we wanted to present. something like. ten candidates face off in the french presidential election and the voting still to begin is a canonic misfortune bruising is tyranny and in a little brussels leave voters radically split. the months three council unites in ordering the one of a mass 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 a formula one grand prix which is going to have the spider wave of anti-government protests and a brutal crackdown that's left one death. 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 team stirring up a range of global reaction. to

the russian capital you're watching r.t. on marina josh now's the day that france decides future with million set to vote on a new president but this year polls open to a very disenchanted public in a country suffering rampant unemployment a staring and economic despair our thesis are still you know reports on the runners and riders aiming to restore french fortunes and there are sometimes far reaching promises. it's election day in france round one of the presidential race will also want is that in a country where politics is about a past time the prospect of a record of said should hangs over this election and some polls projecting that up to thirty two percent of voters would rather not pass or ballots not of opera but because they feel that there really isn't much of a choice look top to mainstream candidates or socialist francois laws and incumbents center right you can also see the both of them or see those on how to present to enough solutions to the practical problems of threats such as the slow

economy the lopping jobs or the social divisions resulting from these this disillusionment has given rise to more extreme views propping up candidates such as hard liner on the left or from the middle sean and for i counted it may be that 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 some segments of anti-globalization antique capitalism and immigration and nato the euro or the e.u. all sunny a clear message to the french who would like to see the problems that addressed first before looking on the outside and this is precisely what outsiders are bracing themselves for a france that could potentially be looking a little more inward it responds to its people well that's russian will become clearer as a person special results are announced at eight pm local time reporting from paris scientists are sylvia party and polling stations across mainland france are set to open in just one hour at eight am local time but french citizens abroad are already

having their say about twenty thousand eligible voters in australia and new zealand have already been having their say and queues were recorded outside three polling stations in sydney and north and south america voting is also underway in order to make results available by eight pm french time on ballot shop but even a broad low turnout is expected with polls are saying many voters are having a hard time relating to the candidates. there's a currency crisis. cuts. tragic integration. who would be left standing when the people speak. the french election r t. the un stock body has decided to send three hundred observers to syria on this three month mission to monitor an end to violence it's now up to the un chief to decide how and when to deploy it on russia's welcomed the move but america warns it

may take action against damascus 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 pledge is called for in the six point peace plan laid out by u.n. 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 had susan rice to go 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 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 they missed an opportunity to signal to the opposition they give criticizing the government on your bald world they expect the position which is unfair. very clearly in the

security council resolution. which they themselves had just voted for i know those predictions of a boom and gloom my own threats of. which are being hatched this hour we're little sayings are not are not productive i think they are distracting from 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 who believe. their cause will have some prospect for taking over the political process ambassador churkin says the syrian government will be primarily responsible for the safety and security of the e.u. and unarmed observers that will be deployed to syria they will be deployed once the un 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 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 in a partner wearing their u.k. based analyst dan glazebrook says western efforts against the regime in damascus are undermining the entire peacemaking mission. we look at what the original strategy was the original plan was to basically roll out the same strategy as was employed in libya the syrian people to that end they fermented a civil war they were successful in that using their proxy forces using libyan militants that bishopton 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 kind of planners at the moment about how which way they're going to play this 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 most realistic observers are now saying is not really feasible if in less outside intervention comes into play for 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 the civil war going and laura down a year of violence in syria said now called around town council ideas that are now reports from the city where the uprising began to ask people if they think it's been rough. i think only because radio the syrian revolution when a group of school kids was arrested in downtown last spring for painting and receiving protests to stick to the streets for days on end. the syrian military responded by rolling mean it's kind of given a year later the chief security officer in daraa is unapologetic well those

demonstrators were backed by gunmen shooting at civilians and the army troops and of course their intention was to put the blame on the government and those kids the rebels give them a few food and let them read those things. but even among supporters it's not a view shared by everyone to protest in daraa and the ensuing crackdown 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 mission now we have to deal with the armed rebels the council and its stamboul and then you have religious sects like the selfies or the muslim brothers. which nellie's no longer banned and the twenty three year and mergence a lot lifted the syrian authorities are now trying to give the media on their side people loads more foreign journalists into the country stipulated by the annan plan

