reports are from selling in syria as you an observer there sad sad truth a war torn country after a security council resolution in france been passed a. series of explosions gunfire and rocket shakes the afghan capital of the puzzle palace western embassies and nato bases being the focus of a large scale taliban attack. but your main challengers for the french presidency rally last minute support ahead of next sunday's ballot when many politicians are using immigration and terrorism fears just sway voters. plus it's the freakiest holiday for millions of orthodox russians who are celebrating easter

sunday the day they believe marks the resurrection of jesus christ. but seven pm in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live i mean east now away with our top story the mask it says it will respond to increase attacks from armed gangs as reports of more violence come out of syria that's ahead of the first arrival of a first group of u.n. monitors to the country after the security council adopted a resolution on the conflict. has more 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 that 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 basket or the un for tali 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 a 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 groups and the syrian government engage in a guy a log the russian ambassador said that moscow from the very beginning has been supportive of mr onas a peace plan and is only he said through an objective balanced approach that the

security council was able to reach a consensus on saturday which was. the number of 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 and it will be an. 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 see. 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 that has some 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 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 because washington has more support to the syrian opposition but he's historian of politics professor germany's salts brackney one side of the conflict the u.s. and its allies could easily ruin diplomatic peace efforts. senator mccain's last remark to reporters was see you next year in damascus this kind of attitude is hardly. a ceasefire that. is trying to set out from sequence to syria there is not goodwill among some states and our single out here saudi arabia and qatar they want the syrian government destroyed their interest is not in syria

their interest is not treating the syrian people they are interested not human rights the syrian people are they don't their own people don't have those rights so what is a gain in syria what do they want they want yes a government. that is far larger sectarian reasons they're trying to set up a which michael's willingness and wall across the middle east to block iran and to block the rise of powers he is and the region iran syria is tied up in a strategic alliance across the region and saudi arabia wants a great alliance for reasons of its own those reasons also converge with the determination of united states to break that alliance so you can see there is most definitely a very big geopolitical game going on here which will determine the shape of middle east for a long time to come. neighboring turkey its one time ally syria of conducting a cross border raid this week and retaliate sent it happens again the country is having to handle a growing influx of syrian refugees but the border has also become

a safe haven for our rabbits so for now 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 hearing gunfire reaching across the border and into a refugee camp government forces to see fleeing members of the free syrian army started talking and setting up the buffer zone to ensure the security of its southern border and to protect civilians fleeing from the violence in syria this also raises serious concerns that that could undermine diplomatic efforts to end the conflict by setting the stage for a fully fledged foreign military intervention well serious questions will be raised about just what 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 for walking.

across the border. there are. some people come back you know those people walk. beside the border across the border to syria. and many of the free syrian army people here there are people here and they're operating there inside you know. let him go to fight as well as a civilian refugee camp taking the military army defectors and the man considered the head of the f.s.a. in the country camp with a space closely guarded and the turkish authorities 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 the say the turkey supporting it recently played host to the friends of syria conference where many countries including gulf states guitar in saudi arabia agree to contribute millions to funding the free syrian army it was a move this some country soars undermining diplomatic efforts to put an end to the violence in the country peacefully and these latest incidents are just the latest in a long line of. these efforts to be realized the syrian refugees here skeptical that a solution is close at hand thousands of people have made the journey across the border from syria and up to refugee camps like this one. with some cases there just a few miles from their home the struggle on the left unable to return. the province on the turkish border. the taliban has launched

a series of coordinated attacks across the afghan capital including an assault on the presidential palace the afghan parliament and nato headquarters most of the targets were in the city's diplomatic districts with western embassies and residences under fire the scale of casualties doesn't go clear of a police say at least two militants have been killed and five people wounded military airport about in the east of the country has also been targeted violence has been reported in two other provinces mccroskey who is the president of the lobbying group the pac nationalists for since 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 during the good pretty record of commerce times and the reason why these attacks are amazing is because they count eight models down to the last impressive commando style attack in kabul that targeted the very building of the u.s.

embassy where every one person forces in afghanistan but the fact that it's this happens again just shows you that we would not be exaggerating if we see them here what we're witnessing right now is the collapse and the crumbling up with nato mandate in afghanistan and it becomes kind of the worst time really for the u.s. military there because of the reason a complete disconnect wiped out between the main forces of the american forces will not help and not going to mention on even of gun deaths in the police and will do just that in the past few months we've seen you see how american and world leaders soldiers getting killed at the hands off the very outgoing i mean suv which includes men that the needle of the groups who trained to these attacks just remove the head of the imad hage the school or problem over guns drugs frankly from whom. but the word for you this hour show premieres an exclusive interviews peek at are

these new so featuring the world's most fabulous famous whistleblower doing the science that launches next week here on our t.v. . in spain financial troubles could be tweaking its sporting success into touch as premier league football clubs run themselves unable to pay their debts. but with the french i should say 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 is ahead in the polls and president sarkozy has joined the charge to the right to sway voters the party's tests are sillier reports it's growing immigration and fear of terrorism but many french politicians are breaking up. and he 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 not one european who does not know that i am a sworn enemy of the european single currency buskers it's radical islam is a direct consequence of mass immigration from the left and the right imposed on us for decades and is 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 that presidential candidate marine le pen of the old for right way national front party is third with potentially ten million votes its biggest support base ever there is no party surfing through griffin of france. so if you don't speak french. it doesn't bother anyone but. we don't want. to play to england so we will. have different communities but don't speak together. as an identity.

