the week's top stories in today's news from r.t. the u.n. sets the stage to send observers to syria its first resolution on the conflict designed to prop up a shaky cease fire. egypt shortens the list of presidential candidates forming barack sidekicks booted out of the race. is the final push for france's top job that's voters to the extremes with concerns of immigration i can't see posing in the news. and millions of christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of christ welcoming easter

ceremonies help us close think of people. this is are things we can use for being welcome to the program first started more than a year of fighting in syria the un's most powerful body has its first resolution on the conflict a small team of unarmed military observers has been deployed to oversee the fragile cease fire that came into force on thursday. as well not for me. according to russian ambassador to the un batali churkin one russian officer will be part of the group heading to syria the resolution that was adopted also calls on all parties in syria including the opposition to immediately seize all our

violence in all its forms this is what was a sticking point on friday and why the security council was wasn't able to vote on a resolution friday because according to russia's position the u.s. first drafted resolution made many demands of the syrian government and no explicit demands of the syrian opposition the russian ambassador. vitaly churkin said at this critical junction is very very important for all syrian parties including the armed opposition to comply with the six point peace plan that was laid out by a u.n. special envoy kofi annan on this of course also calls for an immediate cease fire and for an inclusive political process in syria in which the opposition groups and the syrian government engage in a dialogue with the russian vaster said that moscow from the very beginning has been supportive of mr anon peace plan it is only he said through an objective

balanced approach that the security council was able to reach a consensus on saturday with. russian. security council members and draft resolution has been significantly. if you key more balanced instance or sees more. it is taken into consideration of syria's government. the u.n. observer mission according to this resolution the un secretary-general ban ki moon will have to report back to the security council on april nineteenth regarding how this resolution is being implemented whether the observers are being granted access to outside. there are humanitarian officials are being granted access throughout syria if the syrian authorities and the syrian opposition is complying with what the security council as this monitoring mission will eventually grow to a team of two hundred fifty people we should know though that it does say in this

resolution that has some there is a vague reference that if syria does not comply with what this a curate council is asking further measures can be taken and what those further measures are is not clear yet i think at this point all security council members are hoping that the armed opposition group in the syrian government do comply with what's being asked and peace is finally established in syria when they bring it to syria of conducting of course great this week in retaliation that happens again countries have an influx of syrian refugees who has also become a safe haven for the rebels. walking a fine line as tens of thousands of refugees have crossed the syrian border into turkey keeping the peace here has not been easy and now the violence is build a searing gunfire reaching across the border and into a refugee camp and government forces perceived fleeing members of the free syrian

army started talking is setting up the buffer zone to ensure the security of its southern border and to take civilians fleeing from the violence in syria has also raised serious concerns that that could undermine diplomatic efforts to end the conflict by setting the stage for a fully fledged foreign military intervention well serious questions will be raised about just why a refugee camp was located so close to a conflict area even louder voices want to know why the rebels are being allowed to use the count as a safe haven before turning back into syria to continue that fight walking toward the border again. the army. some people come back you know this people walk. beside the border crossing to shiria understood. and of the many of the free syrian army people here

there are people here and they're operating there inside you not true because the government. let him go on back and forth as well as the civilian refugee camps turkey has the military army defectors and the man considered the head of the f.s.a. in the country the camp with a state closely guarded litigation thirty's make it extremely hard to access information here but we managed to speak to one member of the free syrian army about what they're wanting from the turkish government. have enough weapons of. it's not just the f.s.a. the turkey supporting it recently play taste of the friends of syria conference where many countries including gulf states qatar and saudi arabia agree to contribute millions to funding the free syrian army. undermining diplomatic

efforts to put an end to the violence in the country peacefully and these latest incidents are just the latest in a long line of setbacks. to be realized syrian refugees skeptical that a solution is placed at hand thousands of people who maybe journey across the border from syria. like this one in. some cases they just a few miles from their home the struggle on the left unable to. serve but are they the happy province on the border. program the whistleblower turns inquisitor two days from now controversial we can expand the. areas his new room to . the forgotten farmers report in the palestinian struggle to end the living off. world turns the other

way. turn of the twenty three candidates who want to run for egypt's presidency have been banned from taking part in next month's election. support of. venting former regime officials from entering the us just now being rubber stamped. and supporters demonstrations are expected the. former spy chief of cinnamon and two muslim brotherhood candidates. whose. i believe this law is unconstitutional because the supreme constitutional law. and court has to review any legislation that affects the presidential elections the muslim brotherhood were creeping towards grasping all the power

