the mascot's puts a price tag on the safety of the u.n. observer mission to syria as a person or to get down to business to oversee a fragile cease fire. eighteen hours of fighting in kabul security forces we gain control of the other bands massive assault on western embassies and they close h.q. also. political prisoners following pressure from washington and the e.u. to ease up on the opposition join me for all the details in just a few minutes. around

the world and around the clock you're watching our to a very warm welcome to our top story now the syrian government says it cannot guarantee the safety of u.n. observers unless they coordinate every step with your thoughts since the first group of wanted to has arrived in syria to oversee a shaky cease fire it comes back to this claim then still under attack by the government warns it will act against what it calls terrorists also avoiders in damascus for a. whole waiting to be reborn for serious orthodox christians in the meaning of all the more poignant this year as they contemplated the sacrifices of the last few months. with death and suffering across the country many sought refuge in prayer hoping that peace could be resurrected i guess all syrian prays for peace despite isolated clashes the coffee and brokered cease fire has answered its fate they have

made the arrival of the universe a lasting peace may now have the best chance in months still as these analysts points out the u. monetarist may need to learn from the experience of their arab league counterparts whose mission in january came to stop the bloodshed in a moment and you know that both the government and the opposition the u.n. mission is more professional credible it will be made up of the observers of particular countries with their own agendas and the perceived neutrality or the lack of it could make or break the mission. the rapid deployment of monitors is in the interest of the assad government has argued is the only way to ensure the confluence of both sides to the cease fire now that they're observing as are on the ground you know officials have made it clear they expect the syrian authorities to take further steps to uphold it but we are worried about the operational deployment of heavy armor. in population centers they don't belong.

they didn't belong there in the first place they don't belong there now and we are working. with the government and with the opposition for a full cessation of violence in all its forms let me leave that there for the moment with claims and counterclaims of violence by both sides the u.n. monitors will sure wrestle with the challenges ahead but at least they have syrians cheering them on. the owner of the shop just ordered another batch of these t. shirts a popular wrestling floor in syria it is now taking on a whole new meaning with thousands killed across the country and rising he is a tall order and while it may take here is many syrians agreed that having international international observers on the ground may be the first step in that direction. artsy syria. despite officially backing the u.n.

plan for a diplomatic solution to the conflict america and its allies are providing even war material support to the rebels that's you know this. he says if it's discovered a cease fire amounting there is some within the middle east politics trying to sabotage the peace plan that is a range by mr and the u.n. i think somebody in qatar and sudhir they're not like him and they want to the bloodshed to continue in syria. we have seen and witnessed in the past couple days major of rest from other authorities the organization i'm telling from other countries into syria and causing all these against the stability of syria and i think. the police have signed by the qatari and the sudanese and the united states. because of because these factors are actually causing. the. to continue at this point we

don't understand how mr obama would say supplying all kind of. different. mostly weapons to the opposition at the same time you want to have a peace plan is working at this point. well coming up later in the program appeasing the voters. we have a tree. for free it's about this trending world within you. and the mars or the french is the. french. politicians campaign with radical views which they believe will bring success at the polls as voters fear they'll soon lose their national identity. also this theme of giving aid and exchange for volunteer work at the outcome of the gyptian presidential election explain the few minutes.

the afghan capital has seen eighteen hours of fierce fighting after militants and monster daring and well coordinated assault on the city official say the battle is now over the attackers killed or captured taliban claimed responsibility for sunday's strikes on kabul and three other provinces hailing them as the start of a spring offensive. and machine gun fire targeted foreign embassies nato headquarters and the afghan parliament in the capital. fishel say at least seventeen attackers have been killed several security officers also lost their lives in such instance in kabul since september the violence comes as nato gradually winds down its military presence in the country political impression says the u.s. led mission is failing. this is one of those moments you don't want to be an american or indeed a military commander in afghanistan eight months after the last impressive

