the. damascus put a price tag on the safety of the u.n. observer mission to syria as the first monitors to get out of the business to oversee a fragile cease fire. eighteen hours of fighting in kabul security forces regained control on from the taliban's massive inordinate assault on the parliament western embassies and nato headquarters plus. delegates resists to a 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. it's

three pm here in moscow this is r.t. coming to you guys on nice in our way with our top story but how do you think u.n. is calling for maximum restraint from the syrian government the first batch of the bodies observers begin to work to oversee a cease fire damascus says it can't guarantee their safety unless the monitors coordinate every step with authorities it comes as opposition activists claim they're still under attack while the government vows to act against what it calls terrorist acts on a boycott is in damascus for our city. the. waiting to be reborn for serious orthodox christians the meaning of easter was all the more poignant this year as they contemplated the sacrifices of the last two months the death and suffering across the country many sought refuge in prayer hoping that peace could

be resurrected i guess syrian prays for peace despite isolated clashes the coffee and brokered cease fire has and it states they have made the rival of the universe servers a lasting peace may now have the best chance in months still as these analysts points out that you know monitors may need to learn from the experience of their arab league counterparts because mission in january failed to stop the bloodshed and years 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 their 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 complaints of both sides to the cease fire now that they have servers 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 and we are working. with the government. with the opposition for a full cessation of violence in all its forms. for the. claims and counterclaims of violence by both sides the u.n. monitors will show wrestled with the challenges ahead but at least they have syrians cheering them on the owner of the shop just boarded another batch of these t. shirts a popular wrestling slogan and syria it is now taking on a whole new meaning with thousands killed. rising above hate is a tall order and while it may take here is many syrians agree that having impartial international observers on the ground may be the first step in that direction and

some of the art see them ask. afghan military officials say one of their soldiers has opened fire on nato troops at kandahar airport there is no word on casualties or the motive for the attack the incident follows eighteen hours of fierce fighting in the capital where militants launched a daring and well coordinated assault the taliban claimed responsibility for the onslaught which also included strikes and three other provinces kabul operation targeted foreign embassies nato headquarters and the parliament thirty six militants were killed but several security officers and civilians also lost their lives but violence comes as nato gradually winds down its mission in the country political analyst she says afghans have had enough of the us that force. anything else down to the last impressive commander style attack in karbala targeted a very building of the u.s. embassy where every one person didn't forces in afghanistan the fact that it's 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 the crumbling up with a new mandate in afghanistan was a complete disconnect right now between the nato forces and the american forces no one head and we've all got deschanel i mean he got national news and see how the more american and world leaders soldiers getting killed at the hands are very tough gun on the solutions and bullets means that neither of the groups who trained the up guns are really just tested and i think that if the new commanders of the american military commanders continue to be insensitive they would loose with every little chance they have are of being normal goodish he said it is not just. we want to know your view on the events in the afghan capital had to r.t. dot com to participate in our latest web poll today we're asking a recent taliban attacks what's next for afghanistan so far over half of you with

suspect large taliban strikes both through a third believe there's going to be a collapse of central authority ten percent say afghanistan will see a negotiated truce with the militants and the minority feel it will lead to an international troop surge go online your vote and while you're there here's what else is waiting for you. and it's not so i can sneak in it's all embrace of genetically modified modified products and it's a step towards boosting its agriculture and about the possible consequences of our team back home. in america obama now has a ten million pound bounty against him and he's not the only u.s. official in the price on his head earn more are to. the roots has released two high profile political prisoners including a former presidential cabinet the move follows extensive international pressure on minsk to loosen its stance towards the opposition parties alexei or subsidy has

more. he had expected such move from the man often described as europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko the leader of belarus now former presidential candidate and close counterpart. 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 those so so many people arrested and being sentenced to prison terms the sign you were 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 matched by alex on the english language now 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 mean she demanded that the old 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 to a to turn the presidential election and the crackdown on the opposition in fact has a whole diplomatic missions to do so the european union left immediately all twenty seven passengers then the european union imposed sanctions umbrella was namely more than two hundred state officials and businessman are still brought here but it 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 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 can all be ruled out by many experts. the countdown to one of the most anticipated shows of the year has begun the world's chief whistleblower julian assange just hosting his own program right here on r t ray comes face to face with those making the headlines makes its debut this tuesday and in the run up i saw shared some insights with our correspondent morris smith the full interview coming up next hour here's a preview. when we're choosing the guests what were your criteria. for the single biggest criterion something i would come up with short. that's quite that's quite interesting because there are a number of guests that we couldn't get and so that's about that sort of censorship so we have to pry into how we he's currently present in the house arrest and try to he news political situation makes it extremely difficult for him to speak for me

you know the car. you know presented herself. as a was a billionaire what got me going from some sort of rock to speak to him we thought he's in prison. really if we look at some of the us and so i did so many people that have been the tops of power of some jargon but it's corporations that we have . in direct personal contact. so some of them say no it's too dangerous for the u.s. government is concerned they're sort of are putting helping us sort of like the sort of good political it's just a great. then we go to the other groups that we have and we did actually. so those are. people who normally can avoid drawing the sun. through which we will be

