tonight reports of fresh shelling in syria as u.n. observers are set to enter the water on country after a security council resolution grabs them passage. also kabul under attack the presidential palace western embassies that make the bases all hit by a large scale taliban onslaught militants claim it's retaliate should be for u.s. soldiers massacring afghan civilians and burnings of the. access denied of demonstrators viewed as a threat in tel aviv. for an activist someone even is all to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of the palestinian people need a tougher stance on the israeli police join me for more in just

a few moments. it is the biggest holiday for millions of orthodox christians who celebrate easter sunday the day they believe marks the resurrection of jesus christ . will welcome for me kevin owen here in moscow tonight it's eleven pm you're watching r.t. in the weekly our round up of the top stories of the last seven days and today a first a mascot says it will respond to increased attacks from arm to gag since reports of more violence come out of syria that's ahead of the arrival of the first group of you and one of his to the country after the security council adopted a resolution on the conflict. of dates in from new york. according to russian ambassador to the u.n. to tell each earthquake 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 go draw 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 or russian ambassador to the u.n. 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 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 master said that moscow from the very beginning has been

supportive of mr a knowledge of peace plan and is only he said through. the balanced approach that the security council was able to reach a consensus on saturday with. a number of others your. draft resolution has been significantly changed and it became more instance or. 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's 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 further 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. who has come was new to washington and its allies pledged more support for the opposition will not bring peace to syria. there are some parties within the middle east politics trying to sabotage the peace plan that is a range by mr annan and the u.n. i think somebody in qatar and sudhir arabia they're not liking the plan and they wanted the bloodshed to continue in syria and flyleaf we have seen and witnessed in

the past couple days major of rest from other terrorist organization and turning from countries into syria and causing all these against the stability of syria and i think in my ass comment the peace plan should have signed by the qatari and the sudanese and the united states. because because these factors are actually causing. the military and escalation continue at this point we don't understand how mr obama would say supplying all kind of. different technique of. mostly weapons to the opposition and at the same time you want to have a peace plan is working at this point. the taliban has launched a series of coordinated attacks across the afghan capital including an assault on the presidential palace the afghan parliament a nato headquarters most of the targets were in the city to promote

a district with western embassies residences under fire at least seventeen insurgent fighters and two police officers were killed in the violence while dozens more were injured also the military airport in jalalabad in the east of the country was hit with violence was reported in two other provinces to taliban says the attacks were retaliate for the actions of u.s. troops including the burning of the qur'an and the recent mass seventeen afghan civilians the patrick parties a middle east expert and former afghanistan correspondent he told me the actions of foreign troops has been a factor in stoking up the situation they think. it is hard to argue. that on using events like the unit getting the american marines on dead up the body then the burning of the ground the day it stream the offensive actions by foreign troops in any kids in any country. but of course afghanistan

as a culture oh well and that was one on since the late nineteen seventy s. so these actions are extremely influential in afghanistan is a threat any country it's an insecure one stable country with more than one hundred twenty thirty thousand nato troops and it will diminish saw but most of our most of the combat. drawn at the end of next year is these attacks are also on me to become in which government president karzai. that. they are sort of liable to be very difficult. to have with me kevin i would show premieres an exclusive interviews r.t. show featuring the world's most famous whistleblower julia son. next week we got more details about for you. and spain financial troubles could be kicking it sporting success into touch now as premier league football club starman sells

unable to pay their debts. 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 were also arrested the organizers say they planned peaceful activities like planting trees in the west bank and they criticized israel for overreacting policy is in television for us. well we are receiving reports of more foreign activists arriving late on sunday so thought of the five international activists have arrived the majority of them being french nationals they have been barred entry from israel and at the same time it entertained at bangor international airport not the forty five twenty nine haven't really been taken to a prison in the center of the country from 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 welcome 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 the israeli authorities deal with activists all foreigners coming to israel who hold political views not shared 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 israeli police accuse these activists of provoking the situation they said that they were intent on destructive and how do you call them that they really were trying to be legitimized his role this heavy handedness by israel is not something new we've witnessed a short time ago with the way the israeli police dealt with the day commemorations

at least one person dead and several other palestinian activists injured crop of west bank and jerusalem and then of course it's been two attempts in previous years for ships to reach gaza those filters were unsuccessful with the first one resulting in nine activists killed. with the french just a week away from choosing the next president the two main rivals are rushing to secure a last minute supporters. they hold rallies in paris socialist candidate. head in the polls and president sarkozy is leaning heavily to the right to sway voters. to their reports next to this growing immigration and fear of terrorism that many french politicians and leaders are banking on these days anti immigration anti euro antiglobalization and advocates of protectionism. all in the name of the french state and national identity there is not a single french per cent now one european who does not know that i am

a sworn enemy of the european single currency buskers it is radical islam as a direct consequence of mass immigration that the left and the right imposed on us for decades this is not no. conditions 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 the 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 policy or frankly griffen friends so if you don't speak french. doesn't bother anyone but. we don't want. to play to england so we don't all want. different communities but don't speak together. as a native and. it's globalization destroying state and. mtr look then 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 income that 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 shanghai and border of the 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 free electrons shift so we will have to see immediately see israel what he will do with us. sarkozy knows pretty well that he was elected in two thousand and seven only because he was able to catch a vote on the national front and no the situation is quite as

a state some say that what was once a protest vote is now a more permanent part of the french political spectrum i don't know if 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 a vote of support for the increasing problem as a right wing rhetoric in france especially the lead up to the presidential elections is clear but what's more difficult to decipher is whether the 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 just are so your r.t. paris. next we're talking about a talk show everyone is talking of birds and it's premiering right here on out next tuesday wiki leaks founder julian assange comes face to face with news makers in a program which is filmed well under house arrest in the u.k.

