week's top stories in today's news from r.t. observers are searching for syria as a new any seems its first resolution in the conflict designs of prop up a shaky cease fire. in egypt shortens the list of presidential candidates for mubarak psychic subhuti down to the reds. it's the final push for francisco to drop a sloth as a nurse to extremes with concerns of immigration identity posing you. and millions of all those christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of christ in admissions to sermons. thank

a teacher. on air and online you're watching artie's weekly news review but first after more than a year fighting in syria the u.n. is most powerful body has ushered in its first resolution of the conflict a small team of unarmed military observers has been deployed to oversee the fragile cease fire that came into force on thursday. night has more stuff from new york. according to russian ambassador to the u.n. 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 armed 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 are russian ambassador to the un 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 un 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 ambassador said that moscow from the very beginning has been supportive of mr a knowledge of peace plan it is only he said through an objective balanced approach that the security council with able to reach

a consensus on saturday but it was. a good number and i do security council members draft resolution has been significantly changed and it became more balanced and still uncertain represents realities more. interest. in 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 the resolution is being implemented whether the observers are being granted access to outside. there humanitarian officials are being granted access throughout syria if the syrian authorities and the syrian opposition is complying with what the security council is 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 the house and there is

a vague reference that if syria does not comply with what this it curity council is asking further measures can be taken with those further measures are it's not clear yet i think at this point all security council members are hoping that the armed opposition group and the syrian government do comply with what's being asked and peace is finally established in syria. will they bring turkey accused syria of conducting across border raid this week and turning nation if it happens again because she's having to handle a growing influx of syrian refugees the border has also become a safe haven rebels and some reports. 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 spilled over searing gunfire reaching across the border and into a refugee camp government forces leave fleeing members of the free syrian army

started talking of setting up the buffer zone to ensure the security of its southern border and to protect 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 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 their fight walking. across the border again. there are a turkish army. who along with some people come back you know the people walk with me. beside the border. to shiria understood. many of the free syrian army people here there are people here

and they're operating there inside you not through because the government. let him go on back and forth as well as a civilian refugee can take he 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. it's not just the f.s.a. the turkey supporting it recently played host to the friends of syria conference when many countries including gulf states guitar in saudi arabia agreed to contribute millions to funding the free syrian army moves this country sources undermining. to build an end to the violence in the country peacefully and these

latest incidents are just the latest in a long line of. to be realized syrian refugees skeptical that a solution is close at hand thousands of people have made the journey across the border from syria. like this. some cases there just a few miles from their homes the struggle on the left unable to return. are they perhaps a province on the turkish border. program the whistleblower turns inquisitor just two days from the russian stand for the so many years to be sure. we look ahead. and go to farmers who've gotten a palestinian struggling to. tell the truth. and.

ten of the twenty three candidates who want to run for egypt's presidency have been banned from taking part in next month's elections. in support of the law preventing former regime officials from entering the race. by military rulers excluding candidates have forty eight hours to appeal and supporters of demonstrations are expected in the capital. for sentiment to muslim brotherhood. political analyst and cairo. control. i believe this low 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 had the to overwhelm the civil societies

the unions then the second phase of the strategic plan is to overwhelm and control the legislative authority so they are accelerating the pace in controlling the power in egypt by controlling those dimensions or key players in the political scene in egypt. online we want to know who you think benefits egypt running these candidates and that it's become president so far as r.t. top concern because thirty six percent of you say it's the ruling military council slightly fewer believe it is the mists complying with anyone. i'm just a few percent think liberal pro-democracy activists can do this to their advantage they can try and page us while you take a look at some other stories because one died today including. cutting off rivals

rewards cash intended for the recent incidents being suspended as fraud exposes payouts to the debt more details on how to dot com. article or break into law maker new delhi's voters weigh up an election that is to every fifty hundred fifty seven vegetable criminal reports out there are to dot com and or you tube trying. the wait is almost over wiki leaks someone else comes to our t.v. early next week his new show will feature interviews with powerful people from around the world as our correspondents experience. the first episode of the show will be broadcast on tuesday 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 cheat in 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 so you do 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 the things that we need for you to report your green card. in the mainstream press. what we're going through your me it was. your answer 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 assaults by two swedish women. 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 it 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 i . and threatening that was to bring organization all together and really that's what makes this program so unique the fact that it was conceived of thought of while as songs was virtually living under house arrest here in britain awaiting this verdict on his extradition. first of all being under house arrest for so long

it's nice to have an occasional visitor but i'm going to learn more about the world and the conversations we were having a quite interesting write about some of them from other people going on that's one reason the second reason is that as someone who's given them what it meant for and it's been on the receiving end of a very aggressive and to me struggles i felt that i wasn't getting much more intimate. but pretty quickly. it was. good for its response and so people don't take the context and i want to have a different sort of proportion of people and why that approach has been difficult and summarise i think it's also succeeded in a very very real science or very interesting and important thing for the not normal people because they're not dealing with a strand of human with someone who is under house arrest. and going 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 the 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 anything yet he. is to get the maximum getting back. to the source material is what helps keep journalism. we want to present. something of. north korea is celebrating a century since the birth of its late water leader kim il sung his grandson current