exposed the world says he's talking his face seems to be in the. united states. illegally. hundred days i seem to change without. so much as i'm still. today we. can change the world. trial against the original gunman anders breivik whose contrast to killing seventy seven people last summer is underway in oslo and denies terrorism and premeditated premeditated murder charges for a bombing and although i was shooting rampage at a youth camp carried out in july last year for more on this let's not norwegians let's say who joins us live also state. eight hundred journalists from around the world are covering this case has openly referred to this trial as

a quote unique opportunity to showcase his far right has he got what he wanted. well that's the big paradox concerning this case is that. because at the outset made this is planned it's a he wrote a manifesto published it outlined his plan in this plan was to do an outrageous criminal act and then use the court proceedings later to advocate this around the world and in that sense. one might say that he has succeeded in that he himself hasn't taken the stand yet that starts first tomorrow and there's been of course a lot of debate about that here in norway in to what extent he should be allowed to do that. well we have you know the principle of due process here in norway and he is entitled to do so what the court has done is they have curbed the amount of press coverage that is allowed from his own statements so from tomorrow when he

enters the stand and will go forward with his explanation we will not be allowed to broadcast it so whatever comes out of court that will be only in print media. certainly a very public trial i mean the manifesto you mentioned fifteen hundred pages he calls there are four. he called it a manual for future attack or how much is this really. a way for propaganda to be publicized in terms of the far right and how far could it go. well i think perhaps. brave a case that is going on in the courthouse behind me now. has a little different point of view outside of norway in regards as opposed to what it does here in norway because here in norway you are a small country five million people everybody is affected by this everybody knows

someone who is affected by the atrocious attacks of twenty second july so that anything that he says in court just kind of seems hideous the big debate here in norway is whether he will be be charged as a criminally insane or not in any respects he will be. behind bars for probably the rest of his life i can imagine though outside of norway there will be one might imagine that there are in via mail your environmental extremists that might look upon this in a different point of view and of course maybe somebody will take his ideology to hearten propaganda further on but here in norway that really is not an issue the issue here is rather supposed to all the victims in the case and whether it is. and it's. their rights and how they will react to it that's been the issue of

whether and to what extent should be allowed to go on with the court case in the court case he has a monster this called an rumors that witnesses extremist witnesses both from the extremist right side and islamic extremists to sort of. build under this notion that he has that there is a war a clash of civilizations and there's been a debate and some of the witnesses have been called and have actually refused to go in because they don't want to be part of this propaganda that he is using the court case to promote there's certainly evidence and witnesses a plenty why does the trial have to go on for some time we. well you have to remember there are some. victims or deaths here and hundreds of victims that are injured either physically or psychologically and the

way the court case works here in norway is that an indictment has a provision for every single one that is dead or is. damaged so in that sense they have to go through every single one in the court case and that alone takes weeks to get through and that's why they have they have put ten weeks to do this the whole trial if found guilty he could face a maximum sentence of twenty one years would this be considered as just by the relatives of the seventy seven people who were killed i know we're speculating here but what have you heard from relatives or people that already know that that would be the next month. well i understand the question we have a twenty one year maximum prison sentence and you're away whereas many other countries will have lifetime imprisonment or even the death penalty we do not have that nor where what we do have is something called constraint or detainments and it's a system that allows for further imprisonment beyond twenty one years if the person

that is that is sentenced is deemed a danger for society and certainly in this case that's probably what will happen there's two outcomes of this case he can be charged twenty one years and then confinement which theory theoretically can go on for the rest of his life or he will be charged criminally insane which sense he will be sentenced to psychiatric treatment that also for the rest of his life so any in any way he will be behind bars for the rest of his life and i think for most of the victims it's well some victims say that they prefer the one for the other but what they all want is just to make sure that he never enters the streets of norway again murray claims the attacks were necessary to protect norway from being taken over by muslims whatever the outcome of this trial what are the governments doing to deal with islamophobia

in the country. there has been a huge huge public discourse that's started in the aftermath of the twenty second of july still is going on where these issues that you mention are being continuously debated is the government has really taken measures in sense restraining order new laws or anything like that but it's been part of the public discourse and there's a sentiment out there that this has to be dealt with thing is that is these extreme and there are not many people in this country that even remotely share his opinion but there is this big debate. to what extent for instance can you allow public statements of freedom of speech and so on and so on and that since that's an ongoing process that's still going on a little on for many years all right fine reporter from the norwegian channel t.v.

