the u.n. security council unanimously voted to send a three hundred strong observer mission to syria amid reports of troops carnations by both the rebels and government troops. campaigning in france ahead of sunday's presidential polls with voters facing a tough choice of a time a social division of record unemployment. and energy hungry china works to secure a slice of the arctic and its untapped mineral resources with the chinese premier and the nordics. so bizarre russia close up team troubles beyond the arctic circle to see how herding and fishing communities they're surviving and thriving.

on screen online around the world this is r.t. live here in moscow the u.n. security council has unanimously voted on a resolution to send hundreds of the observers to syria moscow says it will help promote the un backed cease fire agreement with multiple reports of the truce being violated by both sides well for more on this we can now talk to russia's ambassador to the end of the feelings us now from new york so security council has just agreed to boost the number of observers do you think this time around the mission will be a success. i would certainly hope so in fact very pleased with the outcome of today's vote which happened less than two hours ago it was russia who took the initiative in introducing the draft yesterday morning and it took us just a twenty six hours to bring the effort to fruition through unanimous fold of the

security council on a rather complex resolution boles politically and technically no mean feat by security council standards let me tell you but most important thing is what is going to happen next of course we're told that the money tours are going to be deploying expeditiously their mandate is very carefully outlined so it's very clear both of the monitors what they're expected to do to the government and the opposition what they explain expected to do for the money during mission to be successful both in terms of allowing them to get objective information and that in terms of. making sure that the they operate the environment of our safety and security it's also very important that the mandate of the resolution is fully. provided for in the resolution for the monitors in fully and is fully in line with understandings which have been reached between the and secretary of and the syrian

government so what we're very encouraged that women be on the right track and there are some positive indications on the ground as well because for instance today foreign minister of syria sent a letter to mr kofi annan in which he says of that this indian government has complied has implemented one of the very important provisions of the kofi annan plan the provision about pulling out heavy weapons and troops from out of cities and from around cities if this is in fact the case then that is a very important first step in the implementation. of one of the major provisions of the fan on plan so now we're looking forward to the yes please he say there is cool he's going to there are. is cause for optimism but u.s. ambassador susan rice he said that if the current plan is unsuccessful the mandate would be she says extended you mean by that and how would russia nor the current of the. rest of the rise question the extension of the mandate but we're not at this

stage yet another kind of mandate has been authorized for ninety days and of the security council is going to hear reports about the implementation every fifteen days so what's going to happen in ninety days is anybody's guess of course we're told that the then the situation will become calmer and the political process will be in full swing good lord between the government on the opposition so it remains to be seen if there is a need for extension of that mandate in the ninety days but what was troublesome to me in the statement which was made by ambassador rice and my son colleagues from the west european countries even though they supported this russian draft on the zone of this resolution is that they missed an opportunity to send a signal to the opposition they kept criticizing the government saying nothing about what they expect the from other opposition which is in fact outlined very clearly in the security council resolution which they themselves had just voted for and all those predictions of doom and gloom and threats of various plans which are

being hatched this hour where those things are not are not productive i think they are distracting from much from the implementation of the coffee and on plan and from the political effort of the security council and they may give ground for some extremists to believe that their cause is. still has some prospect for for taking over the political process which we are trying to assess stablished in syria so we're not naive even though the security council voted unanimously today we know that some members of the security council some important members of the international community still continue to think and. informational turns towards a syrian government but incidentally one very important aspect of what happened today by the vote of the security council in favor of this resolution is that the security council has a large area stablished it's put iraq at its in the syrian crisis as

a the international body with which holds parameter responsibility for matters of international peace and security so all those who talk and make statements and convene and gather on discuss that is groups of friends or walk north of syria must also be the spectral all security council resolutions and must contribute to its successful implementation and so you're saying that there is definitely a feeling that the friends of syria undermining russia's efforts in the chinese efforts and of course the syrian regime well you know they are not in line they're not in line with the resolution which was passed today by the security council resolution which was passed a week ago in fact on deploying the advance group of monitors and you know when they keep piling up sanctions against the syrian government and say nothing about the need for the opposition brand to into a dialogue with the syrian government of course it's now in line with the security

