the u.n. security council votes to sign three hundred observers to syria russia wills nations not to undermine the mission after a big you are says only pressure on their side regime will work. also this hour campaigning and in france ahead of sunday's presidential pull with bush is facing a tough choice at a time of social division under grissom's unemployment. and energy hungry china works to secure a slice of the arctic and its untapped mineral resources with the chinese premier on a tour of the nordic state. hello and welcome to our two twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is you

leadership of iowa thanks for joining us 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 u.n. back cease fire agreement with multiple reports of the trees being violated by both sides are she's worried of 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 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 of calls for six point peace plan laid out by un joint envoy mr kofi annan

on russia of course believes that this most recent development in syria is a step in the right direction but it is a good resolution is of fundamental importance group he certainly is in syria enjoys a consensus rebuilding and six point peace plan the main goal should be to comply with the resolution any deviation in terms of the interpretation of the mandate is unacceptable 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 took to her twitter feed to say that deployment of three hundred or three thousand unarmed observers cannot 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 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 what was troubling some to me in the statement which was made by a bus of the eyes 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 position they kept criticizing the government saying nothing about

what they expect the from the opposition which is in fact. very clearly in the security council resolution which they themselves had just voted for and all those revisions of a blue on blue threats of that is which are being hatched this hour we're those things are not i'm not productive i think they are distracting from a month from the implementation of the coffin of one of the political efforts of the security council and they may give a ground for some extremists. we believe. their cause is a still has some prospect for taking over the political process which we're trying to assist in syria so google will know played even though the security council voted unanimously today we know some members of the security council some important members of the international community are. still considered to think i'm going from personal terms towards

a syrian government and that's richardson 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 to say should of violence this resolution the most recent one i talked to also underscores that the syrian government and the opposition group both have to put their weapons out weapons down and begin in dialogue and also don and his crime based from the u.k. told us that peace efforts in syria are being undermined by western players and keep mounting pressure on best operation. look at what the original strategy or theoretical plan was to basically roll out the same strategy as was employed in libya the syrian people and for to that end they fermented a civil war they were successful in that using their proxy forces using libyan

militants that they shipped in across the turkish border using people trained in lebanon and turkey and successfully managed to foment some kind of insurgency civil war situation as a battle within their western strategic kind of planners at the moment about how which way they're going to play this little became very difficult for anyone to have any faith that these proxy forces and could actually had any hope of taking power and therefore the kind of idea of regime change and most realistic observers now saying is not really feasible if in less outside intervention comes into play so there's still keen to promote this idea that they may conduct some kind of aerial bombardment some kind of mass slaughter to help their proxies on the ground in order to keep this civil war going. the moment of truth is looming for french presidential hopefuls as they've actually just starting just hours meanwhile citizens of french overseas territories have already cast their ballots along with

those opposing him and this is a broad time constants are competing in this weekend's first round with a pair of polls showing socialist francois alonso pulling slightly ahead of the incumbent conservative president down cyclizine if none of the hopeful swings mortar fifty percent for a second part will take place a week later in a runoff between to talk to you all she's tests are saying there has more on the candidates program. one day to go before the french polls but one in four voters still haven't made up their minds yet talk 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 job and solve the french people's problems who are to believe a school socialist party. is to keep the lead with about twenty nine percent all potential votes so i'm not one to target the talk it perverse of the country but he is criticised 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 him we most unpopular president in history now his presidency has been marred with one economic crisis after another the last weeks of campaigning he's turned to more radical rhetoric of just clamping down on immigration putting dozens of birds out or talking tough when it comes to security matters especially after the two incidents he's also taken on a more confrontational tone towards the european union proposing that france freeze its budget partly be issued to the e.u. budget currently a third place according to the polls is most of the national front party as he was been sticking to it and to immigration platform vowing to cut down the number of legal immigrants to temp hours that we hear that's down from about one hundred eighty thousand at the moment and she has also said. that she wants for the euro and go back to the french currency the french and what's being called the big surprise of this french presidential campaign is. of the left right now his numbers

