in russia would be so which brightened if you move it was wrong from constant pressure. starts on t.v. dot com. on r t this morning reports of fresh air ling in syria as u.n. observers prepared or went to the war torn country after a security council resolution to send them there to monitor a tense cease fire. kabul under attack the presidential palace western embassies and nato bases all hit by a large scale taliban onslaught militants claim it's retaliation for a u.s. soldier massacring afghan civilians and burnings of the qur'an. access denied demonstrators viewed as a threat in tel aviv. to the surviving is well to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of the palestinian people but need to tougher stance on israeli police join

me for more in just a few moments. and on the biggest day of the religious calendar for all those christians millions of in celebrating easter sunday to mark the resurrection of jesus christ. hello and welcome is one am here in moscow you're watching r.t. and the weekly around the pole of the day's news on the top stories the last seven days with me kevin zero in this morning damascus says it's set to respond to increased attacks from armed gangs as reports of more violence come out of syria that's ahead of the arrival of the first group of u.n. monitors to the country after the security council adopted a resolution on the conflict that is more important 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 in syria including the

opposition to immediately seize all armed violence in all its forms this is what was the 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 the russian ambassador. vitaly 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 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 because the russian ambassador said that moscow from the very beginning

has been supportive of mr a nonce peace plan it is only he said through. balanced approach that the security council was able to reach a consensus on saturday but. even the. draft resolution has been significantly. enhanced instance which sees more. of syria's government it will be an. observer mission according to this resolution the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon will have to report back to the security council on april nineteenth regarding how the resolution is being implemented whether the observers are being granted access throughout. 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 the house and 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 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. but if. you had new york there were many syrians who nervously that the fragile cease fire in place since the day will hold would be broken by the side of the conflict with president assad reforms apparently under way and parliamentary elections jude may their high hopes and become true that the u.n. vote peace plan will help bring change and break the deadlock i think it's going to point to reports. damascus greeted the cease fire with a sunny day and high spirits residents took to the parks rather than streets and

sprinklers no bullets were all that needed to lodging yeah this picture perfect morning was laden with fear and uncertainty is going to scenes anxiously awaited news from the north africa today my biggest wish now is for the cease fire to heal . when you can walk the streets without fear and complete least one day without hearing that somebody was killed. that's what's been the case in the rest of the country on thursday proceedings for iraq by three blasts that killed and injured twenty five hundred two that is in a country that has grown accustomed to a daily death toll exceeding one hundred even that could be seen as a step forward two hundred everyone here again is a region of politics one is one things will syria. the capitals all bizarre business is slow many locals oppressed for money interests are few and far between

the centuries trade was serious and to go to six area and all religious conflict but it's politics that draw a wedge between syria communities relieve you know here in syria. like. the muslim everyone in the mosque and. in. the homes and we like the beast because the dam a scene stores that once helped syria to ward off european seders some fear that syria may become the target of yet another mortar and a western compress it would again seek to impose its values this time its twenty first century reference. bludgeoned the infallible dumbest thoughts isn't purpose possible for syrians seeing themselves as a nation of great warriors who value poller about everything else but it's. revolutionary strain the country why more syrians are far more eager to after five

than the other part of their cultural heritage about peace loving peace cherish a nation. at least true that syria doesn't have a long record of political pluralism and main rallying cry of the opposition but there are efforts to change the. nine political parties for the fragile state in recent months some of them openly seeking to challenge the dominance of the ba'ath party. we used to have three times religion sex and politics at least we can talk about politics now. is a member of the party of supporters but only fourteen hundred people so far they're still figuring out the details of their political agenda but he spiting certain of the means. to achieve it. it's true that the regime has a long way to go to make our political system more inclusive we also have to agree that using any kind of violence and politics is unacceptable all existed by

compromising with your rivals and you can't do that while shooting many here say that if there's any force that can unite syrians these days is the opposition the opposition to war it's unavoidable artsy damascus syria. 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 the city's diplomatic districts with western embassies and residences under fire at least seventeen insurgent fighters and two police officers were killed in the violence while dozens more injured the military airport in jalalabad in the east of the country was also hit while violence has been reported in two other provinces the taliban says the attacks were a tally ation the actions of u.s. troops including the burning of the qur'an and the recent massacre of seventeen afghan. parties a mideast expert and former afghanistan correspondent told me thinks the actions of

