u.n. observer mission in syria prepares for massive reinforcements amid reports of violations by both. forces. campaigning ends in france just ahead of sunday's presidential poll was facing a tough choice at a time of social division record unemployment. energy hungry china works to secure a slice of the arctic. mineral resources chinese. the nordic states. and now russia close up team troubles beyond the arctic to see how good fishing communities survive. try.

every one welcomes you from all of us here on seymour. the syrian opposition has called for u.n. military intervention had a security council vote on a resolution to send hundreds of observers to the country moscow says enormous is on the ground would help promote the ceasefire agreement with multiple reports of the truce speaking violated by both sides with the latest details on this in new york. there's been a combination of two resolutions to drop resolutions that were submitted to the u.n. security council one was submitted from russia the other submitted by the your european union and now a combination of these resolutions calls for. you and i was her mission in

syria to expand. their army a car of the third verse to a trial of the three hundred observers to go to syria and continue monitoring the cease fire that was implementing april twelfth and trying to ask is any opposition group this is of course one of the many calls holes that were laid out by mr coffey and on the joint envoy for for the syria pretty serious conflict so he laid out a six point peace plan because this observer mission is one of many things he has cost or it's your bring about the peace in syria i know there are elements of this trap resolution that we're told is that it's also time syria to commit to its responsibilities and its pledges meaning the syrian government regarding all its obligations according to the kofi annan on its six point peace plan so it seems as

though we're going to see another consensus across the board in the security council concerning syria this will be the second saturday in a row where another resolution would be adopted the vote is expected to be held on saturday and it is expected to be voted upon and adopted and this would clearly show something that we haven't seen for thirteen months speaker of the security council is and divided for so long on how to approach syria and clearly receive a consensus across the board among the international community that it's more important if new york well or what started as a protest in syria now or more than one year ago has turned into a major conflict claiming thousands of lives out of work or reports from the city where it all began she was there to watch the residents if indeed it's all been worth it. they call it the credo of the syrian revolution when a group of schoolkids was arrested in daraa last spring for painting and they're

feeding protesters took to the streets for days on end. the syrian military responded by rolling mean it's times even a year later the chief security officer in daraa is unapologetic well those demonstrators were back big. civilians in the army troops and of course their intention was to blame the government and those kids the rebels give them a few food and things. but even among supporters it's not a view shared by everyone to protest in daraa and been seeing down by the military to the turning point for syria and in hindsight some syrian officials now wish they handled it differently. we made a mistake when back in the days we didn't give a chance to syria based peaceful opposition to express itself more freely some of them truly care about the nation now we have to deal with the armed rebels the council in stamboul and then you have religious sects like the selfies or the

muslim brothers. which rallies no longer banned and the forty three year and mergence a lot lifted the syrian authorities are now trying to get the media on their side people load more foreign journalists into the country stipulated by the annan plan and the wall to what they call the real picture. but the bola tell the realities on the ground put their own spin on any p.r. effort. and then use of un monitors and foreign journalists prather around daraa rebels intensified attacks on the army units forcing syrian officials to abandon this we talk and her journal is back onto the bus as the government's we are implementing the ceasefire the terrorist group. any occasion any of these it beats international monitors or if war is to force the army to respond to the.

while they're such a government in the ability to find the right balance between freedom and security may have allowed this conflict to take off many analysts believe that there are any how to do it is also crucial for its resolution president assad has long spoken about reforms he's been a popular president for most syrians for a long time because of his you know so-called reform plans i think this protest in syria actually helped us because you know there are people within the syrian regime who don't really want to reform their the hardliners so so this actually helps sort of you know the reform minded members of the regime in government. and you know their reform there's a lot more quickly a year into the uprising that is still one of the most turbulent cities in syria despite checkpoints all around the ceasefire is breached on an almost daily basis and here people are just as afraid to talk as their freight. protest in daraa had

been called this part of the big night did this syrian flame which over the past year is cursed sizable part of this country and while some syrian officials may now have regrets what their way flashpoint was handled that's not nearly enough to extinguish the fire it's not about car that are syria. it's coming to life in the heart of moscow a media blackout in france as presidential race is giving the candidates just a little breathing space in a tight contest which threatens to oust current leader nicolas sarkozy the top two expected to include socialist leader francois hollande will do battle in a runoff to decide the winner you know weeks time and as artists are australia reports economic gloom and all time high unemployment but certainly the. one day to go before the french hit the polls but one in four voters still haven't made up their top of the french people jobs and money in their pockets especially