have doubled since gender is about sixty seven percent to forty percent now he is mincing and no word since talking about a civic insurrection a revolution he did not also as the financial sector and he also was shot as the fiscal pact would have been side he wants to withdraw from so he's taking on a very strong hardline approach well these are the top four contenders why for the talk with 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 we feel we're continually baby expecting it's just a matter of to what extent these changes will impact the relationships people are concerned they have a few more hours left to make that choice. so french or even including financing for his political life as france's president should actions begins in just a few hours time opinion poll saying he could be toppled by his socialist rival

france on land at the feet for sarkozy has been a close allies who washington of all massively trained france's foreign policy says michel chossudovsky from the research center and globalization in montreal. succors is all suck or maybe he is the very clear that he is supportive to say actually of her interests rather than the interests of the grenfell public he's very much they see us foreign policy limits us foreign policy i suspect that if if some foresee go was a lot so easy because what a lot of becomes president of the republic we really don't know but only mild shift in. french foreign policy but i should also be. proud of this question which is the role of wall street although europe here

because all the landscape because he was true opened it is true of washington and perhaps the new president's presence this president will give us a little bit more of its republican hugo traditions of being a day and voice of the world scale as well as with european union. and the currency crisis tough cuts. tragic integration failures. who will be left standing with the people speech. the french election on party. and bahrain protest has been found shot down after the other night clashes with security forces it's reported some other demonstrators are also beaten by riot police ahead of a controversial bahrain formula one prong pre on friday tens of thousands take part

in an anti regime pressure kind side with the brains patrick having seen the challenge of the twenty first century why springs rihab things there has been no condemnation from western countries. well rain is one of the petrol archy's in the middle east and the kind of change a change of leadership recently but as you can see hasn't changed we've seen reports of violence coming out of bahrain want out of that one after another for the last year or two years the it's not uncommon that the police will have a drive by shootings of people in bahrain you can watch these videos on you tube if you want it's one of the worst police states a 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 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 who have incredible vested interests there in terms of actually i'm contracts etc and also as to its history teacher defense position as well. if you're watching r.t. and still to come a chance to live the suppers in india put that hope in new law allowed western lives saving medicines they made locally and cheaper helping thousands who otherwise couldn't afford treatment plants will be going to extremes. the rivers and twin drove russia's far north provide two things that are vital for the people who live here. and fish come and see how life revolves around them just a few minutes marty. that's later before us are two thousand people have joined an antenatal rally in central russia to protest against a planned transit hub for the alliance in the city of well yeah that's the protesters chanted slogans including no to nato on russian soil some of their lines

is transitory start ghana's tango through russia and a new deal would seem they say using scare port to move north military cargo the opposition claims that that would threaten russia security despite the government's assurances that no nato personnel will be stationed there and one prominent opposition activist the leader of the left front movement through good old software is now under investigation after claims he are tired of being old journalist during the run. if asked energy resources of the arctic so far been by the countries bordering the region but now china the world's biggest and the to consumers joining in the country's premier its touring europe first stopping in iceland where he signed a cause and energy corporation beijing also wants a permanent observer status on the arctic council and some experts believe china has a real chance of securing itself a slice. chinese rising rising very quickly also politically and economically some

of the western countries actually sure they're cautious they're still australian a surprise salvi actually hesitant to give china this time of status in the uk the council i think for us to china will use always diplomatic skills to try to gain more support from from the not a countries which are more friendly towards china in this region another uses are trying to we're also us is an army our each being us of all its currency the west facing a crisis. for example i certain i think china will use more of its oil wells. into supporting the region. at least fifty people have been arrested on saturday in montreal canada after a second day of anti-government protests that demonstrators are opposed to a two billion dollar plan to extract natural resources in the region that's been severely criticized by environmentalists more protests in raunchy all came after hundreds of students took to the streets on friday protesting

