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on screen online around the world this is r.t. life here in moscow the u.n. security council has unanimously voted on a resolution to send hundreds of observers to syria moscow says it will help promote the un backed cease fire agreement with multiple reports of a truce been violated by both sides portnoy has more from new york. once again the united nations security council has unanimously adopted a resolution on syria the most recent one drafted by russia and co-sponsored by eight other countries the resolution calls for and authorizes up to three hundred unarmed un minute military observers to go to syria and monitor the truce the cease fire that was put in place april twelfth between damascus and the opposition groups this resolution also calls on the syrian government to meet its responsibilities

and pledges is called for in the six point peace plan laid out by u.n. joint envoy mr kofi i'm russia of course believes that this most recent development in syria is a step in the right direction but your. resolution is of fundamental importance for a peace settlement in syria in showing a consensus regarding six point peace plan the main goal should be to comply with the resolution any deviation intended be interpretated of the mandate is an acceptable libyan model should remain in the past. in the meantime u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice left the meeting on saturday not showing as much optimism as russia and many other countries had susan rice shipped to her twitter feed to say the deployment to other three hundred or three thousand

armed observers had knots on its own stop assad's murderous rampage susan rice said that external pressures are additionally needed to solve the problem in syria the us ambassador also said that washington and its allies are preparing for action that will be required if assad persists to quote slaughter clearly this is undermining in many ways the effort that is being made from inside the security council to support the six point peace plan that was laid out by mr kofi annan on bester churkin said that these efforts that are trying to put pressure on an already stressful situation does not help bring peace and security to syria was drug listen to me in the statement which was made by a bunch of the guys on by some colleagues from the west european countries even

though they supported this russian draft on the doctrine of this resolution is that they missed an opportunity to signal to the opposition they could criticizing the government saying nothing about what they expect the from of the opposition which is in fact outlined very clearly in the security council resolution which they themselves had just voted for and nobles but it seems of a blue one blue threads of that is which are being patched this hour we're those things are not on the quebec they were i think they are distracting from from the implementation of the kofi annan plan and from the political efforts of the security council and they may give a ground for some extremists. i believe that there of course is. still has some prospect for for taking over the political process which we are trying to assist mostly in syria so it will be played 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 confrontational term stores of the syrian government and as richardson says the syrian government will be primarily responsible for the safety and security of the u.n. unarmed observers that will be deployed in syria they will be deployed once the my secretary general ban ki-moon feels that it's safe enough for the observers to go and there has been enough to satiate of violence this resolution the most recent one it's out there also underscores that the syrian government and the opposition group both have to put their weapons out but in scouting and again engaging in dialogue i spoke to maha saloon from the activist group universal peace federation and allele here in our team he says external forces could put a peace initiative in syria because of their interests in the region certainly

conspiracies let's see uncool can be well acquired or can be inferred infiltrated to be in the stories of syria or on the stories of syria the real question is how when you want to can they do their job without any conflicting message by any opposition is today inside syria or their regional allies and such qatar and saudi arabia they want as much as possible to invest a little to take any consideration where they could invest or they can have an interest in such a measure by the united nations to their own interest and fees or be their enemy or their own. political anime inside the. i media blackout in france's presidential race is giving the candidates just a little breathing space in a tight contest which threatens to oust current leader. if one of the ten candidates wins more than fifty percent the electorate will vote again a week later in a runoff to choose between the two expected to include the socialist leader.

reports economic gloom an all time high unemployment a dominating versions concerns. 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 unemployed so who can take the top. people's problems the latest poll socialist party. you can believe in about twenty nine percent all potential voters almost want to target the top income earners of the country but he is criticized for this widely perceived the lack of experience truly is incumbent people are these are deeply unpopular president and one recent poll even declare him the most unpopular president in history his presidency has been marred with right economic crisis after another the last weeks of campaigning he's turned to

more radical rhetoric of just clamping down on immigration putting got some birds out or talking tough when it comes to security matters especially after the incident has also taken on a more confrontational tone. you're proposing that france freeze its budget contribution to the e.u. budget currently a third place according to the polls is most of the national front party she has been sticking to it i'm sorry immigration platform to cut down the number of illegal immigrants to ten thousand here 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 frank what's being called the big surprise of this french presidential. it is the look of the left right now his numbers have doubled since january for about sixty seven percent to forty percent now he is mincing no words and is talking about a civic insurrection a revolution he did that also has the financial sector and he also was shines the

e.u. is this big side he wants to withdraw from so 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 will be disruptions to what he thought of contiguity baby expected it's just a matter of to what extent these changes will impact the relationships as far as french people are concerned they have a few more hours left to make that choice. so the french leader nicolas sarkozy is fighting for his political life in france as presidential elections tomorrow with opinion polls saying he could be toppled boy his socialist rival. defeat for really close out of washington will massively change france's foreign policy so says show he's probably research center on globalization in montreal. succors cd is

