cosco says piling new sanctions on north korea is not wait for word as the united nations to look since a young young controversial failed rocket launch. the u.n. is set to send more observers into syria as the draft resolution is laid out before the security council with persistent reports hot flashes inside the country. news makers and opinion formers right here on our team. coming soon to a screen name you two u.s. soldiers highly anticipated new program is on its way to r t joining me for more in

just a moment to find out what's the world's most wanted whistleblower has in store. here's a common broadcasting to law from the heart of moscow i'm karen tara well russia has expressed regret over north korea's controversial rocket launch but it's calling for restraint and diplomacy as the u.n. security council is preparing for an emergency meeting over what action to take against. the launch ended in failure as the rocket plummeted into the sea moments after takeoff south korea japan and the u.s. suspects in the north tested an intercontinental ballistic missile something it's banned from doing on u.n. resolutions telling young insists it was trying to send a satellite into orbit russian maintains the north has a right to

a peaceful space program argues peter all over is across developments. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov speech speaking alongside his chinese and indian counterparts to be holding a meeting here in moscow that meeting dominated by the fallout from this failed rocket launch coming out of north korea. expressed russia's regret that the launch had taken place but said. it was concerned putting more sanctions on north korea wouldn't really do any good when it came to stopping these type of launches taking place perhaps in the future i know said to me by the chinese foreign minister saying that china was opposed to any form of sanctions further sanctions being placed appalled. and now this goes against the sentiments we're hearing coming out of countries like the united states south korea and japan those three nations have expressed concern deep concern out they say this rocket launch in fact saying that

it wasn't the trying to put a satellite into space is the north koreans had said that it wasn't a cover for a test of a long range intercontinental ballistic missile something which north korea is prohibited from trying to carry out it's expected that those three countries that they mentioned the united states south korea and japan may try and call for further sanctions something that russia of knocked. off saying that was the only way to try and find a solution we convinced the challenges are. political and diplomatic we're calling on all sides concerned strain responsible and committed. this format. for the u.s. is saying that north korea is have gone back on promises that were made earlier this year they said that they wouldn't test any further rockets in exchange for

food aid also reports coming out of south korea. could be preparing a nother nuclear test now this would be the third time that they conducted such a test the u.n. have been involved several resolutions have been on the table regarding north korea's nuclear program but all of this is happening against the backdrop of the united states the thing up their presence in the asia pacific region now the reasons for this that are being given from d.c. is that the united states wants to move their focus away from their military focus away from the middle east and towards that asia pacific region to try and keep an eye on nations like china and like iran asia specialist jim deal thinks north korea is just trying to stand up for its rights and its sovereignty it's all part of negotiating ploy will be will be an american. technology to make some concessions to the same time they have to stand up

more often regarded as their sovereign rights and russia. and china are quite right to point out every country has the right to launch satellites to. peaceful space exploration and so you know what your satellite violates international norm against it's not quite correct certainly it violating the united nations sanctions when you know the period in american history and then wait around there is a lot of tension around and you. really come from from your own young young young. to get an economics back and he spent sanctions. what do you think the international community should do to resolve north korea's rocket controversy log onto our to dot com to cast your vote in our online poll where we asked how the issue should be dealt with here's what you think so far more

than half of you say the world should show goodwill by giving the north a satellite radio into orbit nearly a quarter said just turning a blind eye eleven percent say deploying anti-missile systems in the region is the solution and the rest just nine percent are calling for more sanctions on pyongyang tell us what you think cast your vote at part two dot com. coming up on r t v election the fear factor french politicians including nicolas sarkozy are turning to a moral right broderick and are accused of isolating muslims head of next week's presidential power. from the russian church is out of the iowa billion media storm but it's nothing to do with preparations for this weekend's orthodox easter kind of why the hostile winds are blowing in just a few minutes from. now you want to serve a team that is on standby to enter syria to help monitor

a fragile cease fire there it's now waiting in approval resolution from the security council kofi annan says forces in the country have not yet fully complied with the terms of the peace deal as reports of merger of clashes near the turkish border are just going to change can 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 that's 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 of servers 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 it's crucial for the monitors to be on the ground to

make sure that the new transgressions of the good of the got a state of the world and is going to get detected there's a lot of skepticism here in washington about kofi annan plan the u.s. accepted the plan but it almost 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 this described it as quote a grief a positive step obviously implying that the ceasefire is not going to hold and maybe not to miss rise that 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 case of sort of luggage gatherings of people the possibility of provocations will be greatly enhanced so instead of instead of. demonstrations

