large an r.t. reports of fresh shelling in syria as you can observe is the set to enter the war torn country after a security council resolution grants them passage. carboy longer attack the presidential palace western embassies and nato bases are hit by a large scale taliban on school today militants claim it's retaliation for a u.s. soldier massacring afghan civilians and burnings of the. access denied demonstrators viewed as a threat to the intel of the. foreign activists some live in israel to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of the palestinian people

need to toughen spawns from the israeli police join me for more in just a few moments. and it's the biggest holiday for millions of orthodox christians who celebrate easter sunday the day they believe marks the resurrection of jesus christ . hello welcome is ten pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. and this program is called weekly a round of news of the top stories of the last seven days with me. first the damascus says it will respond to increased attacks from armed gangs as reports of more violence come out of syria but the head of the arrival of the first group of you are monitors to the country after the security council adopted a resolution on the conflict that has made a poor knives for the latest from google. 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 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 basket or the u.n. 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 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 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. balanced approach that the security council was able to reach a consensus on saturday but it was. a number of the other security council members a draft resolution has been significantly changed it became more balanced instance to see more. of syria's government 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. 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 this a curate 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 in the syrian government do comply with what's being asked and peace is finally established in syria of course going to political will was due to will be watching to the news more support for the opposition will not bring peace to syria. some parties within the middle east politics trying to sabotage the peace plan that is a range by mr anon and the u.n. i think somebody in qatar and sudhir they're not liking the plan and they wanted the bloodshed to continue in syria and for our belief we have seen and witnessed in

the past couple days major of rest from other but terrorist organization and turning from arab countries into syria and causing all of these against the stability of syria and i think in my ass the message the peace plan should have signed by the qatari and the sudanese and the united states. because because these factors are actually causing. continue at this point we don't understand how mr obama would say i'm supplying all kinds of. different colors supplies mostly weapons to the opposition and at the same time you want to have a peace plan is working at this point. the taliban's launched a series of coordinated attacks across the afghan capital clean killing assaults on

the presidential palace the afghan parliament and nato headquarters most of the targets were in the city diplomatic district and western embassies residences under fire at least seventeen insurgent fighters and two police officers were killed in violence or dozens more injured the military airport to jalalabad in the east of the country was also hit while violence has been reported in two other provinces as well the taliban says the attacks were retaliation for the actions of u.s. troops including the burning of the qur'an and the recent massacre of seventeen afghan civilians the pactor perfidies a middle east expert and former afghans i've got a son correspondent i spoke to him he thinks the actions of foreign troops has been a factor in stoking up the situation there. it is hard to argue that the taliban are using events like the unique thing by the american marines on a good afghan body than the burning of the koran be that it's trini offensive actions

by foreign troops in any kids in any currency they were but of course afghanistan is a culture of war and that was on since the late nineteenth century so all these actions are extremely influential in afghanistan is a breakdown country it's an insecure or unstable country with more than one hundred twenty thirty thousand nato troops and it will do this or that most of our most of the combat would gone at the end of next year this these attacks are also on warney to the current government oh president karzai that. their survival would be very difficult. this is our team moscow coming up this hour show premieres an exclusive interviews we launch a new show featuring the world's great was. the star desire early next week we've

got the lowdown for you plus britain boosts its eastern influence hawking its arms to japan which is looking to invest in the military market a report about. israel's refused entry to dozens of activists who arrived in tel aviv as part of an international campaign dubbed welcome to palestine nine israeli activists have also been arrested the organizers said they planned peaceful activities like planting trees in the west bank and they criticized israel for overreacting paula sleeze in tel aviv. well we are receiving reports of more foreign activists arriving late on sunday so thought the five international activists have arrived the majority of them being french nationals they have been barred intreat from israel and at the same time they're in detained at ben-gurion international airport now of the forty five twenty nine have really been taken to running a prison in the center of the country where according to the israeli police spokespeople they will be deported the remaining sixteen are still at the airport and will be

put back on flights later on sunday to be returned to their home countries they are part of this international campaign that has been dubbed to palestine essentially what the activists are saying is that this is a peaceful try to its intention is to really hold peaceful demonstrations in the west bank they were planning to meet with palestinian families to plant trees and to gather in bethlehem and they say that this is also an attempt to highlight the way the israeli police and israeli authorities deal with activists with foreigners coming to israel who hold political views not cheered by the government there was a small counter demonstration by a group of israelis who shouted at them go home go to syria what are you doing here the israeli police accuse these activists of provoking the situation they said that they were intent on destructive and public order and that they really were trying to be legitimized his role this heavy handedness by israel is not something new