called suck or maybe he is the american character that he is supposed to perceptually of american interests rather than the interest of the grenfell public he very much they see us foreign policy implements us foreign policy i suspect that if if some foresee goals let's say egypt also alone becomes president of the republic we may see. a mild shift in. french foreign policy but i should also mention the other. aspect of this question which is the role of wall st paul the europe here economic landscape cozy it was true all that is true of washington and perhaps your presidents a socialist president will give

a little bit more of its republican you know traditions of the pendants voice other world scale as well as within european union. and build a currency crisis talks. tragically to gratian. who will be left standing with the people. the french election on party. this is r.t. live here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day still to come this hour a chance to live. up to sufferers in india but their hope in a new north west of lifesaving medicine made locally and cheaper open felton's who otherwise couldn't afford treatment plus we're going to extremes a little later. the rivers and drove russia's far more provide two things that are vital for the people who live here. and fish come and see how life here revolves

around just a few minutes. for the vast energy resources of the arctic of so far been fought for by the countries bordering the region but now china the world's biggest energy consumer is joining in the country's premier is touring europe first stop in iceland where he signed accords on energy cooperation asia also want permanent observer status on the arctic council and some experts believe china has a real chance of securing itself a slight chinese rising rising very quickly also politically and economically somewhat the western countries actually should have cautious their stores trying to survive actually hesitant to give china this climate status in the uk because i'd be interested china will use always diplomatic skills to try to gain more support from from the not a country's so which are also friendly because china in this region another you see is a china were also us is an army. again or supports currently the west is in the crisis

a specially for example are a certainty i think china will use small wells to. invest the boy in the region. by the way a lot more stories and a lot else for you online at r.t. dot com including america's plan before iran. find out 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. was on line at the moment confessed killer and as brave it gives a step by step description of how exactly he massacred sixty nine people on a holiday island in norway last year claiming he had to dehumanise himself to carry out the atrocity more on this and many more stories that are dot com right now. but bahrain protesters being found shot dead after overnight clashes with security

forces it's reported some other demonstrators were also beaten by riot police ahead of the controversial bar in formula one grand prix on friday tens of thousands took part in an anti regime protest to coincide with the race well for more analysis i'm now joined by patrick henningsen he's a journalist and editor of the twenty first century while. bahrain's leaders claim live introduce significant reforms but people are still clearly very angry patrick roy is that. well look at bahrain as one of the petrol marquees in the middle east we've got to change or change of leadership recently but as you can see it hasn't changed we've seen reports of violence coming out of bahrain one after the one after another for the last year or two years look the it's not uncommon that the police will have to drive by shootings or people in bahrain you can watch these videos on you tube if you want it's one of the worst police state salut region so reform i don't think so if we were going to see reform in bahrain it would have

come after the recent change of leadership bahrain is under the umbrella of the western nations in terms of influence in the region so is that why we're not seeing a strong condemnation you mentioned the police behavior and also of course we're seeing excessive force used against protesters a moment why is it then is that why we're not seeing a strong condemnation from western countries indeed david cameron when asked about yesterday in a british parliament he said reforms are under way in bahrain you cannot possibly compare it to the likes of syria is that a fair observation. bahrain is a satellite state of the kingdom of saudi arabia and also in turn is a satellite state in the region of washington and london we have been credible vested interest there in terms of. actually in contracts etc and also as to its history teacher defense position is well known if you're looking ahead with the teacher conflict with iran bahrain is also a strategic position there across the gulf so look it's they operate on

a very thin veneer of civilization in these countries they are police states dictatorships their monarchies a bit ironic that they're also a member of the arab league and the arab league is supposed to be of peace. wanting reforms in a country like syria who had absolutely no problems internally until the western countries began a proxy war so the arab league is really an apologist for the nato in the u.s. interests in the region that's one of one race to take place very shortly starting up a lot of meetings no rest should have been canceled should have gone ahead. well look for a casual observer you look at the other countries that host a formula one world wide it's it doesn't really have a place in a country like bahrain it's bahrain doesn't measure up to. sort of progressive democratic states like brazil or some of the european countries that are kind of

tame social democracies and even you know the u.s. is hosting its first grand prix this year in austin texas it's gonna rain and the formula one the marriage came about many years ago because of the extreme wealth this involved with formula one in bernie ecclestone for william empire it because it was a bit they're able to broker a deal to have a grand prix in bahrain but like i said you take away that then veneer of society in bahrain and you have a it's a it's a pressure cooker under the surface it's a two tier society you have the extreme wealth and then you have the worker class that a lot of foreign workers from india pakistan bangladesh basically run the infrastructure of the country like saudi arabia and in almost every other country in the gulf states of protests and announced days of rage said according against this upcoming about all we're looking at a situation that could perhaps get worse and become another syria or indeed libya.

