live. breaking news afghanistan's capital has been bombarded by taliban rockets and gunfire the attacks are targeting embassies in the cities to from out a quarter. in other news this hour observers are set for syria as the u.n. issues its first revolution resolution on the conflict signed to prop up this shaky cease fire. and egypt shortens the list of presidential candidates as former mubarak psychics are booted out of the race. but it's the final push for france's top job as voters lurch to the extremes with concerns over immigration identity and imposing e.u.

. is three pm in moscow you're watching our live on the sanaa way with breaking news the afghan capital's been struck by at least a dozen large explosions in a coordinated attack on the diplomatic area rockets were reportedly fired at the afghan parliament of a number of embassy buildings in kabul witnesses also say a rocket propelled grenade has hit the british ambassador's residence and smoke was also seen rising from the german embassy and a turkish base on the outskirts of the afghan capital it's thought to be under attack from mortar fire while turkish and greek forces are responding with heavy caliber machine gun fire it's been reported that suicide bombers have infiltrated jalalabad airport in eastern afghanistan and the taliban has said that it is behind

these attacks we hope to speak to our arabic correspondent in kabul in just a few minutes as we try to get him on the line let's listen to what the russian embassies media spokes person who's also in the city told us about the attack. a series of explosions have taken place near the russian embassy gunfire is being heard in the area there's information that some buildings close to the mission have been taken over by government security forces have been circled the area and are now trying to regain control of the situation there's no information available at the moment regarding anyone injured or killed however there are some details emerging about a group of militants in the vicinity carrying what looked like explosives there are no reports of casualties among the embassy staff. but let's move on to some other news as we wait to get in touch with our reporter on the ground in kabul after more than a year of fighting in syria the un's most powerful body has ushered in its first

resolution on the conflict a small team of unarmed military observers is being deployed to oversee the fragile cease fire that came into force on thursday when important i has more from new york . to russian ambassador to the u.n. to tell you 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 of 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 the resolution friday because according to russia's position. he was first drafted resolution i made many demands of the syrian government and no explicit demands of the syrian opposition are russian brass that are. inside 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 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 group. and the syrian government engaged in a dialogue with the russian ambassador said that moscow from the very beginning again supportive of mr our knowledge of peace plan and his only he said through an objective balanced approach that the security council was able to reach a consensus on saturday but it was under the influence of russian and a number of other security council members the draft resolution has been significantly changed and it became more balanced and still and present realities more quickly it's taken into consideration of syria's government it will be admitting 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 throughout syria whether 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 a curate council is asking further measures can be taken what those further measures are or is 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. they bring turkey accused syria of conducting a cross border raid this week and retaliation if it happens again the country is

also having to handle a growing influx of syrian refugees but middle east expert patrick henningsen believes ankara as open door policy towards the armed rebels is only fueling the conflict. turkey. is basically playing. interesting only rule says the situation turkey is very skillfully and quietly stayed in the background of this conversation but actually turkey has been allowing free syrian army. soldiers to come over the syrian border and have safe haven within their country and now this is going to be a problem if you're looking at any sort of binding agreements as far as a peace plan or anything like that is tricky to be allowed to do that they've been hosting the free syrian army in their country since october and so let's get real here to use a nato country they've been actively involved in helping provide a base for this insurgency to come over the border it's an absolute free for all in

terms of geopolitics so we're going to see the turkey is somehow respectable player this in this story i think the spotlight needs a couple of turkey and fast if we're going to see that situation stabilized syria. back to breaking news in the afghan capital the diplomatic district of kabul under attack a coordinated attack by the taliban with me now live on the line is tariq one who gives an. arabic reporter in kabul three of course are in the middle of what happened there is the attack still going on what's happening. what it seems to have been a situation that all the including the house and management on there is under a control. unit is information that we just got. ours and the north of kabul is also i am comes a side bar broke in the apartment building do you get some explosions or what their

. needs are and that is a key reason i connect. it promptly it up to my callers and economy to all the. economy and also indy and to everybody if you want to drop. linking. information but there are rockets being used so. strange. one of the. told before me what you need it would be. in. a building which is under construction. in kabul and also a bit. up in. east oh.