commander style attack in kabul that targeted a very building of the u.s. embassy there every one of the biggest forces in afghanistan but the fact that it's this happens again just shifting there we would not be exaggerating to free see them here what we're witnessing right now is the collapse and the crumbling they don't have against james and it comes end of the worst i believe for the u.s. military there because the reason the complete disconnect wiped out in the name forces of the american forces over my head and the other good national army and the afghan national police and we just were that the telephone ones we've seen we've seen how with the american and world leaders soldiers getting killed at the hands off very afghan on the solutions of bullets means that the media will be groups who trained to these attacks just remove that the little mandate the school or powerful member of congress tell his friend from whom. well we want to know your view of

vents in the afghan capital had to r.t. dot com to participate in our latest web poll today. in the recent time about attacks what's next for a start i was taught that you expect more strikes what's. he is going to become raps of central authority ten percent say afghanistan will see a negotiated truce with the minutes and i don't think it's will lead to a surge of international troops going like the constant you put your hands what else is waiting for you on our website not so bored of the teat all embrace is genetically modified products a step towards used to get stuck in culture. possible consequences don't single car . also one life. in a massive display celebrate the one hundredth birthday of the nations from washington on our web site.

has released two high profile political prisoners including a former presidential candidate who for his extensive international pressure on him to loosen its stance towards the opposition. has more. he had expected such move from the man often described as europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko the leader of the bellows now former presidential candidate on the sign you close counterpart meeting among a dozen opposition figures arrested in december and following the presidential election accused of instigating massive street protests that was certainly a very serious crackdown on the opposition with all of those so so many people arrested and sentenced to prison terms the assignee were sentenced to five and two

years in prison respectively now both of them have been set free they want to presidential pardons they have reconvened with their families and came out with statements saying that they could never believe that their plea to be set free would be matched by alexander lukashenko you know the political analysts in belarus are trying to determine the reasons behind this move while the other hand the political prisoners still remain in prisons in behind bars in brother was and their fate remains pretty much unclear at the moment this also been a reaction from the european union from the highest representative and international affairs and security catherine ashton who said that releasing these two prisoners is definitely a right move to improve relations between brussels and minsk and she demanded that the old other political prisoners must be set free as well definitely the ties between brussels and minsk have been very much strange after the events and in december twenty ten the presidential election and a crackdown on the opposition in fact all heads of old diplomatic missions to to

the european union left immediately all twenty seven investors then the european union imposed sanctions on bellows namely more than two hundred state officials and businessman are still brought here from traveling to the european union countries as well as several companies are blacklisted from trade with the european union have been talks of more tougher sanctions to come within the next several weeks so the possibility that the two. possible sanctions and the release of the prisoners are connected cannot be ruled out by many experts. well the countdown to one of the most anticipated shows of the year has begun and wells chief good surely this sunday's hosting his own program right here on t.v. he comes face to face with he's making headlines makes his debut on tuesday and in the run up son to share some insights with our correspondent smith a full interview is coming up later this hour. what were your criteria

for the single biggest criterion something i would come up short but that's quite quite interesting because there are a number of guests that we couldn't get them so that spoke about the internship so . he's currently in prison in the house arrest him for even a political situation makes it extremely difficult for him to speak freely. carport of course. you know prison in russia. was a was a billionaire got some sort of rock for him he's the president. really if we look at some of the you were so. popular. as corporations we have. indirect person. so some of them say. it's too dangerous for the u.s. government is going to get some. sort of court acquits just.

so. then we go to the other groups that we have and we did actually get. them so those are. people who normally are going to court. now number of what work egypt leading the presidential hopefuls have indicated the other pill that banned from next month's poll comes after the election committee body ten of the twenty three candidates from standing supporters have threatened to carry out massive demonstrations in cairo in response to the power among those mubarak intelligence chief sort of in the muslim brotherhood's leading candidate may twenty third is their actual election the first since the country's former hosni mubarak was toppled more than a year ago this week activists are says despite moves towards democracy will be

