and the one that will be the next french president is the two front runners go through to the second and decisive round of voting in two weeks time. round one of the french presidential races gone pretty much as expected but the big surprise is actually the voter turnout which is much higher than was predicted join me for more a few moments. the u.n. resolves to expand its model to mission in syria but despite a unanimous vote in the security council some members are accused of undermining the peace effort. also bahrain hosts a controversial formula one grand prix ending in police to brutally crackdown on demonstrators angry at the regime. and thirty minutes that gripped the global attention of his own interview shown on t.v. this week sparking a range of reaction from praise to hysteria. with

a look back at the past seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly party in france presidential election front runners nicolas sarkozy and his main rival socialist francois hollande look to have reached the second round of voting in two weeks time polls suggest one on one the first round by a small margin will get live reaction from france very shortly but first test is following the voting in the french capital. and the big surprise is actually the voter turnout earlier before the actual election at the projections was that up to a third of french people will not actually go out and vote but now we're seeing eighty percent turnout and that is a big difference indeed we know from the last few weeks of the campaigns of cycles and a lot of they have been encouraging people to vote throughout all of this it's been

about jobs and employment and the economy and this has been the top concern of french people as well as purchasing power which is essentially money in their pockets and this is going to be central to the campaigns of the two who make it in the second round at this point francois a lot of nicolas sarkozy will have to certainly more break that into their campaigns much stronger than they have done in the first round and also what they will be having to do is trying to win at the a voters from the two sides on nicolas sarkozy will have to win voters for money look ten and he may have to again appeal to their sentiment he has been doing so this is anti immigration sentiment for instance but again he has to start talking about jobs but he does have the support of the voters of a centrist francois bayrou but it's not surprising because he may get a prime ministerial of his issue and should sarkozy with and now france all along will have to get the voters of fundamental shall we know that militia has been calling for revolution a civic insurrection and these are the people who who are very anti capitalist and anti liberalism he will have to win these voters get all the left to support him so

the two will go head to head because sarkozy says that if it comes down to the debate he still confident but again we see a leader of a lot of it may continue on to the second round of all of this a very interesting to see what is going to happen again in the second round the campaign if they're going to put forward it's got to be much stronger to win a very pessimistic french public. reaction and analysis on the election results in france let's talk to one of the aides to the far right leader marine le pen. the well the all party leader what almost twenty percent of the vote how do you assess her performance in this election. well it seems that many french voters have. really heard her message on several topics not only a bounce immigration in security but as well as social matters and on the future of europe with europe do about monetary questions about the euro advanced

international policy like what is going on in libya or in syria there are many topics in which she's been heard i guess tonight were you pleased with that result . the result is about twenty percent and it shows that because sarkozy's in huge difficulties tonight and what about the elements of the campaign you mention have a real appends campaign was partly based on anti islamic and the immigration concerns that result reflects just how serious these issues are. in french society . there were one of the main topics i mean we have to deal with them are real problems of integration in france coming specially from muslim. immigrants of muslim backgrounds but not only there were many many topics about socials problems about monetary problems or what's going on in spain in greece i think it is going

way above whatever she's been talking about whatever the phone as you know has been talking about in the past you said sarkozy now is in serious trouble so who will bring the pen's supporters vote for the second round. we always say that the voters who supported her do not belong to us so we will not give orders for the second round i think they are way wise enough to make their own decisions maybe we should be taking care of the results of the station on the second round ok so cause in serious trouble why did we go wrong when. no because i mean none of the both candidates or not support any of them because you consider that they've been in power for decades where the socialist party or the un p. is the same for us the same people with a very slight differences so will not get any message of support for any of these candidates do you think there is any chance despite what many out of the say that sarkozy could actually get through the second round and wind is.