and eager to show the world what they call the real picture. but the goal of tell the realities on the ground put their own spin on any p.r. effort. i think use of un monitors and foreign journalists spread their own. weapons intensified attacks on the army units forcing syrian officials to abandon this we talk and her journal is back onto the bus as the government's we are implementing the ceasefire the terrorist group. any occasion any of these it beats international monitors or recorders to force the army to respond to the. well themselves 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 helped us because you know there are people within the syrian regime who don't really want to reform their the hardliners so so this actually helped sort of you know the reform minded members of the regime in government. you know their reform a lot more quickly a year into the uprising it is still one of the most turbulent cities in syria despite checkpoints all around the cease fire is breached on an almost daily basis and here people are just as afraid to talk as their freight. protests have been called this part of that they ignited the syrian flame past here scourged a sizable part of this country and while some syrian officials may now have regrets over their way flashpoint was handled that's not nearly enough to extinguish the

fire that's not going to artsy syria. now coming your way on a program rally reprise find out why kids are growing restless to have next month's presidential election as they continue for the end military rule. plus a new scandal erupts over america's ill fated again a stand war with sick photos showing u.s. troops playing and posing. in the rain sun these formal long grand prix has been marred by the death of anti-government protest activists say the man was killed after security forces crackdown on a peaceful demonstration on friday officers used tear gas stun grenades and shotguns to break up the rally tens of thousands on the streets protest resumed on saturday with thousands more turning out as activists call for formula one advanced cancel the country's on high alert from sure the race takes place yes journalist

patrick had a sense as the gulf states only agents through washington means there is little hope of democratic reform. already in is one of the petrel monarchies in the middle east. that a change or change of leadership recently but as you can see hasn't changed we've seen reports of violence coming out of bahrain. after another for the last year or two years the it's not uncommon to the police will drive by shootings of people in bahrain you can watch these videos on you tube if you want it's the worst police state hillary just before i don't think so if we were going to see reform in bahrain it would have come to the recent change of leadership. under the umbrella of the western nations in terms of influence in the region the rain is a satellite state of the king the 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. contracts etc and also its history teacher defense position is well. charges are read english goes into find out why the protests are still raging as the mainstream foreign media is accused of turning a blind eye. if you could 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 demonstrations have been happening in bahrain for more than a year now protesters 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. and the media states surprisingly silent

considering their stance on other middle eastern revolutions they were all but silent when the bahraini revolution was crushed last year there are all but silent about the human rights abuses in bahrain itself and formula one race is just focused attention that society when the media does turn to the hiring they seem to do more harm than good foreign media has been covering the all sorts of things you always use the free market forces against. and they don't understand that this actually helps the governments to see. the free syria 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 and european and american countries were enthusiastic about exploring this issue the us prefer to leave it to the mission of creating a better government it did bring back several very nice human rights defenders who were in exile when the real one speeds out of to. much of the media in the world attention is likely to follow. and all of our news and much more can be found on our website r.t. dot com here's what else is the air right now. fielding a brand 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 hacked has been battered by exploring and multiple academy award winning director james cameron. and blue gold scientists discovered that africa is apparently sitting on

a giant reservoir of ground water but is it a blessing or a curse on our. it was a t.v. talk show that got everyone talking join the sound his new interview program on our t.v. did what many expect it provoked a mixed sometimes hysterical reaction from around the world well from the we get expanders choice of guests to the very channel it was aired on a conference kept for him and his artist got to go on our reports. poor most american media juliana's songes guilty without charge reckless traitor and a threat to our national security interests sleazeball julian assange who is bent on damaging america how did this guy just land his own t.v. show the implication is a sergeant 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 i saw it coming it's true it's. illegal got an appraisal of.

the criminal. interviewing. terrible radicals. i think that's the sort of it's a pretty crude. card with a. flicker if you look at how the service. we have complete control of the guests over his first show was the head of hezbollah has ignited by the us is 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. stepping in to us as well when we want to be able to tell people that he's one of us so terrorism is that smoking lies ations if it kills and it murders but the one that people listen to us hyper mohajir example if it wasn't just

a trial and yet it was very different then 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 of who somebody agrees or doesn't agree with hezbollah's ideas or all of their ideas ideology or their theology the american people need to hear the voice of hezbollah rather than simply have them demonize. targeted as a quote terrorist by the purpose of demonizing somebody like nasr our or nelson mandela who was considered a terrorist until nine hundred eighty eight is not really to stop terrorist ideas from infiltrating but for the american people to only hear one side of the 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