a seventy five percent to she likes at least six people were injured as officers using tear gas wished hundreds of young people away from this moment building students have been demonstrating and boycotting classes in montreal for more than two months but the government refusing to back down. and take a look at some other world news making headlines around the world this hour police say that more than one hundred people have been injured in a head on rail crash in amsterdam on saturday evening a high speed express approaching the city collided with a local train heading in the opposite direction up to twenty or the injured remain in a serious condition traffic to the country's capital and its main international airport have the severely disrupted. and guinea-bissau the interim president nominated after a military coup earlier this month has resigned expressed concerns over the legality of his nomination early april all the officers cultures of the prime minister along with the president and the stablish

a national transitional council with its own leader the u.n. security council threatens to impose sanctions on the trying to its civilian rule was introduced or. proper catapult oh well can i just outside the capital of mexico has been erupting with clouds of ash and spewing super hated rocks as far as one one kilometer or volcano alert is in place with local authorities ready to start of accurate in the region that will count as last major eruption was in december two thousand causing thousands of local residents to leave the area. any more than a million people are diagnosed with. every year and although some of the conditions are monitored. the troggs needed to treat them have to be imported and they don't come cheap but now a new law might change the situation for massacre as well as pressure into reports . 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 travelled for three hundred fifty miles from her home to get proper treatment she believes there is no hope for her address back at the majesty of the stores are expensive i 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 exclusive rights to manufacture a lifesaving cancer pale the price was a sort of apparently high it does many for chips from abroad and soon here it was under forty one population and now a compulsory license would be given to a local indian pharmaceutical manufacturer they could make the exact same drug cheaper all of a sudden doors who are a number of war vets in medicine and world know the most the business news.

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 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 apply 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 then if make those drugs 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 solid birth of one of the you don't hold us who. you know but by using all the other planes you know really give them a little chance to live in to chance for india to stand out against domination from the west preassure either r t new delhi india. motor rally has been held in moscow in support of russia's all things charge about seven hundred drivers and i tied balloons and flags to their vehicles to take part in that procession to spend say the event is to support the orthodox church which has come under public criticism with several projects including a punk rock group taking over the pulpit in mosques there's main cathedral several press services in a support of the faith and many of its holiest sites are planned on sunday. but the lovers are not genetically modified food is everywhere and has become part of everyday life backstops has resident in the big all speak well on the streets of

what 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. but 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 we couldn't control 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 got the information from regular t.v. . that are just being used to tame did you know that call up 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 doesn't surprise me. so what that white americans demands better things in their food. they don't want to pay more money for their food needs they get 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. why is it 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 because the population is growing and growing and growing that we're bound to eat 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. we in a week. told you how many earths we would need for every one of the world. you know . and it turns out. there really to be such earths for me

and you know decent size to say the least but you know you express that if american stopped buying genic we modified food rather you think that they'd stop making it all that's one hundred percent yes the find a moment to demand dries up the supply dries up to need to start putting out on labels that everything offend there right absolutely more people are getting wise to labels now i think when they're in the supermarkets and the shopping they'll see the signs and not start to read more than to get off the shelf or put in a basket i think just slowly get no idea through media but i think these two go 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. and right now let's get more russia close up on our latest adventure far flung.

the lego in a. and today we're exploring russia's extreme north big mountain and its great journey it's great about france aren't enough about family tree lies beyond the arctic circle the winter that last eight months a year which means only q. species can survive in the harsh conditions reindeer and fresh in everything for the indigenous people population that are welcoming learned that his time passed and discovered. an icon of the north the nets and 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 hold on the tundra and i'm about to join the celebrations.

lassie throwing. stick wrestling. and hurdle jumping all cause for competition but the main event is rapidly approaching. rangy races bring teams from foreign oil and 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 but it seems getting started is the trickiest moment. sometimes for a cameraman to. look you're. going. 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 to be like. there isn't enough were product even to cover the domestic market europeans find your 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 carriage and raise a true russian northerner from where we 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 frosty the air is fresh and the sun is bright it's great for ten point later and rays off to prepare his dinner and we have a small insight into the central importance of these animals to the lines of

northern boilers without the fish and without the deer tundra on the lives of those who live here would be very empty indeed tom bottom seemed. to have a back with a recap of the main story of the just a few moments and right after that i'll explore ianto customs right in the middle of rush.

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