. brings us a look at what to expect. the first episode of the show will be broadcast on tuesday april seventeenth so that's this cheese 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 yourselves to find that out on shoes day 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 his 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 try to report not being covered.

in the mainstream purse. works. 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 assaults 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 know how the verdicts 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 thought of while a soldier was virtually living under house arrest here in person awaiting this verdict on his extradition there's two reasons first of all being on the house arrest for some of the flights the political theater and talking more about the world and the conversations we were having is that. for a lot of people what is going on that's one place the second reason is that someone who's given a one for an hour and it's been on the receiving end of a very aggressive. i found it wasn't even much of working. pretty quickly. it was. pretty small some people didn't. have a complex and i want to have

a different approach with the people. but approach has been difficult and sometimes i think you can succeed and. really sorry it's all very interesting. but i'm not going to go because we're not dealing with. it you know it was going to somehow sort of. gone from a political. sense 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 episode of the program on tuesday 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 to him obviously his main fear has always been that he will be extradited from sweden to the u.s. . there hasn't been easy yet t.v. . he's to get the maximum the fact that.

the source. true for. always and. we wanted to present. something. and that's what we set to do superglue series for you starting next week on this channel much anticipation about it it's on air from monday and tuesday also available online at r t dot com and on twitter of course a key part of it with makers on you tube no talking about what's online at r.t. today the president. releases two political prisoners one former presidential candidate as he vows to pressure from the e.u. threatening war sanctions against the regime from one adult siegel calm right now from catch more of it also it might be interested in this one president obama's visit to colombia is overshadowed by a prostitution scandal involving u.s. secret service agents getting on to get to speed on that developing story this week

kids that are tito. ten of the twenty three candidates in egypt's presidential election have been barred from standing in next month's poll that say excluded candidates the right to appeal and supporters demonstrations are expected in the council the list of those banned from the poll includes the mubarak era intelligence chief salerno and key islam ists political activist afterward now give says that despite the moves towards democracy it will be hard for egypt to break away from military rule. the running mates bands such as the charter almost silly man who are causing a lot of tensions on the ground so egyptians are receiving this gladly there's a deep militarized state here for over sixty years the military has been ruling this country anyone from the miniscule heads the governors the mayors they're all retired military terms this octopus the tentacles have a strong grip over the country so it's not easy to give those tend i remember when

we were first in the square they said we're not here this is on revolution we're here as egyptians and once things settle down we'll definitely run for parliament and that we will not. over thirty five percent maximum of the parliament and this is this was more of a promise than just the statement what we've seen is that they actually began with seventy percent and then said it will be twenty five and then they said it will be thirty five what we've seen is that with the broad coalition of salafist it's reached over seventy percent of parliament. we'll be using brief there's been a major jail break in northwest pakistan which volatile areas nearly four years ago makes a spate out or is missed insurgent stormed the prison with guns and grenades early on sunday morning some of the prisoners are al qaeda linked militants on death row the taliban says it carried out. by the north korea's new leader made his first

public speech as the nation marks a hundred years since the birth of his friend the king and so his grandson kim jong il praised the country's military might and called for an even war resolved but he didn't mention those why they failed rocket the man said trying to put a satellite into war with but the u.n. suspects it was cover for a bad long range ballistic missile test washington suspended two hundred million dollars worth of food aid to north korea because of it. for the first time in fifteen months the rounds held talks with major world powers of which nuclear program meeting in turkey was hailed as positive and constructive for the second round of negotiations to be held next month in baghdad the five plus one group ultimately hopes to persuade iran to stop you brady an enrichment thumbprint around or so far refused to do iran insists its nuclear ambitions of peaceful western nations suspecting could be seeking nuclear weapons. spain's growing debt is

spilling over to the country's favorite sport these days as premier league clubs famous around the world are taking a kicking after years of star players and sold out stadium for now fears that the final whistle could be about to blow for many teams that is jacob greaves reports. you in football is for many game ball he meant to the before game but off the field is getting oakley top flight spanish clubs are struggling with massive debt ninety percent of pain teams are bankrupt a base in spain are having a presently the premier league clubs are either bankrupt or half bankruptcy and this is a terrible result of the clubs have to realize they can only spend as much as they have invested to believe. it is not just a sports it's that much a part of a nation but as with many other aspects the spanish life only safe thing financial ruin and the treasure of the e.u.

and euro zone the 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 keep that idea into touch but one n.d.p. 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 you cannot go on like this. the repos who has since been dropped but the problem persists the spanish clubs owing more than seven hundred fifty million euros in unpaid taxes rayo vallecano is one such club in ministration is struggling to pay all of its players wages and. i think the strange players who are 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 claims the strike wages are only part of the problem is spending to met the world's greatest talents amounting to four hundred million euros let's talk 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 on the pitch a similar scenario would be right down in the case to fully yielding many positive results and more some accuse football clubs of taking their eyes of the ball many are saying the same about the nation's leaders to griefs literate state. millions of orthodox christians around the world marking their biggest holiday easter sunday believe to me that they are the resurrection of jesus christ rushes main church christ and savior things will hold a special overnight vigil led by the patriarch artist humbug. 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 separate 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 it's 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 a great lead that's 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 a cake a 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 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 traditional russian orthodox greeks it will be said at easter christ has risen and it will be answered with another reply is up for additional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen . reporting for us to say my name is kevin now in a few minutes tonight our special report looking back at the soviet space program that sauna right after the headlines which is next here on our team lost him.

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