u.n. security council votes to send three hundred observers to syria and russia warns nations not to undermine the mission after the u.s. says only pressure on the assad regime will work. campaigning ends in france ahead of sunday's presidential poll with voters facing a tough choice at a time a social division and record unemployment. energy hungry china works to secure a slice of the arctic and its untapped mineral resources chinese premier the tour of the nordic states on top stories this hour. on screen online around the world this is r.t.

life here in moscow the un security council has unanimously voted on a resolution to send hundreds of observers to syria and says it will help promote the un backed cease fire agreement with multiple reports of the truce being violated by both sides. as more now 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 u.n. 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 calls for in the six point peace plan laid out by u.n.

joint envoy mr kofi annan on russia of course the leaves that this most recent development and syria is a step in the right direction but it is a good resolution isn't fundamentally newsgroup's the system went in syria in showing a consensus. seems. to be to comply with the resolution any deviation in terms of being through its reach and of the mandate is unacceptable the libyan model she's remain in the. 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 took to her twitter feed to say the deployment of three hundred or three thousand unarmed observers cannot on its own stop assad's quote 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. it is undermining in many ways the effort that is indeed made from inside the security council to support the six point peace plan that was laid out by mr kofi i pastor a church that said that these efforts that are trying to put pressure on an already stressful situation does not help bring peace and security to syria drabble some to me in the statement which was made by ambassador rice and by some colleagues from the west european countries even though they supported this russian draft on the front 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 now the opposition which is in fact outlined very clearly in the security council resolution which they themselves had just voted for and old those predictions of a boom on blue threats of various plans which are being hatched this hour where those things are not imo productive i think they're distracting from much 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 to believe that there of course is a still has prospect for for taking over the political process which we are trying to assess that was they can see this little girl will even though the security council voted unanimously today we are told that the some members of the security council some important members of the international community. still continue to think and come from patient terms stores of this union government

ambassador churkin says the syrian government will be primarily responsible for the safety and security of the u.n. unarmed observers that will be deployed to syria they will be deployed once the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon feels that it's safe enough for the. observers to go and there has been enough suspicion of violence this resolution the most recent one adopted also underscores that the syrian government and the opposition group both have to put their weapons out weapons down and begin engaging in dialogue. saloon from the activist group universal peace federation has told me that external forces could hamper the peace initiative in syria because of interests in the region certain conspiracies let's see. can be well acquired or can be in for infiltrated really in the soils of syria all around on the souls of syria the real question is how well monitors can they do their job

without any conflicting message by any opposition is today inside syria all the regional allies such qatar and saudi arabia they want as much as possible to invest but will to take any consideration where they can invest or they can have an interest in such measure by the united nations to their own interest if these are be their own enemy or their own. political enemy inside syria today. a media blackout in france is presidential race is giving the candidates just a little breathing space in a tight context which threatens to oust the current leader because if not of the turn kind of this wins more than fifty percent the electorate will vote again a week later choose between the top two expected to include the socialist leader and front runner. city reports the economic gloom at all times high unemployment a dominating voters' concerns. one day to go before the french kick 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 the time when unemployment is around ten percent hitting an all time high that's about three million people unemployed so who can take the talk shop and saw the cash people's problems according to the latest poll socialist party candidate is to believe that about twenty nine percent are potential voters don't know what it wants to target the top income earners of the country but he is criticized for this widely perceived the lack of experience how truly beyond france or not is incumbent nicolas sarkozy he's a deeply unpopular president and one recent poll you would declare it would be most unpopular president in french history or his presidency has been marred with one economic crisis after another the last weeks of campaigning he's towards a more radical rhetoric of just clamping down on immigration policy got some birds out or talking tough when it comes to security matters especially after the two

star matt 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 i currently have third place according to the polls is most of the national front party now she has been sticking to it and to the immigration platform vowing to cut down the number of illegal 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 the euro and go back to the french currency the french frank what's being called the big surprise of this french present. campaign is. of the left right now his numbers have doubled since january from about six to seven percent of now about fourteen percent now he is mincing no words and is talking about a civil insurrection a revolution he did that also has the financial sector and he also. had to decide he wants to draw for me so he's taking on a very strong hard line approach to these are the top four contenders wife for the