kim jong un made his first public speech praising the country's military night and calling for even more resolve what he didn't mention though was friday's failed long range rocket missions on the u.s. as it was those terrorists are plotting for that into the scene moments after blast off. violating u.n. resolutions and start a wave of global can then motion america is even suspending two hundred million dollars worth of food aid to north korea expectantly or says cognac once piece because the fourth shows weakness. it's all part because you can troy. on the run. flexibility then make some concessions to the same time they have to stand up to what they regard as their sovereign rights and russia and china are quite right to point out that every country has the right to launch

satellites to. peaceful state expression. satellite violates international law and be good if not i correct thirdly it violates the united nations sanctions you know that is really an american strand i wait around going to a lot of tension around. and that it. doesn't really come from from korean young. years just to get in and got it back and have sanctions. be a bitter battle or for french vogue says intensify presidential rivals nicolas sarkozy of france one of the whole sunday rallies in paris election is just a week away with racial identity taking center stage because our city and looks not where the front says we're seeing 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 the left and the right imposed on us for decades it is that 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 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 party surfing griffen for us so if french. doesn't bother anyone but.

we don't want. to play king and so we will hold on to the different communities but don't speak together. as an identity. destroyed insight into. enter the pen 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 shame game 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 electoral shift so we have to see the. us.

knows pretty well is that he was elected in two thousand and seven only because he was able to catch. up on a cell phone and know the situation is quite the same and some say that what was once a protest vote is now a more permanent part of the french political spectrum so we're going to influence it very certainly a part of the electorate vote for the reasons of dissent but i think they 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 wing rhetoric in france especially the lead up to the presidential elections is clear what's more difficult to decipher is whether the growing support for the right reflects the direction the fashion side of values has taken or is simply a knee jerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country. that's our silly artsy part. of turning now to some of today's world news for the first

time in fifteen months iran's president with major world powers a rich nuclear program they convened in turkey and broker iran made late promises to end its program they all agreed to further discussions next noncombat that iran insists its project is peaceful western nations are convinced it's developing nuclear weapons. so darn as launched a bomb raids on a disputed border oil town it was seized a few days ago by south sudan cuse its neighbor of carrying out question strikes killing of civilians quite in between the two countries escalated since sunset on the pendants nostra. it's been a major jailbreaking move west pakistan and the four hundred inmates escaped after is the most insurgent stall in the prison with guns and grenades only on sunday morning some prisoners are going into militants the taliban says it carried out the

raid. neighboring afghanistan four people have died in a roadside bomb attack on a convoy of blasts got the second vehicle in a convoy killing four officers in the street don't disturb the price was worth it. for millions of orthodox christians in russia and around the world it's easter sunday across russia people gathered overnight in churches to take part in an easter vigil to mark what worshippers believe was the resurrection of jesus christ also used on barton was christ the savior cathedral of the great service was there carol. 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 easter 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 to purple which represents the passions of 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 circle in jerusalem the story surrounding the fire is that a light shines through the roof of the church of the holy sepulcher every easter in jerusalem and somehow manages to light two candles one of 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 about 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 coolidge a cake of the sweet and filled with raisins and the other 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 and shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter. with holy water will be shared around by orthodox families the world over as will this phrase in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches and their communities around the world it's additional russian orthodox greeting will

be said at least christ has risen it will be answered with another reply that traditional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. but russia and poland have marked two years since a polish president lech kaczynski died in a plane crash and the russian city of smolensk the country's hell memorials on tuesday but the six people died in the crash as a high profile political occasion traveled to commemorate the victims of the stalinist massacre of thousands of posts to russia and poland have undertaken two years of meticulous investigation into the practical side of the plane national air traffic control facilities to live in full probes concluded that pilot error planes technical problems were to play poland still believes there are unanswered questions which russia has agreed to help investigate. arab world has had plenty of attention in the past year for the plight of sun has slipped through the net palestinian farmers whose families have worked in line for centuries. of israeli

soldiers and settlers. reports while the world's attention is focused on the arab spring palestinians are focused on a different kind of spring the kind that farmers rely on fully livelihood and without which many palestinian villages would not survive. i'm afraid even though this is. the soldiers and settlers often come here to harass us you being here protects me israelis are controlling offspring and. water. this is an obvious solid village a place where the tommy tried has lived for some four hundred years but nearly three decades ago an israeli settlement sprang up next door and slowly started encroaching on villages land today a third of what used to be to me ground is controlled by citizens. it's very frustrating to see the settlements on loans that is ours at which we can no longer

access it's part of a plan and unafraid of the day will come when they will knock on my door and say this house it's not yours it's ours or the one spring in the area is the main source of water for these palestinian farmers but they can now only after said ten hours a week by the citizens of all the time and far from it being in a city for them they are making money and using it as a truism site that settlers have been investing a lot of effort to try and get the israeli public to come here internet sites and advertisement talk about a great restaurants wineries and of course a magnificent spring. the not be silent spring is one of fifty six that the united nations detailed in a recent report. eighty four percent of the springs of palestine problem so you can assume magine exasperate. in a lab or water is raise a rare commodity despite the fact the ready for generations is lost because you suck as a come on board. but callista and feel the water spin issue is only the tip of the

iceberg because while the world is zoomed in on the arab spring the israelis are using the chance to go about a business i think it's a perfect time for the israelis to step up their of their actions against the palestinians i think the road is busy with themselves nobody nobody is keen to hear about the palestinian the last year. has been recorded in terms of the increase in the number of new housing units israel have to go. 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 the r.t. now he fell a village palestinian administration. coming up next hour why it's

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