reports of pressure shelling in syria as you and observers are said to enter the war torn country after security council resolution grandson passed. 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 three main challengers to the french presidency rally last minute support ahead of next sunday's crowded with many politicians using immigration and terrorism fears just plain told that. it is the biggest holiday for millions of orthodox christians who are celebrating easter sunday the

day they believe marks the resurrection of jesus christ. it's five pm in moscow this is our team coming to you by families with our top story reports of more violence and shelling are coming from syria head of the arrival of the first group of u.n. monitors there it follows a un security council resolution on the conflict which allows observers in the to oversee the shaky truce that came into force on thursday morning for now has more from new york. according to russian ambassador to the u.n. to tell 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 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 dialogue with the russian ambassador said that moscow from the very beginning has been 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 the. russian and the number of other security council members the draft resolution has been significantly changed and became more balanced and stones which. is more complete it is you can ensure that suits 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 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 this monitored mission will eventually grow to a team of two hundred fifty people we should note though that it does say in this resolution the house and there is

a vague reference that if syria does not comply with what the security council is asking for other 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. neighboring turkey accused syria of conducting across the border raid this week and about retaliation if it happens again the country is also having to handle a growing influx of syrian refugees middle east expert patrick but the open door policy towards the armed rebels is only fueling the conflict. turkey of being part of the nato collection of countries is basically playing an interesting only role fence and the situation turkey is very skillfully and quietly stayed in the background of this conversation but actually turkey has been allowing free syrian

army and al-qaeda soldiers to come over the syrian border and have safe haven within their country now this is going to be a problem if you're looking at you know any sort of binding agreement as far as a peace plan or anything like this can be allowed to do that they've been hosting to free syrian army in their country since october and so this get real here turkey is a nato country they've been actively involved in helping providing a base for this insurgency to come over the border it's an absolute free for all in terms of geopolitics so normative think that turkey is somehow a respectable player in this in this story i think the spotlight needs a couple of turkey and fast if we're going to see that situation stabilize and syria. the taliban has launched a series of coordinated attacks on a diplomatic district of kabul including an assault on nato headquarters on the afghan parliament where the military airport out a lot about in the east of the country has also been targeted by land has been

reported and to other provinces tariq now he you've been a correspondent with artis army channel has the latest from the afghan capital. the control by the army the gun army and the security forces come closer to one and if you saw it but it seems like the already killed couple of attackers were the side attacks and the rocket launchers but there are some of them already a large area where the diplomatic corps are educated we are. talking shit embassy and the backside american embassy and the british embassy we could hear it from time to time the fire shows and filling in the air which means that the situation is still notes fully under control as the security forces came but.

now the hotel has secured secured by disagreeing forces the official told us that the you should stay tied under the in the room no one allowed to leave the hotel the the area. the situation is not fully controlled for the security forces. still ahead for you when our t.v. show premieres an exclusive interview a sneak peek into are these new show featuring the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange launches next week. ten of the twenty three candidates in egypt's presidential election have been barred from standing in next month's poll be excluded candidates have a right to appeal and supporters demonstrations are expected in the capital a list of those banned from the poll includes the mubarak era intelligence chief

omar city mom and key islamist does not talk to doctors side so that claims of political sociologists from the american university in cairo thanks for being with us the band counted still have time to appeal to you think election officials are likely to reverse their decision. it's possible in some candidates but not some of them mean can the like. sellafield leave. america and this qualifies him because. the conditions is that. they can't do that must come from parents and not be married to foreigners this qualifies this rising star when it comes to the most important one to be disqualified for the time being almost solely a man this is the intelligence chief you know the first line of defense for.

pain even by government media supporting in the suspension of yesterday is not final what this is that you know he is supposed to get fifteen. supporting him he only got fourteen his the campaign managers think that they have this shortage of time they would not be able to deliver them and so it. would have been i think it was used first disqualify potential. also. not really like the muslim brotherhood. sick with finance. but the muslim brotherhood the chairman of the political freedom and justice. running. expect by choose the final. position.

is decided and you may get the surprise that. man is running in the race do you think anyone or any group can now be considered to have benefited from these bands. of course. a lot of people in the egyptian society women minorities were happy to get rid of. this man you know from a religious. leader. nobody took seriously the candidate of the muslim brotherhood because he was sick with. the public figures and so it looked like the muslim brotherhood was not serious about its. into the presidential election it could be the whole thing just. to give it was

a presidential election. presidential election committee. now i think you will have. a serious. former secretary general league. form of. the muslim brotherhood. and then if we have men back. who are supporting some men you have a lot of people in egypt this in. islamist. as you know we always concentrate on feeling personal liberty is alarming women alarming alarming to religious minorities in egypt.

