reports of pressure selling in syria as u.n. observers are set to enter the war torn country after a security council resolution grants them passage. a series of explosions gunfire and rockets say the afghan capital with foreign embassies and nato bases being the focus of a large scale taliban attack. the two main challengers for the french presidency rallied last minute support ahead of next sunday's ballot where many politicians are using immigration and terrorism fears to sway voters. and it's the biggest holiday for millions of orthodox christians who are celebrating easter sunday the

day they believe marks the resurrection of jesus christ. you're watching our see live from moscow where it's four pm and so now a with our weekly program this sunday but lots of news happening these are some of the world's top stories reports of more violence and shelling coming out of syria head of the arrival of the first group of u.n. monitors there it follows the u.n. security council's first resolution on the conflict which allows observers in to oversee the shaky truce that came into force on thursday which is reported i has more from new york. 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 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 the 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 and 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 the draft resolution has been significantly changed and became more in storage which. is more. it is. some serious it could be an. admission 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. by their 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 there has and there is a vague reference that if syria does not comply with what the security council is asking further measures can be taken and what those further measures are is not clear yet i think at this point all the 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. but the bar correspondent for the asia times believes that the rebels unconventional backers of the greatest obstacle to the peace effort in syria they are being assisted by foreign powers because perry special forces mercenary forces speak by their house of snow by sheiks trami of sunni sheiks trim iraq or sunni sheiks from the gulf there are salafi jihadism the middle with an al qaeda or strains of ok i had a connection in we also have british and french special forces on the ground be

other part of the un security council so it's crazy because you are trying to implement but you wouldn't play and where you have two members of the un security council who are the opposition they are fighting the government alongside the opposition so obviously how can you prove guarantees to go good that this is going to stop this is in fact only normal school over story because there is a shadow war going on for months we need to stop. the taliban has launched a series of coordinated attacks on the diplomatic district of kabul including an assault on nato headquarters and the afghan parliament the military airport in the east of the country has also been targeted violence has been reported in two other provinces let's get the latest now from to read. he used in a correspondent for archie's arabic channel who's in kabul and was saying in the

diplomatic area kerry you're in the middle of what's happening there how is the situation has had things quieted down. well not exactly i mean the the control by the army the afghan army and the security forces come closer to an end if you saw it but it seems like the have already killed a couple of attackers were signed a tax and the rocket launchers but there are some of them already a large area where the diplomatic corps are educated we are across the world with the turkish embassy and the back side and american embassy and the british embassy we could hear it from time to time the fire shows is going in the air which seems that the situation is still not fully under control as the security forces came.

now the hotel has secured secured by discreet forces the official told us that you should stay the in the room no one allowed to leave the hotel the area. the situation is still not fully controlled for the security forces. even even by the standards kamel this is a huge indictment and security there i mean how big a blow is this for the nato mission and then punch this. huge attack. absolutely the problem the problem here. the security forces are trying to level secure the capital. the city of khan capital but unfortunately the taliban and the printer is an insurgent they have been very

successful to convey from time to time to our very strategic and very. sensitive installations inside the capital sometimes even reached to a nearby the presidential palace by with the by road and you know geographically. located these are surrounded with series of mountains where. mostly the you that by launching the rockets but most of the time. the military techniques of the taliban differs from time to time this time it was a massive attack in different places at the same time parliament house were attacked which is east of kabul the diplomatic corps here we are in the south and the same time. that the natural base which is on the. road to travel jalalabad as well as around. army training center would be the variety

of the targets are quite finsbury which means that they did their homework very well in addition to that attack which is also in general about the airport which is which is in the eastern of. all the sort of the strategy of the taliban are really quite quite successful and i mentioned before. the government and the u.s. forces and other forces are trying to bring it down to the negotiation table but it seems it's very difficult as the you know has not come to any fruitful results so far so maybe the problem here is the. yesterday as a matter of fact the. the presidential house has knowledge the appointment of a lot of. bodies but believe what he did a bunny who was also killed in a suicide attack. few months back and. that the

