these are the images. from the streets and candy that. giant corporations rule today. the latest news in the week's top stories on our t.v. first u.n. monitors arrived in syria following saturday's unanimous security council vote for an observer mission as the mascot's warns of retaliation if attacks by armed groups continue to. kabul under attack the taliban strikes of the presidential palace western embassies and nato saying it's retaliating for recent actions and killings by u.s. troops. access denied scores of activists from across the globe perceived as a security threat by israel and banned from flying to the country but some do make it into protests. and the biggest day of the religious calendar for millions of

orthodox christians who've been celebrating easter sunday with the most spectacular service held in moscow. five am in moscow i match reza bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r.t. the first u.n. monitors have just arrived in syria to oversee the ted cease fire set there after a security council resolution saturday this is damascus warns of retaliation if attacks by armed groups increase the number of demonstrations erupted in the wake of the fragile truce since it began last thursday leading to fresh confrontations with security forces archy's marina port and i reports from new york. according to russian ambassador to the u.n. 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 to the un 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 a dialogue with the russian ambassador said that moscow from the very beginning has

been supportive of mr our knowledge of peace plan it is only he said through an objective balanced approach that the security council was able to reach a consensus on saturday with. russia even the. draft resolution has been significantly. more instance to present realities 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 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 though that it does say in this resolution that has some there is of the reference that if syria does not comply with what the security council is asking further measures can be taken and what those further measures are it's 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 what's being asked and peace is finally established in syria political analyst canel wasn't he says pledging of more support for the opposition by washington and its allies want to help bring peace to syria. there's some parties within the middle east politics trying to sabotage the peace plan 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 want to continue in syria and from belief we have seen and witnessed in the past couple

days major of rest from other a third of the organization and getting from other countries into syria and causing all of these against the stability of syria i think in my ass the lead the peace plan. signed by a by a company and the sudanese and the united states to that because because these factors are actually causing instability and escalation to continue at this point we don't understand how mr obama would say i'm supplying all kinds of. different supplies mostly weapons to the opposition and at the same time you want to have peace is working at this point. a series of explosions have rocked the afghan capital in a coordinated wave of taliban attacks across kabul with targets including the presidential palace the afghan parliament and the nato headquarters most of the

targets were in the city's diplomatic district with western embassies and residences coming under fire at least seventeen fighters and two police officers were killed in the violence with dozens more injured the military airport of jalalabad in the east of the country also hit with violence reported in two other provinces the taliban says the assault comes in retaliation for recent actions of u.s. troops including the massacre of civilians and the burning of the qur'an. the a middle east expert a former afghanistan correspondent thinks the actions of foreign troops have been a factor in stoking the violence. it is hard wired you bet. on using events like the unit given by the american marines on a bed of down body then the burning of the ground the that extremely offensive actions by putting troops in anything in any concede it would work but of course i understand that oh well and that what has gone on since the late one nine hundred

seventy so these actions are easily implemented afghanistan is a president country it's an insecure one stable country more than one hundred twenty seven thousand nato troops and it will be slow but that's most of. most of the home but i'll get drawn at the end of next year is the defense that also won't want me to become int government open then close up. that. their survival would be very difficult still ahead this hour show premieres an exclusive interview or he watches a new program featuring the world's most notorious or famous whistleblower depending how you look at it aside from this week. and spain's financial troubles could find their way onto the sporting field as top soccer clubs struggle

to pay down their debts. but first more than forty activists from the welcome to palestine movement were detained by israeli authorities are telling leaves ben-gurion airport israel also refused entry to dozens of part of the so-called flight who said they planned peaceful activities by 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 israel's siege of occupied territories are a report from tel aviv. they are part of this international campaign that has been dubbed welcome 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 maybe close 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 the israeli police accuse these activists of provoking the situation they said that they were intent on destructive public all the net they really were trying to be legitimized his role 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 that we have one person dead and several other palestinian activists injured throughout the west bank in jerusalem and then of course it's been two attempts in previous years for ships to reach gaza those photos were unsuccessful but the first one resulted in nine activists killed. with the french only a week away from choosing their next president candidates of stage massive rallies in paris and what's being called a very tight race hundred thousand gathered outside the city in support of the socialist candidate francois hollande who is slightly ahead according to the latest