council resolution which we adopted today and of course it is not a positive contribution to the support on implementation of the kofi annan plan but we hope that they will adjust their policy political pheromone plan and of that in fact they will do what they're supposed to do and that as president of the opposition that the it's time to enter into a dialogue and time to stop violence in the streets and give a people of syria insincere an opportunity had to figure out of their political future political future of their country on their own russia's ambassador to the u.n. kelly thank you very much and keep your time thanks for joining us live in your. thanks well for more on syria we cannot talk tomorrow saloons from the activist group universal peace federation joining me now from root ball as we know the u.n. security council had to said yes to the new resolution allowing hundreds of monitors into syria do you think that's what syria needs at the moment and will actually help this very fragile cease fire. of course this is what syria and the

national government of syria little president bashar assad needs you know fruitfully see and positively speaking that's what they need mostly on the ground of syria they need the back of support not only by the international community today under the law of the united nations but this resolution to be implemented through the observers that they have just started you know to lend over the soil of syria now accepting those three hundred observers by the government of syria this is what is highly needed by the government for sure and they have accepted this so far as we all heard the foreign minister for a little more live has mentioned this through his visit back in china recently just days ago no the question is how can we abide by such a measure by under the united nations by the international community and as such i

meant the you western union the western europeans let's say or the european community community and. their allies for sure the united states of america and other arab pan out of regional let's see enemy right now but they were friends to syria's national government i meant the qataris and the saudis for sure let us not forget the turkish also for which have not played positively enough the words the regime of president bashar assad and his own government inside syria today what about the fact that u.n. observers are in homs today there is a lull in the violence it's been one of the major syrian flashpoint is that really genuine authenticating a monitor to really getting an idea of what's happening there and indeed elsewhere in syria. i'm sure they already got enough stories or the numbers or statistics they have got photos through satellites and this is what the united nations should do before implementing such

a measure by sending troops or observers to any conflict in nation or a war zone nation let's say as such today in syria and no i'm sure the they have not have not reached breach actually any law inside syria. they have fortified such a law and they have they have abided by such a law which is internationally recognized to me by sending them as monitors all as observers and this is what they ought to do actually in how this or any live or in bed out any major city and major villages not only cities inside syria where clashes have been going on since a year ago or more than a year ago so the real question is how can we support such a resolution how well monitored can can be will service they can be observers under the united nations can they do their charge their job without any conflicting message by any by any other wanted by the opposition is today inside syria all the

regional regional allies as such i made qatar and saudi arabia because certain conspiracies let's see quote unquote can be well acquired or could be ill for infiltrated really in the soyuz of syria or on the on the soles of syria in case they did not need such measures to be applied and hence not to be invested by the government of the national of the of the president bashar assad so the conflicting parties inside syria truly they are not in a conflict under the united nations but each party conflict on the conflict today they want as much as possible to invest over to take any consideration where they can invest or they can have an interest in such as. measured by the united nations political on interest these are be their own enemy or their own. political enemy inside syria today just very briefly interest one word could

a fad survive all of this now from what we're seeing just briefly i'm sure president assad has survived so far since fourteen months ago i mean since the starting of this let's see presumably evolution inside syria but it is a terrorist act as i believe and he has stood i mean further within the his own national government and as such he has been supported by a united army and his own sixty to seventy percent the people of syria still they are backing president bashar al assad ok barcelona thank you very much indeed for your thoughts from the universal peace federation life there. really blackout in france is presidential races giving the candidates just a little breathing space in a tight contest which threatens to oust current leader. if none of the term candidates wins more than fifty percent the electorate will vote again a week later to choose between the top two expected to include socialist leader. reports economic gloom an all time high unemployment

