please please. please . moscow says piling new sanctions on north korea is not the way forward as the united nations looks into account gunks controversial rocket launch. the u.n. is set to send more observers into syria as they try resolution is laid out before the security council with her sister were reports of clashes inside the country. meet news makers and opinion formers right here on our team. coming soon to a screen near you julian our soldiers highly anticipated new program is on its way to our t.v. join me for more in just

a moment to find out what the world's most wanted whistleblower has in store. hello and thanks for joining our team we're broadcasting to twenty four hours a day seven days a week 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 of what action to take against counting down the launch ended in failure as the rocket plummeted into the sea moments after takeoff south korea japan and the u.s. suspect the north tested an intercontinental ballistic missile something it's banned from doing by u.n. resolutions going wrong insists it was trying to send a satellite into orbit russia maintains the north has a right to a peaceful space program artie's 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. of rove expressed russia's regret that the launch should taken place but said as far as moscow 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 you know as they said summits were fucked up 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 you know those three nations have expressed their concern deep concern out they said this rocket launch in fact saying that it wasn't the

rocket trying to play satellites into space as the north koreans would say put it wasn't part of a cover for a test of a long range intercontinental ballistic missile something which north korea is prohibited from trying to to carry out now it's expected that those three countries of the mentioned the united states south korea and japan may try and call for further sanctions something that russia of not box to be a lover of saying the pull missy was the only way to try and find a solution we convinced challenges at hand must be met with purely political and diplomatic means we're calling on all sides concerned to be restrained responsible and committed to the resumption of the six party talks this format has no alternatives and it's a situation on the korean peninsula. 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 eight also reports coming out of south korea. the north. could be preparing

a nother nuclear test now this would be the third time that they conducted such a test the u.s. 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 towards that asia pacific region to try and keep an eye on nations like china and like iran as a specialist ten deal for anx north korea is just trying to stand up for its rights and its sovereignty so part negotiating ploy with me will be nerika. excellently make some concessions to the same time they have to stand up for

what they regard this as their sovereign rights and russia and china are quite right to point out every country has a right to launch satellites through. peaceful space exploration. satellite violates international law and you can see it's not like greg thirdly it violating the united nations sanctions you know really concerned and wait around there is a lot of tension around. and. really come from from your own young young young years desperate to get an economics back and have these sanctions. well today we're asking what you think the international community should do to resolve north korea's rocket controversy you can log onto our to dot com to cast your vote in our online poll about how the issue should be dealt with here's what you think so far the majority sixty percent say the world should show goodwill by

giving the north a satellite already in love that just over a quarter of our viewers suggest turning a blind eye nine percent say deploying anti-missile systems in the region is a solution i've never asked fast percent are calling for more sanctions against. tell us what you think and cast your vote at our tree dot com. coming up on our key election fear factor french politicians including a nickel. turning two of our right rhetoric and are accused of isolating muslims heard of next week's presidential ballot. a u.n. observer team is on standby to enter syria to help monitor a fragile cease fire there it's now awaiting an approval resolution from the security council artie's more important has more from new york we can now cross live to her marina the new resolution on syria is expected to be agreed upon now

can you tell us more about the details of the draft of the most important details of this new draft resolution being discussed by the security council is the fact that it as you mentioned a hot allows. u.n. observers some thirty about thirty people to go to syria and monitor how that joint special envoys peace plan peace plan for syria is being carried out it also underscores the international community's our support for kofi annan peace plan and calls a cease fire to remain in place now while their spokesman joins me along as you mentioned that mansa team is reading high on standby ready to board the plane for now. and upon whether the security council adopts this resolution or not mr kofi annan says the ceasefire in syria has been relatively respected however he says syria has not yet fully complied with the entire peace deal mr not has also called

for the opening of humanitarian corridors and how moscow since the very beginning has quickly and its full support for kofi annan peace plan and has promised to do everything it can on its part to make sure the ceasefire in syria holds and syria says that it will they accept un observers now russia's ambassador to the united nations batali churkin believes that it's necessary for monitors to bear witness not only of the actions carried out by the masses but also actions carried out by the opposition to to listen. it's crucial for the monitors to be on the ground and to make sure that the new transgressions of the god of the got on the state over and done well and is going to be detected and everybody must be framed from. any human and provocation with concerns of the possibility of provocations so instead of instead of thinking. demonstrations opposition leaders must finally formulate