we've witnessed the full time ago with the way the israeli police dealt with the laird day commemorations if you have one person dead and several other palestinian activists injured throughout the west bank and jerusalem and then of course they've been to attend sim previous years for ships to reach gaza those flotillas were unsuccessful with the first one resulting in nine activists killed. from israel to france next to the french just two weeks away from choosing the next president the two main rivals of russia because a queue of last minute supporters they hold rallies in paris socialist candidate francois hollande head in the polls and president sarkozy's joined the charge the right to try to sway voters know to as artie's tests are slow reports it's growing immigration and fear of terrorism that many french politicians are banking on the state 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 that is radical islam as a direct consequence of mass immigration that's the left and the right in hosed us for decades it is not now. conditionally on the fringes of france's national politics the rhetoric of today's far right may 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 of france. so if french. doesn't bother anyone but. we don't want to play king million. different communities but don't

speak together. as an identity and. destroy the state and. 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 game 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 electoral clift so we will have to see the thing is very likely what he will do is. sarkozy knows pretty well that he was elected in two thousand and seven

only because he was able to catch. us on a cell phone 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 going. there is certainly a part of the electorate who vote for the reasons of dissent but i think it must now be recognised even if it's difficult to accept that the vote for the national front is increasingly and vote of support. we increasing prominence are right with rhetoric in france especially the lead up to the presidential elections this clear what's more difficult to decipher is whether this growing support for the right reflects the direction the fratricidal values has taken or is simply a knee jerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country. yes or so you're artsy paris. next to talk about the talk show that everyone's talking about it premiers right here on r.t. and choose state we kill its founder julian assange comes face to face with

newsmakers in the program which is film released under house arrest in the united kingdom smyth which is a look at what we expect. the first episode of the show will be broadcast on tuesday april seventeenth so that this tuesday 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 choose 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 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 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 themes that we're trying to record your green card. in the race for the purse. what works. for me it was ground zero for currents gently or not this week coming up the week in which the first show is going to be broadcast is really a week of anniversaries for him both personal and professional it's going to be five hundred days since the investigation into these allegations of sexual assault by two swedish women began now we've seen that the requests for his extradition go through the courts here in the u.k. right up to the supreme court 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 expecting it possibly to come next week but there's still no set date that verdict to be handed down and still after five hundred days no charges have been laid against him it's also five hundred days since the wiki leaks bank

accounts were first frozen so that has made funding for wiki leaks very difficult. and threatening that whistle blowing organization all together and really that's what makes this program so unique the fact that it was conceived of while a soldier was virtually living under house arrest here in britain awaiting this verdict on his extradition because two reasons first of all being on the house arrest someone for myself is that i'm going to learn more about the world and. the conversations we were having a quite interesting moment for the people going oh that's one reason the second reason is that as someone who's given a lot of money for. you know the receiving end of a very aggressive. i felt that i wasn't getting much right. pretty quickly to just. sort of the incidents. and

take the context that i want to have a different sort of proportion of people. why that approach has been difficult and sometimes i think it's also it's excitement. when it's all very interesting or important. to the normal people because they're not dealing with an interview for dealing with somebody who's on the house arrest. record for political problems the principle is so you can see the full version of that 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 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 u.s. . there hasn't been anything yet he.

used to get the maximum political back. to the source. for. we. we want to preserve. something. and that's what we're going to bring to much anticipation of this new series here on this channel it's on air for next week the shoulders we have about our web site as well r.t. dot com and keep up to date with everything that's happening on you tube and twitter as well ok no talking of the web site r.t. dot com few stories there tonight you might want to take a look at the president by the wrists has released two political prisoners one of former presidential candidate as opposed to pressure from threatening more sanctions against the regime and that's a story you're interested in a common line from us and president obama's visit to colombia has been overshadowed by a prostitution scandal involving u.s. secret service agents again it's at r.t.

