would free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video god or a t dot com. the french decide their future with voting in the presidential election under way in a country hit by social division and record unemployment. un resolved to expand its monitor mission in syria despite a unanimous vote in the security council some members are accused of undermining the peace effort. bahrain's controversial for the one grand prix goes ahead despite widespread protests against the regime in a brutal crackdown by police that left one. hundred thirty minutes the grip of global attention joining us and printed his own interview show here on t.v. this week sparking a range of reaction from praise to his styria. a

look back at the past seven days top stories on the latest developments this is the weekly on. french voters choosing the next president there are ten candidates in the running including incumbent nicolas sarkozy and his main rival socialist forceful on that seventy percent turnout has been high in an election driven by discontent over a struggling economy record unemployment and integration center is in paris with more people are watching it closely because the numbers could sway the results of round one of this presidential race but we have to wait for the total of many of the french feel that there really isn't much of a choice there's no one out there is getting the real solution to the problems are facing especially with regard to the economy and jobs and this very disillusionment has given rise to more extreme views feelings of that act a global ization ranty of immigration. which has also cropped the candidates on the

far right such as marie le pen and on the left you have john goodman i'm sure voting will continue today and will have a clear idea of where the french will want to take their country about eight pm local time for the first authorized results will be and now so we're going to be waiting after that and giving you the latest. well let's get more insight from here he's a professor of political science and purse with the joining us live from the sunny french capital now if you are so cozy loses he'll be the first president in thirty years not to be reelected so if he doesn't win what would have sealed his fate. well now it looks very likely that is going to lose the reasons multiple firsts as a person who is extremely arrogant he was perceived as the president of the rich precisely at a time when there's a crisis and also. he doesn't have a very clear political mind he says one thing one day the opposite the next day one

day is very european the next day wants to establish control at. one day's very close to chinese in germany in the next days critical. lack of consistency arrogance and. incompetence because you know it's not you know you do very much about the crisis which is you know something very difficult but is personal characteristics i think and tag and eyes that other people. and decision is candidate who is very likely to win. campaigned as a circle normal candidate but a lot of people are voting for him because they don't want psychosis out of the vote is very much a passionate anti sarkozy vote for personal reasons all right you mentioned he's

more of a guy was even. not very good at. speaking the french language so personal characteristics really the main cause of his downfall. you mentioned the economy obviously is one major factor in this election do you think all and. bring any form of recovery to france after all he is advocating growth. which of course. pursuing. well actually sarkozy changed line in january with saying one thing and saying something else the president is and it's likely to be alone we'll have to face the markets and we'll have to face a very tough situation it's not really a matter of who's there but. if there's a crisis in france which looks a bit like the crisis in greece there would be demonstrations and then france being such a big economy within europe that you make a big difference so alone by himself you know change things but if there's pressure

from demonstrations and also even in countries that vote for the right like spain a lot of people are angry with the political than economic situation it could be the beginning of a of a movement not initiated by a lone intel but. by people who want to change and demonstrating for it and pushing. to move towards that direction along by itself cannot change the whole system but if it's supported not only by a majority of the public in france but also by other people in other countries in southern europe it may make a difference what about immigration just finally that of course is being a very strong sentiment in all the campaigns that was that just to voters to connect with voters or is that real really a problem there in front of the moment and will it be addressed. well i think you have one candidate the candidate of the national front two and he's going to pull

them around fifteen sixteen percent and she's played the anti immigrant card. there's a large segment of the french population who try to understand the crisis and ethnic or immigration terms from my point of view they don't understand that there is a systemic crisis and that immigration is one part of this systemic crisis but immigration doesn't cause the economic crisis it becomes such a problem because a lot of people want to simplify everything for their resort to what was so common in the one nine hundred thirty s. claiming a group of immigrants the group is now different from the one it was in the one nine hundred thirty s. . she's playing politics with this she has a kind of left wing rhetoric in terms of economics and it certainly train anti immigrant rhetoric in terms of immigration but. she only sixteen

percent and the. bush candidate is very close to that. it should be interesting because immigration has not become the core issue of the whole campaign . great to hear your thoughts thank you for joining us live there in paris. a currency crisis tough cuts. tragic integration failures. who will be left standing with the people speech. the french election on r.t. . he once taught he's agreed on a resolution to send three hundred observers to syria to monitor the fragile truce there moscow's welcome the move but washington warned it may take action against the mascot's if it fails to comply with the peace plan has more now 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 calls for in the six point peace plan laid out by a u.n. joint envoy mr kofi i'm on russia of course of the leaves 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 how had 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 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 is 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 they missed an opportunity to signal to the opposition they get criticizing the government saying no and you go wild they expect the opposition which is unfair. live very clearly in this ago. the council resolution which they themselves had just voted for and all those predictions of a boom and gloom threats of various plans which are being hatched this hour where