yeah that's right we're hearing that an airport there is under attack a lot of talk on twitter about nato nato bases possibly a turkish nato base under attack on the outskirts of the city. how isolated is an incident like this i mean i know the last big attack was on the american embassy on september eleventh. this is something that's not common these days in kabul isn't it. they're going to you're absolutely right instead it's trick when it's twenty one hundred a piece of all of the. and. the. when i was out here in kabul for a week and i was sure that the even good people industry in the uk or. in the paper all the troops to iraq got to kind of just we're not supposed to go and. get him to. charm hold and not funny and he's trying to put

kind of stress but it seemed that if you can translate it easily through. i will take you over to the. security. and in the few hours the kind i had to do cation at the same time which means which it could be at the time i military of the pentagon to i couldn't any time. a very sensitive situation installation in kabul and in particular you will be witnessing get. that the eighty expects it will get through but it is quite frequent and of course and it seems that most of. its indians you know i depict them then our. children go. to eat. and you. want to mention should also that. in the morning it would be proven that

it could and how would they have you shouldn't it be. funny if. it. wasn't you know. the consul so it seemed to come from the credential that it's beyond the words and. the time which. but it might not need to get under your feet should be able. to really wish to do that. all right if you didn't our correspondent in the afghan capital which is clearly under attack by the taliban at least they're claiming and thanks for that you stay safe we will keep you updated on what is happening in kabul the information coming in and bring it to you and when we get it stay with archie surely coming up in the program for you the whistleblower turns in

closer as two days from now controversal we keep leaks founder julian assange onscreen mir's his new interview show right here on our t.v. we look ahead. but first ten of the twenty three candidates who want to run for egypt's presidency have been banned from taking part in next month's election but thousands of it's them it's rallied in cairo in support of a new law preventing former regime officials from entering the race which is now been rubber stamped by military rulers the excluded candidates have forty eight hours to appeal and supporters demonstrations are expected in the capital among those barred are former spy chief from our studio and one of the two muslim brotherhood candidates political analyst magic box for us in cairo in cairo believes the islamists want full control. 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 of the power in egypt the first the higher the to overwhelm the civil societies the unions then the second phase of this strategic plan is to overwhelm and control the legislative authority so they are accelerating the pace in controlling the power in egypt controlling those dimensions or key players in the political scene in egypt well online we want to know who you think benefits from egypt banning ten candidates in their bid to become president so far thirty dot com forty one percent of you say it's the ruling military council if you are believe it's the

islamists again that's from a quarter don't think anyone will benefit and just a few percent think the liberal pro-democracy activists can skew this to their advantage head on over to our home page to add your voice and while you're there take a look at some other stories we've got on line for you today. in cutting off the rebels rewards cash intended for those who fought against gadhafi has suspended his fraud exposes payouts to the dead are the details that are to come. and from our breaker to law maker new delhi's voters weigh up an election like this where every fifth candidate is no alleged criminal or reports of r.t. dot com and our you tube channel. where the wait is almost over wiki leaks whistleblower julian assange comes to our cheerily next week his new show will feature interviews with powerful people from around the world as our correspondent laura smith looks i had. the first episode of the show

will be broadcast on cheese day april seventeenth so that this cheese day coming and we gather really hoping this is going to be an exclusive new show i can't tell you the name of the first guest you'll have to choose 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 in the wake of the interview highly charismatic and find out what it'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 to broadcast first this show seems to report.

in the race for the purse or who. works. for me it was. sort of currents gently or not this week coming up 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 the requests for his extradition go through the courts here in the u.k. right up to the supremes courts which 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 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 store sold while. sleeping under house arrest here in britain awaiting this verdict on his extradition because two reasons first of all being on the house arrest. it's nice to have a mechanical things that are. more about the world and the conversations we were having a quite interesting. for the people going oh that's one reason the second reason is that as someone who's given a lot of meetings before and it's been on the receiving end of a very aggressive. i found i wasn't giving much more. he just keeps you know some of the principles from some people to take a complex and i want to have a different sort of approach with. that approach has been to people for some reason

