the french decide their future with the voting in the presidential election and well on the way it's all going down though in a country hit by social division and the record unemployment. and because of these problems the french have become deeply pessimistic and dissolution this election still faces the prospect of a high abstraction great join me for more in a few moments. the un resolved to expand to monitor mission in syria but despite a unanimous vote in the security council some members are accused of undermining the peace effort. bahrain's controversial formula one grand prix goes ahead despite widespread protests against the regime and a brutal crackdown by police that's left at least one person dead.

and thirty minutes that gripped the global attention songe premiered his own interview show on r t this week sparking a range of reaction all the way from praise to hysteria. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. with the top news of the week and of today french voters are beginning the process of choosing their next president there are ten candidates in the running including incumbent nicolas sarkozy and his main rival socialist francois hollande now the voting comes amid discontent over a struggling economy and record unemployment in paris as are these tests or are sillier with more. 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 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 will actually cast their ballots and that's because many of the french feel that there really isn't much of a show is 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 of add to globalization or anti immigration which has also propped up candidates on the far right such as many in the pen and on the left you have john newcombe middle show let's get a bit more insight on exactly what is happening here in france for a very lad who he's a journalist and author of a survivor thanks very much for joining us today i brought up for you the issue of the far right and the hard left now the stealing of antiglobalization is this a kneejerk reaction to the problems or is it here to stay oh i think it's really 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 finding good 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 that in europe have been and they're looking for a solution and 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 offering much more easy solutions much more easy targets that people would like to believe in the the sentiment of add to 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 give it 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 star cause he's been hit very very hot and heavy on that issue and in fact a 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 you want to renegotiate that but whoever takes the position can be really do anything with regard to europe especially with germany and germany says no then it's most likely had no well 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 not if you use 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 for that and giving you the latest. did you stay with r.t. for the very latest from paris now who have become france's president faces a whole list of issues web site r.t. dot com we're asking what you think will be the biggest challenge or time for you to get involved with our global worldwide poll here from the website i hear the numbers for this hour so far just a little less. forty four percent now thinking that one of the biggest problems we've bearing the eurozone just over fifty think that kick start the economy could be hardest and almost the same number of you see a challenge in defusing tensions over immigrants just down to the bare minimum a minimum now a thirteen percent thinking that involvement in foreign conflicts is one of the major obstacles i do join the debate by casting your vote at artsy dot com.

these are currency crisis. cuts. tragic integration. who will be left standing with. the french election on our t.v. . we are 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 that. the move but washington board it may take action against the massacres if it fails to comply with the peace plan in new york with details on these marine important. 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 a 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 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 took to her twitter feed to save the deployment of three hundred or three thousand unarmed observers cannot on its own stop assad's 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 hold water and bastard 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 to signal to the opposition they get criticizing the government saying nothing about what they expect the opposition which is unfair. clearly in economy this. city council resolution which they themselves had just voted for and all those predictions of doom and gloom and threats of that is brown's which are being hatched this hour where those things are not productive i think they are distracting from the implementation of the coffee i don't plan on from the political efforts of the security council and they may give a ground for some extremists to believe. their course is

a still has some prospect for for taking over the political process where no of my leave even though the security council voted unanimously some members of the security council some important members of the international community still compute and to think i'm going from patient to term stores of the syrian government ambassador churkin says the syrian government will be primarily responsible for the safety and security of the e.u. and on armed 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 satiate of violence this resolution the most recent one it's optic also underscores that the syrian government and the opposition group both have to put their weapons out weapons down and begin engaging in dialogue. reporting from new york still to come in the program here that of

extremism one show norway's confessed mass murderer and his brevik uses a courtroom to promote his ideas but its views are far from unique in europe as we hear just a little bit later. and yet another scandal for nato forces in afghanistan new photos show american soldiers posing with the corpses of a start story in a few. bahrain's controversial formula one grand prix has gone ahead without incident despite widespread fury against the regime on the streets just outside the racetrack demonstrators 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 rooftop security forces have set up checkpoints import armored vehicles to thing troll any possible protests political analyst