in egypt they first they have to be to overwhelm the civil societies the unions then the second phase of the strategic plan is to overwhelm them and control the legislative authority so they are accelerating their pace in controlling the power in egypt by controlling those dimensions or key players in the political scene in egypt. we want to know who you think benefits from egypt running ten candidates and have it become president that's a party dot com thirty six percent of the states the ruling military council doesn't feel believe it's a business to gain by over a quarter don't think anyone would benefit. from this and it will that's a bit skin skew this to their advantage it's home page that you know puts on

a regular and other stories. that's an awful revenue was cash for former fighters against the dark arts to strengthen its fraud to tell them details and plenty don't come. on from the break to make a new delhi's voters away our election this week this candidate is a criminal. to dot com and on our you tube channel. the wait is almost over wiki leaks julian assange is comes to early next week sheriff unchanging is with powerful people from around the world and correspondents expects. the first episode of the show will be broadcast on tuesday april seventeenth so that this chews 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 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 system chantant really with the mainstream media and why he chose r.t. to broadcast first this show the themes that we are trying to report not being covered . in the race for the purse. but it works. for gently or not this week coming up for the week in which the first show is 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 at the request 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 threatening that whistle blowing organization all together and really that's what makes this program so unique the fact that it was conceived off store shelves while songs 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 arrest of someone it's nice to have an occasional visitor. and to learn more about the world and. the conversations we were having a pretty interesting month for the people what was going on and that's what we're going to the second reason is that as someone who's going to look at me before i'm going to be on the receiving end of a very great. roles i found that i wasn't getting much from working people pretty quickly. you just have to keep some sort of principle response so people. have a context but i want to have a different sort of approach from other people and why that approach has been difficult and sometimes i think it's also succeeding and so you know we have a real science or very interesting reporting. and not normal because we're not dealing with. doing

a song that's under house arrest. record for political problems. so you can see the full version of that interview on monday the sixteenth of april and that will be followed hops on the heels. of the surge of the program she was date the seventeenth of april we're still awaiting a verdict on to the innocence 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 he. used to get the maximum political back. before the source. it is what helps the journalism what. we want to present. something else.

north korea is celebrating a century since the birth of its eye toward tightly the economy and soon his grandson and currently there came a terrible first public spat spanning the cultural light and calling for even more results but he didn't mention was friday's a failed long range rocket mission. several supposed to put a satellite in orbit thirty to see whether it's off to blast off the launch violated un resolutions and spot a wave of global condemnation. spent two hundred million dollars worth of food aid to north korea expert team bell says plan yang wants peace but afford to show weakness it's all part of a negotiating ploy with the would be american. on the run. excellently willing to make some concessions to the same time they have to stand up for not only regarding their sovereign rights and russia. and china are quite

right to point out that every country has a right to launch satellites. we can the peaceful space exploration and freedom normally satellite violates international norm against it's not quite correct thirdly it violating the united nations sanctions when you know that it really americans and wait around there is a lot of tension around. and. ultimately doesn't really come from from pyongyang going. to get an economic back and have these sanctions so far. battle but it's a backlash and save our friendship votes is intensifying its presidential rivals nicholas sarkozy and francois hollande sunday rallies in paris actually it's just a week away immigration dentity taking center stage this australian looks at

whether france is witnessing a seismic shift to the right anti immigration anti euro anti globalization 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 in hosed for decades is macnow. traditionally on the fringes of france's national politics the rhetoric of today's far right i mean no longer be as far off for its citizens as it once was an opinion poll suggests 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 policy of france so if you

don't speak french. it doesn't bother anyone but. we don't want. to play king and so we will one. of the different communities but don't speak together. ours and i don't think it's globalization destroyed so i wouldn't. enter lipans with her calls for economic patriotism prioritizing 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 our territory threatening to withdraw from the sham going 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 pretty clear so we will have to see the what it will do is. sarkozy knows pretty well he was elected in two thousand and seven only because he was able to catch it 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 luckily. there is certainly a part of the electorate who vote for the reasons of dissent but i think it must now be recognised him 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 rep rick in france especially the lead up to the presidential elections is clear what's more difficult to decipher is whether this grows support for the right reflects the direction of the french 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. we're going out to some of today's world news for the first time in fifteen months iran has met with major world powers over its nuclear program because being from turkey and of iraq made no promises to end its nuclear program they all agreed to further discussions next month and backed up their own systems project it's peaceful western nations are convinced it's developing nuclear weapons. so god has gone to bomb rains on the disputed border oil town seized a few days ago by south sudan which accuses its they crossed the border airstrikes of civilians fighting between the two countries escalated since south sudan gained independence. there's been a major jailbreak in northwest pakistan more than three hundred inmates escaped