a sign was 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 silence the founder of wiki leaks and bring him to justice as a as of violator of the espionage act because if we do all this will keep happening the dead man can't leaks that this guy is a traitor and treasonous and he has broken every law of the united states the guy ought to be so i'm not for the death penalty so i thought not for the death penalty want to do it illegally shoot the son of a what about freedom of information cherish there's a core principle of democracy it's almost like leaving and letting a genie out of the bottle mr assad 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 a 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 us to form an opinion but what many find ironic is that our source is under attack by the us government and the media for practicing tool for extend the freedom of information that america. around the globe i'm going to check out reporting from russia i put. my good find out for yourself what caused a media storm by watching the first episode of joining us on his new show on our website or t.v. dot com and next week you can catch him and his next guest on air here on r.t. . now with only months left until the polls mubarak presidential vote in egypt tens of thousands once again fill cairo's iconic central square and protest demonstrators want an immediate and to military rule the generals approved that its

qualification of nearly half the presidential candidates this week sparking public fury the leading political forces accuse the military of trying to cling on to power the spotted pledge to stand down by july protesters also want former mubarak officials our politics and trial u.s. based analyst jacob thinks the egyptian revolution has been hijacked. obviously things are moving toward a collusion here the military doesn't want to give up its privileged position in society the protesters one of genuine democratic system where this thing is headed to impossible to know you've got this complex force taking place you've got the military dictatorship funded by the us doesn't want to really push power you've got a whole way of protestors out there with diverse interests to do you know i mean say we won a genuine democracy in this country the question is who is ultimately going to control the the rate there were a new power here and the military is making it very clear that this isn't just

a temporary transition to civilian rule they've made it very clear we're here to stay we're the ultimate power we will permit elections to be to be had but under our ultimate control we maintain the ultimate power in this society how is that a genuine democracy the protesters are realizing it's not. another weekend another scandal for nato forces in afghanistan the latest stop roar over a new photos showing american soldiers smiling and posing with corpses but pictures published by the was angeles times come in a ton of extremely strained relations between washington and kabul and a few weeks ago an american army sergeant went on a shooting rampage in two afghan villages killing seventeen mostly women and children and in january and video appeared online showing u.s. marines urinating on courses the white house has condemned the actions of the soldiers but it's just another isolated incident something that john rees from the

stop the war coalition strongly disagrees with. this is what happens what an occupation last for ten years and he's not a presley failing i imagine that the that the morale of the troops is a rock bottom they have absolutely no idea what they're doing there they know that the populations in their home countries whether it's this country all the united states are overwhelmingly against the war and this is borrowed to produce a situation where the occupation becomes more brutal before they they know that they're on the run they know that the business of training the afghans to take over is actually resulting in a situation where afghan forces are increasingly shooting members of the occupying forces so i think this is a teacher in aeration of what was already of these are stressed. patients and what the situation will be like when they've gone is this but whatever the difficulties whatever the problems whatever the military situation is in the country it will at

least be afghans who are settling their own future at the moment we have a colonial system where the major powers are trying to run somebody else's country that we should have left that kind of mentality behind in the nineteenth century. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world a massive explosion chemical plant in southwestern pam has reportedly killed at least one person injuring about a dozen more a blast said to have blown out the windows of over one hundred nearby buildings was quickly followed by another emergency services are currently at the scene and firefighters are battling to extinguish the flames there also unconfirmed reports that radioactive waste may have been stored nearby. close to ninety people have been arrested in the canadian city of montreal following a second day of anti-government protests they rallied against the government's eighty billion dollars resource extraction development plan for quebec protesters

came a day after hundreds of students demonstrated against seventy five percent tuition hikes at least six people were injured as officers used tear gas to disperse the crowd. south sudan claims its neighbor ban has bonded troops as they were pulling out of the disputed oil region headley south captured the region last week raising fears of an armed conflict it then announced the start of withdrawal on friday after calls by you answered very general ban ki-moon to end 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 and a half million people. to the netherlands now were almost one hundred twenty five people have been injured including more than fifty seriously anahad on rail crash in amsterdam a high speed express approaching the city collided with a local train i think in the opposite direction it's not good when you're how the two trains ended up on the same traffic the accident caused periodic rail delays

around western answered and severely disrupted its main international airport. at a moment join us for a special report which details or oil and gas industries conversational method of extracting minerals for that every category top stories.

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