i love. the first u.n. observer team arrives in syria to oversee the troubled truce tried to mask it says it must quarter nate monitors movements to keep them safe. manual bombs and shot seventy seven innocent people so he did it in self defense day one of anders breivik trial here some say he was protecting his country from muslims. bellerose releases two high profile political prisoners as washington and the e.u. ramp up pressure on miller to ease up on the opposition. projects that seems turns them on to the sixteenth as muslim or his software. business is in twenty minutes.

at seven pm here in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live from a nice nonwhite with our top story as the first u.n. observers touched down in syria the government's being urged to allow them unrestricted access to monitor the fragile cease fire damascus says it can't guarantee the monitors safety unless every step is coordinated with authorities the opposition claims it's still under attack and the government vows to crack down and what it calls terrorist acts on a boy is into mass chaos. waiting to be reborn to serious orthodox christians the meaning of easter was all the more poignant this year as they contemplated the sacrifices of the last few months. of the death and suffering across the country many salt refuge in prayer hoping that peace would be

resurrected i guess all syrian prays for peace despite isolated clashes the coffee and brokered cease fire has answered its fate they are. the rival of the universe their various a lasting peace may now have the best chance in months still as these analysts points out the united wrist may need to learn from the experience of their arab league counterparts his mission in january failed to stop the bloodshed and years of 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 it has argued it's the only way to ensure the compliance of both sides in the ceasefire now that their 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 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 show 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 breslin slogan in syria it is now taking on a whole new meaning with thousands killed across the country rising hate is a tall order and. here is many syrians agreed that having impartial international

observers on the ground may be the first step in that direction. artsy. when the un is also calling on the syrian government to show restraint and on the opposition to fully cooperate with the truce but really it's experts say getting a positive reaction from the rebels could prove a problem there syrian government is responsible as a government to the united nations and international community to respect that use for it but on the other hand. once again. and we say that. we. would respect if you fired. ok and as we. started many operation as the syrians say that many operations have been made by.

a few. in this case has. this is for you was my perspective. trial of self confessed to region killer anders breivik has wrapped up his first day in oslo and thought and perform a right wing salute smirk at survivors in court and weep at his own propaganda video the gunman admits killing seventy seven people in a bomb attack on a government building and a shooting rampage at a youth camp last summer and he denies criminal guilt insisting it was self-defense to protect norway from being taken over by muslims will be given his own testimony on tuesday but it will not be broadcast his lawyer said his own explanation was crucial to help determine whether he is saying everything be locked up for the rest of his life considered a danger to society former euro m.p. going forward says the massacre in norway is the largest but not the only attack of its kind. that is the way you want it justice system works in it in the european

union in norway he he will clearly have is opportunities to express his own views one just hopes that the overwhelming majority of people will reject him for what they are signs of if you want to be a man who is deluded. and a racist those are the number of muslims in norway is actually is actually rather small there are countries in europe where if you all you have millions of of mostly because many of which are fully integrated and many of which espoused western values but there are minorities. amongst them was there in communities that have the same delusions as our norwegian killer this is something that we've seen across the european union. in germany and in france in the united kingdom as well as in norway it's just he was particularly successful but i think he's he's one of. many maybe too strong but he he's certainly not unique in amy's whatsoever and least

groups are actually working together to promote these kind of lone wolves who are into any sense is follow the same pattern as the some of the muslim fundamentalists . because they are to live from moscow on the way for you we work at who's holding the cards over cairo. the fact that they have to send a gold delegation to charm washington shows you that what they are trying to hide is not very charming as egypt's main blahnik political force tries to woo washington the country's upcoming presidential election could leave america facing a tough choice and with allies really are. and philip you know fury as crowds mass outside the american embassy in manila against the two countries controversy of war games in china's backyard. but first the belarus. and president has released two political prisoners one of which is the former presidential candidate

alexander lukashenko unexpected move follows pressure from the e.u. that's been highly critical of the regime after a harsh crackdown on the opposition two years ago look serious has the details. few if any had expected such moves from the man often described as europe's last dictator alexander lukashenko the leader of bella who is now former presidential candidate under the sun you can find his 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 of those so so many people arrested and being sentenced to prison terms of the sunday and monday who were sentenced to five and two years in prison respectively now both of them have been said we want to presidential pardon they have reconvened with their families and came up with statements saying that they had never believed that their plea to be set free would be met by alexander lukashenko now the political analysts in belarus

are trying to determine the reasons behind this move while the other sam political prisoners still remain in prisons in behind bars in belarus and their fate remains pretty much unclear at the moment there's 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 mean scandal 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 strains after the events and in december twenty ten the presidential election and a crackdown on the opposition in fact has a whole diplomatic missions to do the european union left immediately old twenty seven passengers then the european union imposed sanctions umbrella was namely more than two hundred state officials and businessmen are still brought here with it