at a time when unemployment is around ten percent hitting an all time high that's about three million people on a boy so who can take the top job and sold people straw. poll socialist party. you can believe in about twenty nine percent all potential votes now almost one. of earners in the country but he is criticized for this widely perceived lack of experience truly beyond francois a lot is incumbent. these are deeply unpopular president and one recent poll you would declare with him most unpopular president in french history i his presidency was with margaret not economic crisis after another the last weeks of campaigning he's turned to more radical rhetoric of just clamping down on immigration putting birds out or talking tough when it comes to security matters especially after the to lose incident and he's also taken on a more confrontational tone towards the european union proposing that france freeze

its budget contribution to the e.u. budget currently plays according to the polls is most of the national front party as he was been sticking to it i'm sorry immigration platform vowing to cut down the number of legal immigrants to ten thousand a year that's down from about one hundred eighty thousand at the moment and she has also said that she wants france to. go back to the french currency the french frank what's being called the big surprise of this french presidential campaign is the middle of the left now his numbers have doubled since january for about six to seven percent fourteen percent now he is no worse in this talking about a civic insurrection a revolution he also has the financial sector and he also was shot as the e.u. a fiscal pact that had been side he wants to withdraw from so he's taking on a very strong hard line approach these. the top four contenders why for the top job in france are based on the rhetoric they would use in their campaign presses whoopie of neighbors as well as other partners understand that no matter who takes

on the presidency there will be disruptions to where the form of continuity they may be expected it's just a matter of to what extent that these changes will impact the relationships as far as fresh people are concerned they have a few more hours left to make that choice. meantime historian and economist nicholas maintains that the election campaign has failed to address the real issues affecting the french people for the moment you know france has a very weak economy with a huge problems problems of production problems of public debt over ninety percent of the g.d.p. problems of a massive unemployment problem to integrate the immigrants and sue because this campaign was on the ball in fact two to discuss how really to reform france it's sure that we have a very huge trees to ave a major attack to have to spain their own words the french stacked up so i believe

the seas the way to reform france is the very important debate that was not unfortunately discussed and more a general point of view i believe this was a campaign based on protection on a very nationalist mood on the fact two to rebuild to borders in france and. as far you know at the economies concerned finance but the immigrants too it's impossible to have closed the country and then we have a true image you know a way to manage the immigration but we need immigration as all the aging countries . media currency crisis. cuts. tragic integration figures. who will be left standing when the people reach. the french election on r t. you stay with us on r.t.

for more coverage of that still to come on the program for today though of violence hits the streets of canada student protests against the planned seventy five percent hike in tuition freeze meter rather tough response from riot police that story just coming up shortly. also a chance to live cancer sufferers in india open a new law to make lifesaving treatment cheaper and local. protesters in egypt of staged the biggest rally in months to demand an immediate end to the military rule which they've lived under for well just more or less a year now the move comes a week after the army barred almost half of the prospective presidential candidates from standing in the upcoming election u.s. based on a list of things the egyptian revolution at the end of the day has been hijacked. obviously things are moving toward toward a collusion here the military doesn't want to give up its privileged position in

society the protesters want a genuine democratic system where this thing is headed to impossible to know you've got this complex force taking place there you've got the military dictatorship funded by the us doesn't want to relinquish power you've got a whole radio protesters out there with diverse interests there you know i mean say we won a genuine democracy in this country the question is who is ultimately going to control their the re their reign of power here and the military is making it very clear that this isn't just a temporary transition to civilian rule they've made it very clear we're here to stay we're the ultimate power we will permit elections to be to be had but under our ultimate control we maintain the ultimate power in this society how is that a genuine democracy and protesters are realizing it's not. we have many more stories or lots of hours to discover online seed thought called sudden including

