the tough race for the top job in france goes in first second of browned with official results now showing nico down cyclizine just one and a half percent behind his main rival france so our round was a leading by a little over twenty eight and something. round one of the french presidential races gone pretty much as expected with a big surprise actually the voter turnout which is much higher than was predicted join me for more in a few moments. also the yuan resolved to expand its long term mission in syria but despite of unanimous vote in the security council some members are accused of undermining the peace efforts. bahrain has a controversial formula one grand prix while sending in police to brutally cry down on demonstrators angry at the regime. and certain as the group global attention

julian assange is from here he's only t.v. show on aussie this week sparking reaction that range from praise to hysteria. this is all she's a weekly review and we start in france where presidential election frontrunners nicolas sarkozy and his main rival socialist francois hollande looks to have reached this second round of voting which takes place in two weeks time with almost all the ballots counted along with the first round by a small margin seely's calling events in the french capital for. the big surprise is actually the voter turnout earlier before the actual election and 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 of 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 the 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 to the second round at this point the first of all a lot of nicolas sarkozy will have to certainly more break out 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 the of voters from the two sides on nicolas sarkozy will have to win voters for marine le pen and he may have to again appeal to their sentiments 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 minister ariel that position should sarkozy with and now france all along will have to get the voters of fundamental we know that militia has been calling

for revolution a civic insurrection and these are the people who who are very anti capitalist and liberalism and he will have to win these voters i get all the left to support him so the two will go head to head if you go to cycles he says that if it comes down to the debate he's still confident but again we see a lead 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 that they're going to put forward it's got to be much stronger to win a very pessimistic french public. and then professor of political science at paris west university says a nickel on sarkozy has massively failed his country and whoever gets into power will have his hands full. as a person he was 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 line he says one thing one day the opposite the next day

also. incompetence because you know he's not been able to do very much about the crisis the president is it's likely to be a long we'll have to face the markets and we have to face a very tough situation. if there's a crisis in france which looks a bit like the crisis in greece they would be demonstrations and then france being such a big economy within europe that would make a big difference from my point of view they don't understand that there is a systemic crisis and 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 very sort laming a group of immigrants. another. day has agreed on a resolution to send three hundred observers to syria to monitor the fragile trees

. but washington warned it may still take action against assad's regime that fails to comply with a peace plan europe also remains skeptical overturns a old cease fire threatening to adopt fresh sanctions against and ask its wearing upper thigh has no. 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 believes that this most

recent development in syria is a step in the right direction in the meantime the 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 odd susan rice took to her twitter feed to say the deployment of three hundred or three thousand unarmed observers cannot on its own stop assad's quote murderous rampage susan rice external pressures are additionally needed to solve the problem in syria the u.s. 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 to signal to a position they get criticizing the government saying that. they expect the throne the opposition which is in fact. really clearly in this ago. the council resolution which they themselves had just voted for and all those predictions of doom and gloom threats of various rounds which are being patched those where those things are not productive i think they are distracting from the implementation of the kofi annan plan and for the political efforts of the security council and they may give a ground for some extremists to believe. their course is a still has prospect for for taking over the political process where most naive even though the security council voted unanimously that some members of the security council some important members of the international community. still

compute in the think and going from patient term stores of the syrian government and that's are churkin says the syrian government will be primarily responsible for the safety and security of the us and unarmed observers that will be deployed from 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 adopted also underscores that the syrian government and the opposition group both have to put their weapons out buttons down and begin engaging in dialogue meanwhile these syrian says the rebels have been. on since the cease fire almost a dozen members of the security forces have been killed in the past few days while the opposition claims ongoing shelling by assad's regime and she's a convoy reports now from the city where they are and i'll speak will it. i

think olympic credo of the syrian revolution when a group of schoolkids was arrested in downtown last spring for painting and they're feeding protesters took to the streets for days and. the syrian military responded by rolling its tanks even a year later the chief security officer in daraa is unapologetic those demonstrators were backed by. billions and of course their intention was to put the blame on the government and those kids there it was give them a few food and made them write those things up. but even among supporters it's not a view shared by everyone to protest in daraa and being seen crime down by the military to turning point to syria and in hindsight some syrian officials now wish they handled it differently. we made a mistake when back in the days we didn't give a chance to syria based peaceful opposition to express itself more freely some of

them truly care about the nation now we have to deal with the armed rebels the council in istanbul and then you have religious sects like the selfies or the muslim brothers. no longer bound to meet you're an emergency lifted the syrian authorities are now trying to get believed on their side even though it's more foreign journalists into the country to collate it by the annan plan and i told the wall to what they call the real picture. but the goal of tell the realities on the ground put their own spin on any p.r. effort. the use of u.n. monitors and foreign journalists rather all that are represented on supply that attacks on the army units forcing syrian officials to abandon this sweet talk and her journalist back onto the bus is the government's. the terrorist group.