position leaders must finally formulate their attitude towards political dialogue so far the main point of diplomatic big crane over syria has been the one sided approach of the u.s. in a number of other countries that would put all responsibility in the hands of president assad and would never address. 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 international community that is of course if the resolution comes to pass and the chances are it will. for more on syria we can now top two middle east blogger karl charo joining us from london karl there are reports of clashes close to the turkish border with damascus claiming the attacks are part of a plot conducted by turkey against syria what hope is there left for the ceasefire

now. i think there's some some hope i mean i'm a bit skeptical about the plan in the first place i think because there's a certain imbalance in there is the opposition or the official recognized opposition in the name of the s.n.c. the syrian national council doesn't actually control events on the ground nor does it have a direct relationship with the free syrian army or the other groups that have the weapons so in agreeing in entering this agreement and agreeing to kind of restrict the amount of violence or eliminated they don't actually have the means that effectively controlled out of the ground however there is that we've seen a noticeable decline in the violence but what he means really worrying is the fact that we've heard reports today of thousands of the restoration is coming out of these three if that is the crucial in taking back this syrian uprising the more nonviolent peaceful if those demonstrations should be allowed which would take away

their legitimacy from anyone trying to use violence under those circumstances so i'm afraid this will be a very stumbling block now the syrian national council has called on opposition supporters to take part in these anti-government rallies which you touched upon thousands having already reportedly court on to the streets but is this really the kind of thing that's needed right now at such a delicate time of the peace plan. well it depends what the outcome of the whole process is if we're trying to go back to a status quo and say let's freeze the situation then obviously that's that but that's the path to go down but we have to remember why this thing started there are genuine questions about the engine the mystery of the authority over it they're just not owed on the question to stopping the killing or or the bloodshed and returning to a political status quo an inability of two parties to common and agreement was stored further problems down the line for syria so what's really required as

a consistently is a sense of leadership from a kind of both the opposition and the government or either camp in syria who kind of have the vision to take syria forward but unfortunately just kind of treating this as a set of violent confrontations that need to be oppressed including the president legitimate peaceful demonstrations will only store from further trouble down down the line syria says it will accept the u.n. monitors and has shown a commitment to the troops now how likely is the opposition to stick to their part of the cease fire deal. again i go back to the same point who is the opposition really when most people talk about this and see this in c. is the most high profile abroad but it doesn't have brought on the ground even if it were to call for example for limiting the amount of demonstrations nobody would listen to with any food called for. in military activities and also it

wouldn't have the effective means to control them underground and this is where i fear there's this danger from the international community in record noise in the ascendancy and trying to promote it as the party of control while it doesn't have actually the control on the ground it's just completely unbalanced picture. of what makes the whole situation more problematic and the likelihood that this peace plan will work in terms of coding the violence is further a problem of those now right middle east blogger karl shara talking to us there from london thank you thank you. remember to have our website r.t. dot com for more news including the story of how russia's most wanted terrorist has been charged with a plot to kill. bill morrow that is reportedly facing a criminal case in connection with the recent arrest of kill man confessed to planning to assassinate russia's president on iraq. also mount at night

is erupting in sicily and we've got more amazing pictures of europe's most active ally for you argue. there's been much paula zahn mystery about the world's most famous was on the hour and his forthcoming show on our t.v. and it's finally happening next tuesday when julian assange program premieres on this very channel archies laura smith caught up with him and got a sneak peek of what's waiting for you. the first episode of the show will be broadcast on shoes day april the seventeenth about this chews day coming and we and julian together are 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 choose day but i can tell you that they are all opinion formers some of them dissidents 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 interview highly charismatic so you can find out what that's all about i met with him recently and i talked all about the show how he chose 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 as 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 are going to report your green card and. in the race for the curse when we look at what works. i mean it was very. current stanley or not this week coming up for the week in which the first show's going to be broadcast is really a week of anniversaries 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. now we've seen that the requests for his extradition go

through the courts here in the u.k. right up to the supreme court which in 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 for 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 frozen so that has made funding for wiki leaks very difficult and. and threatening that whistle blowing organization all together and really that's what makes this program so unique the fact that it was conceived of thought of while. living under house arrest here in britain awaiting this verdict on his extradition. first of all being on the house arrest for so long it's nice to have an occasional visitor and to learn more about the world and the conversations we were having a pretty interesting problem of some of the people what was going on that's one

reason the second reason is that as someone who's given a lot of opinions before and it's been on the receiving end of a very aggressive start always i found that i wasn't getting much writing or pretty quickly. he just keeps in a sort of a difference of instructions of people going to take it out of context and i want to have a different sort of report from people and why that approach has been difficult and sometimes i think it's also succeeded in something that we really beyond science or interesting important thing for the not normal people because they're not dealing with. the human with this under house arrest. and going through political problems and i think that's 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 a verdict on joining us on an 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 yet on t.v. . he's to get the maximum political impact on. the source material is one hopes he journalism. we want to check is in. something of. all right if you're just joining us eighteen minutes past the hour where the french so to choose their next president and just over a week politicians are rushing to secure at last minute support growing immigration and fear of terrorism are being used by some candidates to sway voters that