i think it's also it's excellent. for sergeants or interesting or important. not normal people because they're not dealing with. somebody. who has 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 hills by the first episode of the program on tuesday the seventeenth of april we're still awaiting a verdict on tonight's arjun's extradition but we are quite glad that he's managed to make this program before whatever happens to him happens temp obviously his main fear has always been that he will be extradited from sweden to the u.s. . hasn't been easy yet he. is to get the maximum for getting back. to the source. two years for health

care and was. we want to say. something. north korea is celebrating a century since the birth of its late wartime leader kim il sung his grandson and current ruler made his first public speech praising the country's military might and calling for even more resolve but what he didn't mention was friday's fell long rock wrong range rocket mission gang says it was supposed to put a satellite in orbit but fell into the sea moments after glass stuff a launch violated un resolutions sparked a wave of global condemnation america has even suspended two hundred million dollars worth of food aid to north korea to expert jim walsh says the rocket launch scuppered peace talks it did not go off course in

a way where japan or south korea felt compelled to shoot it down because i think it could have been a trip or could have caused you know the possibility best collation of. events that no one would want so. but it failed peaceful you if you will the problem is as a consequence of this we're not going to have the six party talks with president georgians in the united states very hard for us president to restart negotiations or could just vote in them after what we're perceived as provocative acts and then it's no one's talking which means this is dangerous. the bitter battle for france votes is intensifying as presidential vive of rivals nicolas sarkozy and francois hollande hold some rallies in paris the election is just a week away and with immigration and identity taking center stage that's our silly a look so what are france's witnessing a seismic shift to the right. anti 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 person now one european who does not know that i am a sworn enemy of the european single currency busters it is radical islam is a direct consequence of mass immigration that the left and the right imposed on us for decades not know. traditionally 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 ever there is no police or frontier griffen friends so if you don't speak french. doesn't bother anyone but.

we don't want to play king land so we will. have different communities but don't speak together of europe as and i don't think. it's globalization destroy themselves and. enter the pen with their 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 shango border free agreements 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 free electoral shift so we'll have to see me in the field is reluctant what it

will do is. sarkozy knows pretty well is that he was elected in two thousand and seven only because he was able to catch 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. 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. the increasing problem is the right wing rhetoric in france especially the lead up to the presidential elections is clear well it's more difficult to decipher is whether this growing support for the right reflects the direction that fratricidal values has taken or is simply a knee jerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country that's are so your r t paris. for millions of orthodox christians in russia and

around the world is easter sunday across russia people gathered overnight in churches to take part in an easter vigil to mark what worshippers believe is the resurrection of jesus christ or his time barton it was christ the savior cathedral or the main service was led by patriarch kirill. 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 when 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 lead through the purple which represents the passions of christ went through them all 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 settle 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 i am somehow biology is 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 great legs 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 college a cake of the 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 of painted it often shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter. with holy water they'll be shared around by orthodox probably use the world over as will list phrase in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches communities around the world it's additional russian orthodox greeting will be said to christ has risen and it will be answered with a reply that traditional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. to here in our breaking news and what's happening in kabul of course the afghan capital being struck by at least a dozen large explosions in a coordinated taliban attack on the diplomatic district rockets were reportedly

fired at the afghan part of them and reuters is reporting that m.p.'s are saying that in fact lawmakers have gone and joined security forces in trying to repel these attacks so that's some of the information coming out but like i said a number of embassy buildings are under attack witnesses also saying that our rocket propelled grenade has hit the british ambassador's residence smoke was seen rising from the german embassy while a u.s. embassy says attacks are ongoing in the vicinity russian embassy officials in kabul say no casualties are reported among their staff we're also hearing that a turkish space on the outskirts of kabul is thought to be under attack from mortar fire with turkish and greek forces there responding with heavy caliber machine gun fire and it's been reported that four suicide bombers have tried to infiltrate to law about airport in eastern afghanistan again this is

a developing story breaking news coming out of cardboard stay with our t. for all of the latest as and when we get it we'll bring it to you we're going to take a short break and i'll be back with our other headlines. it's .

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