damascus puts a price tag on the safety of the u.n. observer mission to syria the first monitors get down to business to oversee a fragile cease from. the eighteen hours of fighting in kabul security forces regain control of the taliban's cordon it the song all of its western embassies and baiters h.q. . resists to high profile 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. and then the business bulletin bears. one percent of the first hour of trade all the details in twenty minutes.

international news and comment twenty four hours a day this is o.t. the syrian government says it cannot guarantee the safety of u.n. observers they coordinate every step of your thoughts. with want to arrive in syria to oversee a shaky cease one it comes as opposition activists claim they're still under attack by the government wants to act against what it calls terrorists on a boy who was in damascus for. hope 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 kofi annan brokered ceasefire has answered it's proof they have made the rival of the un observers a lasting peace may now have the best chance in months still as these analysts points out the humid it is may need to learn from the experience of their arab league counterparts in in january faintest of the bloodshed you know moment in the eyes of both the government and the opposition the u.n. mission is more professional more 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 a great mission. the rapid deployment of monitors is in the interest of their thought government but his argument is the only way to ensure the compliance of both sides to the cease fire now that they have servers are on the ground you know officials have made it clear be 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 and we are working with the government. the opposition full. of violence in all its forms believe go for the. claims and counterclaims of violence by both sides the u.n. monitors will surely 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 slogan in syria it is now taking on a whole new meaning for thousands killed because the country rising above hate is a tall order and while it may think here is many syrians agree that having impartial international observers on the ground may be the first that in that

direction it's not going to artsy damascus syria. office right officially backing the u.n. plan for a diplomatic solution to the conflict america and its allies are providing even more material support to the rebels that's the view of a political analyst doesn't it he says efforts to scuttle the cease fire amounting . there are some parties within the middle east politics trying to sabotage the peace plan that is a range by mr anon and the un i think somebody in qatar and sudhir they're not liking the plan and they wanted the bloodshed to continue in syria and for our belief we have seen and witnessed and the past couple days. of rest from other terrorist organization and getting from other countries into syria and causing all these against the stability of syria and i think. the peace plan for that have

signed by the qatari and the sudanese and the united states. because because these factors are actually causing. and escalation continue at this point we don't understand how mr obama would say supplying all kinds of. different supplies mostly weapons to the opposition and at the same time you want to have a peace plan is working at this point. coming up later in the program appeasing the voters. we have a contrary. view lots of fear it's about this throughout the world the reason you can be with globalization and the last few of the french is that. the so-called soft french model. of politicians campaigning radical views which they believe will bring success at the polls as voters fear they'll see their national identity.

also this giving aid to exchange for dollars and brain and luck and work your family out committing to gyptian presidential election explain why peanuts. the afghan capital has seen eighteen hours of fierce fighting after militants in almost a daring and well coordinated assault on a sitting. over with only attackers killed or captured the taliban claimed responsibility for the strikes on cardio and three other provinces hailing them as the start of a spring offensive. and machine gun fire targeted for embassies into his headquarters in the afghan parliament in the capital officials say thirty six attackers have been killed and several security officers and civilians and so lost their lives is the first such incident in progress since september the violence comes as nato gradually winds down its military presence in the country. since the u.s. led mission is failing. this is one of those moments you don't want to be an american

during the time comes times eight models after the last impressive commander style attack in kabul that targeted a very building at the u.s. embassy here every one of the biggest forces in afghanistan but the fact it is this happens again just shows you that we will not be exaggerating if we see them here what we're witnessing right now is the collapse and equine when they don't get it afghanistan and it becomes kind of the worst i believe for the u.s. military there because of the respect complete disconnect right now to the nation forces of the american forces who might head and not on any of the of the national news and we've just heard that the past few months we've seen see how american and world leaders soldiers getting killed at the hands are very outgunned on the solutions of bullets means that a needle in the groove solutrean trade today's attacks just remove that the