two news thanks for being with us live on the line from oslo you explained a lot there. the annual military drills are under way in between the u.s. and the philippines the exercises are taking place in the western part of the country where tensions with china have been as creating over disputed territories in the south china sea twelve thousand american and philippine troops will complete twelve days of military drills as part of their annual word games meanwhile demonstrators have gathered outside the u.s. embassy in the philippines to patrol test against the exercises activist group blue and red paint on the embassy to kate deputy principal of the high school and clean university so she says the u.s. is looking out for its own interests when it comes to the south china sea. there are many filipino students and doctors concerned that these war games represent us playing a big brother role in philippine politics and there are many people in philippines

we're concerned that it coming it will so ornate filipino national interests not u.s. interests so i think that if these protests are a sign of a lot of discomfort with the traditional filipino or over reliance on a u.s. military muscle american ships have gone back and forth over the pacific they owned it and it's especially a trait i think a lot of it is inertia and the fact that for a long time america has been running because it is a fake and now it's not so used to be ideal for going to other powers but i think for the future of world peace i think in the future america will need to start negotiating with china and create a framework to share it i said it and i saw trying to see. well look now it's world news in brief for you this hour interim president says he's ready to open talks with rebels an islamist occupying the north of the country but insisted armed groups must leave opposition groups they will consider

a federation in mali browner than a new state the world leaders have rejected but while he has been divided into such rebels declared an independent homeland earlier this month following a military coup prize into staged by soldiers who claimed the government has not provided enough weapons to fight the insurgency. is to mars voting for a new president in the final round of an election which is now between two former guerrilla leaders over them played key roles in the country's bloody struggle for freedom from over twenty years of indonesian occupation of east timor broke away from jakarta in one thousand nine hundred nine and was administered by the united nations for three years and finally became independent in two thousand and two the presidential vote comes ahead of withdrawal of un peacekeepers planned for later this year. military leaders and guinea bissau announced the formation of a national transitional council probably

a meeting between twenty two political parties and the country's military comes after soldiers wrestle control from the nation's in term government four days ago over plans to reduce the size of the army crews have been common in you need to sow since it won its independence from portugal in one thousand nine hundred seventy four. a member of what were egypt's leading presidential hopefuls have indicated they'll appeal their ban from next month's poll it comes after the election committee barred ten of the twenty three candidates from standing their supporters have threatened to carry out massive demonstrations in cairo in response to the bam among those guards are the mubarak or intelligence chief omar omar studio and the muslim brotherhood leading candidate may twenty third presidential run. it will be the first since the country's former ruler of mubarak was toppled more than a year ago medical activist. says despite moves towards democracy it will be hard for egypt to break away from military. the running mates. and such

a side a charter almost to the man who are causing a lot of tensions on the ground so egyptians are receiving this gladly there's a deep militarized 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 octopus to them because i have a strong grip over the country so it's not easy to. those and i remember when we first. said we're not here this is on the islamic revolution we're here as a gypsy and once things settle down we'll definitely run for parliament and that we will not get over thirty five percent maximum of the column and this is this was more of a promise just a statement what we've seen is that they actually began with seventy percent and then said it would be twenty five and then they said it will be thirty five what

we've seen is that with the broader coalition of salafist it's reached over seventy percent in the parliament. well the latest now from the world business right now joins us from but that's part of what's happening on the markets today. well it's a tug of war between the bulls and bears and it looks like it's actually of resolving and voles favor at least judging from what's happening on the european markets let's take a quick look at the actual numbers there and as you can see both the footsie and the facts have moved in to block this hour and there's still a lot of pressure on the european currency though because there were a lot of bad news coming out of europe on friday specifically the concerns about spain's fiscal health and that's really put it putting a lot of pressure on the euro it was trading at the lowest a level in about a month earlier in the day it's rebounded somewhat but it's still down the russian

ruble is retreating against both the euro and the dollar and the russian market is rebounding somewhat though it's still trading in the red this at this hour of the why sex is trading bull the psychologically important level of a fifteen hundred points ago just a notch lower than not and some of the biggest movers on the my sexes was now which is trading better than the market leader on monday the company plans to sign an agreement with excellent all bull to work together in north america and in the russian an arctic and also reached a deal to sell oil to china a bit more in the terms of got agreement in just about a minute and poorly matts hall is trading swap even though with boosted its gold production by twenty four percent in the first quarter and nafta is managing to buck the trend not only the general trend of the market at the moment but also crude prices and speaking of crude it is actually trading a little worse throughout the day today let's see those numbers there. here they

are and crude is trading lower especially grand after iran had a very productive meeting with believing six nations over the weekend and they. agreed to meet again in may it's been a lot of the major factors driving oil prices higher the concerns over iran's nuclear program and now that that factor is easing oil prices are under pressure and speaking of world prices as was nafta has agreed to sell oil to china at a discount the decision ends a long lasting price of dispute between the two sides of oil major world still to its chinese customers at a discount to one and a half dollars per barrel as part of the twenty year export agreement to supply a total of three hundred million tons of proved to the country and that one more piece of news for you the i.m.f.

has improved its outlook on russia's economic growth this year now it says the country's economy will grow at four percent as expected to be below five percent of course we'll keep a close eye on these numbers and we'll definitely let you know whether or not these predictions actually come true and that's all the latest for you this hour will be back in about fifteen minutes so you know the event thanks for that update a recap of our top stories is just ahead for you after a short break and then it's the latest edition of course talk with peter.

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