president sarkozy who's seeking a second term among the front runners and the charge to the right artists are so reports from parents and tea immigration and to euro antiglobalization and advocates of protectionism all in the name of the french state and national identity there is not a single french per cent not one european who does not know that i am a sworn enemy of the european single currency posterous it is radical islam is a direct consequence of mass immigration that's the left and the right in hose on us for decades it is not know. this is really on the fringes of france's national politics the rhetoric of today's far right made no longer be as far off for its citizens as it once was opinion polls suggest the 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 pussy off including rishon friends so if you don't french. doesn't bother anyone but. we don't want. to play king and so we don't want. you friend communities but don't those people gather grow as a native and it's globalization destroyed. enter the pen with your calls for economic patriotism or your ties in france over europe its native citizens over others of 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 a territory threatening to withdraw from the shank and border of the 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 break electoral clift so we will have to see. what he will do with us. sarkozy knows pretty well that he was elected in two thousand and seven only because he was able to catch. the national front and know 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 everybody think 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. for the increasing problem as a right wing rhetoric in france especially in the lead up to the presidential elections is clear but what's more difficult to decipher is whether this growing

support for the right reflects the direction that from his side of values has taken or is simply a knee jerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country that's are so your artsy paris. orthodox believers are celebrating easter of this weekend but away from religion the church is in the center of a media storm over a radical female punk rock band and the patriarchs disappearing watch as an isa now explains as some suspect that there is an organized and negative p.r. campaign against the church. leading up to the most celebrated russian orthodox holiday of the year the church elder itself surrounded by scandal and in not so holy hot water. heat and heat me and girl ponders pussy riot who preach their anti putin protest in song at christ the savior cathedral to the watch on the patriarchs wrist that was and then wasn't

in official website photos the church has been in the spotlight for months and some think it's by no coincidence and of course. are monitoring issues there's a planned and active campaign against the church yes patriarch curious 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's family stories into the news for example the patch iraq has always had a war photos have been on the website for years social media monitoring analysts find that our mine activity on the church usually peaks around holidays like orthodox christmas in january but this year peace 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 collinson that country are complete given expensive watches a gift it's all part of a campaign. for white people but to send rush up sit down with her critics argue the church has become hysterical and oversensitive tea with all liberals anti church in attracting negative publicity. including a harsh reaction to the protests. i agree with people who were. very seriously criticize their behavior when i was an. american or. criminal mr geisha for. cork and fortunately for this you know rockers from pussy riot it is their new in

detention for their stunt but waiting trial i could see a maximum sentence of seven years in jail. the patriarch's watch has long been restored to photos and while pussy riot await their sentencing criticism of the church continues but monitoring experts who believe a lot of the bad p.r. is being deliberately exaggerated i also believe there's more provide came from and it's not going to start at the watch and he's there now r t moscow. dimitri is next with the business news and it seems for economic data from thailand as to crossing the markets well you can't really saves poor i mean g.d.p. growth eight point one percent but it failed to impress investors as the expectation was eight point four percent so what we're seeing basically all around the world is sell offs in europe take a look at those figures the for the and the dax are seeing

a decline of around half a percent to forty but a bit stronger than that still low drug companies and software stocks are leading the declines over here and russia is looking a bit more optimistic russia has been kind of out of correlation with the rest of the world this week because it was trading all the sessions well most of the world was in the easter holidays be obvious is now down around a quarter of a percent my six absolute flat as you can see the second look at the stories on the my sex financial shares likes burbank are leading the losses. one point two percent b t b is a bit better than the market gas from there's an interesting story it's up more than it's actually exactly one percent of this hour that's on recent incentives by the government to ease the tax burden on companies which are developing the arctic shelf now that you know putin has said that these incentives will bring in five hundred billion dollars over the next fifteen years but you must go from u.b.s.

says although these incentives are attractive they're not good in. this and thinking of these huge. price for their production zero zero. people saying well it's not enough if you. like fifty or sixty percent of. the really clear. legal framework. you know all this expert do because the. so interesting about this it's pretty. simple the monthly basis. from u.b.s. oil this is going down on expectations that international efforts to reduce the odds of military conflict with iran will ease the pressure basically on the commodities markets so this is the drop we're seeing right now still quite high

from those the games we've seen in the previous such. over in the currencies the euro is newsy against the dollar and all is obviously a good choice for investors when they're selling off other assets and that's on the back of those g.d.p. figures coming out from china meanwhile the russian ruble is stronger against a basket of currencies and all the background of the five minutes time carol thank you dimitri coming out taking over at the count marks and our latest additional moscow right after the headlines in just. a few months.

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