humanity in the school work hard work i was there on the strength of the moon. well you want to know your view on events in the afghan capital you don't dissipate the latest weapon to make the recent tell about attacks what's next for afghanistan almost half of you expect what's happening on strikes close to a third believe there's going to be a collapse of central we think a sense afghanistan will seem to be shia to truce with importance and i don't think we need for central international troops to go online to cost you over one of their hands what else is waiting for them and so it's very. easy to fall in braces genetically modified products a step towards eastern expansion culture and going about with hostile consequences to the problem. also online pyongyang right song so long works display the sort of the one hundredth birthday of the nation stronger to be

here on our website. but it has released to a high profile political prisoners including a former presidential candidate and move follows extensive international pressure on to do some it stunts towards the opposition parties and xers asking has not. few if any 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 under the sun you can thank you so close counterpart. among a dozen opposition figures arrested in december twenty town following the presidential election accused of instigating massive street protests that was

certainly a very serious crackdown on the opposition with all those so so many people arrested and being sentenced to prison terms the sandy hook and been sentenced to five and two years in prison respectively now both of them have been set free on a presidential pardon 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 met by alexander lukashenko you know the political analysts in belarus are trying to determine the reasons behind this move while the other sand political prisoners still remain in prisons in behind bars in belarus and their fate remains pretty much unclear at the moment this also being 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 strain after the events and in

december twenty third and the presidential election and the crackdown on the opposition in fact all kinds of old diplomatic missions to do the european union left immediately old twenty seven investors then the european union imposed sanctions on bella was namely more than two hundred state officials and businessman are still prohibited from traveling to the european union countries as well as several companies are blacklisted from trade with the european union there 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. small world news in brief period out this hour. live pictures down over trial that's just begun again so we can go on and on this for a bit and the quest to killing seventy seven people lost so. many people anything

related charges for a guy who was no one to shooting rampage. and also try to persuade prosecutors that holmes carried out in something you see been ruled insane it was overturned last week guilty face in the next twenty one sentance. demonstrators are gathered outside the u.s. embassy in the philippines to protest against joint military exercises between the two countries activists through to get into the. u.s. and for the troops will come when they see. their. exercises are taking place in the western. china yes collates a disputed territory in the south china sea. and mali's interim president says these are ready to open talks with the rebels and its lists of both of the country but insisted on groups must leave social groups are considered part

of racial group but are going to take on leaders rejected the body has been divided into since rebels declared an independent homeland very disciplined and didn't commit arson or staged by soldiers including the government to provide enough weapons to fight the insurgency. well the countdown to one of the most anticipated shows of the year has begun the world's chief whistleblower julian the sun is hosting his own program right here on our team me comes face to face with the news making the headlines makes his baby want to stay and in the run up shared some insights with our correspondent laura smith and he was coming up next hour. when you think of guests what were your criteria. or the single biggest criterion supplier of condoms for. quite quite interesting because there are a number of guests that we couldn't get. talk about. censorship so.

he's currently in prison for a political situation and extremely difficult for him to speak. court costs get. you know prison in russia. was a was a billionaire owner got he's going to prison sort of iraq and for him we've got him in prison. then if we look at some of the meet us and started sort of the people who are on the tops of power some dry goods corporations that we have. in direct personal contact. so some of them say no it's too dangerous as far as the rose garden is concerned there are some that are put up to help you know something like that but politically it's just kind of it was so. then we go to the other groups and we are curious and we did actually get. them and so those are. people

who normally don't get a voice. number of what were egypt's leading presidential hopefuls indicated other pew they're banned from next month's poll it comes of the election committee barred ten of the twenty three candidates from standing supporters of the carry out last of demonstrations and car and response to the ban among those brother mubarak era intelligence. it's easy to get. a station actually since the country's. top one year ago it's called activists so despite moves towards democracy. egypt break away from. the running mates bands such as start a charter all muslim and well causing a lot of tensions on the ground so egyptians are receiving this bloody there's

a deep militarized state here for over sixty years the military is the ruling this country anyone from the missile heads the governors the mayors they're all retired military terms this is not the priest at them because i have a strong grip over the country easy to those then i remember when we were first in the square said we're not here this is not 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 party 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 thirty five and then they said it will be thirty five what we've seen is that with the broader coalition of salafist if she just over seventy percent. now egypt's on a clear political future could compromise its relations with the u.s.

