all of your. friend should decide their future with the presidential election are well underway though in a country hit by social division record unemployment. and because of these problems the french that become deeply pessimistic into solution at this election still faces the prospect of a. great join me for more than a few moments. the un resolved to expand its monitoring mission in syria but despite a unanimous vote of the security council some members are accused of undermining the peace. controversial formula one grand prix does go ahead despite widespread protests against the regime and a brutal. police that at this point left at least one person dead.

and thirty minutes that gripped global attention. premiered his own interview show on r t this week sparking a range of reaction from. worldwide news twenty four seven this is the with me. french voters are beginning the process of choosing their next president now there are ten candidates in the running including incumbent nicolas sarkozy and his main rival socialist francois hollande the main concern though is turnout it's all going to be lower than expected my discontent over a struggling economy and a record unemployment in paris as. the a voter turnout is a big concern here i mean people are watching it closely because the numbers could

sway the results of round one of this presidential race we've got early numbers according to the ministry of the interior about twenty eight percent have turned out so far it's not that bad but we have to wait for the total because the projection is that up to a third of voters won't actually cast their ballots and that's because many of the french feel that there really isn't much of a choice there's no one out there who's getting the real solutions to the problems are facing especially with regard to the economy and jobs and this very disillusionment has given rise of more extreme views feelings antiglobalization perhaps immigration and wish has also cropped up candidates on the far right such as marine le pen and on the left who have gone to the middle shall let's get a bit more insight on exactly what is happening here in france for barry latham he's a journalist and author of this a lot of thanks very much for joining us today i brought up for you the issue of the far right and the hard left not the stealing about globalization is this a kneejerk reaction to the problems or is it here to stay oh i think it's the i think it's here to stay for several years and i think it's been here for quite

a few years also i think you're funny get all over europe and it's a puzzlement among the french they can't quite figure out what's happened they've been hard hit like many other countries in europe have been and they're looking for a solution of the sort of desperately and unfortunate decisions are not going to be easy so the parties on the on the right on the left the extreme parties are afraid what short easy solutions much more easy targets that people would like to believe in the sentiment of ad t. immigration it has been aligned for a long time but nicolas sarkozy who is of the center right has been jumping on this bandwagon what is this electioneering or is it a problem that should be given a bit more significance of the country it's a problem that should have been given a much more importance for the last ten or fifteen years it's not at all new psycho's he's been hit very very hot and heavy on that issue and if i. the socialist though there on the left have been very very leery about defending immigration too much they're making they're saying the right things but they don't

want to get involved in this dispute too much themselves to be obliged to take the side of the immigrants ok let's talk about the promises that they've been making there's a lot of it especially with regard to europe a lot of we want to renegotiate this we want to renegotiate that but whoever takes the position can't be really do anything with regard to europe especially with germany and germany says no then it's most likely a no. yeah but if you and i think the situation now in europe is very fluid once again and you can bet at all on the euro even being here in one or two years time now it is your view that the situation has become bad you see again in greece how things are worsening spain and in france as well italy so it's very hard to say what one will or will not be able to do in the next couple of years as far as renegotiating it's not even sure what there will be to negotiate it right thanks very much i forget thoughts mr lando well there you have it voting will continue

today and we'll have a clearer idea of where the the french will want to take the country about eight pm local time with the first authorized results will be and now so we're going to be waiting a foot out and giving you the latest. reporting there from paris well whoever becomes france's president will face a whole list of issues are on our website r.t. dot com we're asking what you think will be the biggest challenge is your chance to get involved with. the numbers for this hour but so far almost a half of you believe it will be bearing the euro zone's debt burden that will be the biggest challenge i just wonder of course i think that kick start the economy will be the hardest. using the challenge in defusing tension over immigrants will be a big obstacle for the zero eight percent think involvement in foreign conflicts will be the biggest i join the debate by casting your vote at our team. media currency crisis. cuts. tragic integration.

who will be left standing when the people speak. the french election on r t. we're coming to you live from moscow now the un's top body has agreed on a resolution to send three hundred observers to syria to monitor the fragile truce there must go has welcomed the move but washington warned it may take action against damascus if it fails to comply with a peace plan that would details from new yorkers artie's marina portnoy. and 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 a u.n. joint envoy kofi on on russia of course believes that this most recent development in syria is a step in the right direction 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 hide susan rice shipped to her twitter feed to say the deployment of three hundred or three thousand unarmed observers cannot on its own stop assad's murderous rampage

susan rice 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 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 go position they get criticizing the government saying that. they expect the opposition which is in fact. live really clearly in the security guard. resolution which they themselves had just voted for and all those predictions of doom and gloom threats of various plans which are being hatched this hour with those things are not productive i think they have this wrapping from the implementation of the coffin on platinum from the political effort of the security