a doctor over the last thinks it's not in western interests to give attention to the regime protester. obviously i mean the attention is on places where there are some interests or western powers. 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 the demonstrators want to belong to a democratic country where everyone is equal nor group it takes precedence over other groups it's important to note to note here there are american military bases in the brain and one cannot deny the fact that this is 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 not linked to. a belief in their basic human rights and 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. live from moscow this is our team now files relating to the trial of norwegian mass killer anders breivik will be classified for sixty years and judges say the documents could be harmful to the public and will be kept secret until two thousand and seven cling to the decision came off the graphics televised trial it was a view to across the world he's admitted to killing seventy seven people in a bomb and gun attack last year but it actually denies criminal guilt claiming he was protecting no way 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 dehumanised him self to become a mass killer if found guilty brave it 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 norwegian journalist says the graphic is partly succeeded in using his trial to promote extremism the big paradox concerning this case is that. because at the outset made this is planned 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 the i succeeded that in the court case he has a monster this called an numerous witnesses extremist 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 there's been a debate and some of the witnesses that called him 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. russia and china have begun their first ever joint naval exercises taking place in the yellow sea near the korean peninsula two dozen guzzles under thousands of sailors are involved in the war games are both sides aim to exchange experience as they focus on air defense submarine warfare and search and rescue tactics the marine when it was will run for six days and there was tension on the korean peninsula is escalating that would the u.s. shifting more military attention to the asia pacific ocean and says it's aiming to counter potential threats from regional powers like china. now if you want a more stories just go over to our website that's on line for you twenty four hours a day there you'll find among many stories out of still in the fight for us

presidential hopeful one congressman ron paul he shows no sign of slowing down and is relying heavily on his healthy bank balance to keep him in the republican race. a massive explosion at a chemical plant in japan kills one worker and injures over a dozen witnesses say the windows of one hundred houses near the plant was shot to more of that video when all you tube channel. when julian assange show premiered on our t.v. this week the media reaction was a global from praise to hysteria the response was anything but in different gauging the opinions from across the atlantic is artie's guy in a chicken. for most american media julianna songes guilty without charge reckless traitor and a threat to our national security interests sleazeball named julian a song 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 accusations kept flying as the whistleblowers very own show premiered on tuesday but i saw it coming because through a. combatant. getting into. terrible radicals. i think it's a pretty common. flitter if you look at how. 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. probably broadcasting in to us as well

when they want to be able to tell people that one of us is terrorism there is a small organization in the world but the one that people listen to us have from ohio for example if there was a just trial the. very meaning the defendant should have an opportunity to defend themselves some say in the court of public opinion as presented by the u.s. 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 hear the voice of has will rather than simply have them demonize. targeted as a quote terrorist but 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 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 a sign was made public thousands of leaked documents with embarrassing details relating to the worsening iraq and afghanistan as well as other issues in the u.s. has been under fire from capitol hill the light house and the media and we've got to apprehend mr assigns the founder of wiki leaks and bring him to justice as a violator of the espionage act because if we don't this will keep happening the dead men 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 the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a what about freedom of information cherished as a poor principle of democracy it's almost like leading and letting genie out of the bottle mr sanchez beat 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 of the use the media as a court of courtly crippling and then julian assange which is someone who presents to the jury that is that he wears argument evidence voices which they almost never hear on mainstream media and it's up to the newest perform an opinion but what many find ironic is that also she is under attack by the u.s. government and the media for practicing poor for extend the freedom of information that america. around the globe i'm going to start our reporting promoting our. interest a few minutes it will be at a world operator but for now another week another scandal for nato forces in afghanistan but the latest uproar is over new photos showing american soldiers smiling and posing with corpses of afghans said to have been suicide bombers the

white house maintains it's just another isolated incident and you were activists believe that such cases happen because the troops don't know what they're supposedly 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 they have no justified basis for believe the united states army colonel who traveled all over afghanistan last year he was in a special position he interviewed two hundred fifty night is states military

