reports of fresh shelling in syria as you are an observer said to enter the war torn country after a security council resolution brinson passed its. a series of explosions gunfire and rocket strikes the afghan capital with foreign embassies and nato bases being the focus of a large scale taliban attack. that your main challengers for the french presidency rally last minute support ahead of next sunday's ballot with many politicians 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. live from moscow word six pm omnis now a with our top story and reports of more violence and shelling are coming from syria ahead 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 to oversee the safety truce they came into force on thursday night has more now from new york. according 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 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 u.n. for tali churkin said at this critical junction is very very important for all syrian parties including our 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 guy a log of the russian master said that moscow from the very beginning has been supportive of mr a nonsuch peace plan and is only he said through. a balanced approach that the security council was able to reach

a consensus on saturday with. russian and a number of the other security council members a draft resolution has been significantly changed it became more balanced and started to represent realities more. of syria's government it could be you could soon be un 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 resolution is being implemented whether the observers are being granted access throughout. area whether humanitarian officials are being granted access throughout syria if the syrian authorities or the syrian opposition is complying with what the security council is this monitor 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 of the graph or instead of syria does not comply

with what the security council is asking for 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 and the syrian government do comply with what's being asked and peace is finally established in syria both journalist neil clark says the u.n. back planted little to start somewhere certain states for backing the rebels and putting the blame on the assad government it's interesting to hear the west response because the onus now is on the western powers and on saudi arabia and on turkey it's almost countries are backing your position to tell them to support the peace the peace plan to stop this talk about arming them. and then we think we could get peace in syria because we would have a democratic framework to. do this two sides to this conflict recently the west is the trait is. that the assad regime which is degrading of course that's not true

and just imagine if this was happening in america imagine if say the syrian government was backing opposition to president obama and the american government talking about arming the financing them and you know what would be the american government's response and so you know what's been going on in syria is an attempt by outside powers to bring about regime change. because you know peace plan. you know has to be accepted by both sides but i'm afraid to recruit from the west british foreign secretary calling for assad to go before war crimes trial is a very helpful. the taliban have was a series of coordinated attacks on a diplomatic district of kabul including an assault on the presidential palace and the afghan parliament and nato headquarters a military airport that's along about an east of the country has also been targeted wrong violence has been reported in two other provinces tariq a correspondent with arkansas are bitching about how the latest from the afghan

capital. the control by the army of the afghan army and security forces come closer to an end if you saw it but it seems like the already killed couple of actors were suicide attacks and the rocket launchers we could hear from time to time the fire shows is going in the air. that the situation still notes fully under control but the place where i'm located now no one allowed to leave the area. the situation is still not under fully controlled for the educated people just. as my grassy who's the president of the lobbying group the pac nationalist forum thinks the attacks are a major blow to the nato mission in afghanistan. this is one of those moments you don't want to be an american or indeed on the tribute record of thomas time and the

reason why these attacks are amazing is because they counted eight models after the last impressive commando style attack in kabul that targeted the very building of the u.s. embassy every one person didn't forces in afghanistan but the fact that it's this happens again it just shows you that we will not be exaggerating if we see them here what we're witnessing right now is the collapse and the crumbling of the day to mandate in afghanistan and it becomes kind of the worst time really for the u.s. military there because of the respect complete disconnect wiped out between the main forces of the american forces holding my head and the ultimate henschel army of the of the national police and will be just for that the past four months we've seen them see how much more american and world leaders are still just getting killed at the hands off of the very afghan army solution policeman ted neeley the newsgroups we trained to these attacks just remove that the

a mandate the school work our will overcome studies frankly from whom. so i had for you this hour show premieres an exclusive interview with me pete and our new so you during the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange that launches next week . and in his first t.v. interview since being taken off death row america's that's now been made with. tears with r t his experience of life behind bars politics and much more. but first group of france just a week away from choosing their next president the two main rivals are rushing to secure a last minute support as they hold rallies in paris socialist candidate francoise hollande is ahead in the polls and president sarkozy has joined the charge to the right to sway voters sorties tusshar sillier reports its growing immigration and fear of terrorism that many french politicians are banking on 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'm a smore an enemy of the european single currency busters it's radical islam is a direct consequence of mass immigration that's the left and the right imposed on us for decades it's not you know. traditionally on the fringes of france's national politics the rhetoric of today's far right made no longer be as far off for its citizens as it once was opinion polls suggest that presidential candidate most independent the ultra right wing national front party is third with potentially ten million votes its biggest support base ever there is no potency or from think rich friends. so if you don't speak french. doesn't bother anyone but.

