ten candidates face off in the french presidential election voting to do began as economic misfortune bruising a steri and an aloof brussels leave voters radically split the. u.n. security council united ordering the deployment of a massive observer mission to syria but russia and the u.s. are divided over the details of the move. plus bahrain is on high alert to safeguard the formula one grand prix which is racing ahead despite a wave of anti-government protests and a brutal crackdown that's left one dead. and a big impact on the small screen the world watches as whistleblower julian assange makes his debut as a t.v. host here on our t.v. stirring up a range of global reaction. you're

watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow ariane the russian capital i'm marina joshing now it's the day that france decides its future with millions set to vote on a new president but this year polls open to a very disenchanted public and a country suffering rampant unemployment a stare at the economic despair or he says are still you now reports on the runners and riders aiming to restore french fortunes and their sometimes far reaching promises. it's election day in france round one of the presidential race but what's ironic is that it a country where politics is a national pastime the prospect of a record obsession hangs over this election and some polls projecting that up to thirty two percent of voters would rather die off password ballots not out of up with people because they feel that there really isn't much of a choice for the top two mainstream candidates are socialist francois laws and

puppet central right you colossal we see both of them are seen as vaughan having presented enough solutions to the practical problems of france to trounce the slow economy the lack of jobs or the social divisions resulting from the focus of disillusionment has given rise to more extreme views propping up candidates such as hardliner on the left is on the middle sean and poor right candidate the money that together both of them are expected to garner about thirty percent of the total votes but also this anger of the current state of france has been fueling sentiments of our to globalization fancy capitalism and immigration and they told the euro or the e.u. also made it clear message that the french would like to see the problems at home addressed first before looking on the outside and this is precisely what outsiders are bracing themselves for a france of potentially be looking a little more in the works it responds to its people well that direction will become clearer as the first official results are announced at eight pm local time reporting from paris i'm tesser silvia r t. v a currency

crisis tough cuts. treasury gratian. moving left standing in the speech. the french election on are to. the un stop body has decided to say on three hundred observers to syria on a three month mission to monitor an end to violence it's now up to the un chief to decide how and when to deploy them russia's welcomed the move america warns it may take action against the mascot's regardless of or not 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 cold war in the 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 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 have susan rice took to her twitter feed to save the deployment of three hundred or three thousand unarmed observers cannot on its own stop assad's quote murderous rampage susan rice said 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 ambassador 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 the missed an opportunity a signal to the opposition they get criticizing the government saying that's on your bold world they expect the opposition which is in fact. live very clearly in the security council resolution. which they themselves had just voted for unknowables provisions of a boom and gloom threats of. which are being patched those where those things are not imo productive i think they are distracting for a moment from the implementation of the coffin on plan and from the political efforts of the security council and they may give a ground for some extremists to believe. their cause is

a still has some prospect for for taking over the political process and that's richardson says the syrian government will be primarily responsible for the safety and security of the us and unarmed observers that will be deployed to syria they will be deployed like the un 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 a topic also underscores that the syrian government and the opposition group both have to put their weapons out weapons down and begin engaging in dialogue. are now reporting in from new york or u.k. based now as dan glazebrook says western efforts against the regime in damascus are undermining the entire peacemaking mission. but look at what the original strategy was the original plan was to basically roll out the same strategy as was employed

in libya on the syrian people and so to that end they ferment in a civil war they were successful in that using their proxy forces using libyan militants that they're 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 and there's a battle within the western strategic plan of planners at the moment about how which way they're going to play this that it became very difficult for anyone to have any faith that these proxy forces could actually had any hope of taking power and therefore the kind of idea of regime change and most realistic observers now are saying is not really feasible if in less outside intervention comes into play so this 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 and why any year of violence in syria is said to