their attitude towards political dialogue now with reports of several killed in clashes close to the turkish border is there much hope for the un with the cease fire i think all parties involved all members of the security council remain cautiously cautiously optimistic hi this is the closest that all fifteen members have come to a consensus since the violence in syria broke out thirteen months ago let's remember there were two previously dropped resolutions on syria that have been vetoed by russia and china because both countries believe that they were unbalanced that was unbalanced only gleaming one side we should also keep in mind that the united states and its question allies have also been adamant saying that calling for syrian president bashar al assad to step aside they said he must. not come to our arab countries and also european countries pledged support the syrian opposition including arming the rebels the u.s. has also pledged financial support but i didn't indicate the only whether it would

be for weapons or not so you have on one side the international community trying to agree on a peace plan and the other side you have very powerful countries that are part of the security council that are supporting the opposition and called for the syrian president to step aside so everyone remains cautiously optimistic and at the end of the day most important things to stop. and stop innocent people from our reporting live there from new york artie's marina thank you. well president assad's reforms apparently being an actor are parliamentary elections due in may syrians hope that cease fire will help make change a reality as our reports from damascus. damascus greeted the ceasefire at a sunny day and high spirits rather than stick to parks rather than streets and sprinklers not bullets all that needed dodging yeah this picture perfect morning was laden with fear and uncertainty is going to seem to actually awaited news from

the north. i do just wish now is for the cease fire jules rule long when you can walk the streets without fear you 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 or c.d.'s were rocked by three blasts that killed two and injured twenty five hearts 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 a hundred everyone here it was a religion or politics one is one thing for syria and it is in the capitals all bizarre business. many locals are pressed for money and tourists are few and far between for centuries trade was syria's best antidote to six syrian religious conflict but its politics draw a wedge between syria communities and relieved to get you know here in syria.

mostly everyone in the mosque and. in. the homes and. here is the dam a scene soars that once held syria to ward off european crusaders some fear that syria may become the target of yet another one day western conquest it would again seek to impose its values this. with a twenty first century reference. bludgeoned of the impossible done with in florence isn't part of his plans for for syrians seeing themselves as a nation of great warriors who are valuable or above everything else but as revolutionary violence train the country more and more syrians are far more eager to prescribe another part of their cultural heritage that i was a peace loving caring nation. it is 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 for a graduate student in recent months some of them openly seeking to challenge the dominance of the baath party. we used to have three taboos religion sex and politics at least we can talk about politics now that there is a member of the party of supporters it can boast only forty one hundred people so far there's still figuring out the details of their political agenda but there's says he's pretty certain of the means it will not be used to achieve it. but 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 and politics is unacceptable politics is about compromising with your rivals and you can't do that while shooting many here is saying that if there is any force that can unite syrians these these is the

opposition the opposition to war it's one of our it's the damascus syria. remember to head to our web site r t dot com for more news including a story which our keys correspondent is tired and a list of the country's enemies find out who else tolland considers a threat to its security. also mouth is a rocking in sicily we've got more amazing video of europe's most active volcano that's all mine for you at home. there's been much buzz and mystery about the world's most famous whistleblower and his forthcoming show on our t.v. and it's finally happening next tuesday when julian assange was program premiers on this very channel artie's 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 cheese day april seventeenth so that 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 the interview highly charismatic and 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 cause cost first this show the things that we're trying to report. in the mainstream press. works.

for kurtz gently or not this week coming up 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 began now we've seen that the requests for his extradition go through the courts here in the u.k. right up to the supremes courts which in that case finished at the beginning of february that's ten weeks ago now we still don't have a 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 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 there's two reasons first of all being on the house arrest was sort of more interest than having the painful for them. to learn more about the world and the conversations we were just. going oh that's one reason the second reason is that as someone who's given a lot of them before and it's been on the receiving end of a very aggressive. i felt i wasn't getting much from you. pretty quickly. it was probably keeps pretty response from people that take the context that i want to have a different sort of proportion of the people. that approach has been difficult and sometimes i think it's also succeeded in the sides or.

the norm because they're not dealing with. what you know it's not about how some of us. have gone through political problems. 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 at the sage of the program on tuesday the seventeenth of april we're still awaiting a verdict on julian assange his 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 the. key. is to get the maximum with. the source. cereal is what helps keep your weight.