destroyed deciding to. 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 shame good 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. so we will have to seeing anything israel 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 going to save 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 that the vote for the national front is increasingly a vote of support. the increasing prominence of right we graduated france especially the lead up to the presidential elections is clear but what's more difficult to decipher is whether this growing support for the right reflects the direction the french side 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 and a premier is right here on our t.v. on tuesday wiki leaks founder julian assange comes face to face with newsmakers on

the program which he's filmed while under house arrest in the u.k. we're 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 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 wake of the interview highly charismatic and 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 me

to broadcast first this show the things that we've been trying to report. in the mainstream press. but it works. it was pretty rotten you know for 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 which in that case finished at the beginning of february that's ten weeks ago now we still don't have a hit we are expressing 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 i really got so 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 house arrest for some of the interest in having occasional visitor and to talk more about the world and the conversations we were having a great interest in what works for the people what was going on that's one reason the second reason is that as someone who's given a lot of this before and it's been on the receiving end of a very aggressive. when i felt i wasn't getting much work. pretty quickly to just. sort of put in some points for. people to

take the context that i want to have a different sort of people. but approach has been to people from summaries i think it's also it's excellent. we're very sorry it's all very interesting and important for. normal people because they're not dealing with. dealing with someone who's under house arrest. for political problems. so you can see the full version of that it's interview on monday the sixteenth of april and that will be followed hot on the heels by the first episode of the program on shoes 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 u.s. . hasn't been easy here.

is to get the maximum political. sources. truth is for. sure it was something that really. we wanted to present. something. more on that story on our website r.t. dot com also online today on the all come gats israel restaurant peace activists from the balkans palestine campaign will drive in the country to open an international school and museum. the pulse of president obama's visit to colombia is overshadowed by a prostitution scandal involving u.s. secret service agents all the details on that and much more at our top. north korea is celebrating one hundred years since the birth of the nation's founder kim il sung its ground song and current leader made his first public speech

praising the country's military might and calling for even more resolve but what kim jong didn't mention 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 blastoff the un security council condemned the launch and said it violated its resolutions america has suspended two hundred million dollars worth of food aid to north korea however korea expert john fee for the says the gang poses little threat to anyone. in many respects north korea is technologically quite advanced and has been for many years for many decades it's 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 suggests that 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. let's have a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour ten of the twenty three candidates in egypt's presidential election have been far 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 be excluded candidates have run the right to

appeal and orders demonstrations are expected in the capital a list of those banned from the polls include the mubarak era intelligence chief omar three mom and king islamist. there's been a major jailbreak in northwest pakistan which borders tribal areas nearly four hundred inmates escaped after islamist insurgents storm the prison with guns and grenades early on sunday morning some of the prisoners are linked militants on death row and the taliban has said that it carried out the raid. for the first time in fifteen months iran has held talks with major world powers over its nuclear program and meeting in turkey was held as positive and constructive and the second round of negotiations due to be held next month in baghdad the five plus one group ultimately hopes to persuade iran to stop the rain in richmond and then tehran has so far refused to do iran insists its nuclear ambitions are peaceful but

western nations suspected it could be seeking nuclear weapons. but spain's a growing debt is spilling over to the country's favorite sport as premier of the club's famous around the world are taking a kicking a few years of star players and sold out stadiums there are now fears that the final whistle could be about to blow for many teams artie's jacob greets as the story. here in football is for many the embodiment of the before game but off the field is getting ugly top flight spanish clubs are struggling with masses of debt ninety percent of who european teams are the bankrupt abased in spain. presently the premier league clubs read a bankruptcy or half bankruptcy and this is a terrible result clubs have to realize that they can only spend as much as they have invested to believe. is not just the sports action

part of the nation but as with many other aspects as mannish life only safe thing financial ruin me treasure of a year and euro zone a nation sports minister recently said spanish clubs may be offered help in the form of debt restructuring refereeing the crisis german politicians appear to have kicked better idea into touch with one every peak calling the move a threat to competition and asking german clubs to speak out i find it unthinkable with paying hundreds of millions of dollars to help them recover from the situation and clubs are trying to avoid paying their debts he cannot do what might this. the reposing has since been dropped but the problem persists the spanish clubs owing more than seven hundred fifty million euros in unpaid taxes over the carno is one such club in a ministration struggle to pay all displays wages. but i think the spanish queers

were outraged when we talk about a strike it is obvious that spanish football is going through a really difficult time and inability to pay salaries is something affecting many clubs last year prompting players the strike wages are only part of the problem with spending to net the world's greatest talent amounting to four hundred million euro and the top league and those who lead teams from the boardrooms think something drastic needs to change. now spanish football and the spanish economy need investments from abroad it's not only about football but also spain as a whole off the pitch a similar scenario is being played out by the noncompetitive economy is not yielding many positive results and while some accuse football clubs of taking their eyes of the ball many are saying the same about the nation's leaders to greaves madrid spain 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 of an eye for itself but i think patriarch tom 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 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 the black which represents lent through the 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 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 and somehow manages to light candles one of which is brought to moscow and is then taken around to marry 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 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 coolidge 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 are painted they're often shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter for blessing. 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 its additional russian orthodox greeting will be said answer yes' to christ has risen and it will be on sit with another reply is up for additional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. on our way our special report on the devastating aftermath of one of the world's worst industrial disasters first though a recap of our top stories after a short break.

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