poll of president nicolas sarkozy who is seeking a second term spoke to a crowd in paris estimated to be one hundred fifty thousand strong as organised as are so he reports knowing the immigration and fear of terrorism that many french politicians are breaking on to read the book. anti immigration and to euro antiglobalization and advocates of protectionism. all in the name of the french state and national identity there is not a single french person not one european who does not know that i am a sworn enemy of the european single currency posterous it is radical islam as a direct consequence of nasa integration that's the left and the right in hose on us for decades it is macnow. traditionally on the fringes of france's national politics the rhetoric of today's far right may no longer be as far off for its citizens as it once was opinion polls suggest that presidential candidate marine le

pen of the ultra right wing national front party is third with potentially ten million votes its biggest support base ever there is no potency of the recent friends so if you don't speak french. and doesn't bother anyone but we are we don't want. to play king and so we will hold on to the different communities but don't speak together. as and i don't think it's globalisation to destroy his identity. mtr let's end with her calls for economic patriotism prioritizing france over europe its native citizens over others giving the french back their jobs for its all sudden and center right incumbent nicolas sarkozy stands accused of jumping on the far right and like it some say for the ballot say. our integration system is getting worse and worse.

because we have too many foreigners in our territory threatening to withdraw from the shanghai border from agreements 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 clift so we would have to see the. what he would do is sarkozy knows pretty well as 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 the only thing there is certainly a part of the electorate who vote for the reasons of dissent but i think it must now be recognised and if it's difficult to accept that the vote for the national front is increasingly a vote of support. for the increasing prominence of wrightwood rhetoric in france

especially in the lead up to the presidential elections it's clear what's more difficult to decide for is whether this grows support for the right reflects the direction of the fratricidal values as stated or is simply a knee jerk reaction to everything the french see wrong in their country that's are so your artsy paris it's the show that's got people talking in a premiers right here on r t terms day with expired julian assange will sit down with newsmakers in the program which he filmed well under house arrest in the u.k. artie's laura smith brings us a sneak preview of what to expect. the first episode of the show will be broadcast on tuesday april seventeenth about this tuesday coming and we are going to gather i'm really hoping this is going to be an exclusive new show i can't tell you the name of the first guest still 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 so you do 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 our t.v. to broadcast first this show the themes that we're trying to report not green curry and. you know very well who. works through here and that it was. easier 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 round of first three for him both personal and professional it's going to be five hundred days since the investigation into these allegations of sexual

assault by two swedish women began now we've seen that at the request for his extradition go through the courts here in the u.k. right up to the supreme court which 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 laid against him it's also hundred days since the wiki leaks bank accounts were first frozen so that has made funding for wiki leaks very difficult i . 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 our soldiers 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 the sort of normal it's nice to have an occasional visitor but i'm going to

worry more about the world i mean the conversations we were having a quite interesting what are the moment for other people going oh that's one reason the second reason is that as someone who's given a lot of meetings before and has been on the receiving end of very aggressive struggles i found that i wasn't getting much from writing. pretty quickly he just keeps it sort of difference a construct so people don't take it out of the context and i want to have a different sort of approach with people. why that approach has been to people often and sometimes i think it's also succeeded in so that we have really real science or very interesting important thing for them not knowing where you're going to go because they're not dealing with the story and think you must want them to have sort of. gone from the great things and 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 a verdict on tonight's an extradition but we are quite proud 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 impact on. the food sources. is what helps keep journalism we. we want to present. something a. series airs on tuesday and as laura mentioned a full interview with assad will be on air monday four thirty g.m.t.

it'll start i'm going to into our team hear more from the whistleblower himself in north korea celebrating one hundred years since the birth of the nation's founder kim il sung out 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 but right kim jong only didn't mention last friday's failed long range rocket test yesterday our young says it was intended to put a satellite in orbit but it fell into the sea moments after takeoff the u.n. security council condemned the launch saying is in breach of resolution as a result the u.s. move to suspend two hundred million dollars or food aid to north korea asia experts him bill says that faced with outside pressure pyongyang it doesn't want to appear weak close. to a partly negotiating ploy with the americans on the one and. takes a little heat and willing to make some concessions but in the same time they have to stand up for what they regard as they're called the knights and russia. and