we don't want to play king live so we. different communities but. together grow as a neighbor and. it's globalization destroyed and so you. enter the pen with your 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 shang a 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 letter or shift so we will have to see anything israel legs and what when the us . knows pretty well as he was elected in two thousand and seven only because he was able to catch. up the national front and 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 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 well it's more difficult to decipher is whether this grows support for the right reflects the direction that such a cycle of values has taken or is simply a knee jerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country just are

so your r t paris. this talk show is on everyone's lips senator mirrors right here on our t.v. on tuesday wiki leaks founder julian assange comes face to face with newsmakers in the program which is phil mcgraw under house arrest in the u.k. laura smith brings us a look at what to expect. 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 exclusive 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 dissidents and some of them have never been interviewed before an english language television the first guest is particularly controversial and according to julian in the wake of the interview highly charismatic so do you 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 are trying to record. in the mainstream press. with. 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 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 supremes courts. and that 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 altogether and really that's what makes this program so unique the fact that it was conceived of thought of while. 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 sort of it's nice to have an occasional visitor you want to learn more about the world and the conversations with interesting more of the people you've got to go that's one reason the second reason is that as someone who's given

a lot of before and it's been on the receiving end of a very great. i found that i wasn't given much from. pretty quickly. it was. sort of the principal sponsor. of the conflicts and i wanted to have a different sort of proportion of the people. that approach has been difficult because i think it will succeed and it's something that will be all sides or very interesting. to the north no more because they're not dealing with. dealing with the house arrest. and call for 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 of this age of the program on tuesday the seventeenth of april we're still awaiting the verdict on julian us on 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 us. there hasn't been yet he. is to get the maximum the fact. that the source. true for. really something that. we want to present. something. you can get more on that story on our website r.t. dot com also online for you i'm a guest israel rats are in peace activists the welcome to palestine campaign who arrived in the country to open an international school and museum. and also

president obama's visit to colombia is overshadowed by a prostitution scandal involving u.s. secret service agents all the details on that plus much more of our team. north korea is celebrating one hundred years since the birth of the nation's founder kim il song his grandson card leader made his first public speech praising the country's military might and calling for even more results but what kim jong un didn't mention it was friday's failed long range rocket test. that was supposed to put a satellite in orbit but it fell into the sea moments after blastoff human security council condemned the launch and cited violated its resolutions america has suspended two hundred million dollars worth of food aid to north korea over korea expert john fee for thanks pyongyang poses little threat to anyone. well in many respects north korea is technologically quite advanced and has been for many years for many decades its major problem of course is money it costs half

a billion dollars to launch one of these rockets and that's a lot of money in north korea they don't have a lot of money to continually test these things so a failure frankly is more likely than success on the side of threat does north korea really represent a threat well frankly it doesn't have much in the way of military at this point of course as a very large army we're talking about a military that is declined rather precipitously relative to the south korean military and certainly relative to the u.s. military the nuclear program was in some sense an attempt to level the field the fact that it doesn't have much of a nuclear program i mean it's held to task neither of which were particularly successful tried to put a satellite into orbit hasn't been successful that suggested this attempt to level the playing field represents for north korea kind of a baseline of deterrence but a new kind of offensive threat for other countries. but now