this one america's plan b. for iran to find out about. four hundred u.s. missiles deployed to the persian gulf as washington gets ready to take quote all options against iran if it doesn't give up its nuclear. threats to killer anders breivik gives a step by step description of exactly how you've massacred sixty nine people on our holiday island in norway last year claiming he had to dehumanizing himself to carry out the atrocity get more of this i know for so many other stories of the. student protest time that nasty in canada run riot police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a rally against a plan to hike and chew wish and freeze the students have been demonstrating almost daily since declaring a boycott on classes now over two months ago that was still though the government

refusing at this point to even back down the independent journalist who says the situation is only getting more violent. what is going on is that the students and not only to students but many citizens are mad at the attitude of the government who doesn't want to discuss that all of the rays of student fees we. actually were according to the prime minister here ago and they don't want to accept this because the feel that it will prevent a lot of deserving students to attend university and to eventually get a degree and find out how good you are and the prime minister he said. with a laugh he scorned to students he said and then tell you he wants to give them a job as far north as possible so that then surely a lot of people and there were violent clashes between police and the protesters in the streets and also yesterday and the day before yesterday massive arras hundreds

of people were asked to be given a huge fines four hundred dollars fines for just walking in the street it's very very regressive the climate is very is degrading by the hour right now. it's a good to have you with us here on r.t. today the vast energy resources of the arctic of so far being fought for by the countries bordering that region but now china the world's biggest energy consumer is joining in the country's premier areas touring europe first stopping in iceland where he signed a course on energy cooperation beijing also wants permanent observer status on the arctic council and some experts believe beijing has a real chance of securing itself a healthy slice. chinese are rising rising very quickly politically and economically so some of the western countries actually true they're cautious they're still was trying to survive yeah actually hesitant to give china this time

instead of india because of the idea interest of china will use always diplomatic skills to try to gain more support from from the not it countries which are more friendly towards china in this region are not a problem another uses are china were also us is. our each true being that supports currently the west is you know prices. for example i sir and i think china will use more of the wells to gain their support in the region. and i still to come on the program very soon we will be going to. the rivers and drove russia's provide two things that are vital for the people that live here. and fish come and see how life revolves around them just a few minutes. i do think a lot of it is corporate driven here and it is related to money unfortunately these

resident gets teeth into genetically modified food whether it's a welcome scientific advance or looking healthy just a few minutes or an artsy we find out the flavor of opinion on the street. art and let's start with iraq on the arts he world update here in the country of twin blasts rocked northern baghdad killing four injuring a dozen the first bomb exploded inside a minibus and there in a shia neighborhood seconds later a roadside bomb blew up a few meters away hitting another car but two days ago al qaeda linked militants carried out a series of assaults across the capital leaving thirty dead nearly one hundred wounded. a bahrain protester has been found shot dead after overnight clashes with security forces reported the man had also been beaten by riot police ahead of the controversial bahrain grand prix on friday tens of thousands took part in and

see regime protests against the sunni ruling elite and demanded reforms activists have promised to knock this weekend's race with quote days of. pakistan has launched an investigation into the cause of a crash that killed all one hundred twenty seven people on board friday but the head of the airline has also been banned from leaving the country the plane crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm miles from its destination the boeing burst into flames after coming down in fields near a village on the outskirts of the capital. over a million people in india are diagnosed with cancer every year and most of the drugs they need are currently imported and they don't come cheap and that could all be about to change though with the new law that means lifesaving medicine can be manufactured locally but this report artie's preassure.

sure the is one of the two point five million people in india dying from cancer while she spent three thousand dollars of her money and traveled for three hundred fifty miles from her home to get proper treatment she believes there is no hope for her address back at the magazines and the stores are expensive who have come from so far so there are times we don't have money to burn it. but now there might be a chance in a revolutionary move india's patent office has decided that they're a german pharmaceutical powerhouse would lose its exclusive rights to manufacture a lifesaving cancer pale rice was a sort of wouldn't be hard but you do have many fruits of some of that order and cynthia it was an affordable and with a good book pollution now a compulsory license would be given to a local indian pharmaceutical manufacturer they could make the exact same drug buy cheaper if all of the sudden blows were the number who would