china are quite right to point out every country has the right to launch satellites through these new peaceful space exploration and they don't want to attack my violates international law and you can it's not my critics thirdly it's my laking the united nations sanctions that we you know at infinity and they're concerned that right around there is a lot tension around. and that it ultimately doesn't really come from from your own young young young. it is destined to get an economic baton at ease sanctions. ten of twenty three candidates in egypt's presidential race have been banned from standing in next month's poll those barred have a right to appeal and demonstrations are expected in the capital the blacklist includes the mubarak era intelligence chief omar suleiman and the candidate of the country's biggest islam as party which is backed by the muslim brotherhood

political political activist ahmed aidid says despite moves towards democracy it will be hard for egypt to break away from military rule. the running mates that were banned such as hired a charter almost a man well causing a lot of tensions on the ground so egyptians are receiving this live this is the military state for over sixty years the military has been ruling this country if anyone from the ministry heads the governors the mayors the retired military terms this up the post that then because i have a strong grip over the country it's not easy to the route to those and i remember when we were first in the trees they said we're not here this is on the 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 column and this is this was more of

a promise and then just the 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 over seventy percent of parliament experienced by national crisis could spill over into a country's favorite sport soccer as the world's most famous clubs are themselves taking a financial kicking despite star players playing to massive crowds huge wages and transfer fees have plunged many top spanish clubs into debt and argues jacob reeves reports from madrid it's here that the final whistle could be about to blow for many teams. you pin football list for many meant to the beautiful 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 and. presently the premier league clubs are either bankrupt or

half bankrupt and this is a terrible result of the clubs have to realize that they can only spend as much as they have invested so many book space it is not just the sports it's that action that part of the nation but as with many other aspects as mannish life is facing financial ruin and the church of the e.u. and eurozone the nation's sports minister recently said spanish maybe it would help in the form of debt restructuring the refereeing the crisis german politicians appear to have keep that idea into touch with one n.d.p. cooling the move a threat to competition oh 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 cannot go on like this. think posy has since been dropped by the public assists

a spanish clubs more than seven hundred fifty million euros in pay taxes. and such it administration has struggled to pay its pays wages and. i think the spanish players were outraged when we talk about a strike it is obvious that spanish food bill is going through a really difficult time and it didn't seek to pay salaries is something affixing many clubs last year called the place the strike wages only the public spending to net the greatest talents amounting to four hundred billion euros little league. teams from the full dreams think something drastic needs to change for the players on the now spanish football and the spanish economy need investments from. only about football and this little system is the home of the beach the simplicity of the. uncompetitive economy is not yielding many positive results and some

accuse football clubs of taking that. many are saying to say about the nation's leaders to greece. spain. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe this sunday the taliban says interest possible for the masses of nearly four hundred prisoners after a full scale attack on a jail in northwest pakistan will be heavily on islam as concerns a storm in the prison with guns and grenades early sunday morning among those freedom militant placed on death row for trying to kill pakistan's former president yes already suspected attackers had inside help from some prison staff the source of it for the first time in fifteen months or on 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 of negotiations scheduled for next month in baghdad the five plus one group of countries ultimately hopes to persuade iran to stop enriching uranium something terran has so far refused to do iran and says its nuclear ambitions are

peaceful but western nations say it could be seeking to develop nuclear weapons. and millions of orthodox christians around the world of marking the holiest day in their religious calendar easter sunday celebrating the resurrection of christ the largest overnight vigil was held in russia's main church the christ the savior cathedral where the current ation of thousands including the country's political leaders are 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 of the story of christ's death and his resurrection day a key moment in the service this is the east of vigil where the priests walk in a circle around the church holding candles and they also change their outfits three times during the service black which represents lent through the purple which represents the passion of christ went through you on to your own which represents

the resurrection it's. 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 wall of which is brought to moscow but it's 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 lead seven weeks of fasting no meat a no dairy products but at the end it is time to bring out some special foods with a special connection to easter one is coolidge a cake sweets and filled with raisins another is named after easter in the russian

language. so sweet desserts. also designed to be a celebration after the long weeks of fasting and also that universal symbol of easter eggs many are painted they're often shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter who bless it with holy water and will be shared around by orthodox families the world over as will list phrase in thirty thousand russian orthodox churches and their communities around the world the traditional russian orthodox greeting will be said at easter christ has risen and it will be answered with another reply that traditional russian orthodox reply indeed it has risen. in a few minutes our special report looking back at the soviet space program after a recap of our top stories stay with us.

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