have killed around ten and thousand iraqis example in our reports from the city where the uprising began to ask people if they think it's been of worth that. they call it the credo of the syrian revolution but if you call schoolkids was arrested in doubt last spring for the painting and they're feeding the protests to the streets for days and. the syrian military responded by rolling mean it's kind of given a year later the chief security officer in daraa is unapologetic demonstrators. shooting at civilians and of course their intention was to blame the government and those kids. food. things. but even among assad supporters it's not a view shared by everyone to protest in daraa and even seeing friends down by the military through the turning point for syria and in hindsight some syrian officials

now wish they handled it differently. we made a mistake when back in the days we didn't give a chance to syria based peaceful opposition to express itself more freely some of them truly care about the nation and now we have to deal with the armed rebels the council in its stand bowl and then you have religious sects like the selfies or the muslim brothers. because nellie's no longer bound to meet your emergency law lifted the syrian authorities and now trying to get the media on their side they've allowed to move foreign journalists into the country stipulated by the annan plan and that wall to what they call the real picture. but the bowler tell the realities on the ground put their own spin on any p.r. effort and. i think use of un monitors and foreign journalists prather all that are rebels intensify the attacks on the army units force the syrian

officials to abandon the sweet talk and her journal is back on to the. terrorist group. any occasion any of these it beats international monitors or reporters to force the army to respond to the. well death threats of government in the ability to find the right balance between freedom and security may have allowed this conflict to take off many analysts believe that there are any how to do it is also crucial for its resolution president assad has long spoken about reforms he's been a popular president for most syrians for a long time because of his you know so-called reform plans i think this protest in syria actually. happens because you know there are people within the syrian regime who don't really want to bear the hardliners so so this actually helps sort of you know the reform minded members of the regime and government. you know their reform

a lot more quickly figure into the uprising got you still one of the most churlish cities in syria despite checkpoints all around the store is breached on an almost daily basis and here people are just as afraid to talk as their freight to. protest in daraa had been called this partnership ignited the syrian flame it's over the past year or skirts that a sizable part of this country and while some syrian officials may now have regrets what their way flashpoint was handled that's not nearly enough to extinguish the fire and some of the car see that are syria. and coming our way here in our team rally red perris find out why they're growing restless had next month's presidential election as the cost forty out of military rule. in bahrain sunday's formal long grand prix has been marred by the death of an

anti-government protesters activist say the man was killed after security forces crackdown in a peaceful demonstration on friday officers used tear gas and shotguns to break up the rally which sought tens of thousands on the streets protest resumes saturday with thousands more turning out as activists called for a formal one of ants to mishandle the country's on high alert to ensure the race takes place this journalist patrick henningsen says the gulf states allegiance to washington means there's little hope of democratic reform. bahrain is one of the petrel monarchies in the middle east and we had a change a change of leadership recently as you can see that hasn't changed we've seen reports of violence coming out of bahrain after the other for the last year or two years the it's not uncommon 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

state. 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 in turn is a satellite state in the region of washington and london with incredible vested interests there in terms of petroleum contracts etc and also it's just it's a strategic defense position as well. as you read english isn't a reign to find out why the protests are still raging as the mainstream foreign media are accused of turning a blind eye. it took a car fire ahead of a major sporting event for the world to notice the flames of discord engulfing a small island nation in the persian gulf but green is suffocating in the smoke of an ongoing struggle between protesters and police the most recent have been

happening in bahrain for more than a year now protester say this is the longest lasting revolt in the arab spring but so far the only result from them has been an increase in violence on all sides scenes from the capital be a more than passing similarity to the pictures out of the embattled syrian city of homs but the two cities enjoyed a very different level of attention. decisions and the media stayed surprisingly silent considering their stance on other middle eastern revolutions they were all but silent when the bahraini revolution was crushed last year they're all but silent about the human rights abuses in bahrain itself and the formula one race has just focused attention on that society and when the media does turn to her they seem to do more harm than good for you as a recovering but also as a did you always use the free market forces because. they don't understand that

this actually helps the governments to see you as it was the whole free syrian such as the opposition says hundreds have been wounded in standoff with police and many sacked from their jobs or arrested for taking part in mass protests but unlike in syria and libya no one has called for foreign intervention. problems before the international human rights council european and american countries were enthusiastic about exploring this issue but the us prefer to leave it to the commission created here by the government it did bring about seventy needed there any human rights defenders who are next or when the real one speeds out of. much of the media and the world's attention is likely to follow. it. well all our news and much more can be found on our website r.t. dot com but here is what else is there right now she'll be a look at israel's plan to fan system known as the iron dome and why the u.s.

