video on demand on t.v.'s mine broadcasts and aristides now with the palm of your. machine on the clock see dot com. the latest news in the week stop stories here on our t.v. the first u.n. monitors arrived in syria following saturday's unanimous security council vote for an observer mission as damascus warns of retaliation if attacks by armed groups continue. under attack the taliban strikes at the presidential palace of western embassies and nato saying it's response for recent actions in killings by u.s. troops. access denied scores of activists from across the globe perceived as a security threat by israel are banned from flying into the country but some do make it in to protests. and the biggest day of the religious calendar for millions of orthodox christians who have been celebrating easter sunday the most spectacular

service held in the last. three am in moscow i matras or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news the first u.n. monitors have just arrived in syria to oversee the tense cease fire sent there after a security council resolution saturday this is damascus warns over tally a ship if attacks by armed groups increase the number of demonstrations have erupted in the wake of the fragile truce and since it began last thursday meetings are fresh confrontations with security forces or teams were important reports 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 armed 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 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 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 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 an objective balanced approach that the

security council was able to reach a consensus on saturday with. russia even number. is draft resolution has been significantly. it became more instances. more. serious 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. whether a humanitarian officials are being granted access throughout syria if the syrian authorities and the syrian opposition is complying with what the security council this monitoring mission will eventually grow to a team of two hundred fifty people we should know 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 further measures can be taken but those further measures are is not clear yet i think at this point the security council members are hoping that the armed opposition group and the syrian government do comply but peace is finally established in syria political analyst was nice is pledging a more support for the opposition by washington and its allies won't help bring peace to syria there's 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 soothe year review they're not liking the plan and they want the bloodshed to continue in syria leaf we have seen and witnessed in the past couple days major address from other a third of the organization and getting from iraq countries into syria and causing

all these against the stability of syria i think in my estimate the peace plan for . signed by. the sudanese and the united states. because of because these factors are actually causing instability and as collation could continue at this point we don't understand how mr obama would say supplying all kind of. different supplies mostly weapons to the opposition at the same time you want to have a peace plan is working at this point. a series of explosions has rocked the afghan capital in a coordinated wave of taliban attacks across kabul with targets including a presidential palace the afghan parliament and nato headquarters. most of the targets were in the city's diplomatic district with western embassies in the residences coming under fire at least seventeen insurgent fighters and two police

officers killed in the violence well dozens more were injured the military airport aijalon bad in the east of the country also hit with violence reported in two other provinces the taliban says the assault comes in retaliation for the recent actions of u.s. troops including a massacre of civilians and burning of the qur'an the pactor party who's a middle east expert and former afghanistan correspondent thinks the actions of foreign troops have been a factor in stoking up the violence. it is hot why do you that doesn't want to see events like the unit being by the american marines on the bed afghan body then the burning of the koran the it's treating the offensive actions by potent troops in any case in any country that it would be but of course i understand as a country oh well and that was gone on since the late one nine hundred seventy so

these actions that it's easily implemented afghanistan is a friend a country it's an insecurity unstable country more than one hundred twenty thirty thousand nato troops and it will be this book but most of our. most of the combat it drawn at the end of next year this is the the pets that old school board any do they come into government because then comes up. that. they have stuck by will be very difficult. still ahead for you this hour show premieres an exclusive interviews archie launches a new program featuring the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange this coming week at. spain's but eventually troubles good find their way onto the sporting field as top soccer clubs struggle to pay their debts. but first more than forty activists from the welcome to palestine campaign have been detained by israeli authorities that televisa airport israel's also refused

entry to dozens part of a so-called fly tila who said they planned peaceful activities like planting trees in the west bank now into its third year of a campaign with activists from more than fifteen countries wants to challenge what they call an israeli siege of occupied territories or he's policy or has more. they are part of this international campaign that has come to palestine 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 in these mablethorpe he's 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 say that they were intent on destructive public build and if they really were trying to be legitimized israel this heavy handedness by israel is not something new we've witnessed at a short time ago with the way the israeli police dealt with the day commemorations actually of one person dead and several other palestinian activists injured throughout the west bank from jerusalem and then of course they've been to attend sin previous years for ships to reach gaza those photos were unsuccessful with the first one resulting in nine activists killed with the french just a week away from choosing their next president candidate so stage massive rallies in paris in what's being called a very tight race one hundred thousand gathered just outside of the city in support of socialist candidate francoise along to slightly ahead according to the latest polls meanwhile president nicolas sarkozy who is seeking a second term spoken central paris to a crowd his campaign estimate was one hundred fifty thousand strong yes i'm very