hard for egypt to break away from military. the running mates that were banned such a site it started almost a month causing a lot of tensions on the ground so egyptians are receiving this blood this is the militant i state here for over sixty years the military has been ruling this country anyone from the minister for the heads the governors the mayors they're all retired military just. octopus the tentacles have a strong grip all over the country so it's not easy to those spent i remember when we first. said we're not here this is on revolution we're here. and once things settle down we'll definitely run for parliament and that we will not get over thirty five percent maximum of the parliament and this is this was more of a promise 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 reached over seventy percent of parliament. egypt's political future could compromise its relations with the us result in a conflict because key ally israel is not is there a chicken or. egypt is changing dramatically washington policies are not for the last thirty years the u.s. has sent an annual aid package to the egyptian military this year it's one point three billion dollars it is absolutely essential that we do what we can to preserve a close strategic relationship with egypt because egypt is being major player in the region the egyptian military has been widely accused of cracking down on peaceful protesters and egyptians want to put an end to the overreaching power of their military but that seems to have had no effect on washington's decision to

keep going with business as usual with their gypped business as usual seems to be a reality almost a decade ago unfortunately our leadership in the white house and in the state department have not caught up with that reality the new reality is it is not business as usual we are not buying loyalty but not even the egyptian military's loyalty may be enough to secure business as usual between washington and cairo the muslim brotherhood is the ruling power in egypt's parliament now and their candidate could well when presidential election in may the brotherhood has declared israel america's closest ally in the region its enemy number one we will not be able to afford an open g. for example and as from the borders of egypt that is not acceptable by the egyptian people but most recently a delegation from the muslim brotherhood has made a trip to washington and flip flopped on some of their harsh statements this time

the brotherhood lawmakers said they were not planning on breaking the peace agreement with israel signed at the end of the nineteen seventies in light of the mixed messages that keep changing daily some wonder whether there is any guarantee that egypt's military power bolstered by u.s. taxpayer dollars and weapons. will knock one day is the fact that they have to send the go delegation to try. washington shows you that what they are trying to hide is not very charming we're talking about a miracle taxpayer dollars being used to fund what will be a government in egypt which is vitriolically in america washington seems to be holding on to the old policy of offering egyptian leaders incentives in exchange for favors and loyalty but will that model work with the new democratic egypt which

may soon be ruled by those who capitalize on fraley and anti-american rhetoric i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . facebook's new format is under the microscope with many saying it's no privacy it's one that people have been his cross-talk guests when timeline on the social networking site is useful just taste it's a preview. there's going to be a lot of unexpected ways in which that information which are being sort of encouraged to coast is then used and it surprises you again new recent story which is that this is actually a russian location company i free innovations created called girls around me which is polling publicly available information both from facebook and another company foursquare where you basically post your locations and created an app called girls around me where if someone was in a neighborhood they suddenly got a map showing them where young women are in bars and restaurants in their neighborhood right which is a kind of creepy right it's like well i see that you. guys are great.

well they're poles apart on the political spectrum the two of france's presidential candidate common ground when it comes to the elections key issues as well. race for the country's top job but other platforms including the fight against globalization sound surprisingly similar to our syria as. they lie in opposite ends of the political sphere. of the hard left and marine le pen on the far right. with who would have thought they'd have this much in common both denouncing what they see a straight jackets for france namely nato and what they see as europe's impositions . france must win for the world a new un to go is a shill alliance independent of the united states of america whether the european

union treaty will produce a patient in nato which we no longer want we the left front proclaim that we will call a popular referendum on these two matters. though father said if you agree child of this devastating is the origin is the euro designed as a tool to force the advent of a federal and freedom to join your up say the subject of immigration is the clearest difference between the two with the far right start against it but both share a passion to still be towards globalization blaming it for job losses. both plans to increase the minimum wage and both want to increase the power of the french state through nationalization and greater control over the quote unquote big bad banks. all other political forces today including the socialist party believe blindly in virtues of capitalism this is the dissolution at the crux about the