personnel and then he published his report and then his report was in large part leaked a couple of months ago and basically he said everything we are told is not true so it's in that context of systematic this information that i think the publication of these photographs actually tells people something they are systematically excluded from hearing. you're with r t it's good to have you with us today and still to come for you this hour. the head of the orthodox church leads a service that's been dubbed in defense of the joint goes main cathedral very shortly. now with next month's presidential election in egypt creeping ever closer tens of thousands are joining protests to call for the end of military rule that's been running the country since the toppling of president mubarak

a year ago is losing support on a daily basis as artists are for. in egypt's the cost of democracy has not been an easy one another journey which still president that full last year compared to take naser by the military council has in the build up to presidential elections let the people right back to. the people are angry at what they perceive to be even military councils attempt to cling to power fuel five recent disqualifications popular presidential candidates many of these posts from writing was not all true conservatives the left the preacher he was disqualified because his mother allegedly held u.s. passports but his supporters say they were doesn't make his behind the decision to not let him run regarding presence of the season so long as a little bit clinicians begins to scan and history to the to watch the t.v. . brings into the room he would show them what we are throwing out to move me

exhilaration according to this system one of our. needs. to speak to this committee but it's. election that was independent journalist peltry his game covering the uprising from the very beginning he told us that the deep mistrust of the elections committee and the military council has led to playing anger amongst the people. it's hard to say exactly when if you think you even know who isn't so i think what we can safely say is that whatever action is doing at the moment they're really trying to make sure that this is this is written in the constitution that you every president. basically taken to interact there and this is now a cheesy egypt's military rulers hijacking eventually shit obviously things are moving toward a collusion here the military doesn't want to give up its privileged position in

society the protesters want a genuine democratic system where this thing is headed it's impossible to know some playtest is remain on tahrir square they've fishing ahead and apply pressure on the military council to provide a transition that they say long been calling this time we decided we would do to where is there. a. limit. to meet at least to the point of because now we are being said nothing we have just seen wouldst think the i'm sure. these are the people travel small cost egypt to come here to. tens of thousands in this it's think the teaching people would feel very good for a chance of genuine democracy in their country if they see that chance is now being denied to the east the willing to keep on fighting for. r.t.

. and are starting with southern yemen here's the r.t. was talking for you clashes have erupted between troops and militants linked to al qaeda twelve insurgents and seven us soldiers have been killed but the fighting occurred in the south where the yemeni government is trying to regain parts of the country lost of militants government forces lost control due to turmoil elsewhere in the country last year before the the eventual. dictator ali abdullah saleh. 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 obstructed data and figured out how the craft works u.s. officials acknowledge that losing the surveillance drone was an issue but said it wouldn't be so easily that it would rather be very difficult to it's lloyd any data off technology because of its security measures. now some sixty five

thousand orthodox believe it's have gathered at moscow's main cathedral for a service in defense of the faith that follows a number of high profile cases of valid the lissome of churches and some sacred objects over the past few months his art history records. we can see and indeed here thousands of people who've congregate here at moscow's main cathedral christ the savior they're being led in perception by patriarch kirill now this perceives here's a number of hours of mass prayer nor so a list the service that was given this summer has been 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 sent home to drum up support for the faith has been coming under some criticism of late has be facing some troubling times its leaders

among them patriarch kirill say that they've become under attack from an anti christian campaign and either have been attacks made on the numbers our number of church properties around the country want taking place at a creature and present are where the front door was the entrance was set ablaze also some of the religious symbols sacred symbols have also been attacked among them annoyed to the virgin mary and a crucifix some of those were held up high by patriarch kirill here today among those crowds that have gathered now really stirring some of this resentment of the church on as being a venture took place in favor eight that's when pussy riot a punk room with a very much protest message took to christ the savior cathedral there they tug seize their song at present elect that amir peretz and also at patriarch kirill and he said support that amir peretz him there was outcry among the faithful gatherers

that them 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 tough it came down safely when it came to pussy riot. and just a few men. it's here on out so you know we report on the domination of the oil and gas industry in the u.s. ever be after a quick recap of our top stories. and

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