a dominating voters' concerns one day to go before the french hit the polls but one in four voters still haven't made up their minds yet top of the french people's concerns are 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 unemployed so who can take a job and solve the crash people's problems according to the latest poll socialist party candidate is to believe with all twenty nine percent of potential voters don't know what it wants to target the top earners of the country but he is criticized for this widely perceived lack of experience how true that is incumbent nicolas sarkozy is a deeply unpopular president and one recent poll you would declare it would be most unpopular president in french history and his presidency has been marred with what he could not require for another the last weeks of campaigning he's turned to more radical rhetoric of just clamping down on immigration. or talking tough when it

comes to security matters especially after the incident has also taken on a more confrontational tone towards the european union proposing that france freeze its budget contribution to the e.u. budget and currently a third place according to the polls is head of the national front party she has been sticking to an anti immigration platform vowing to cut down the number of legal immigrants to temp hours of the year that's down from about one hundred eighty thousand at the moment and she has also said that she wants france to the euro and go back to the french currency the french frank and 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 from about six to seven percent to fourteen percent now he is mincing no words and is talking about a civil insurrection a revolution came to the financial sector and he also was shot as the new a fiscal pact that had been side he wants to withdraw from nato he's taking on a very strong hardline approach these are the top four contenders vying for the top

job in france now based on the rhetoric they've been using in their campaign france's european neighbors as well as other partners understand that no matter who takes on the presidency there would be disruptions to what a form of continuity they may be expecting it's just a matter of to what extent these changes will impact the relationships and as far as fresh people are concerned they have a few more hours left to make that choice. and the french leader nicolas sarkozy is fighting for his political life in france's presidential elections tomorrow with opinion polls showing he could be toppled pulling his socialist rival. for. close of washington will massively change france's foreign policy so says michel chossudovsky he's from the research center on globalization in montreal. succors is called sock or that maybe he is the head that

he is supportive especially well. interests rather than the interest of programs for public he very much they keep us foreign policy it prevents us foreign policy i suspect that if if some cause the goal was let's say eve a lot of them becomes president of the republic remains. but i'm in my old ship again in the. french foreign policy but i should also mention the other. aspects of this question which is the role of wall street all the european economic landscape because he was to all. pull out of washington and perhaps your presidents as socialist president will give us a little bit more of its republican you know traditions and a dependent voice on the world scale as well as within the european union.

and the currency crisis tough cuts. tragically integration. who will be left standing when the people speech. the french election on party. night or moscow will be twenty four hours a day this is r.t. still to come for a chance to live. can suffer as an indian put their hope in a new north to allow western lifesaving medicine to be made locally and cheaper people thousands who otherwise couldn't afford treatment plus will be going to extremes. the rivers and twin drove russia's far north provide two things that's a vital for the people that live here reindeer and fish come and see how life here revolves. in just a few minutes on r.t. . the vast energy resources of the arctic and so far been fought for by the countries bordering the region but now china the world's biggest energy consumer is

joining the country's premier is touring europe first stop in iceland where he signed accords on energy corp beijing also wants permanent observer status on the arctic council and some experts believe that china has a real chance of securing itself a slight chinese rising rising very quickly because of politically and economically some of the western countries are actually true they're cautious there's. actually hesitant to give china this kind of status in the uk because of the interest of china or us always diplomatic skills to try to gain more support from from the not a country which are more friendly towards china in this region another uses are trying to we're also us is in the army each game there's a broad currency the worst is in a crisis a specially for example i sir and i think china will use more wells to

gain their support in the region. by the way look more stories and a lot else for you to online at r.t. dot com including america's plan b. for iraq. not about reports of over four hundred u.s. missiles deployed to the persian gulf as washington gets ready to take all options against iran if it doesn't give up its nuclear program. this online confessed killer anders bravely gives a step by step description of exactly how he massacred sixty nine people on holiday island in norway last year had to dehumanize himself to carry out the atrocity and get more on this and many more stories of r.t. dot com. time now for more world news for you this hour in iraq a twin blast has rocked more than baghdad killing four people and injuring a dozen the first bomb exploded inside a minibus in the shia neighborhood seconds later a roadside bomb blew up a few meters away if you can of a car two days ago al qaeda linked militants carried out