is reportedly preparing to pump funds into the project. also online how a real life avatar project has been backed by explore and multiple cademy award winning director james cameron. and move gold scientists discover that africa is apparently sitting on a giant reservoir of ground water but is there a blessing or a curse more on our conduct. it was a t.v. talk show that got everyone talking joining us on his new interview program on our team did but man expected provoke a mixed sometimes hysterical reaction from around the world from that we can expand our choice of guests to the very channel it was aired on comments kept for a man as. reports. or most american media juliana songes guilty without charge reckless traitor and a threat to our national security interests sleazeball me and julian assange who is

bent on damaging america how did this guy just land his own t.v. show the implication is assad is a russian agent whose anti-american mission is now out in the open for all to see and the accusations kept flying as the whistleblowers very own show premiered on tuesday but also saw it coming it was truly a. requirement of. interviewing. terrible radicals. i think it's really true. if you look at how the soviets were. we have complete control of the guests over his first show was the head of hezbollah are designated by the us as a terrorist organization it was not starlost first interview with international channel in six years the reason why him could be found in the interview itself the

united states is. posting in to us as well when we want to be able to tell people that he's one of us or you terrorism terrorism small organizations n.g.o.s and it merges with the one that people listen to us how come ohio for example if it wasn't just try. very hard to defend them should have an opportunity to defend themselves some say in the court of public opinion as presented by the us mainstream media there is a tendency to simplify issues often at the expense of the full picture somebody agrees or doesn't agree with hezbollah's ideas or all of their ideas ideology or their theology american people need to hear the voice of hezbollah rather than simply have them demonize tie. get it as a quote terrorist by the purpose of demonizing somebody like nazi rob or nelson mandela who was considered a terrorist until one nine hundred eighty eight is not really to stop terrorist

ideas from infiltrating but for the american people to only hear one side of a debate only hear one side of an argument julian assange is now under house arrest in the u.k. fighting extradition to sweden where he may well be extradited to the united states u.s. prosecutors were pointedly have a secret indictment ready for our son who's made public thousands of leaked documents with embarrassing details relating to the wars in iraq and afghanistan as well as other issues in the u.s. has been under fire from capitol hill the white house and the media and we've got to apprehend mr science the founder of wiki leaks and bring him to justice as a as a violator of the espionage act because if we don't this will keep happening the dead man can't leaks that this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be shot i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot what about freedom of information cherish this is

a poor principle of democracy it's almost like leaving and letting the genie out of the bottle mr assad's has the internet and the governments and everyone else at their own game because he's gone to a place where others have not been before and he's introduced the types of information the range of information that previously were not available if one views the media as the court of public opinion then julian assange is someone who presents to the jury that is the viewers argument evidence of voices which they almost never hear on mainstream media and it's up to the doers to form an opinion but what many find ironic is that our forces under attack by the u.s. government and the media for practicing cool for extend the freedom of information that america print. around the globe i'm going to start now reporting from washington. i can find out for yourself what caused the media storm by watching the first episode of join us on his new show on our website artie dot com and next week

you can catch him and his next guest here on our t.v. . so i have to get a program norway's trial of the century to manhood made a killing seventy seven people in a gun rampage last year goes on trial describing in the chilling detail how and why they carried out the massacre. with next month's presidential election in egypt creeping closer more and more people are talking to the streets to call taking to the streets rather to call for the end of military rule ajanta that's been running the country since the toppling of president a bart year ago it's losing supporters by the day actually sara for has the story. any tips comes to democracy has not been an easy one but now the journey which the president that soloist yet and have taken is a by the military council has in the build up to presidential elections let the people write back to this the people are angry at what they perceive to be the