council and they may give a ground for some extremists to believe that their cause is a still has prospect for for taking over the political process where not naive even though the security council voted unanimously some members of the security council some important members of the international community. still continue to think and confrontational terms the words a syrian government and that's richardson says the syrian government will be primarily responsible for the safety and security of the 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 satiate of violence this resolution the most recent one it's up to also underscores that the syrian government and the opposition group both have to put their weapons out but instead and begin engaging in dialogue. he's

marina reporting that one of the syrian opposition has renewed its calls for a u.n. backed military intervention this has the so-called friends of syria group met in paris this week to discuss putting more pressure on the assad regime research i. believe to their one sided efforts on the underline the importance of the observers mission in syria. this is incredibly significant especially when we consider a lot of the other regional neighbors of syria behaving very poorly and provoking violent conflict in syria and suggesting that they want to arm the rebels and continue and actually increase the level of violence that's happening in syria so we have this gulf region that actually instigating violence and we have the so-called friends of syria of western powers really who will no influence over syria and have very little to say or do because they they don't have any

relationships they don't have any information that will provide any help to the people of syria to solve this crisis so with those two efforts happening you know between the arab league and the friends of syria it's actually very refreshing to have a u.n. observer mission because it's talking to everybody people are taking it seriously and so this is very promising indeed to see these developments and it's not a solution that's going to solve everything and one day for example and it will take many different compromises and steps but with patience i think that this is certainly the best and most promising development that we've seen in a long time. you're watching our t.v. still to come for you in the program a lot of extremism on the show. confessed mass murder of gregory uses a courtroom to promote his ideas and his views are far from unique in europe as we hear a little bit later in the program. and another scandal for nato forces in

afghanistan as new photos show american soldiers posing with the corpses of that story in just a few minutes. controversial formula one grand prix has gone ahead without incident despite widespread fury against the regime on the streets outside the race track demonstrators of clashed with security forces over the past week as police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets protests intensified on saturday after the body of a man shot dead was found on a roof top security forces are set up checkpoints are brought armored vehicles to control any possible protests political analyst i talk to omar in a shabby things it's not in western interests to give attention to the regime protests in bahrain. obviously i mean the attention is places where there are some interests of western powers that are involved

here in this case i don't think that the interests of the western powers that are calling for the downfall of the regime in syria for example i've ever had the demonstrators and they didn't want to belong to a democratic country where everyone is equal where no group it takes precedence over other groups it's important to note to note here there are american military bases in france and one cannot deny the fact that this is a very important for the interests of the united states that the king remains in power it is very clear that the calls for the security council and for supporting freedom of expression freedom of association are not linked to the belief in their basic human rights and they believe in justice they are linked to political interests obviously and that shows that the the the behavior of the united nations is characterized by double standards. well files relating to the trial of norwegian

mass killer anders breivik will be classified now for sixteen years the judges say the documents could be harmful to the public and so they'll be kept under wraps until two thousand and seventy two the decision came after brave televised trial was viewed all across the world and submitted to killing seventy seven people in a bar band gun attack last year but denies criminal be old claiming he was protecting norway from being taken over by muslims he also gave a step by step account of exactly how he massacred his victims claiming he had to be humanized himself to become a mass killer if found guilty could face a maximum twenty one year prison sentence but if the judges decide he's insane he'll be sent for indefinite psychiatric treatment which in journalist. has partly succeeded in using his trial to promote extremism. the big paradox concerning this case is that. because the outset made this is.

he wrote. published it outlined his plan in this 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. one might say that there succeeded in that in the court case he has a monster this called an rumors that witnesses extremist witnesses both from the extremist right side add 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 which they don't want to be part of this propaganda that he is using a court case to promote. watching r.t. russia and china have now begun their first joint naval exercises taking place in the yellow sea near the korean peninsula two thousand vessels and thousands of

sailors are involved in the war games both sides aim to exchange experiences they focus on air defense submarine warfare and search and rescue type takes the marine maneuvers will run for six days and they are tension on the korean peninsula is escalating the u.s. is shifting more military attention to the asia pacific region and washington says it's aiming to counter potential threats from regional powers like china. julian songes show premiered on our see this week the media reaction was well it was a global from praise to hysteria the response was anything but indifferent gauging the opinions across the atlantic as artie's going to church. for most american media julianna 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 accusations kept flying as the whistle blower's very own show premiered on tuesday but i saw it coming. from a traitor getting into. the criminal. interviewing. terrible radicals. but i think that's the sort of it's a pretty current republic. if you look at how the service. we have complete control over the guests over his first show was the head of hezbollah as 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. costing us as well and they want to be able to tell people that one of the syrian terrorism there is a small organization. murders but the one that people listen to us high provide for example if there was a just a trial and yet very different 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 to somebody agrees or doesn't agree with hezbollah's ideas or all of their ideas ideology or theology 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 nasir rob or nelson mandela who was considered a terrorist until one nine hundred eighty eight is that 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 assad's 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 so i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a what about freedom of information cherished as