foreign troops has been a factor in stoking up violence there. it is hard to watch that taliban using events like the unity thing by the american marines on the bed afghan body then the burning of the koran it's really offensive actions by foreign troops in any case in any country there would be but of course afghanistan is a culture of war and that was gone on since the late nineteenth century so these actions are easily implemented afghanistan is a fragile country it's the insecure one stable country more. than major troops and it will be more of our. most of the combat. drawn at the end of next year this these events are also warning to the

current government. that. their survival will be very difficult. it will r.t. thanks for your company this morning head show premieres an exclusive interviews r.t. launching a new show featuring the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange coming up this week because the details for you also talking about spain's financial troubles too could be kicking of sporting success into touch as premier league football clubs find themselves unable to pay their debts we've got the story. more than forty activists from the welcome to palestine campaign of been detained by israeli authorities it tell of either airport israel's also refused entry to dozens of kids who say they plan peaceful activities are planting trees in the west bank now in his third year the organization aims to gather activists more than fifteen countries to challenge what they say is an israeli siege of the occupied

territories of his posts lier. they are part of this international campaign that has been dubbed welcome to this time and the intention of this campaign is to highlight the plight of the palestinian people 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 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 started it in go home go to syria what are you doing here israeli police accuse these activists of provoking the situation they said they were intent on disrupting public all day and they really were trying to be legitimized his role this heavy handedness by israel is not something new we've witnessed that a short time ago with the way the israeli police dealt with the land of day

commemorations at least one person dead and several other palestinian activists injured throughout the west bank and jerusalem and of course they've been to attend simply vias years for ships to reach gaza those trailers were unsuccessful with the first one in nine activists killed. with the french just a week away from choosing their next president the two main rivals are rushing to secure last minute supporters they hold rallies in paris socialist francois hollande is ahead in the polls and president sarkozy is leaning heavily to the right time to sway voters and reports is growing immigration and fear of terrorism that many french politicians of banking on these days and he immigration and to europe 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. radical islam is a direct consequence of mass immigration that's the left and the right in hose on us for decades the macnow. traditionally on the fringes of france's national politics the rhetoric of today's far right leader 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 party surfing figuration friends. and french. doesn't bother anyone that. we don't want. to play king and so we will hold on to the different communities but don't speak together europe as an identity of globalization

destroyed insight into. enter lipans with her calls for economic patriotism prioritizing france over europe its native citizens over others of giving the french back their jobs. and center right incumbent nicolas sarkozy stands accused of jumping on the far right bandwagon some say for the ballot sake. our integration system is getting worse and worse not only because we have too many foreigners in a territory threatening to withdraw from the shank and border from 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 phrase a letter or shift so we would have to see him he. has. sarkozy knows pretty well as he was elected in two thousand and seven only because he was able to catch it. 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 recognised even if it's difficult to accept that the vote for the national front is increasing the vote of support. we increasing problem is a right with rhetoric in france especially the lead up to the presidential elections it's clear what's more difficult to decipher is whether the growing support for the right reflects the direction the french a subtle values has taken or is simply a knee jerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country just are so artsy. next let's talk about the talk show more people are talking about premiering right here on our choose day with the leaks founder julian assange comes face to face with newsmakers on the program he's filmed while under house arrest in

the u.k. his laura smith give us a look at what to expect. the first episode of the show will be broadcast on tuesday april seventeenth about 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 choose name yourselves to find that out on choose 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 so 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 me

to broadcast first this show the themes of trying to report. card. in the mainstream. what works. with your parents gently or not this week coming up for the week in which the first show is going to be broadcast is really a week. for him both personal and professional it's going to be five hundred days since the investigation into these allegations of sexual assaults by two swedish women began now we've seen that the requests for his extradition go through the courts here in the u.k. right up to the supremes courts which in that case finished at the beginning of february that's ten weeks ago now we still don't have a verdict we are expecting it possibly to come next week but there's still no set date for that verdict to be handed down and still after five hundred days no charges have been lazy against him it's also five hundred days since the weekend

leeks 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 else thought of while our soldiers virtually living under house arrest here in britain awaiting his verdict on his extradition because two reasons first of all being on the house arrest for some of the it's nice to have an occasional visitor but i'm going to learn more about the world and. the conversations we were having a quite interesting work for other people what was going on that's one reason the second reason is that as someone who's given a lot of interviews before i've been on the receiving end of very aggressive ones i found that i wasn't getting much from him. pretty quickly. he just keeps going sort of it's a difference of principle some people. take the context and i want to have

a different approach with other people and why but approach has been to people who have some rights i think it's also succeeded in sort of a very very real science or very interesting or important thing for them not normal we're going to go because they're not dealing with. you know somebody who somehow some of us. have gone 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 heels by first episode of the program on issues date the seventeenth of april was still a ways to project onto you and i saw an expedition but we are quite glad that he's managed to make this program for 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 anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact on.