a series of assaults across the capital leaving thirty people dead and nearly one hundred. protest has been found shot dead after overnight clashes with security forces reported that man had also been beaten by riot police ahead of the controversial bahrain grand prix on friday tens of thousands took part in an anti regime protest against the ruling elite and the market reforms that was promised to knock this weekend's race with days of rain much. pakistan now where investigators are trying to find out why a passenger plane crashed there on friday killing all one hundred twenty seven onboard they've recovered the aircraft flight recorders from the charred wreckage of a boeing seven three seven burst into flames in fields near islamabad international airport during a landing attempt in a thunderstorm a band has been imposed on the head of the budget and from leaving the country the company had only recently restarted business after shutting down due to financial problems over ten years ago. five men have been detained in afghanistan along with

ten tons of material which could be used in bronze security officials in afghanistan say the suspects were plotting to assassinate the country's vice president and detained last sunday but news of the arrests was kept secret to help investigations into other suspects the men were held the baby taliban government launched an eighteen hour assault on the capital's diplomatic district targeting western embassies and residences. over a million people and you're a dog every year most of the drugs they need are currently imported don't come cheap could be about to change though with a new goal that means life saving medicine could be manufactured locally for his peers for reports. she wrote the v.a. 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 abby

back at the magazines and the stores are expensive and have come from so far so there are times we don't have money to buy 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 use of rights to manufacture a life saving cancer pair the phrase was it sort of wouldn't be hard to get you do manufactured from abroad and soon here it was under forty one who the indian population now a compulsory license would be given to a local indian pharmaceutical manufacturer they could make the exact same drug buy cheaper all of the sort of and those who are a number of medicine and one of the i know because those those in that it's news but i'm there for some of the price it's all possible because of the revised trade and international property rights agreement passed by the world trade organization

known as trips to trips agreements focus is to provide medication to all people in developing countries that means the global pharmaceutical companies are required to sell life altering medication at a reasonably afford to people in those countries if they don't do that patent offices in those countries can ask these global pharmaceutical companies to provide compulsory. i think it is so that a local manufacturer can ban make those drugs the idea is that the global pharmaceutical companies would then be stripped of their monopoly on drugs in developing countries. fair has sat in statements that it is quote disappointed in the ruling and is looking for ways to challenge it this is a solid path of what it will do the person calling us. even their product you know

the price you give all the americans you know gives them a little chance to live and it chance for india to stand up against domination from the west preassure either party new delhi india. get to know more of russia close up no later is essential to all to a far flung parts of the nation. today we're exploring russia's extreme north the. bigger than france of its territory lies beyond the arctic circle the winter that last eight months a year which means only a few species can survive in the harsh conditions ranger and fish everything for the indigenous people populating this welcoming. discovered. an icon of the north and yet some of the native north and peoples follow brazing

reindeer wherever they go routines revolving around beyond the walls the life of the reindeer herder is usually hard and isolated but occasionally they gather to share their world and compete in the skills they hold on the tundra and i am about to join the celebrations. through him. stick wrestling. and hurdle jumping all cause for competition but the main event is rapidly approaching. the reindeer races bring teams from far and wide from the competition is tough but i feel a bit nervous getting 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 it seems getting started is the trickiest moment. it's.

sometimes for a camera man to. your skin it's just after the festivities i sit down to eat some reindeer of course but also that other russian arctic speciality fish. in this nearby factory they're preparing thousands of them none of these are safe ish all having been caught quota from local rivers and i'm told demand is booming the whole scenario. there isn't enough of our product even to cover the domestic market europeans find our products delicious and into 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 today river shark pike like his catch and raise a true russian northerner if i were with anyone you thought i can't say for fishing

in the south it may have its advantages as for me i love to fish right here in the north well it's frosty the air is fresh and the sun is bright it's great it's literal ten point later andres off to prepare his dinner and we have a small insight into the central importance of bees animals to the lives of northern weller's without the fish and without the deer tundra on the lives of those who live here would be very empty indeed. some boston art scene. just twenty seven minutes past the hour here in the russian capital stay with us for the headlines and the latest edition of capital account from washington that's ahead for you there naughty.

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