things are not productive i think they have distracting from the implementation of the core famine plan and from the political efforts of the security council and they may give a ground for some extremists to believe that their cause is a still has some prospect for for taking over the political process we are not naive even though the security council voted unanimously some members of the security council some important members of the international community still continuing to think and going from patient terms the words of the syrian government and as richardson says the syrian government will be primarily responsible for the safety and security of the u.n. unarmed observers that will be deployed to syria they will be deployed once the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon feels that it's safe enough for the observers to go and there has been enough to satiate of violence this resolution the most recent

one a top that also underscores that the syrian government and the opposition group both have to put their weapons out but in sound and begin engaging in dialogue. this is the weekly on r.t. still to come this hour extremism on the show. norway's confessed mass murder and as brave it uses a court room to promote his ideas and his views are far from unique in europe as we hear a little later. on another scandal for nato forces in afghanistan as new photos show american soldiers posing with the corpses of afghans that story for the few minutes from now here on r.t. . first bahrain's controversial formula one grand prix motor race has gone ahead without incident but there have been furious rallies against the country's regime outside the race track demonstrators have 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 discovered on a rooftop security forces have set up checkpoints and brought armored vehicles to

control any possible protests are reports of ten female activists demanding freedom for political prisoners have been arrested porter a middle east expert tariq ali has told me earlier that he explains why political changes in bahrain are not in western interests. demonstrations and anger just on the eve of this ok and clearly security was so very high level. police and security officials have been called in to. former senior scotland police chief john yates warned it les brown supply munition would be used interesting way to defend democracy in the west effectively is locked the least bit interested to get rid of this so ruler because he's one of the i mean you know just compare what is going on in bahrain to other parts of the arab world where the west sees governments as their opponents and there will be

a car word the way the west reacts and bistros shows out the blatant hypocrisy in relation to be human rights and be use of human rights. for human rights marches to give fair own wit strategically barrin is of key importance for the united states and its allies and been so we have here in the arab world a group test display of double standards yet again. files relating to the trial of norwegian mass killer anders preview will be classified for sixty years the judges said the documents could be harmful to the public and will be kept secret until twenty seventy two the decision came at a great extent of ours trial viewed across the world he's admitted to killing seventy seven people in a warm and gun attack last year but denies criminal lane he was protecting norway from being taken over by muslims and also have a step by step account of exactly how he must get his victims claiming he had the humor humanize himself to become

a mass killer if found guilty believe it could face a maximum twenty one year prison sentence if the judges decide he's insane or be sent for indefinite psychiatric treatment former member of the european parliament lynn ford believes the extensive coverage of the trial could turn into a showcase for braving streamers no ideas that is the way if you will the justice system works in it in the european union in norway he he will clearly i was opportunities to express his own views but i'm just hopes that the overwhelming majority of people will reject you for what they are signs of if you want to a man who who is deluded and a racist was an approach this is something that we've seen across the european union. in germany in france in the united kingdom as well as in norway he's just he was particularly successful but i think he's he's he's one of. many ways be to strong body he's certainly not unique in amy's whatsoever and least groups are

actually working together to promote these kind of low wall the su in many senses follow the same pattern as the some of the muslim fundamentalists. by the way if you want even more stories in addition to what you see here on screen and online go to r.t. dot com there you'll find still in the fight for presidential hopeful and congressman ron paul shows no sign of slowing down and he's relying on his healthy bank balance to keep him in the republican race. and 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 shattered more video for you right now on you tube channel. when you're in a surge of show premiered on our t.v. this week the media reaction was global from praise to hysteria the response was anything but indifferent what is going to come out has been gauging opinions across

the atlantic for most american media julian assange is guilty without charge reckless traitor and a threat to our national security interests sleazeball named 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 through a foreign illegal gotten very far. from the kremlin and. interviewing. terrible radicals and. i think that's the sort of it's truly a kind. of flipper actually look at how the soviets were and. we have complete

control of the guests over his first show was the head of hezbollah 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 booking. into us as will not only want to be able to tell people that one of the syrian terrorism is that smoking nice nations if it kills and it merges with the one that people listen to us high from ohio for example if there wasn't just a trial then you have this very thing is that if anything 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 or 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 hezbollah rather than simply have

them demonize targeted as a quote terrorist by the purpose of demonizing somebody like nasr our 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 our son who's made public thousands of leaked documents with embarrassing details relating to the words 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 those of violator of the espionage act because if we don't just keep tapping the dead men can't leaks that this guy's a traitor