any of these it beats international monitors to force the army to respond to it. while the rest of the government in the ability to find the right balance between freedom and security may have allowed this conflict to take off many analysts believe that learning how to do it is also crucial for its resolution president assad has long spoken about reforms he's been a popular president for most syrians for a long time because of his you know so-called reform i think this protest in syria actually helped us because you know there are people within the syrian regime who don't really want to bear the hardliners so so this actually helped sort of you know the reform minded members of the regime in government. you know their reform a lot more quickly figure into their pricing is still one of the most turbulent cities in syria despite checkpoints all around the ceasefire is reached on an

almost daily basis and here people are just as the great to talk is they're free to go. protest in daraa had been called the spark that ignited the syrian flame it's over the past year or scourge that a sizable part of this country and while some syrian officials may now have regrets over the way flashpoint was handled that's not nearly enough to extinguish the fire at some point you are see syria. this is coming your way later in the program called blondest confessions arifin revealed in norwegian emasculate three weeks trial has sent shivers down the spines of the international community. not a blow to the controversial policing proposal as its chances of being passed by e.u. lawmakers to head towards. show premiered on our t.v.

this week the media reaction was global from praise to hysteria the response was anything that includes friend she's going to check out has been gauging opinion across the atlantic. for most american media julianna sons 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 this through a. combatant a traitor getting into bed with. terrible radicals. i think that's a sort of it's a pretty trivial. flipper if you look at how.

we read it 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 walking. into us as woman we want to be able to tell people that he's one of us or there is a terrorist organization in the world but the one that people listen to us high from our example if it wasn't just a trial and yet we're very 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 expensive the full picture is somebody who 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 demonize. targeted as a quote terrorist but the purpose of demonizing somebody like nasr our 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 assigns 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 in iraq and afghanistan as well as other issues in the u.s. has been under fire from capitol hill the white house and the media and we've got to apprehend mr silence the founder of wiki leaks and bring him to justice as a as

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 they've got ought to be so i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot son of a what about freedom of information cherished is a poor principle of democracy it's almost like leading and letting a genie out of the bottle mr sands has the internet and the governments and everyone else at their own game because he's gone to a place where others have not been before and he's introduced the types of information the range of information that previously were not available if one views the media as a core of partly true peña then julian assange which is someone who presents to the jury that is that he wears arguments evidence voices which they almost never hear on mainstream media and it's up to the newest to form an opinion but many find

ironic is that all source is under attack by the us government and the media for practicing poor forks then the freedom of information that america preaches around the globe i'm going to take our reporting from washington our quiz. and american janet and and he will accept his down to boss as a sundress shah is a far cry from what can be seen in the american media so to criticize now is not surprising but is that when heads here on the one hand the information management paradigm that is basically the communications industry in the united states has the problem of whistleblowers to deal with that forced their way out into the conversation you have bradley manning for example famously declared guilty by the president the united states before he had a trial and you have also of course julian of sancerre and wiki leaks so there's that aspect the other side is that in the united states since the one nine hundred

fifty s. and it famously in april of one nine hundred sixty one when john f. kennedy called on the media to consider their stories against the issue of national security you have a very very narrow band of opinion it gets broadcast discussed and a very narrow set of facts that are presented and it with the information age show you know technology this change the internet and all of that you have court t.v. and other international outlets that are now presented to american audiences and that are not bound by the american you know censorship basically so you have people like julian assize being brought each of these is offensive to the paradigm here and so the fact that they're beating up on the son is on the one hand and an oratory on the other is that surprising. second edition of julius sargent show is coming your way this tuesday at fifteen thirty moscow time or eleven said to charity so this time he will be speaking to a professor that's love always reject the answer and left wing commentator and

david horovitz a conservative writer and campaigner so together they'll discuss global politics and whether we can leaks was guilty of treason. bahrain's controversial formula one grand prix motor race has taken place that's here is protesters vented their anger against the country's regime outside the track accidents claim the ruling family that crushed the arab spring demonstrations last week last year i should say should not have to raise so and there have been continued clashes between demonstrators and security forces for the past week police have responded with tear gas and rubber bullets protests intensified on saturday after the body of a mine who'd been shot was discovered on a rooftop there are reports that ten female activists demanding freedom for political prisoners have been arrested author and middle east expert explains why political changes in bahrain i'm not in western interest. we've had demonstrations and anger just on the eve of this so ben 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 it lie brown's family mission would be you interesting way to defend democracy the west affectedly is not police bit interesting 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 government as their opponents and the weird cover the way the west reacts and this just shows the blatant hypocrisy in relation to be human rights and be use of human rights for human rights mass to get their own way it strategically bahrain is of key importance for the united states and its allies and so we have here in the arab world