we don't have the same analysts we have this feeling that the background of the voters in the whole us today in france might not give sarkozy a second chance to stay president of france you talked about the troubles with the economy of course the pen is keen to drop the euro that i would imagine would have won quite a few votes for bearing in mind the euro crisis of my with the way france is suffering but who do you think could now cope with the economic problems more effectively could it be sarkozy all and obviously all that as a different attitude is against austerity and prefers growth is that also perhaps not because both of them support the actual policies of the european union which is the lead by the union commission to keep the euro as the single currency we proposed it was very courageous for a minute when they were posed to have the euro as a common currency for big business isn't big exchanges but the french franc as an

everyday life currency now you're thirty years their own their only solution this is not the solution we're thinking about you could have made billions of economies and other subjects but now the french have decided this is the first step for her it is very interesting step because she went for twenty percent as a first. as a presidential candidate going to get that thank you very much for your thoughts good to hear from you live there in paris thank you. the u.n. stopped what is agreed on a resolution to send three hundred observers to syria to monitor the fragile truce there moscow's welcomed the move but washington warned it may still take action against assad's regime if it fails to comply with the peace plan and europe also remains skeptical of the we called cease fire in syria threatening to adopt fresh sanctions against america's report 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 or even the six point peace plan laid out by a un joint envoy mr kofi annan 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 hide susan rice shipped

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 the 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 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 is signaled to a position they give criticizing the government saying no and go bold wild they expect the opposition which is in fact. very clearly in the. the council resolution which they themselves have just voted for and all those predictions of

a boom and gloom threats of various plans which are being hatched this hour where those things are not productive i think they are distracting from the implementation of the coffee and on plan and 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 some prospect for for taking over the political process we are not naive even though the security council voted unanimously that some members of the security council some important members of the international community. still continued to think and confrontational term stores of the syrian government and as richard says the syrian government will be primarily responsible for the safety and security of the unarmed observers that will be deployed through 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 suspension of violence this resolution the most recent one atop that also underscores that the syrian government and the opposition group both have to put their weapons out weapons down and begin engaging in dialogue going to that the syrian opposition has renewed its calls for u.n. backed military intervention this is the friends of syria group met in paris this week to discuss putting more pressure on the assad regime such a service it believes that one sided efforts only underline the importance of the observed his mission in syria. this is incredibly significant especially when we consider a lot of the other regional neighbors 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 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 in one day parade sample 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. controversial formula one graun pre-merger races taking place as furious protesters vented their anger against the country's regime side the truck

going continue clashes between demonstrators and security forces for the past week police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets protests and since a fight on saturday after the body of a man who'd been short was discovered on a rooftop security forces have set up checkpoints and brought vehicles to control any possible protests the reports of ten female activists to modern freedom for political prisoners have been arrested all through middle east expert tariq ali explained to me why the principle changes in bahrain a lot of western interests. on the eve of this opened clearly security will set up very high level western police and security officials have been called in to help and former senior scotland police chief john yates warned that lie brown's ammunition would be used interesting way to defend democracy the west affectively is not police bit

interesting to get rid of this. because he's one of the i mean just compare what is going on in bahrain to other parts of the arab world where the west sees governments as their opponents and the way they are covered the way the west reacts and this just shows up the blatant hypocrisy in relation to human rights and the use of human rights for human rights mass to get their own way it strategically bahrain is of key and so the united states and its allies and the so we have here in the arab world a grotesque display of double standards yet again. folds relating to the trial of the region mass killer and his grave it will be classified for sixty years the judges say the documents could be harmful to the public and will be kept secret until twenty seventy two the decision came to a great extent of ais trial the first part was viewed across the world is admitted to killing seventy seven people in the gun attack last year but the nice criminal

guilt when he was protecting the way from being taken over by muslims he also gave a step by step account of exactly how he massacred his victims claiming here dehumanizing yourself to become a mass killer if i'm guilty of it could face a maximum twenty one year prison sentence if the judges decide he's insane to be sent for indefinite psychiatric treatment a former member of the european parliament clean for believes extensive coverage of the trial could turn it into a showcase of critics extremist ideas that is the way you want the justice system works in in the european union in norway he he will clearly i was offered to teach to express his own views one just hopes that the overall we which are you people will reject you for what they are signs of if you want to a man who who is deluded and a racist those on a focus is something that we've seen across the european union. in germany in france in the united kingdom as well as in norway he said he was particularly

successful but i think he see he's one of. many maybe too strong body he's certainly not unique in amy's whatsoever and least groups are actually working together to promote these kind of lone wolves to in many senses follow the same pattern as the some of the muslim fundamentalists. when julian assange show premiered on our t.v. this week the media reaction was global from praise to hysteria the response was anything but indifferent he's going to has been gauging opinions across the atlantic for most american media julianna songes guilty without charge reckless traitor and a threat to our national security interests sleazeball named julian assange on 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 because through a. combatant prater. record with an. interview with. terrible radicals. i think sort of it's a pretty trivial. character for if you look at how the sort was made we know we have complete control of the guest over his first show was the head of hezbollah are designated by the us as a terrorist organization it was not starlost first interview with international channel in six years and the reason why him could be found in the interview itself the united states is looking. into us as well lahore may want to be able to tell people that he's one of those the terrorism