pleased as our sawyer reports it's growing immigration and fear of terror that many french politicians are banking on feel good to vote. 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 person not one european who does not know that i am a sworn enemy of the european single currency buskers it is a radical islam as a direct consequence of mass immigration that's the left and the right in host on us for decades if you not know. the nationally on the fringes of france's national politics the rhetoric of today's far right the longer be as far off for its citizens as it once was opinion polls suggest the presidential candidate may be independent of the ultra right wing national front party is third with potentially ten million votes its biggest support base ever there is no police or frontier

griffen for us. in french. it doesn't bother anyone but so we don't want. to play cleanly and so we don't want to have the different communities but don't speak together grow as an identity. globalization destroyed the site and. enter them 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 say. our integration system is getting worse and worse. because we have too many foreigners in a territory threatening to withdraw from the shank and border through 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 just so we would have to seeing what he. has. knows pretty well that he was elected in two thousand and seven only because he was able to catch. the national front and know the situation is quite the same some say that what was once a protest vote is now a more permanent part of the french political spectrum so. there is certainly a part of the electorate who vote for the reasons of dissent but i think it must now be recognised him if it's difficult to accept that the vote for the national front is increasingly a vote of support. we increasing prominence are right with rhetoric in 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 fungicide of values has taken or is simply a kneejerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country. that's are so you artsy part. it's the show that's got people talking it premiers on tuesday right here on r t wiki leaks founder julian assange sits down with newsmakers on the program which the film was under house arrest in the u.k. laura smith brings us a sneak preview of what to expect. the first episode of the show will be broadcast on tuesday april seventeenth so that's this chews day coming and we and julian together are 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 choose 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 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're trying to report not being current . you know rates from who. works. for me. you know if they're current 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 is going to be five hundred days since the investigation into these allegations of sexual assault by two swedish women. now we've seen that at the request for his extradition go through the courts here in the u.k. talk to the city prien courts which that case finished at the beginning of february

that's ten weeks ago now and we still don't have it 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 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. and threatening that whistle blowing organization all together and really that's what makes this program so unique the fact that it was conceived off store shelves while. living under house arrest here in britain awaiting this verdict on his extradition there's two reasons first of all being on the house arrest for so long it's nice to have an occasional visitor went over more about the world and the conversations we were having or interesting what works for the people what was going on that's one reason the second reason is

that as someone who's given them what happened before and it's been on the receiving end of a very aggressive. i found that i wasn't getting much from him. pretty quickly. interest or keeps the principle from some sort of people that would take a percentage of the public's and i want to have a different sort of proportion of the people. and why but approach has been difficult and sometimes i think it's also succeed in front of a very very real science or very interesting important principle and not normally because we're not dealing with. some sort of house arrest. record 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 the first episode of the program on tuesday the seventeenth of april we're still

awaiting a verdict on gee they're not soldiers 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 on t.v. he. used to get the maximum political office. before the sources. theory is one hopes he journalism honest. we wanted to represent. something in our. series starts tuesday and is laura mentioned the full interview with julian assange will hit the airwaves for thirty g.m.t. on monday tune in here to our t.v. hear more from the controversial gossip war. north korea celebrating one hundred years since the birth of the nation's founder kim il sung at the centerpiece parade

his grandson and current leader made his maiden public address praising the country's military might and calling for even more resolve what kim jong didn't mention was friday's failed long range rocket test john yang says it was supposed to put a satellite in orbit but it fell into the sea moments after liftoff and u.n. security council condemned the launch saying it's in breach of resolutions as a result the u.s. move to suspend two hundred million dollars worth of food aid to the reclusive state asia experts him deal says that faced with external pressure doesn't want to appear weak. it's all part of the negotiating ploy when he will be next. on the one. who takes a little heat and willing to make some concessions to the same time they have to stand up for what they regard as a sovereign rights and that russia. and china are quite right to point out every country has the right to launch satellites to have these even with peaceful