a grotesque display of double standards yet again. files relating to the trial of norwegian mass killer and as for a break 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 after a brave explicitly televised trial began earlier last week has admitted to killing seventy seven people in separate bomb and last year a denied criminal goes claiming it was protecting norway from being taken over by muslims and he also gave a step by step account of exactly how him murdered his victims claiming he had the humanize himself to become a mass killer if found guilty brave it could face a maximum twenty one year prison sentence. but if they charges the society is a sane he'll be detained indefinitely for psychiatric treatment or a member of the caribbean parliament again or believes the trials extensive coverage could turn into a showcase for brain exchanged ideas. that is the way you want the justice system

works in it in the european union or worry he will clearly i was opportunity to express his own views one just hopes that the overwhelming majority of people will reject over what they are signs of if you all i'm a man who who is deluded and. this is something that we've seen across the european union. in germany in france in the united kingdom as well as in norway is just he was particularly successful but i think he's one of. many maybe too strong really he's certainly not unique in many ways whatsoever elise groups are actually working together to promote these crimes of lone wolves in the only sense is follow the same partner loosely as some of the muslim fundamentalists. another weekend another scandal for nato forces in afghanistan the latest art for reserving new photos

showing american soldiers smiling and posing with the corpses of afghans who are said to have been so side bombers the white house maintains it's just another isolated incident that antiwar activists strongly disagree. 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 they have absolutely no idea what they're doing there they know that the populations in their home countries whether it's this country all the united states are overwhelmingly against the war and this is bound to produce a situation where the occupation becomes more brutal before games 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 generational what was already of these are stress. patient what the situation

will be like when they go on is this but whatever the difficulties whatever the problems whatever the military situation is in the country it will at least be afghans who are settling their own future at the moment we have a colonial system where the major powers are trying to run somebody else's you know we should have left that kind of mentality behind in the nineteenth century. and let's now take a look at some other world news in brief this hour in southern yemen violent clashes have erupted between treats and militants linked to al qaida twelve insurgents and seven soldiers have been killed they are fighting occurred in the south where they give any government is trying to regain parts of the nation taken by the militants and government forces lost control due to turmoil elsewhere in the country last year before the ousting of the former president ali abdullah saleh. south sudanese soldiers came under airstrikes from saddam's army was drawing from the or things that had leaked around four hundred troops from south sudan have

reportedly died in the past over the disputed border town which was captured earlier this month in your list of nations in that region had allegedly been severely damaged during the occupation threatening the incident. economy which is heavily reliant on and the tree exports from that. egypt's national gas company egads has cancelled its natural gas supply deal with these are all the call trucks and those hated during the reign of alstead leader hosni mubarak has come under heavy criticism in egypt tel aviv has already recovered i responded to the news saying that relations between the two countries have had an unprecedented low. parliament speaker peter slipper has resigned amid claims his sexually harassed his openly gay adviser according to a local newspaper was deluged victim has filed a lawsuit against his former employer and is seeking compensation he was appointed speaker late last year to shore up the ruling labor party's fragile hold on power.

now the controversial anti counterfeiting trade agreement all actually has been dealt a heavy blow as the second largest group in the european parliament has announced it won't support its big pops sparks i'm gay mung many europeans e.u. states signed an agreement in january thousands demonstrated against it saying it will leave major operations plus dentist control over that personal data of ratification is due this summer rain for european parliament's but david martin the e.p.a. responsible for monitoring its right breast has already said it should be much effort. in terms of what i was trying to achieve i'm quite happy with that i think it's important to you it does protect its intellectual property but i don't number of unintended side consequences one was it would have put a duty on internet service providers to effect if we act as the european police force of the internet and i don't think that's 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 privacy of their own homes. like this as this should all be for commercial purposes but commercial purposes are very weakly defying the other concern that people have about like to that it was negotiated through a five six year period behind closed doors the rights holders seem to be involved in that discussion but the civil society did not seem to be the part about discussion and most of the members of the partly didn't really understand what they were signing up for i mean the british house of commons are the one whining reported article 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 parliament in the european decision making process because the european problem act would probably go below. and i'm back with the ad lines in just

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