a treasonous and he has broken every law of 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 those. the core principle of democracy it's almost like leaving letting genie out of the bottle mr science has the internet and the governments and everyone else at their own game because he's gone from 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 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 forces under attack by the us government and the media for practicing poor full extent the freedom of information that america preaches

around the globe i'm going to start now reporting from washington i put. well in the second edition of june and sunday's show is coming your way on tuesday at fifteen thirty moscow time or eleven thirty g.m.t. here on r.t. of course in this time we'll be speaking to professors lavoy he's a philosopher and therefore in commentator also david horovitz he's a conservative writer and campaigner on global politics and also going to discussing whether we can leaks was guilty of treason. another week another scandal for nato forces in afghanistan 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 something antiwar activists strongly disagree with this is what happens when an occupation last for ten years and is manifestly failing i imagine that the morale of the troops is that rock bottom layer of our salute you know 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 it ends they they know that they are on the run they know that the business of training the afghans to take over is actually resulting in a situation where afghan armed forces are increasingly shooting members of the occupying forces so i think that this is a generation of what was already at these are stressed. patient and what the situation will be like when they go on is this that 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 now we should have left that kind of mentality behind in the nineteenth century.

this is the weekly here in r.t. still to come this hour. the head of the for the church it's a service that's been dubbed in defense of the paper joining us from moscow's bank these are all very shortly. but first russia and china have begun their first ever joint naval exercises the 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 experience as they focus on air defense submarine warfare and search and rescue tactics relievers will run for six days to work tension on the korean peninsula is escalating with the u.s. shifting more military attention to the asia pacific region washington says it's aiming to counter potential threats from regional powers like china. the controversial anti counterfeiting trade agreement known as actor has been dealt a heavy blow as the second largest group in the european parliament has announced

it will not support it the pact sparked anger among many europeans when stateside the greens in general these demonstrations against it saying it would give major corporations unprecedented control over their personal data total ratification is jus this summer in the european parliament but david martin is the m.e.p. responsible for monitoring its progress has already said it should be rejected. in terms of what i was trying to achieve i'm quite happy with i think it's important you know it does protect us and the actual property but had a number of unintended side consequences one was it would have put a duty in internet service providers to think that we act as the european police force of the internet and i don't think now is right i think that's probably a formal judicial authorities secondly i didn't like the idea that i could possibly have criminalized young people who were quite innocently dying or doing films and music and so on in the for the city of their own homes going back to say the should

only be for commercial purposes but commercial purposes are very weakly defined and the other can say on the people how about i so that it was negotiated through a five six you could behind closed doors the rights holders seem to be involved in that discussion but the civil society did not seem to be part of that discussion and most of the member states partly didn't really understand what they were signing up for i mean the british house of commons i don't one lying reports tonight which said that i could have not met a debate on the floor of the house of commons and as an aside i actually demonstrates the importance of european following in the european decision making process because without the european problem act i would probably know below. twenty five minutes past the hour in russian capital some other world news in brief for you know in southern yemen violent clashes have erupted between troops and militants linked to al qaida 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 lost control due to turmoil elsewhere in the country last year before the eventual parcher of 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 is extract and figured out how the craft works u.s. officials acknowledge losing the surveillance drone but said it would be difficult to exploit any data or technology because of its security measures. nearly seventy thousand dogs believers have gathered at moscow's main cathedral for a service in defense of the faith and follows a number of high profile cases of vandalism of churches and sacred objects over the past few months is not is jacob riis. we can see and indeed here thousands of people who have congregated here moscow's main cathedral christ the

savior they're being led in perception by patriarch kirill now this perceived. number of hours of mass prayer and also a listee service that was given this summer has been replicated around the country as a whole at some of the key centers of the orthodox church in russia some of its main cathedral and really sent home to drum up support for the faith has been coming under some criticism of late is be facing some troubling times its leaders a moment patriarch kirill say that they come under attack from an anti christian campaign indeed there have been attacks made on numbers our number of church properties around the country or taking place at a creature and present are where the front doors the entrance was set ablaze also some of the religious symbols sacred symbols have also been attacked among them an idol of 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 respond to ring some of this resentment of the church sean has been events or took place in favorites as one pussy riot a punk room with a very much protest message to christ the savior cathedral there they to heartsease their song at present but a mere person also patriarch kirill and he said support blood to me to sin no was outcry among. them using such a sacred place for their demonstrations but also being 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. took agrees there. in central moscow and in a moment here a nazi joined us for a special report detailing the domination of the oil and gas industry in the u.s. and the concern that they can drill through your very own living room for that

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