

by scandal and in not so holy hot water. from girl ponders pussy riot who preach their anti couldn't protest in song at christ the savior cathedral to the watch on the patriarchs wrist that was and then wasn't an official website photos the church has been in the spotlight for months and some think it's by no coincidence. are monitoring issues there's a planned and active campaign against the church. patriarchy ariel's wristwatch with a price tag of some thirty thousand euros became the talk of the russian blogosphere over photos with a piece obviously brushed out in official pictures online of course some of this sensation is connected with the scandals ability to make news but someone threw me

stories into the news for example the charge has always had a watch for susan in the website for years social media monitoring analysts find that on line activity on the church usually peaks around holidays like orthodox christmas in january but this year peaks continued throughout the spring and some not even during scandals but just after and before making sure the ball didn't drop and blogs tweets and spoofs kept flowing. and someone starts coming soon a good patriotic can be given expensive watches or gifts it's all part of a campaign not say good for us and rush upside down. but critics argue the church has become hysterical and oversensitive deeming all liberals anti church in attracting negative publicity including a harsh reaction to the public protests. i agree with people who

or were very serious and criticise their behavior. but it was. not for criminal investigation or for. court unfortunately for the female rockers from pussy riot though it is they're now in detention for their stand awaiting trial they could see a maximum sentence of seven years in jail. break arabs' watch has long been restored to photos and while pussy riot await their sentencing criticism of the charge continue. but monitoring experts who believe a lot of the bad p.r. is being deliberately exaggerated also believe there's more came from and it's not going to stop the watch and he's there now r t moscow. well it's time to check out the business headlines now marina's following the

markets is no clues for trading a good session i care yes it was awful you know and i'm saying oddly enough because investors should have been reactance a disappointing data it was very disappointing in fact basically china's economic growth was expect the growth in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve slowed down to eight point one percent compared to the same period last year and in fact the wall street last night rallied because everyone expected it would be much higher than that let's take a look at the latest figures for the asian markets there as you can see both and they came and the hang sang out at over one percent interest and exporters of particularly well haven't said that so only did lose almost five percent and that was after it now said it will cut ten thousand jobs worldwide when it comes to hong kong now we have property developers do it better than the rest of the shares but let's move on a second look at what's happened in europe there. the disappointing growth in china

did make an upright on the end by service and they didn't take it very well so we see both of those and the banks are losing a bit that's one percent in the red this hour drug and the other pharmaceutical sector are not to take a little well the way they're leading the clients ok when it comes to russia here we're still trying to figure out what is happening busters i was struggling to find direction we can see that they're in the black this hour with them i said stay in almost half a percent of the r.t.s. is really swinging between losses and gains but we are having some positive news here and that is that russia will. he's in the science board and all of the companies that will be developed in the countries are thick south and the government is expectancy make although five hundred billion dollars in investment over the next thirty years we'll take a look at crude prices are going down and i don't expect to see for the declines next week because they as soon that the conversations related to their odds nuclear

program with wall powers will be reduced the last time to means that the prices will go down because that's of course what's been bolstering prices for the past couple of weeks and i'd put move on to currencies it's a similar picture as we've been seeing for the past couple of hours the euro is muson badly against the dollar when it comes to the ruble it's losing the gads both of the major currencies well we have some other news for you and despite all the efforts of the russian government to cut or oil and gas dependency their share in the country's exports is still rising the world bank says that amounted to seventy two percent in two thousand and eleven and it says russia should improve internal competition provide better supports local exploiters and set up in the fish and supplies. also the all of this movie studio in the world and i'm talking about universal studios that wants to build its first european and simon park and mosco the project is worth about reaper lee and dollars and such marks

a host of twenty five million visitors a year in the once single entry costs around eighty five dollars. and other news the owner of an adult website perfect time dot com is suing russia's top search engine a young backs over a violation of copyright for its nude photos it says illegally places ads near the photos and also passwords for the sides paid services could be found in this search results perfect time dot com once a five million dollars compensation then earlier the site sued google amazon and microsoft for the same reasons but lost all the cases. and that's. ok thanks renee we're catching from reading one of the world's worst in. a tragedy that left thousands dead i saw the headline status.

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