dot com. ten of the twenty three candidates in egypt's presidential election have been barred from standing in next month's poll excluded catherwood said right to appeal and supporters demonstrations are expected in the capital the list of those banned from the poll includes barbarically or intelligence chief or most a lemon and also has limits political activist now he had told me that despite the moves towards democracy it will be hard for egypt to break away from military rule . the running mates bands such as start a charter almost in a man who are causing a lot of tensions on the ground so educations are receiving this largely as a deep militarized state here for over sixty years the military has been ruling this country anyone from minnesota heads the governors the mayors the all retired military terms this octopus to ten because i have a strong grip over the countries is not easy to those and i remember when we were

first base we're not here this is on revolution we're here as a gypsy and once things settle down we'll definitely run for parliament and that we will not get over thirty five percent maximum of the parliament and this is this was more of a promise and then just a statement what we've seen is that they actually began with seventy percent and then said it would be twenty five and then they said it will be thirty five what we've seen is that with the broader coalition of salafist it's reached over seventy percent of parliament. more world news in brief feelers but a major jailbreak in northwest pakistan which borders volatile tribal areas nearly four hundred inmates escaped prisoner list insurgents stormed the prison of guns and grenades and said in warning some of the prisoners are all qaeda linked militants on death row the taliban carried out the raid unbelievable as the fourth korea's new leader has made his first public speech as the nation marks one hundred

years since the birth of its founder kim il sung his grandson kim jung praised the country's military might and called for even more resolve but he didn't mention moved friday's failed rocket. trying to put a satellite into orbit but the un suspects it was a cover for a band that long range ballistic missile test washington suspend two hundred million dollars worth of food aid to north korea because of. the first time in fifteen months of rand's held talks with major world powers about its nuclear program everything in turkey was hailed as positive and constructive with the second round of the bill see a chance to be held next month in baghdad the five plus one group ultimately hopes to persuade a van to stop you radium enrichment something to run so far refused to do iran insists its nuclear ambitions are peaceful but western nations suspect it could be seeking nuclear weapons. talking of weapons there are likely to be more western weapons in the far east soon as japan opens up its military market with britain

vying for trade prime minister david cameron led the charge this week joining america in building up an asia pacific influence and that won't sit well with china . explain. selling weapons is quickly becoming what britain does best prime minister david cameron unashamedly touting the u.k.'s military hardware only he calls it flying the flag for britain it's seeking to become only the second country other than america to trade arms with japan not only big business but the chance for a crucial foothold in what's clearly a place to be this must go perfectly predictable result of the shifting of focus of american attention in the attention of much of the world to believe it was if it region as china obviously continues to be an economic powerhouse and and even in the other countries in the region for him to actually become more economically

dominant i think with that comes the attended attention from the militaries of the u.s. and the u.k. and other countries america's recently announced plans to station two thousand marines in australia hoping to exert influence in a region china says isn't theirs to meddle in and britain could soon join them part of its defense deal with japan could see a british hunter submarine deployed in china's backyard complete with missiles and all the physical presence the british government claims is needed these geopolitics are relevant but i think that's even more reason for the u.k. to be going out there to engage with what is one of the few key allies in the region with over thirty executives from the u.k.'s highly profitable arms industry this isn't the first time david cameron's been criticized for turning an overseas trip into a traveling sales pitch cameron was left red faced last year when on the same trip he went from praising democratic uprisings in cairo to flogging weapons in key wait

prime minister david cameron has been forced to defend his party weapons manufacturer is saying it's perfectly responsible and respectable but this is a region that's highly sensitive to any kind of military maneuver attentions of the moon. i meant a particularly high piece certainly did not want to confront china at that moment and greed and not have the resources to work you are your respective military strains to counterbalance tango so the best guess holds at the moment of course is to count on the united states more strategically and to involve more foreign powers into the region so as to have a proper talons of exerting the pressure off the international community on trying to until now britain and america have had to make do with exerting their influence on the region from afar but with the talk of a physical presence there the theories could upset the balance either bennett r t

london millions of orthodox christians around the world of marking their biggest holiday today easter sunday believe to be the day of the resurrection of jesus christ brushes made church cross to save a cathedral have a special overnight vigil led by the patriarch of his talk with 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. 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 black represents lent through the purple which represents the passion of christ went through to you which represents the resurrection of.

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 circle 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 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 lead 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 to which 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 blessing. with holy water they'll be shared around by orthodox families the world over as will this phrase in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches and their communities around the world traditional russian orthodox greeting will be said to christ has risen and it will be answered with another reply that traditional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. our correspondent there now look at the head shortly tonight in his first t.v. interview since being taken off death row amir shares with r.t. his experience of life behind bars politics and much more interesting chat coming

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