from traveling to the european union countries as well as several companies are blacklisted from trade with the european union to have been talks of more tougher sanctions to come within the next several weeks so the possibility that the to the site of the possible sanctions and the release of the prisoners are connected cannot be ruled out by many experts. but go deeper into our stories that are t. dot com here is with online for you at the moment flagging up the front here russell states his claim to more parts of the resource rich are sexy bed that lie in its territory. by north korea's mom about its alleged nuclear program but celebrates the centenary of its first leader's birth and will someday see the sparks fly hearts dot com. thousands of american filipino troops have begun annual military exercises near disputed south china sea waters tension between the philippines and china has been escalating there for the past

two weeks demonstrators gathered outside the u.s. embassy in manila in protest at war games taking university deputy principal junction saying says the u.s. only has its own moves in mind and reaches there are many filipino students and doctors concerned and there were games represent us playing a big brother role in philippine politics and you know there are many times where concern is becoming more so over. the national interest to u.s. interests so i think that these protests are a sign of a lot of discomfort with the traditional. over reliance upon the u.s. military muscle ever consider going back and forth over the pacific. and this is strictly a treaty so i think a lot of it is in their shock from the fact that for a long time america has been writing and pacific and now it's not used to the ideals deferring to other powers but i think it for the future of world peace i

think the future of america will need to sort negotiating we try to create a framework to share it it appears to me and i start trying to see. so he's used to exposing the world's darkest secret so it's no surprise top whistleblower giuliano songs wants to reveal even more he'll be grilling dissidents and opinion makers in his new interview show that debuts on artsy on tuesday but today he says during the questions about his much anticipated program and his guests. there's doing a. combatant. getting into bed with him for pushing for a criminal complaint. and you can see really. terrible radicals. but i think that's a sort of it's a pretty trivial kind of attack on character when you were choosing the guests what were your criteria. for the single biggest criterion so very kind of short so

those are. people who normally don't get reported could any of the guests that you have got do you think repair on a mainstream t.v. network some could some couldn't but some have. quite a few happened. what do you fear the sort of thing is the. majority of what they have said to me. or the mainstream thinking at work. is not this because of sort of censorship or the networks it's because my style of interaction as someone who's been interviewed by the media or even times i understand the. format and so i wanted somebody to look at the principle. of the situation sort of a way of. pulling out story about the situation the career and description for the purpose of going to meet you so for me. and in dealing with me. ok i

understand the pain north of you were going to host the office there are. they dealing with someone that's been for a very trying dangerous and difficult situation so they can speak to a degree i think because they understand that i'm. true and. it's true which it would explain is that. he's talking it's. been a time. for the united states. in miami. to leave some. days i seem detained without charge. so. we can change the world. more from julia no song in an hour's time for you if you're an r.t. and make sure you're here for the premiere of the world tomorrow on tuesday at

eleven thirty g.m.t. but we're broadcasting it throughout the day after that right here on our t.v. so stay tuned. and get a sense president says sunday's attacks showed an intelligence failure on part of local and nato forces eighteen hours of fierce fighting after taliban militants launched an audacious and well coordinated assault on the capital most targets were in kabul the diplomatic quarter with western embassies and government buildings coming under fire thirty six militants were killed but police officers and three civilians also lost their lives the taliban said the else thought was retaliation for american troops killing civilians and burning copies of the koran but independent blogger stephen lyman believes the instability is in u.s. interests. i think america one of despair we don't want the incidents were to go to a lot of. the korean burnings your reading of the koreans and the

massacre in. not more u.s. soldiers reports from a ground zero to twenty special forces. this one didn't really need to be releasing i don't think this happened by chance i think america want to be because the one thing a very good speech is when they receive when they receive in libya last year or even know when he reads the newspapers and there is the possibility of peace in syria the possibility of peace and stability even though it's a. very good is a. depends a lot of one's instability. on mind we want to know your view on what you expect to happen next in afghanistan where your votes so far on r.t. dot com more than half from you think more militant strikes are to post

a third predicted collapse of central authority nine percent say afghanistan will see any goshi to truce with the taliban and the minority feel it will lead to an international troop surge going no you say your views always count so head to r.t. dot com and tell us what you say. seventy minutes past the hour let's have a look at some other news from around the world for cia muslim farmers that shot dead just north of the iraqi capital and what appears to be a sectarian attack two carloads of gunmen opened fire while the men were working in an orchard violence has decreased in iraq but sunni militants still launch attacks to challenge the country's shia led government. military leaders in the west african state of guinea bissau have announced a national transitional council following a meeting with political parties soldiers wrestle troll from the nation's interim government four days ago over plans to reduce the size of the country's influential