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 government 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 need here as the court of public opinion then julian assange which is someone who presents to the jury that is the viewers argument evidence voices which they almost never hear on mainstream media and it's up to the us to form an opinion but what many find ironic is that our source is under attack by the u.s. government and the media for practicing poor for expand the freedom of information that america. i'm going to check our reporting from washington i put. more stories should head over to our website our team thought can find many waiting

for you including still in the fight u.s. presidential hopeful and congressman ron paul shows no signs of slowing down he's also relying on his healthy bank balance to keep him inside the republican presidential race. and a massive explosion at the chemical plant in japan kills one worker and injures over a dozen witnesses say the windows of a hundred houses near the plant was shouted a movie on that one our you tube channel. another week and another scandal for nato forces in afghanistan the latest uproar is over new photos showing american soldiers smiling and posing with corpses of afghans are. said to have been suicide bombers but the white house maintains it's just another isolated incident antiwar activists believe that such cases happen because the troops don't know what they're supposedly actually fighting for. it's not just because it's

a war if they found that there was any truth in this line that they're given they are there to defend the people from the enemy which is usually called the taliban if they found that to be true if that was true in their experience then they could differentiate but they can't differentiate they have no idea who. the enemy is it's a classic guerrilla war and it produces exactly that and fundamentally the reason is they shouldn't i think is that they shouldn't be there they have no justified basis for being the united states army colonel who traveled all over afghanistan last year he was in a special position he interviewed two hundred fifteen ited states military personnel and then he published his report and then his report was in large part leaked problem of the sago and basically he said everything we are told is not true

so it's in the context of of systematic this information but i think the publication of these photographs actually tells people something that they are systematically excluded from hearing. it's good to have you with us here in our in the program still to come for you this hour. the orthodox church leads a service that's been dubbed in defense of the faith joining us from cathedral very shortly. starting with southern yemen let's get to the r.t. world update now and violent clashes have erupted between troops and militants linked to al qaeda twelve insurgents and seven soldiers have been killed the fighting occurred in the south where the yemeni government is trying to regain parts of the country lost to militants government forces or lost control due to turmoil elsewhere in the country last year before the eventual departure of dictator ali our last soulé. iran claims it started to build

a copy of the top secret american spy drone captured last year by its armed forces the military says it has extracted data and figured out exactly how the craft works u.s. officials acknowledged the losing the surveillance drone was said it would be difficult to exploit any data or technology because of its security measures. satellite images show the key oil infrastructure in sudan's disputed heglig region has been destroyed during recent border fighting with south sudan southern forces captured the oil rich town last week raising fears of war between the two but under international pressure the south then started pulling out of the area but said its troops will be leaving south sudan became independent from the north last year following a long running civil war which caused nearly two million deaths. some sixty five thousand orthodox believers of governor of moscow's main cathedral for

a service in defense of the faith that follows a number of high profile cases of brown there was a number of churches and some sacred objects over the past few months are these reports. we can see and indeed here thousands of people who have congregated here at moscow's main cathedral crisis savior they're being led in procession by ha our hero elvis perceives here's a number of hours of mass prayer and also a literacy service that was given this of his being replicated around the country as a whole that some of the key centers of the orthodox church in russia some of its main cathedrals and really set him to drum up support for the faith has been coming under some criticism of laces be facing some troubling times its leaders among them a truck hero say they've become under attack from an anti christian campaign that

either have been attacks made on the numbers our number of church properties around the country want taking place at a cathedral crescent are where the front doors the entrance was set ablaze leads also some the religious symbols sacred symbols have also been attacked among them annoyed two of the virgin mary and a crucifix some of those were held up high a charge carol here today among those crowds that have gathered now reese some of this resentment of the church on has been events or took place in favorites as one pussy riot a punk group with a very much protest message to christ the savior and there they tugged his best song at present election plan amir peretz and also at a truck hero and he said support for blood amir hussein no without crying among the faithful gather a certain limit using such a sacred place for their demonstrations there's also been

a lot of condemnation since from human rights groups who don't like how the church handled this saga and how it came down safely and it came to pussy riot. or it has. voting for a new president is underway in france in just a few moments we talk to one of the main candidates that will be after the headlines in just a moment. something

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