top job based on the web for a big using of their campaign. neighbors as well as other partners understand that that will matter who takes on the presidency there will be disruptions to where the form of continually they may be 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. the french leader nicolas sarkozy is fighting for his political life as france's presidential election begins in a few hours time with opinion polls saying he could be toppled by his socialist rival . a defeat for the who's been a close ally to washington will massively change france's foreign policy says michel chossudovsky he's from the research center on globalization in montreal. succors is all saku are going to be care he is the american and that he is supportive especially of all american interests

rather than the interest of the french republic he very passionately for us foreign policy prevents us foreign policy i suspect that if if some fuzzy goals let's say e.g. crosswalks lolol becomes president of the republic we may see you know personally mild shift in. french foreign policy but i should also mention that other. aspects of this question which is the role of wall street europe here economic landscape because he was a tool and an instrument of washington and perhaps the new president's socialist president will give us a little bit more of a republican you know traditions of being an ape and other

world scale as well as within the european union. the occurrence of crisis tough cuts. tragic integration. who will be left standing with the people speech. the french election on r.t. . this is r.t. live from moscow with the twenty four hours a day still to come this hour the chance to live cancer sufferers in india put their hope in a new law to allow western lifesaving medicines made locally and cheaper than felsenstein otherwise couldn't afford treatment plus swill be going to extremes. the rivers and twinge of russia's far north provide two things that are vital for the people that live here and fish come and see how my fear revolves around them just a few minutes on r.t. . well that's two to come but first the vast energy resources of the arctic have 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 stopping in iceland where he signed accords on energy corp beijing also wants permanent observer status on the arctic council and some experience but he china has a real chance of securing itself a slice. chinese are rising rising very quickly because of politically and economically or somewhat the western countries actually should have cautious there's the australian answer why is saudi actually hesitant to give china this time of setters in the uk because of being first to china or us always diplomatic skills to try to gain more support from from the not it can do so which are more friendly cause china in this region another you see is a china were also us is it. our each game that's of well it's currently the worst is in a crisis a specially for example i sir and i think china will use more of the wells.

in their support in the region. bahrain protesters been found short overnight clashes with security forces it's reported some other demonstrators were also beaten by riot police ahead of the controversial power informant on grand prix on friday tens of thousands took part in an anti regime protest to coincide with the race. he's a journalist and editor of the twenty first century were explained to me earlier why he thinks there's been no condemnation from western countries. bahrain is one of the. monarchies in the middle east we're going to change or change of leadership recently but as you can see hasn't changed we've seen reports of violence coming out of bahrain we're out of the one after another for the last year or two years the it's not uncommon to the police will have drive by shootings or people in bahrain you can watch these videos on you tube if you want it's the worst police

states a region so we form i don't think so if we were going to see reform in bahrain it would have come after the recent change of leadership. is under the umbrella of the western nations in terms of influence in the region the rain is a satellite state of the kingdom of saudi arabia and also introduce a satellite state in the region of washington and london we have incredible vested interests there in terms of petroleum contracts etc and also it's just it's a strategic defense position as well. up to two thousand people have joined an anti nato rally in central russia to protest against a planned transit hub for the alliance in the city of. the protesters chanted slogans such as no to nato on russian soil somebody announces transit routes to afghanistan go through russia and you can you would see nato using port two military cargo position claims that would threaten russia's security despite the

government's assurances that no nato personnel would be stationed there one prominent opposition activist the leader of the left front movement saturday adult self is now under investigation after claims he attacked i think journalists journal writing. in india more than a million people are diagnosed with cancer every year and although some of the conditions manageable the drugs needed to treat them have to be imported and they don't come cheap but now a new law may change the situation dramatically pressuring to has more. she were the 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 aberrant back at the amount of sounds of the stores are experiencing who have come from so far as we don't have money to burn. 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 that i use was absorbed into the heart you can it you can manufacture from abroad and soon it was an affordable. relation and now a compulsory license would be given to a local indian pharmaceutical manufacturer that could make the exact same drug but cheaper all of a sudden blows who are a number who hoard medicine and would have. you know the good news that goes in that it's news but if it were for 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 the 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 a political fight 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 licenses so that a local manufacturer can benefit make those drugs the idea is that the global pharmaceutical companies would then be stripped of their monopoly on drugs in developing countries. fear has set in statements that it is quote disappointed in the rule and is looking for ways to challenge it this is. going to the. top he. in. your view it's a chance to live in india chance for india to stand up against domination from the west preassure either r t new delhi india. now let's take