the food sources. cereal is what helps people to always and we. we wanted to preserve. something. and that's indeed what we are endeavoring to do the series premieres on choose day as laura smith mentioned her exclusive chat with julia's son starts for end g.m.t. later this monday morning a bit later on today so do tune in to r.t. to hear more from the world's most famous whistleblower will drop in a different throughout the day various times. ten of the twenty three candidates in egypt's presidential election have been barred from standing in next month's poll the excluded candidates have a right to appeal and supporters demonstrations are expected in the capital the list of those banned from the poll includes the mubarak era intelligence chief

almost a layman and key islamist political activists are going to give some of that despite the moves towards democracy it's going to be hard for egypt to break away from military rule. the running mates that were banned such as cited charter almost solomon for causing a lot of tensions on the ground so egyptians are receiving this blood there's a deep militarized state of over sixty years the military has been ruling this country anyone from the minister for the heads the governors the mayors all retired military generals this octopus the tentacles have a strong grip all over the country so it's not easy to give root there's those i remember when we were first in the said we're not here this is not a revolution we're here as egyptians and once things settle down we'll definitely run for parliament and that we will not get all the thirty five percent maximum of the parliament and this is this was more of a promise 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 would be thirty five what we've seen is that with the broad coalition of salafist it's reached over seventy percent of parliament spain's financial crisis could be spilling over to the country's favorite sports soccer as its world famous clubs are themselves taking a financial kicking despite star players playing to massive crowds huge where used transfer fees have plunged many top spanish clubs into debt as artie's jake agrees reports next in fear that the final whistle could be about to blow on many teams. you list for many d.m. forty men to the before game but off the field is getting oakley top flight spanish clubs are struggling with massive debt ninety percent of who european teams of the bankrupt a based in spain are having a presently to premier league clubs read

a bankruptcy or half bankruptcy and this is a terrible result of the clubs have to realize that they can only spend as much as they have invested in so many. spade is not just the sport it's that passion that lot of nation but as with many other aspects the spanish like to say something financial ruin the nature of the e.u. and euro zone the nation's schools minister recently said spanish maybe it would help in the form of debt restructuring the refereeing the crisis german politicians appear to have kicked into touch with one n.d.p. coolly move a threat to competition asking german clubs to speak out i find it unthinkable we're paying hundreds of millions of dollars to help them recover from the situation and clubs are trying to avoid paying their debts he cannot go on like this. the repos who has since been dropped but the problem persists for spanish

clubs owing more than seven hundred fifty million euros in unpaid taxes. is one such club in administration is struggling to pay its players wages and. i think the spanish players 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 place to strike wages are only part of the problem is spending to net the world's greatest talents amounting to four hundred million euros 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 not only it's not only about football but also spain as a whole with which a similar scenario is being played out and on competitive economy is not yielding many positive results a more some accused clubs of taking their eyes of course many are saying the same

about the nation's leaders to griefs literate state. millions of orthodox christians around the world have been marking a biggest day in the religious calendar easter sunday which celebrates the resurrection of jesus christ the largest overnight vigil was held in russia's main church across the said three drill where the congregation of thousands included the country's political leaders and i think tom barnes the. 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 black which represents lent through the purple which represents the passions of christ went through and on to the 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 for the church of the holy. in jerusalem the story surrounding the fire is that a light shines through the roof of the church of the holy sepulcher every easter in jerusalem and somehow manages to light candles one of which is brought to moscow and is then taken around to many orthodox churches a very special symbolic modes 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 coolidge a cake of

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 and often shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter we're blessed. with holy water they'll be shared around by orthodox probably the world over as will lisp arrays in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches and their communities around the world traditional russian orthodox greeting will be said at easter christ has risen and it will be answered with another reply the traditional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. to a correspondent there with the latest from outside the cathedral last night. r.t.

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