army whose have been common in guinea-bissau now since it wanted to pendants in one thousand and seventy four. dollars interim president says he's ready to open talks with rebels and islamists occupy the north but me and this armed groups among them must leave has been divided since rebels declared an independent homeland earlier this month hobbling a military coup the soldiers in the uprising claim the government has not provided enough weapons to fight insurgents. three of egypt's leading presidential hopefuls will appeal their bad for next month's poll the election committee barred almost half of the candidates from standing including the muslim brotherhood's main contender prompting this thread of mass demonstrations but the uncertainty in egypt could compromise its u.s. relations as going to cannes now reports. 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 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 rather hood has declared israel america's closest ally in the region its enemy number one we will not be able to afford an open grave for example on the borders of egypt that is love 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 weapon. will knock one day israel the fact that they have to

send the go delegation to. washington shows you that what they are trying to hide is not very charming for talking about american taxpayer dollars being used to fund what may well be a government in egypt which is vitriolically anti 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 who capitalize on fraley and anti american rhetoric i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . some breaking news here in r.t. this hour russia's biggest oil firm the state owned ross nafta and us tonight exxon mobil are joining forces they have signed a landmark partnership deal to develop the arctics protection the rich untapped reserves well the joint venture was signed in prime minister pledging their

interests official residence it also gives us no access to it from projects from north america and you know how on development hard to recover the serbs deal is worth around a billion dollars it's now trying to partner up with b.p. last year but it fell through as the british oil major became entangled in a legal battle with its existing russian partners b.p. more on that major geo business bulletin coming up for you in just a few minutes well people on the hard left and right of politics rarely find anything to agree on but in france that's exactly how candidates are wooing presidential votes those tests are simply a reports from paris that's causing support for the week away from the front runner favorites in the final days before polling. i don't need. this and they lie in opposite ends of the political sphere. movement on the hard left and right

he took them on the far right. who would have thought they'd have this much in common both denouncing what they see as straight jackets for friends namely nato and what they see as europe's impositions far more from this must be for the world a new under globalization 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 in these two matters the little girl the father said is 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 you're on. the subject of immigration is the clearest difference between the two with the far right staunchly against it but both share a passion of history 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

to nationalization and greater control over the quote unquote big bad banks. all other political forces today and in the socialist party will have blindly and virtually capitalism this is the dissolution of the drives about thirty percent of middle sean lappin voters who see a still and it potential middle ground a government that let jobs go at 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 economy was good but he's a friend and the most of the french is that that could damage the so-called french which is something that the french are it's. really sensitive politicians are feeling to the french people the securities of their radical rhetoric and increasing number of voters are looking for

a first step here of course for the political. and some for good. the left front is the only alternative to liberalism i'm not even sure if leaning socialist francois in the second round. and that is the biggest threat to the men in the middle and front runners in the race far beyond you know sean and tough talking live. office events but they've got a shrewd knack of stealing voters the core troubles that are blighted the french people. are so you're archie paris. time now to get the latest on the business daniel joins us. this hour of course that major deal in the oil sector exxon mobil and ross nafta joining forces yes. then us all due to sign a wide range of strategic partnership there on monday the green one hundred sniffed access to projects in north america developed by exxon for more we're joined by

three medvedev correspond with me for what it's like so long was this deal been so complicated. well of course it did sake of a very long time value as you rightly said because of course exploration in the arctic notably is a technically very complicated process not only is there natural barriers such as well of course very cold temperatures and big debts but also we've got the legal barriers preventing ross now joining forces with the b.p. which was agreed upon more than a year ago and was subject to of course a court case which in the end and that of blocking this deal between bt as it contradicted agreements with. a russian. city and k b p that is a pose a very long and complicated story button. in the end was never had to search for a new partner if found the part in exxon mobil and today we've seen a sighting of a strategic partnership agreement which will in visit to the creating of two joint

ventures one will be developing the two companies will join forces in developing resorts is in russia's black sea the cholera sea and then west side bierria and the other joint venture rosneft will get thirty percent in three projects in north america including the gulf of mexico and some on the speculate that this is connected with well and gas shale oil and gas exploration something which is new for russia's growth there richard one quick question how big all the potential resources in the all came from what you know is there a lot of potential oil and gas there to be exploited. yes indeed it is one of the largest untapped areas in the world when it comes to oil and gas reserves when it comes to gas reserves that has basically one third of the untapped resources in the whole world and when it comes to west siberia which is also part of this deal one

point seven million tonnes of the oil we're talking about basically. rules and of course. thank you very much in the now that's all we've got time for this so that you join us in fifteen minutes time for more right daniel thanks for that update we'll see you back here next hour serving here in r t a slap in the face book cross talks guest discussed the social network's treacherous timeline according to some and whether it's impinging on privacy that's after the headlines in this short break. the.

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