no because bahrain as long as they do when they vote in they act in accordance to their united states and what the policies foreign policies come out of washington and london as long as they tell you that live in the poll the leadership level the youth of the west doesn't really care generally they don't care in washington or london or other countries what they do what the bahrainis do to their own people there they were brutal they have always been brutal but you know cierra gas restricting protests restricted freedom of speech these are also things that we're experiencing in the u.k. and in in the united states we have free speech zones you need comments to protest police who routinely tear gassing protesters using sound and ins so we really need to take a look at ourselves now the conversation believe me i was so out of whack it's unbelievable the west needs to really take their moral relevancy and look inwards and look at what's going on in their own country before they can judge

a country like bahrain who's an overtly brutal police state interesting to get your perspective on this thank you very much indeed patrick having some journalist and editor of the twenty first century watch joining us live there in the usa keep. up to two thousand people have joined an anti nato rally here in central russia to protest against a planned a transit hub for the alliance in the city of the protesters chanting slogans such as no to nato on russian soil some of the nazi transit routes to afghanistan go through russia and a new deal would see nato using. pull to move normal military cargo from a physician claims that would threaten russia's security despite the government's assurances that no nato personnel would be station at one prominent opposition activists the leader of the left front movement said he would also offer is now under investigation after claims he attacked a female journalist during the. well some more world news for you this hour here on r.t. in a world update in a rocket twenty rocked

a northern baghdad killing four people and injuring a dozen the first bomb exploded inside a minibus in the sure neighborhood seconds later a roadside bomb blew up a few meters away hitting another 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. the second is trying to find out why a passenger plane crashed in pakistan on friday killing all one hundred twenty seven onboard have recovered the aircraft flight recorders from the charred wreckage of a boeing seven fifty seven burst into flames and fields and it is not about international airport during a landing attempt in a thunderstorm that has been imposed on the head of the bushehr airline from leaving the country company recently restarted business after shutting down due to financial problems over ten years ago. also in our world update five men have been detained in afghanistan along with ten tons of material which could be used in bombs security officials in afghanistan say the suspects were

plotting to assassinate the country's vice president and detained last sunday but the use of the rest was kept secret to help investigations into other suspects a member held the taliban government wants an eighteen hour assault on the capital's diplomatic district targeting western embassies and presidencies. everybody people are going to regard those with cancer every year and most of the drugs they need are currently imported and don't come cheap could be about to change the with a new door that means life saving medicine could be ratified should locally ortiz proofread a report. 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 her address 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 pale the phrase was it sort of wouldn't be hard it is manufactured from abroad and so on here it was an affordable population now a compulsory license would be given to a local indian pharmaceutical manufacturer that could make the exact same drug buy cheaper all of the seven dollars who are a number of the medicine and would have no business of those goes in that it's news but i'm here for some 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 life altering medication at a reasonably affordable to people in those contrary if they don't do that patent offices in those countries can ask these global pharmaceutical companies to provide compulsory. i think it's so that a local manufacturer can than you can make those straw but the idea is that the global pharmaceutical companies would then be stripped of their monopoly on drugs in developing countries. perry has said in statements that it is quote disappointed in the rule in and is looking for ways to challenge it this is a solid path of what it will do that they can hold us to even their product. pricing and give all the americans you know leave them a little a chance to live and a chance for india to stand out against domination from the west preassure either r

t new delhi india. turned out to get to know more of russia close up his adventure to war to a far flung part of the nation. today we're exploring russia's extreme north the region is bigger than france and half of its territory lies beyond the arctic circle the winter than last eight months a year which means only a few species can survive in the harsh conditions rain and fish mean everything for the indigenous people populating this very welcome you have this top bottom discovered. and i called of the north billion yet some of the native north and peoples follow grazing reindeer whenever they go their routines revolving around the animals 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 to indra and i am about to join the celebrations. lassie throwing. a stick wrestling. and hurdle jumping all cause for competition but the main event is rapidly approaching the range of races bring teams from far and one of the competition is tough 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 cameraman to. look you're. going to see after the

festivities to 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 none of these are sea fish all having been caught quota from local rivers and i'm told demand is booming in syria to a national level there isn't enough of our product even to cover the domestic market europeans find our products delicious and a collage of hope you work but so far with people haven't enough for 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 catch andres a true russian northerner somewhere with a new need for you can't say for a share in the south it may have as advantages as for me i love to fish right here in the north well it's frosting here it's fresh and the sun is bright it's great.

ten point later andres off to prepare his dinner and we had a small insight into the central importance of these animals to the lives of normal rollers without the fish and without the deer tundra and the lives of those who live here would be very empty indeed. tom bought some seat. what do you stay with us from the headlines coming up very shortly and then it's the latest edition of all the cars report here on our t.v. wanted for you stay with us.

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