and result in a conflict because key ally israel is going to reports. egyptian 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 when we can to preserve a close script egypt 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 in fact on washington's decision to keep going with business as usual with the injured dozens as usual seems to be 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 enemy number one we will not be able to afford an open grave for example lingers on the borders of egypt has left 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 egyptian military power bolstered by u.s. taxpayer dollars and weapons. will knock one day is the fact that they have to suddenly go delegation. washington shows you that what they are trying to hide is not very charming talking about american 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 a new democratic egypt which may soon be ruled by those will capitalize on freely and anti-american rhetoric and banks reporting from washington r.t. . facebook's timeline doesn't go down some computer screens around the world the new film takes in the starship. poster made. in his cross.

tested and preview. going to be a lot of unexpected ways in which that information which are being sort of encouraged to post is then used and it surprises here 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 oh i see that you. guys really missed a great. poles apart on the political spectrum to france's presidential candidate common ground it

comes to the elections key issues as marine le pen. race for the country's top job but in their platforms including the right against globalization and surprisingly similar there's also reports. like this that they lie in opposite ends of the political sphere. milosz on 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 as straight jackets for france namely nato and what they see as europe's impositions but france must for the world a new under globalization alliance independent of the united states of america whether the european union treaty which is a patient in nato which we no longer want we run proclaim that we will call a popular referendum on these two matters little girl no father said you doing the

child of this devastating is the ology is the euro designed as a tool to force the advent of the federal and freedom killing euro. the subject of immigration is the clearest difference between the two with the far right start against it but both share a passion of her still be towards globalization blaming it for job losses. both plan 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. the city's all other political forces today including the socialist party believe blindly in the purchase of capitalism this is the dissolution meant that drives about thirty percent of middle shown lappin voters who see a still and impotent middle ground a government left jobs go after threaten their way of life they're worried this

would go on we have a country. i think a lot of fear about this transit world that was in utility 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 the securities of their radical rhetoric and increasing number of voters are looking for a person here in order for a political. 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 first well known in the second round and that is the biggest threat to the men in the middle front runners in the race for brad miller sean and tough talking lopin. opposite ends but they've got a shrewd knack of stealing voters on the core troubles that are blighted the french people. yes or so you're archie paris. what's the latest

business update. on the russian. well the russian markets are actually in pain there's definitely a rule on the russian markets and as you can see let's see the figures right there as you can see the r.t.s. and m i six are shedding in fact the r.t.s. is now losing. almost the one and a quarter percent of wise it's trading below the psychologically important level over fifteen hundred points and now all of the blue chips are pretty much adding value on the my sets let's take a look at some of the biggest movers and as you can see financials are in the red including some very bank and the t.v. which stopped accepting buyback applications on friday and gazprom is losing on a lower crude prices and speaking of crude it is lower by quite a bit especially brant as you can see there and one of the main stories there is of course that is broadly had

a talks with the leading six nations over the weekend keep in mind that one of the biggest factors in the rising oil prices over the last few months has been the concern over iran's nuclear program and now that the country's willing to sit down and talk about its nuclear program and if these concerns of being eased and that that's one of the factors play into a lower oil as you can see there and of course asia is also dropping the lead over by commodity related more resource focused stocks after china on friday reported weaker than expected g.d.p. data which is now raising concerns that perhaps there would be weaker demand for commodities let's see those figures there and as you can see the name is shedding one and three quarters of a percent dragged down by financials old so in fact mitsubishi financial group is losing more than two percent this hour and european equities started

trading less than twenty minutes ago and they are also in the red which is no surprise considering what's happening. on the global markets and they are continuing from friday's losses when mainly investors were disappointed about the bank of spain saying that the country's banks doubled their warning from the european central bank indicating a lot of their own liquidity and the cost of borrowing for spain has risen sharply which is another reason for concern and of course on that the european currency is trading lower let's see the euro dollar rates there they are and as you can see the euro's trading at the low was the level in a month and the russian ruble is also losing value to both the euro and the greenback and that's all the way this from the business kerry will get back in

about fifteen minutes but if you can't wait that long you can always find a lot more stories there on our site it's r t dot com slash business. again as usual. coming up our foreign debate show cross talk with people about first a recap our top stories just ahead.

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