a whore vocal medicine and would have i know they're good most of those medicines but wouldn't it be a fraction of the price it's all possible because of a revised trade and international property rights agreement passed by the world trade organization known as trips to trips agreement spoke it's to provide medication to all people in developing countries that means that global pharmaceutical companies are required to sell a life altering medication at a reasonably of one of the people in those countries if they don't do that patent offices in those countries can ask these global pharmaceutical companies to provide compulsory licenses so that a local manufacturer can benefit make those drops the idea is that the global pharmaceutical companies would then be stripped of their monopoly on drugs in developing countries. there has been statements that it is quote disappointed in

the ruling and is looking for ways to challenge it this is a saga of what do you do that they don't hold us who give their product. pricing in cuba all the other things you know if you give them a little chance to live and a chance for india to stand up against domination from the west preassure either r t new delhi india. or if you are trying to get a bit chilly here are some more of russia and i will close up our latest adventure to the far flung part of the north. and today we are exploring our russia's extreme north you're not alone yes region is bigger than france and half of its territory lies beyond the arctic circle now the winter last eight months a year which means only

a few number of species can survive in the harsh conditions reindeer and fish mean everything for the indigenous people populating that are all rather are welcoming that artist is there. an icon of the north in yet some other native north and peoples follow grazing reindeer wherever they go their routines revolving around the animals the life of the reindeer herder is usually hard in isolated but occasionally they gather to share their world and compete in the skills they hold on the tundra and i'm about to join the celebrations. last seen throwing. sticks wrestling. and hurdle jumping all cause for competition but the main event is rapidly approaching. races bring teams from foreign. competition it's

tough i feel a bit nervous my rivals get better every year even though i won last year this year the younger ones may compete on a par with me. and perhaps he's right to be a bit jittery but it seems getting started is the trickiest moment. sometimes for cameramen to. look you're. going to. after the festivities sit down to eat some reindeer of course but also. that other russian arctic speciality fish in this nearby factory there preparing thousands of them none of these a c three all having been caught quota from local rivers and i'm told demand is booming and to be able to master there isn't enough of our product even to cover the domestic market europeans find our products delicious anika

logical if you were but so far with simply haven't enough of them to see where all this comes from we caught up with andre he's been fishing since he was a child on the hope today the river shark pike like his carriage and raise a true russian northerner. can't say for fishing in the south it may have his advantages as for me i love to fish right here in the north when it's frosty the air is fresh and the sun is bright it's great. template later andres off to prepare his dinner and we had a small insight into the central importance of these animals to the lives of one or the others without the fish and without the deer. on the lives of those who live here would be very empty indeed tom bottom. right a well there whether we love it or not our genetically modified food is

everywhere and it's become a part of everyday life the next artie's rest of it in the big apple asks people on the streets whether they think g.m. food is a good thing. are you concerned about genetically modified or enhanced foods or is it just an overblown issue this week let's talk about that do you care he eat them obviously not i'm well i think it's less processed foods in europe that's for sure yeah i do think a lot of it is corporate driven here and it is related to money unfortunately modifying genetically food is totally. controlled and they want to take over the super food sources over mankind so they can basically push up on us so why are americans ok with that i think is the knowledge they want to get information from regular t.v. . just being in thirteen did you know that coke color with is made with high for

just corn syrup in the united states but everywhere else it's made with pure cane sugar i didn't know that but it just surprised me. so what is that why don't americans demand better things in their food. they don't want to pay more money for their food. they used to what they're eating my i don't care as long as they're comfortable it doesn't matter that would be my guess i think our country is run by greed and money and there's a lot of issues here so. that they when the greed is so strong that it messes with what people eat. i think i think you just answer the question with your question do you think that because the population is growing and growing and growing that we're bound to eat things like bait in petri dishes and those kinds of extremes probably as there's this website i don't remember the name of it but supposedly. we in a week. told you how many birds we would need for everyone in the world the same

amount you know everyone else and it turns out. there really to be six earths. and you know this in size to say the least but you know your despair is that if american stocks buy genic we modified food rather you think that they'd stop making out all that's one hundred percent yes the pain that i am going to demand dries up the supply dries up to need to start putting that on labels like everything with them they're right absolutely and more people are getting wise to labels now i think and the supermarkets in the shop window see the signs of not start to read more than chicken off the shelf and put in a basket i think the slowly get the idea through media but i think it is more useful for other whether or not you're concerned about genetically modified foods the bottom line is if you live in the united states you're probably eating a lot more of them than you realize.

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