response from the party by the strategy is going on. that made them feel as they are continuing their attacks and different places they're complaining. it's been the pace is so scenes that. had no other option but to bring these people to their vision people but the big question the one million dollar question is how to do that because of course that's the question on everyone's mind is this attack log on the on the line there are terrible correspondents for me thanks for that. let's not talk to them and crashing who is the president of the lobbying group of the pac nationalist forum he joins us live on the line from islamabad thanks for being with us we just heard from zurich there the taliban claimed responsibility for these attacks how much power does the group still have in afghanistan despite over a decade of the nato campaign there. let's just remember one thing this attack

today's attack comes just one month after the last in france an amazing command to teletext many of them to leave iran on the scene with the embassy and other nato buildings and the campus police this is it he's doing very very thick and the offense was on the other list and can do this. kind of detective date can stomach the news bomb in india and be of going to capitalize on western nato member country to seize it just shows you can that. it will. stay that we can see that the nato mandate of the army from its from and the most military base is probably one of the worst that can receive you know understanding and i really feel to see how the nato summit next month in chicago in the united states would be able to be the speedy deterioration in the situation for the nato forces and they

need to look really in afghanistan and i think if the situation is beyond. its military in middle have really dealing with this kind of devastation they have a huge portion in the communities of the of them police are no longer with them it seems to be the question before but now we're seeing even. the tajik the communities that used to be members of the people called the northern alliance that actually help the middle of the united states to keep the government down and now listen a little more thing when you have the same time with the attacks and i will remember one thing that today as of today and these days american food there is a nato member still there's really not even sure if there is a down counterpart from the national army and the of the national police they don't know whether they will the next group that they will fit in with and of the militants or from the afghan national army. our political. will is for months that

we have. actually we're meeting and u.s. military personnel from. their own laundry the national army. and really a very very big. red cross the president of a lobbying group the pac national is we have to leave it there not the best sounds unfortunately coming out of our broadband connection there sorry about that thanks for your input. well still ahead for you this hour show premieres an exclusive interviews a sneak peek and artie's new show featuring the world's most fabulous whistleblower julian a song that launches next week. but the french just a week away from choosing their next president the two main rivals are rushing to secure last minute support as they hold rallies in paris socialist candidate front is ahead in the polls and president sarkozy has joined the charge for the right to

sway voters and artie's tests are sillier reports it's growing immigration and fear of terrorism that many french politicians are banking on and he immigration and 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 now one european who does not know that i'm a sworn enemy of the european single currency busters it is radical islam as a direct consequence of mass immigration that's the left and the right imposed on us for decades it is not now. 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 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 police or frontier griffen for us so we will speak french. 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. as an identity it's globalization destroyed and so to. enter the pen 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 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 clift so we'll have to see if he's re-elected what he will do is. sarkozy knows pretty well as he was elected in contortion seven only because he was able to catch the vote of the national front and you 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. there is certainly a part of the electorate who vote for the reasons of dissent but i think it must now be recognized even if it's difficult to accept the the vote for the national front is increasingly a vote of support the increasing prominence of right with rhetoric in france especially the lead up to the presidential elections it's clear well what's more difficult to decide for is whether this grows support for the right reflects the

direction of the fratricidal values i stated or is simply a knee jerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country that's our so you're our tea party. it's the new show the new talk show i should say everyone's talking about and a premier is right here on our t.v. on tuesday we could be founder julian assange to come straight to face with newsmakers in his new program which is filmed by under house arrest in the u.k. brings us a look at what's respect. the first episode of the show will be broadcast on shoes day april seventeenth so that's this choose day coming and we and you've been together 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 chew nine yourself 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 or in english language

television the first guest is particularly controversial and according to julian in the wake of the interview highly charismatic so you find out what that's all about i met with him recently and i talked all about the show how he changed 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 his desk and he told me a bit about his assistant chantant really with the mainstream media and why he chose r.t. to broadcast first this show the themes that we have been trying to report not green curry and accurately in the mainstream when we look. at groups. currents gently or not this week coming up for the week in which the first show is going to be broadcast is really a week run of first three 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 request for his extradition go