a look at some other world news in brief time in the twenty three minutes and even presidential election i've been barred from standing in next month's poll thousands rallied in support of the new law banning former regime officials from running for the top job the excluded candidates have a right to appeal and supporters demonstrations are expected in the capitol but the list of those banned from the polls also includes the move bar or intelligent she on our side with mom and p. is the mist. there's been a major jailbreak in northwest pakistan which borders a volatile tribal areas nearly four hundred inmates escaped after it's almost so insurgents stormed the president with guns and grenades early on sunday morning some of the presenters are links are al qaeda linked militants on death row the taliban says it carried out the great. 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 with the second round of negotiations due to be held next month in baghdad five plus one group ultimately hopes to persuade the wrong to start ukrainian enrichment something tehran has so far refused to do iran insists its nuclear ambitions are peaceful but western nations suspect it could be seeking nuclear weapons. thirty years on death row for killing a police officer back in one thousand nine hundred one however america's most famous prisoner of mall has always maintained his innocence and is one support from all over the world for having his sentence changed to a life sentence there's january jamaal charles r.t. for his first exclusive interview. threw up once and for like once and it. ended in monitoring and recording this call and more than half of his life

monitored and controlled watched by the f.b.i. since the age of fourteen revolutionary activist and journalist mir boojum all spent three decades of his life on death row i like to tell myself i've actually spent a lot of time. before and said in other countries you know. what the world could get so you know only take you so far. the truth of the matter is that i spent most frightening years in my life back. in january mia had his sentence reduced to life without parole he called in to speak exclusively with r.t. from prison the feeling of looming executions still hard for him to shake. in my own mind. back. in one thousand maybe one the former black panther was accused of killing a police officer in philadelphia has always maintained his innocence his analysis

is a revolutionary announce that this ystem is rotten to its core that its races class is sexist evil and that is the head the leader of an imperialist domination of the world it is this money and his supporters say that led to his arrest a police frame up against a revolutionary journalist and activist very well known organizer in philadelphia outspoken against police abuse while the u.s. claims to not hold political prisoners near has become one of the most well known in the world an honorary award holding citizen in over twenty cities with a street named after him in france. to me is books have been translated. into nine languages and sold hundreds of thousands of copies its case is one of the most to beat it in modern legal history fifteen of the police officers involved in

collecting evidence in ms trial were later charged with corruption and tampering with evidence obtained a conviction fifteen of the thirty three. were supporters symbol of a flawed justice system only a third u.s. prisons are built for the broken and the homeless while mass incarceration in america has reached an think of all levels in california alone exceeds that of france belgium of england and perhaps you could name four five of the countries combined so it's it's monstrous mamiya says the adoption of laws like a patriot act and the end have given big brother tactics a legitimacy unimaginable when he was still a free man everything that was cool back of my teen sixty's and nineteen fifties and nine hundred seventy s. it legalized big realized people realized the very things that f.b.i. agents and administrators knew was criminal back then so where is america headed

it's election season in the united states right now could people trust who would you vote for. frankly because most of the people that are out there at the two major political parties with a top it all i hear is a kind of at least. reasonable. a rush to return to base of your the nineteen fifties or they talk about the perpetuation of the american empire imperialist like i mean what is there to hope for as their fifteen minute monitors phone calls from jail rap stop it happening in sentencing needs of the message for those who believe in him organize organize organize i love you all and i thank you for fighting for me now let's fight together to be free and the hitcher going to r.t. new york. but there is more revelations from me abu jamal in his first t.v. interview since coming off death row and he wants that full interview in just about

six minutes time here on march. the 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 which is the main church christ the savior cathedral held a special overnight vigil led by the patriarch in archie's come 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 the purple which represents the passions that 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. 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 biology is to light candles one of which is brought to moscow and is then taken around to merely off the docks 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 another is named after easter in the russian language plus it's

a sweet dessert. also designed to be a celebration after the long weeks of fostering and also that universal symbol of easter eggs many are painted and often shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter for bless. with holy water and they'll be shared around by orthodox families the world over ours will list phrase in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches and their communities around the world is traditional russian orthodox greeting will be said axes to christ has risen and it will be answered with another reply that traditional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. i'll bring you our top stories here on our t.v. after a short break stay with us. something

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