we want to visit. something up. there and if you're just joining our it is almost ninety minutes past the hour where the french are set to choose their next president in just over a week politicians are rushing to secure a last minute support growing immigration and fear of terrorism are being used by some terror that it's to sway voters with president sarkozy who's seeking a second term among the front runners in the charge to the right artist are silly 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 us it's a radical islam is

a direct consequence of mass immigration that the left and the right imposed on us for decades 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 see a frontier griffen france. so if you don't speak french. it doesn't bother anyone but. we don't want to look larry king live so we want to have different communities but don't give their. hours a night until. it's destroyed inside and. enter lipton 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 shanghai 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 break. so we will have to see in the things related to what we can do is. sarkozy knows pretty well as he was elected in two thousand and seven only because he was able to catch a vote as a 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 pointed out there is certainly a part of the electorate who vote for the reasons of dissent but i think it must now be recognized in if it's difficult to accept that the vote for the national front is increasingly a vote of support. the increasing prominence of right with rhetoric in france especially the leader to the presidential elections is clear but what's more difficult to decipher is whether this growth support for the right reflects the direction the french side of values has taken or is simply a knee jerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country. are so your r t paris. let's now take a look at what's got their neighbors in italy riled up thousands have walked out onto the streets of rome to protest the overhaul of the pension system the demonstrators are saying the new rules will leave those recently retired without means to support themselves for several years the reform will start raising the

pension age from this year labor unions this protest is the latest sign of the time dishonest action with the unelected technocrat government. in other world news that the prime minister of guinea bissau carlos gomez jr has been arrested by soldiers and then apparent coup soldiers attacked his residence with heavy weapons seizing the premier in advance of a runoff presidential election later this month in which he was expected to win he is opposed by the army which also took control of key buildings and a radio station in the powerful nation a military spokesman said it didn't want to take power a claim the prime minister plans to bring and golan troops into the country. officials who served under egypt's out's leader hosni mubarak could be berande from running in may's presidential election that's according to a new law which has been passed by the country's parliament but still has to be approved by the ruling military council the move follows the surprise candidacy

announcement of former vice president and intelligence chief under mubarak omar suleiman thousands of egyptians have protested on friday demanding the military enforces the ban. the un has called for an immediate and to escalate in fighting between sudan and south sudan in a disputed border region it's after southern forces captured headley a child responsible for half of sudan's oil production the u.n. wants forces from both sides to withdraw behind borders and for a presidential summit to be held between the countries to help resolve the conflict the fighting along the oil rich prefer and here is the worst since south sudan became independent last july. dimitrius here now with the business news sound of week as trial and how's the mood on the markets that we can't oh it's friday the thirteen ish as you've pointed out earlier in the program really seeing

a lot of person is not that much news going on so basically everyone grasping on to what's going on in asia with china reporting its g.d.p. falling short of expectations eight point one percent as opposed to eight point four percent which was forecast so you look at what's going on in the united states where the earnings season we're right in the middle of it and j.p. morgan chase and wells fargo both down on the back of their financial results over in europe this is all coupled with the worries of course about the growing costs of borrowing and growing yields and therefore we are also seeing a massive drop notably in frankfurt of more than two percent was driven down by banks in russia the session and the week and the mix too would be our two years down hard percent in my six just point one percent cyclical was moving the my sex was stronger than the r.t.s. because of the weaker ruble now among the stocks notably financials were falding

gazprom was on the other hand so one of the strongest gainers although in the end and lost a lot of it's the one point three percent at the close that's as incentives have been introduced by the government to stimulate companies to develop the arctic shelf knoxy much more from u.b.s. says all those the although these initiatives are attractive they're not good enough. this and think this is huge here if you think it's worth. about. zero. but it's not enough. certainly. there were any clear. legal framework because you know all this expert do it is the . interesting about this expert it is. so from

a monthly basis. the commodities markets those hopes that the negotiations going on with the international community and iran will lead to a reduction of military all its and therefore this will reduce political risk in terms of force supplies and on the currency markets we are seeing the euro dropping massively versus the dollar on the back of well what i mentioned before the problems with the sovereign debt to europe of course and the fact that a lot of buses are cashing out moving into the dollar. and that's the way the markets look this care now right thanks a lot and i've taken a train coming up here love else cross-channel debates the conflict in syria that's after a recap of the top stories in just a few moments stay with us. culture

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