terrorism. is a show that is girls and it murders but the one that people listen to us hype on the high for example if there was a just a cry the. very meaning a defendant 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 if somebody agrees or doesn't agree with hezbollah's ideas or all their ideas ideology or their theology the american people hear the voice of hezbollah rather than simply have them demonized targeted as a quote carer's by the purpose of demonizing somebody like nasr or nelson mandela who was considered a terrorist until one nine hundred eighty eight is not really to stop terrorist ideas from infiltrating but for the american people to only hear one side of a debate only hear one side of an argument julian assange is now under house arrest in the u.k. fighting extradition to sweden where he may well be extradited to the united states

u.s. prosecutors reportedly 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 violator of the espionage act because if we go 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 they've got ought to be shot i'm not for the death penalty so i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot what about freedom of information cherish this is a core principle of democracy it's almost like leading and letting genie out of the bottle mr sanchez the 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 if he were his arguments evidence voices which they almost never hear. i mean stream media but it's up to that you are still form an opinion but what many find ironic is that our financial is under attack by the us government and the media for practicing poor false then the freedom of information that america preaches. i'm going to check our reporting from washington i put. the second edition of june in the sun to show is coming your way on choose day at fifteen thirty moscow time or eleven thirty g.m.t. this time we'll be speaking to professor zick he's a philosopher and left wing commentator and david horovitz a conservative writer campaigner together they'll discuss global politics and

whether we could 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 sees 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 or the united states are overwhelmingly against the war and this is bound to produce a situation where the occupation becomes more brutal before it ends 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 armed forces are increasingly shooting members of the occupying forces so i think that this is a generation of what was already a disastrous. patient and what the situation will be like when they've gone is this that whatever that of course these 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. russia and china have begun their first ever joint naval exercises there taking place in the yellow sea near the korean peninsula two dozen vessels and thousands of sailors were involved in the war games plan to last six days both sides in two exchange experience is a focus on air defense submarine warfare and search and rescue tactics maneuvers are underway as tension on the korean peninsula is escalating with the u.s.

shifting more military tension to the asia pacific region. experts say washington is able to counter potential threats from regional powers like china. well elsewhere around the world in our world update in southern yemen 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 surf where the yemeni government is trying to regain parts of the country last two minutes and government forces lost control due to turmoil elsewhere in the country last year before the else think of the former president 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 extracted data and figure out how the craft works u.s. officials acknowledged losing the surveillance drone but said it would be difficult to exploit any data or technology because of its security measures.

egypt's national gas company has canceled its natural gas supply deal with israel a contract negotiated during the reign of egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak has come under heavy criticism in egypt for the river's already responded to the news relations between the two countries have hit an unprecedented low. as for his parliament speaker peter slipper has resigned amid claims he had sexually harassed his openly gay adviser according to local newspapers the alleged victim has filed a lawsuit against his former employer and is seeking compensation he was appointed cyclical late last year to shore up the ruling labor party's fragile hold on power . nearly seventy thousand orthodox believers have gathered at moscow's main cathedral for a service in the sense of the faith that follows a number of high profile cases of vandalism of churches and sacred objects over the past few months and here's a check of greece. we can see and indeed thousands of people who've

congregate here moscow's main cathedral christ the savior they're being led game procession by patriarch kirill now this perceives here's a number of hours of mass prayer and also a list she 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 its main cathedral and really sent to drum up support for the faith has been coming under some criticism of lateness be facing some troubling times its leaders among them patriarch kirill say they come under attack from an anti christian campaign have been attacks made on the numbers our number of church properties around the country want to play such a creature and present our way of the front doors the entrance was set ablaze also

some of 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 by patriarch kirill here today among those crowds that have gathered now release some of this resentment to the church on as being a bench and took place in favorites as one pussy riot a punk for the very much a protest message to two crisis a view cathedral there they face hard siege their song at present election but amir putin also at a chart carol and he said support blood amir who simply know was outcry among faithful gatherers that when using such a sacred place for their demonstrations there's also been a lot of condemnation since from human rights groups don't like how the church handled this saga and how it came down safely when it came to pussy riot.

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