thirty percent of middle sean penn voters who see a still and impotent middle ground a government that let jobs go and threaten their way of life they're worried this would go on we have a country. being a lot of fear about this transit world with a new kind of it was globalization and the most feared of the french is that that could damage the so-called social french model which is something that the french are extremely sensitive to politicians are appealing to the french people for securities of their radical left wing and increasing number of voters are looking for a third set here of course for the political left and some for good. the left front is the only alternative to liberalism i'm not even sure if i'll vote for a left leaning socialist francois i don't know in the second round and that is the biggest threat to the men in the middle front runners in the race for granted the

national and tough talking lipans stance of libya opposite ends but they've got a shrewd knack of stealing voters who are troubles that are blighted the french people. are still your r.t. paris. well these are very few doubts out demonstrators have gathered outside the u.s. embassy in the philippines to protest against joint military exercises between the two countries activists through blue and red paint on the embassy gate profiles the rest of the troops and proclaims that fills his pocket. that's a different place in the scheme of things where tensions china the escalating disputed territory in the south china sea. mali's interim president says he's ready to open troops for the rebels and business itself most of the country insisted all groups must leave the physician groups that are considered for the ration rather than state leaders have objected that money has been divided into

since rebels it's clear that independent i'm glad that it's none of in the region the prize in the states where soldiers complained the governments have not provided enough weapons to fight the insurgency. the trial against norwegian gunman on the confessed to killing seventy seven people last summer begins on monday right expected to know it terrorism could anything to murder charges for the bombing and also the shooting rampage i think you can't go surcharge it was straight prosecutors that are asking this carried out in self-defense previously been approved insame judgment was overturned last week found guilty he could face a maximum twenty one year sentence. well talk to garbage the world of finance now tasha and the russian markers are already how's it looking well indeed they opened about twenty minutes ago and it looks like the bears are ruling which

is no surprise considering the global sentiment let's now see those numbers there and as you can see the r.t.s. is already shed more than three quarters of a percent than the my side says drop below the psychologically important level of fifteen hundred points and it looks like in the absence of any big domestic news the traders are looking to glass to find their direction that direction is obviously down although there is one domestic story the i.m.f. has improved its outlook on russia's economic growth this year now it says the country the country's economy will grow four percent while the inflation is expected to be below five percent but we all know of course that russia's that growth depends on the price of oil and oil is actually trading a lower this monday morning you're seeing those figures are right there and one of the biggest factors when it comes to the world prices of course concerns over iran's nuclear program some traders say it's been adding ten to fifteen dollars to

the price per barrel but over the weekend or on match with the leading six nations and they have very productive talks very constructive talks and they read to me that again in ney's so these concerns might ease then also of course late friday china came out with very disappointing growth figures and so now there are concerns about a weaker demand for commodities and all speaking of those weak g.d.p. figures of course we saw the results a late friday and that affected our commodities futures in new york trading but now asia is suffering as you can see dragged down by resource focussed companies there and basically. on a positive note over the weekend as i mentioned a lot has i haven't mentioned yet the china said it would widen its you want trading from plus or minus half of percent to plus a minus one percent from what

you're seeing right there it's not really having a positive effect on the markets so far to financials are shutting down mainly by mr b. she financial group is losing more than two percent at the moment and u.s. stocks had a pretty bad day on friday using those closing figures right there capping their worst week so far this year and basically what was happening there is. all that's what's happening there on friday but today we're expecting some more companies reporting their orderly results and over the week the main the big stories will be from citibank and from bank of america reporting their results will will definitely focus on that and of course the big story of the week is europe and europe's financial help and that's to recovery and let's see how european markets finished on friday as you can see they finished with big losses

mainly after the bank oh it's been said that the country's bank near banks nearly doubled their boring from the european central bank indicating the lack of their own liquidity that really disappointed the markets and as a result the euro slumped to the lowest level in about a month let's see those currency figures there here they are as you can see the euro is very weak and on monday morning about twenty minutes ago the russian move will sort of trading and it's losing value to both the greenback and the european firms and that's the latest from the business desk kerry i'll be back in about fifteen minutes i'll see them. right after not going to the headlines.

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