some of the strong who would stand against the islamists and. right still the islamists have a lot of support we of course will continue to keep our eye on what's happening in egypt ahead of next month's press. that's although dr side said their political sociologist from the american university in cairo thanks for that. but with the french just a week away from choosing their next president two main rivals are rushing to secure a last minute support as they hold rallies in paris socialist candidate france what's around is ahead in the polls and president sarkozy has joined the charge for the right to sway voters as artists are soviet reports it's growing immigration and fear of terrorism but many french politicians are banking on 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 is a direct consequence of mass immigration that the left and the right imposed on us for decades and no. 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 potency often think griffen france so if you don't speak french. it doesn't bother anyone but. we don't want. to play king and so we don't want one of the different communities

but. together. and i don't think. it's destroyed insight into. 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 shank and 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. shift so we will have to seeing the what we do is. knows pretty well that he was elected in two thousand and seven only because he was

able to catch. up on a shelf and know the situation. some say that what was once a protest vote is now a more permanent part of the french political spectrum pointed out 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 wing rhetoric in france especially the lead up to the presidential elections is clear also more difficult to decipher is whether this grows support for the right reflects the direction of french a subtle values has stated or is simply a kneejerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country that's are so your r t paris. it's the new talk show on everyone's talking about premiers right here on our feet on tuesday really founder julian assange comes face

to face with newsmakers on the program which was filmed under house arrest in the u.k. brings us a look at. the first episode of the show will be broadcast on tuesday april seventeenth so that's this choose 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 the 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 disenchantment really with the mainstream media and why he chose to broadcast first this show the things that we have been trying to report not green curry and. you know it's been a curse. words through your. brother. kurtz 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 assaults 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 and we still don't have a we are in. 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 arrest someone it's nice to have an occasional visitor so you know more about the world and the conversations we were having according to what about your vote for a lot of people what was going on that's one reason the second reason is that as someone who's given a lot of need for and it's been on the receiving end of very aggressive. i found that i wasn't getting much from him. pretty quickly just to

keep some sort of principle it's not some people are very. complex and i want to have a different sort of proportion of the people and why that approach has been difficult i think you can say it succeeded. beyond science or very interesting and important . and not no more europe you know because they're not dealing with this and for me it was sort of i think it was under house arrest. and gone through political problems the great and some not 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 choose day the seventeenth of april we're still awaiting the verdict on julian assange as 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 us. there hasn't been anything yet t.v.

. he's to get the maximum political back. to the source material is what helps he really was and. we wanted to present. something. you can get more on that story on our website. also on line unwelcome guests israel around foreign peace activists from the welcome to palestine campaign arrives in the country to open an international school the newseum. also president obama's visit to colombia is overshadowed by a prostitution scandal involving u.s. secret service agents public details on that and much more.

north korea is celebrating one hundred years since the birth of the nation's founder kim il sung his grandson and current leader made his first public speech praising the country's military might and calling for even more resolve but what kim jong un didn't mention it was friday's failed long range rocket test says it was supposed to put a satellite in orbit but it fell into the sea moments after glass top u.n. security council condemned the launch and cited violated its resolutions america has suspended two hundred million dollars worth of food aid to north korea security expert jim walsh says the rocket launch had scuppered peace talks. it did not go off course in a way where japan or south korea feel compelled to shoot it down because i think it could have been a trip wire it could have caused you know the possibility best collation and. events that no one would want so you know it failed but it failed peacefully if you will and actually that's

a good outcome the problem is not going to be sanctions or un resolutions the problem is as a consequence of it it's we're not going to have the six party talks and we have presidential elections. in the united states very hard for us president to restart negotiations are produced in the after what are perceived as provocative acts and there is no talking which means this is dangerous north korea is going through a delicate transition so the risk of miscalculation misperception someone make it a mistake but then lead to something else that's what i fear and we're not talking those dangers. but now some other world news in brief for you this hour has been a major jailbreak in northwest pakistan with supporters followers how tribal areas nearly four hundred inmates escaped from for islamist insurgents stormed the president with guns and grenades early sunday morning of the president as are al qaeda linked militants on death row the taliban says it carried out the way.

for the first time in fifteen months iran has held talks with major world powers over its nuclear program the meeting in turkey was held as positive and constructive and a second round of negotiations through to be held next month baghdad the five plus one group ultimately hopes to persuade iran to stop to rein him in richmond from the terror on has so far refused to do it ron insists its nuclear ambitions are peaceful but western nations suspect they could be seeking nuclear weapons. russia and poland have marked two years since the plane crash that killed polish president lech kaczynski and over ninety top officials near the western russian city of my doubts but morial services were held on tuesday at the crash site to holmes what was the country's worst disaster in decades ninety six people died in the crash as a high profile polish delegation traveled to commemorate victims of the stalinist

massacre of thousands of police soldiers russia and poland have undertaken two years of meticulous investigation into the tragedy warsaw initially blamed russian air traffic control and facilities until their own official probes concluded the pilot and the plane itself were at fault probably still believes there are unanswered questions which russia has agreed to help him best. 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 as mentor christ the savior cathedral how a special overnight vigil bed by the patriarch artist as their. 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 lead through the purple which represents the passions that christ went through to you which represents the resurrection. 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. 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 candles one of which is brought to moscow and is then taken around to merely orthodox church is 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. insists. sweet desserts. also designed to be a celebration after the long weeks of fasting and also that universal symbol of easter eggs many of painted and often shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter for blessing with holy water and they'll be shared around by orthodox families the world over as will lift sprays in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches and their communities around the world as additional russian orthodox greeting will be said axes to christ has risen and i will be i'm sitting

with another reply in the traditional russian orthodox reply indeed he has risen. to take a short break here on our team and i'll be back with our top stories. eh

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