military council's attempt to cling to power fueled five recent disqualifications popular presidential candidates one of these cars from running was ultra conservative selassie preacher he was disqualified because his mother allegedly held us all schools his closest aides and other natives one hundred decision to no action run regarding some of the some of the cliches. and restricted to the extent to which. brings him to the coltons when he would say what we are trying to make selection food. system one of. us going to stoke this committee but it's an. election that was independent journalist culture he's been traveling the uprising from the very beginning she told us that the team mistrust of the elections

committee and the military council has led to munster ttyl it's hard to say exactly what i mean if you think that even though i used to vote for i think we can safely say is that what iraqis writing in the room they're really trying to make for the basis this is written in the profile of every president. basically taking things in from various places that she's egypt's military rulers hijack a diverse nation obviously brings their movement toward a coalition here the military doesn't want to give up its privileges position and in society the protesters want a genuine democratic system where this thing is headed to possible know some protests from. but thanks to keep pushing ahead and applying pressure on the military council to decide to transition they say long been calling the good son to the food to the to the do the soup

of to the goods or the soup of you to the shooting thinks of the statistics of the statistics to use to the people travel full speech it succumb to. the thousand statistics thank you for the teaching people feel sorry for the chance to shine new democracy in their country they see that child things are going to change the way to keep on fighting. the to spank iraq. and our regional court has decided to keep information from the trial of mass murderer brevik classified for sixty years believing they could be harmful to the public just came days after his widely televised trial began and declared saying bradley

could face a maximum twenty one year prison sentence now he admitted killing seventy seven people in a bomb attack on a government building and the shooting rampage at a youth camp last summer i deny criminal guilt claiming he was protecting a way from being taken over by muslims during his trial brother gave a fascist salute in court and if you're close to tears during a screening of his own and size long propaganda video he also gave a harrowing account of how each of his victims die and we journalists. partly succeeded in musings trial to promote extremism. the big paradox concerning this case is that. because the outset made this is so our news he wrote manifesto and published it outlined his plan in his plan was to do an outrageous criminal act and then use the court proceedings later to advocate this around the world and in that sense you him on one might say that he has succeeded

in that in the court case he has just called in the numerous of the witnesses extremist witnesses both from the extremist right side and islamic extremists to sort of. build under this notion that he has that there is a war a clash of civilizations and there's been a debate and some of the witnesses have been called and have actually refused to go in because they don't want to be part of this propaganda that he is using the court case to promote. you're watching our view now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world a massive explosion at a chemical plant in southwestern japan has reportedly killed at least one person injuring about a dozen more the blasts blown out the windows of over one hundred nearby buildings as quickly followed by another emergency services are currently at the scene and firefighters are battling to extinguish the flames but we'll bring you further

details as soon as we get. close to ninety people have been arrested in the canadian city of montreal following the second day of anti-government protests a rally against the government's eighty billion dollar resource extraction development plan for push back protests came a day after hundreds of students demonstrated against seventy five percent tuition hikes at least six people were injured as officers the used tear gas to disperse the crowd. south sudan's claims its neighbor sudan has bombed its troops as they were pulling out of the disputed awhile region hedley south captured the region last week raising fears of an armed conflict then announced the start of withdrawal friday after calls by un secretary-general ban ki moon and the violence south sudan became independent from the north last year following a long running civil war that claimed the lives of more than one of the half million people. in the netherlands now were almost one hundred twenty five people

have been injured including more than fifty seriously in a head on crash in amsterdam a high speed express approaching the city collided with a local train heading in the opposite direction it's not yet clear how the two trains ended up on the same trap the accident caused yada grayle delays around western amsterdam and severely disrupted its main international airport. now as voting kicks off in france in a few moments we talk to one of the main candidates it's half of the headlines coming up. thanks. to. the.

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