through the courts here in the u.k. it's up to the supreme court. and 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 call 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 i saw it was virtually living under house arrest here in britain awaiting this verdict on his extradition. first of all being on the house and that's sort of it's nice to have an occasional visitor and want to learn more about the world and the conversations we were having

a quite interesting one not so much for a lot of people what is going on that's one of the second reason is that as someone who's given a lot and for and it's been on the receiving end of a very aggressive into new styles i found that i wasn't even much of working. but pretty quickly to just keep some sort of principles for. people that i would rather take with them so that out of context and i want to have a different sort of proportion of the people and why that approach has been difficult and sometimes i think it isn't so it succeeded another way so that we have a real science or very interesting important people that are not normal because they're not dealing with. dealing 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 hales by the first episode 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 temple they say his main fear has been always been that he will be extradited from sweden to the u.s. . there hasn't been anything yet more t.v. . it is to get the maximum back. to the source material is what helps feed journalism. we want to present. something of. you can get more on that story on our website r.t. dot com also online i'm all going to gas israel restaurant and peace activists from

the world and how this time campaign who arrives in the country to open an international school i mean the. house of president obama's visit to colombia is overshadowed by all prostitution scandal involving u.s. secret service agents all the details on that and much more at our team. but some problems have marked two years since a plane crash that killed polish president lech kaczynski and over ninety top officials in the western russian city of my doubts and morial services were held on tuesday at the crash site in poland for what was the country's worst disaster in decades ninety six people died in the crash of a high profile polish delegation traveled to commemorate victims of the sullenness massacre of thousands of polish soldiers russia and poland have undertaken two years of meticulous investigation into the tragedy were initially blamed russian air traffic control and facilities until their own official probes included the

pilot and the plane itself were at fault poland still believes there were unanswered questions which russia has agreed. to look now at some other stories from around the world in brief this hour ten of the twenty six candidates and egypt's presidential twenty egypt's presidential election have been barred from standing in next month's poll thousands rallied in support of the new bomb granting former regime of regime officials from running for the top job excluded candidates have a right to appeal and supporters demonstrations are expected in the capital the list of those banned from the poll includes the mubarak era intelligence chief omar city and key islamist. there's been a major jailbreak in northwest pakistan which borders the volatile tribal areas. nearly four hundred inmates escaped after islamist insurgents stormed the president with guns and grenades early on sunday morning some of the prisoners are al qaeda

linked militants on death row the taliban says it carried out the great. north korea's new leader has made his first public speech as the nation is marking a hundred years since the birth of its founder kim il song kim jong il praised the country's military might and call for even more resolve but he did mention it was friday's failed rocket launch pyongyang says it was trying to put a satellite into orbit but the un suspects it was a cover for a band long range ballistic missile test washington has suspended two hundred million dollars worth of food aid to north korea. for the first time in fifteen months iran has held talks with major world powers over its nuclear program a meeting in turkey was held as positive and constructive the second round of negotiations through to be held next month in baghdad five plus one group ultimately hopes persuade you to stop your rainy and enrichment something to iran has so far refused to do iran insists its nuclear ambitions are peaceful but

western nations suspect it could be seeking nuclear weapons. millions of orthodox christians around the world are marking their biggest holiday easter sunday believed to be the day of the resurrection of jesus christ russia's main church christ the savior cathedral held a special overnight vigil that by the patriarch artie's tom barton was there. 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 to purple which represents the passions that christ went through and the old 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 step in jerusalem and somehow manages to light candles wall 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 great lent 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 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 it often shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter to bless. with holy water and they'll be shared around by orthodox families the world over as will list sprays in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches and their communities around the world as additional russian orthodox greeks it will be said assays to christ has risen and it will be answered with another reply that traditional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. so early in his first t.v. interview since being taken off death row. his experience of life behind bars

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