space exploration to say that i want your satellite violates international law i think it is not my correct thirdly it violating the united nations sanctions when you know at infinity and now concerned the right around there is not tension around . and. ultimately doesn't really come from from the un young young young is desperate to get an economics back at ease sanctions lifted and so far ten of the twenty three candidates in egypt's presidential race have been barred from standing in next month's poll those products are right to appeal and demonstrations are expected in the capital the blacklist includes mubarak era intelligence chief omar silverman the candidate of the country's largest islamic party which is backed by the muslim brotherhood political activists are mad magazine says that despite move toward moves towards democracy it may be hard for egypt to break away from military rule. the running mates that were bound such as

hide its author almost tell a man for causing a lot of tensions on the ground so egyptians are receiving this gladly there's a deep militant i state here for over sixty years the military has been ruling this country anyone from the missile heads the governors the mayors they're all retired military generals this is not the place that then because i have a strong grip over the country it's not easy to be root as those friends i remember when we were first in the haze where they said we're not here this is not an islamic 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 will be twenty five and 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 spain's financial crisis could be spilling over to the country's favorite sports soccer as world famous clubs are themselves taking a kicking from taking a financial kicking despite star players playing toward massive crowds huge waves and transfer fees have plunged many top spanish clubs into debt as r.p.g. good news reports it's feared that the final whistle could be a blow about to blow for many teams. you list for many of you meant that before game off the field is getting oakley top flight spanish clubs are struggling with massive debt ninety percent of who seems a bit bankrupt but based in spain. with woman both of them are presently the premier league clubs read of bankruptcy all have bankruptcy and this is a terrible result of the clubs have to realize that they can only spend as much as they've invested in. so mainly. spain is not just the sports that actually

is the heart of the nation but as with many other aspects of spanish life facing financial ruin and the changing of the e.u. and euro zone the nation sports minister recently said spanish clubs maybe would help in the form of debt restructuring the referee in the crisis german politicians appear to have kicked that idea into touch with one n.d.p. calling the move a threat to competition and 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 you can order one might less than pose who has since been dropped but the problem persists for spanish clubs owing more than seven hundred fifty million euros in unpaid taxes carlo is one such club in administration is struggling to pay its players' wages. i

think the spanish players were outraged when we talk about a strike it is obvious the 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 the wages are only part of the problem is spending to net the world's greatest talents amounting to four hundred million euros little 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 strain as a whole part of the pitch a similar scenario would be played out among competitive economy is not viewed in many positive results a more some accuse football clubs of taking not always of course many are saying the same about the nation's leaders to greece richard spain. so you can look at

some other stories making headlines across the globe the taliban says it's responsible for the massive escape of nearly four hundred prisoners after a full scale attack on a jail in northwest pakistan heavily armed islamic insurgents stormed the prison with guns and grenades early sunday morning in an area bordering the volatile tribal regions some of the prisoners are al qaeda linked militants on death row. for the first time in fifteen months iran has held talks with major world powers over its controversial nuclear program the meeting in turkey was held as positive and constructive with a second round negotiation scheduled next month in baghdad the five plus one group of countries ultimately hopes to persuade iran to stop uranium enrichment something to ron has so far refused iran and says its nuclear ambitions are peaceful but western nations suspect it could be trying to develop atomic weapons. millions orthodox christians around the world have marked their biggest day in their religious calendar easter sunday celebrating the resurrection of christ the largest

overlay vigil was held in russia's main church the christ the savior cathedral where the congregation of thousands including the country's political leaders artie's tom barton reports. easter services in the russian orthodox tradition are designed to be both long services but also very beautiful services stylized markings of the key moments in the story of christ's death and his resurrection on the third day a key moment in the service is the east of vigil 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 to 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 is then taken around to merely orthodox churches a very special symbolic moment for the russian orthodox church easter the russian orthodox church also comes at the end of 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. a cake that's 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 shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter blessing. with holy water they'll be shared around. the world over as will list phrase in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches and their communities around the world traditional russian orthodox greeting will be said to stop christ has risen and it will be answered with another reply is that for additional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. you back with a recap of our top stories after a short break stay with us. the

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