a look at some other world news making headlines around the world in our world that they took at least sixty feet from the been injured and a head on rail crash in amsterdam on saturday evening the high speed express approaching the city collided with a local train heading in the opposite direction up to twenty of the injured remain in a serious condition rail traffic to the country's capital and its main international airport have been severely disrupted. the flight recorder has been recovered by investigators of friday's plane crash in pakistan that took the lives of all one hundred twenty seven people aboard the boeing seven three seven from karachi crash in islam about international airport while attempting to land or thunderstorm. that only aircraft has been banned from leaving the country the company only recently restarted after shutting down due to financial problems more than ten years ago. clearly given the interim president nominated after a military coup earlier this month has resigned he expressed concerns over the

legality of his nomination in april army officers captured the prime minister along with the president of the stablished and national transitional council with its own leader u.n. security council threatened to impose sanctions on the drugs if civilian rule was not restored. a motor rally is being held in moscow in support of russia's orthodox church about seven hundred drivers and bikers tied glooms and flags to their vehicles to take part in the procession participant same event is to support the orthodox church which has come under public criticism with several protests including a punk rock group taking over the pulpit and moscow's main cathedral several presidencies in support of the faith and many of its holy sites planned on sunday. well whether we love it or not genetically modified food is everywhere and has become part of everyday life starting is resident in the big apple asked people on the streets there 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 if you eat them honestly not. 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. in controlling 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 got the information from regular t.v. . just being intervened did you know a bad cold caller was is made with high for best corn syrup in the united states but everywhere else it's made with pure cane sugar i didn't know that but it doesn't surprise me. so what is that why don't americans demands better things in

their food. they don't want to pay more money for their food needs they used to what they're eating but 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. use it say when the greed is so strong that it messes with what people eat. i think i think you just answered the question with your question do you think that because the population is growing and growing and growing that we're bound to even things like made in petri dishes and those kinds of extremes probably yes there's this website i don't remember the name of it but supposedly you put what you we in a week and it told you how many earths we would need for everyone in the world the same amount you know why i was once in it and it turns out. there really need to be such earths for me and you know this in size to say the. but you know if

americans stopped by jet likely modify food rather you think that they'd stop making out or that's one hundred percent yes the plane tomorrow i'm going to demand dries up the supply dries up to need to start putting them on labels that everything that they're right absolutely and more people are getting wise to labels now i think in the supermarkets in the shopping they'll see the signs of not start to read more than they get off the shelf and put in a basket i think just slowly get the idea through media but i think these two go more further 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. more of russia close are they just a bunch of shorter a far flung part of the ration.

today we're exploring russia's extreme north the modern it's region is bigger than france and its territory lies beyond the arctic circle which of the last eight months a year which means only few species can survive in the harsh conditions reindeer and fish mean everything for the indigenous people populating this welcoming land as target discovered. an icon of the north and yet some other native northern 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 hone in on the tundra and i'm about to join the celebrations. throwing. stick wrestling. and hurdle jumping all cause for competition but the main event is rapidly

approaching. races bring teams from far and one of the competition is 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 it seems getting started is the trickiest moment. sometimes for a cameraman to. look you up to. the match. after the festivities and sit down to eat some reindeer of course but also that other russian arctic speciality fish in this nearby fact train are preparing fountains of none of these a c three ish all having been caught quota from local rivers and i'm told demand is booming in the city oh. here is an hour from our product in. to

cover the domestic market europeans find our products delicious and ecological if you were but so far with it we haven't enough from there. 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 good river shark pike and like his carriage and raise a true russian northerner and we're with them you 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 when it's frosting the air is fresh and the sun is bright it's great it's ten point later andres off to prepare his dinner and we have a small insight into the central importance of these animals to the lives of norman the owners without the fish and without the deer. in the lives of those who live here will be very empty indeed tom watson.

perhaps you were twenty six minutes past the hour here in the russian capital up next max and stacey expose more dark secrets of the global financial industry that's because report i'll be back there with headlines before that stay with us live here in moscow.

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