after the most insurgent stormed the prison with guns and grenades early on sunday morning some of the prisoners are. says it carried out the raid. in southwest colombia has injured three people around two hundred homes it was the fourth explosion since president obama and other world leaders arrived at the summit of the americas authorities haven't said who was behind the blast several groups operating illegally in the rebel national liberation army. but for millions of orthodox christians in russia around the world it's nice to someday sort of directions also about forty eight days of lent nazis time barton has more from moscow is. easter services in the russian orthodox tradition are designed to be both long services but also very beautiful services stylized markings of the key moments in the story of christ's death and his resurrection on

the third day a key moment in the service is the east of vigil where the priests walk in a circle around the church holding candles and they also change their outfits three times during the service from black which represents lent through the purple which represents the passions christ went through and on to one which represents the resurrection itself. the holy fire has also arrived here in moscow this easter as it has done since the eleventh century when it first made that journey from the church of the holy separate in jerusalem the story surrounding the fire is that a light shines through the church roof of the church of the holy circle per every easter in jerusalem and somehow manages to light two candles water which is brought to moscow and is then taken around to many orthodox churches

a very special symbolic moment for the russian orthodox church easter the russian orthodox church also comes at the end of a great lead that's seven weeks of fasting no meat and no dairy products but at the end it is time to bring out some special foods with a special connection to easter what is cool it's a cake of a sweet and filled with raisins another is named after easter in the russian language. it's a sweet dessert. also designed to be a celebration after the long weeks of fasting and also that universal symbol of easter eggs many are painted there often shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter for. with holy water a bill be shared around by orthodox families the world over as will list phrase in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches and their communities around the world

it's additional russian orthodox greeting will be said at easter christ has risen and it will be answered with another reply that for additional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. well russia and poland have mild two years since a polish president lech kaczynski died in a plane crash in the russian city of. both countries held memorial services on tuesday six people died in the crash. and were travelling to commemorate the victims of the. past two years both moscow and. right to for this choir's it was approach despite discrepancies both countries. is to blame for the tragedy. the arab world has had plenty of attention in the past year the plight of some slip through the net castilian farmers. and for

centuries having to fend off israeli soldiers and settlers. ports while the world's attention is focused on the arab spring palestinians are focused on a different kind of spring the kind they're farmers rely on for the livelihood and without which many palestinian villages would not survive. i'm afraid to stand here even though this is my farm the soldiers and settlers often come here to harass us you being here protects me israelis are controlling our springs and source of water . this is not the style of relig a place where little mini tribe has lived for some four hundred years but nearly three decades ago and israeli settlements sprung up next door and slowly started encroaching on villages land today a third of what used to be to me ground is controlled by settlers so. it's very frustrating to see the settlement on loans that is ours in which we can no longer

access it. and i'm afraid that the day will come when they will knock on my door and say this house it's not yours it's ours. the one spring in the area is the main source of water for these palestinian farmers but they can now only access it ten hours a week while the cities use it all the time and far from it being in a city for them they are making money and using it as a tourism site the settlers have been investing a lot of effort to try and get israeli public to come here internet i thin advertisement talk about a goal made of restaurants wineries and of course magnificent springs cannot be silent spring is one of fifty six that the united nations detailed in a recent report. but eighty four percent of the springs are pallister privately so you can assume magine exasperate. in a lab where water is raise a red commodity for you have it for decades or generations is lost because you said it was a come on board with the words but palestinians feel the water spring issue is only

the tip of the iceberg because while the world is zoomed in on the arab spring these rays are using the chance to go about it was nice i think it's a better time for the israelis to step up. their actions against the palestinian i think the war is busy with themselves nobody nobody is keen to hear about the palestinian last year. has been record in terms of the increase in the number of new housing units israel have better method or. in the occupied territories as expansion of settlements and so for as long as the world remains focused on the big battles happening across the arab world the daily fight these farmers put up for every drop of water will continue i noticed policy r t now diesel a village palestinian administration. coming up next hour why it's

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