big tough race for the top job in sons goes interest second round with official results not sure unequal outrank was the just one and a half the stand behind his main rival francois hollande is leading by a little over twenty eight percent. 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 jointly for more a few moments. ago so the you underdogs to expand its own into mission in syria but despite a unanimous vote in the security council some numbers are accused of undermining the peace separate. bahrain hosts a controversial formula one grand prix while sending in police to brutally crime down on down traitors angry at the regime. and says minute the grip of global attention julian assange premiered his own interview show on r.t.

this week sparking reaction that range from praise to the scary. this is weekly hello and welcome to the chateau in france presidential election frontrunners nicolas sarkozy and his main rival so she is from so our land looks to have reached this second round of voting which takes place in two weeks time with almost all the ballots counted or learned wins the butts round by a small margin test r.c.a.'s following events in the french capital. but the big surprise is actually the voter turnout earlier before the actual election that the projections was that up to what 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 of francois on that nicolas sarkozy will have to certainly more pretended to 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 from the look 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 ministerial that has issued sarkozy with and now francois hollande will have to get the voters and 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 and he was like was he says that if it comes down to the debate he still confident again we see a leader of a larger 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 too with a very pessimistic french public. and professor of political science at paris once university says nicolas sarkozy has been a failed his country and whoever gets into power will have his hands full as a person who is extremely arrogant he was deceived. 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 were demonstrations and then france being such a big want to me within europe that would make a big difference from my point of view they don't understand that there is a systemic crisis and that immigration is one part of the systemic crisis but integration doesn't cause the economic crisis it becomes such a problem because people want to simplify everything and therefore there is. claiming a group of immigrants. the un stability has agreed on a resolution to send three hundred amp service to syria to monitor the fragile trees that comes to move washington won't it may still take action against assad's

regime fails to comply with a peace plan europe also remains skeptical of the ten day old cease fire threatening to adopt fresh sanctions against damascus rayna partner has now from perth. 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 u.n. joint envoy mr kofi 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 have 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 murderous rampage susan rice said that external pressures are additional we 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 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

it will serve as a signal to the opposition they give criticizing the government saying that. they expect the thrall know the opposition which is unfair. clearly in this if you. city council resolution which they themselves had just voted for and all those provisions of a blue on blue threats of vote is which are being hatched this hour we're those things are not productive i think they are distracting from the implementation of the kofi annan plan and from the political efforts of the security council now they may give a ground for some extremists who believe. their cause is a still has some prospect for for taking over the political process where no played even though the security council voted unanimously some members of the security council some important members of the international community. still considered the thing can come from patient of their own stores of the syrian government ambassador churkin says the syrian government will be primarily responsible for the safety and

security of the un unarmed 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 say should 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 but instead out and begin engaging in dialogue the syrian opposition has renewed its calls for you on box military intervention based on the friends of syria group met in paris this week to discuss pushing more pressure on bass hundred m. for such a siren recent believes that one sided efforts only underline the importance of they have its mission in syria. this is incredibly significant especially when we consider a lot of the other regional neighbors of syria behaving very poorly and provoking

violent conflict in syria and suggesting that they want to arm the rebels and continue and actually increase the level of violence that's happening in syria so we have the region that's actually instigating violence and we have the so-called prendes 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 and 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 you're washing our sea islands coming your way late and the poor as round cold blooded concessions the risk of details revealed in a week of mass killer anders breivik struggle of send shivers down the spines of the international community. and also late. for the controversial plan releasing proposal actor as its chances of being passed by the way it is headed towards. the interior sanjit show premiered on r.c. this week the media reaction was global from praise to his cheery of the response was anything but indifferent ask he's going to shock and has been gauging opinion after. for most american media julianna songes 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 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. i saw it coming because through a. combatant a traitor getting into bed with a criminal and. terrible radicals. i think that's a sort of it's a pretty crude. card. flitter if you look at how. we have complete control of the guest 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. posting in to us as well the hormone we want to be able to tell people that one of us is terrorism or is that smoking lies ations if. this were the one that people listen to us hype from our example if it wasn't just a trial and yet we're very nice the 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 of who somebody agrees or doesn't agree with hezbollah's ideas or all their ideas ideology or their theology 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 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 reportedly have a secret indictment ready for a sign was 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 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 and 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 penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of one of our 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 need here and so 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 viewers to form an opinion but what many find ironic is that our source is under attack by the u.s. government and the media for practicing tool for extend the freedom of information that america preaches around the globe i'm going to start our reporting from washington are today. and american counties that are antiwar activists counting process is a far cry from what can be saying that american media savvy criticism is not

surprising but is that when it 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 you had a trial and you have also of course julian of songe and wiki leaks and 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 that gets broadcast discussed and a very narrow set of facts that are presented and with the information age show you know technology this change the internet and all of that you have or t.v.

and other international outlets that are now presented to american audiences and they're not balanced by the american you know censorship basically so you have people like julian of stars being brought each of these is offensive to the paradigm here and so the fact that they're beating up on a sonnet on the one hand and on oratory on the other isn't surprising. on the second edition of julian assange his show is coming your way this choose their fifteen thirty moscow time or eleven thirty g.m.t. and this time we'll be speaking to professor rick but also fire 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 as taken plays out here as protesters bent as their anger against the country's regime outside the track actually it's claimed the ruling party that crushed arab spring demonstrations last year should not have hosted the

race 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 minor had been shot was discovered on a rooftop and there are reports that the male absolute is demanding freedom political prisoners have been arrested and with least expert explains why political changes in bahrain are not in western interests. we've had demonstrations and anger just on the eve of this so ben clearly security will save a 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 effectively is not police bit interested to get rid of this so ruler because he's one of them 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 the weird the way of 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 importance for the united states and its allies in the me so we have here in the arab world grotesque display of double standards yet again. fires relating to the trial of know we ask and as parading 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 to plan attacks last year but denies criminal kills claiming he was protecting norway from being taken over by muslims

and he also baby step by step account of exactly how he massacred his victims claiming to humanize himself to become a mass killer it found guilty of braving it frays and mark some twenty one year prison sentence but a picture has decided is insane he'll be detained indefinitely for psychiatric treatment from a member of the european parliament clean food believes the trials extensive coverage could turn it into a showcase for extremist ideas and that is the way the fuel the justice system works in the european union or worry he will clearly i was opportunities to express his own views on just hope that the overwhelming majority of people will reject you for what they are signs of if you all i'm a man who who is deluded. and a racist this is something that we've seen across the european union. in germany in france in the united kingdom as well as in norway it's just he was politically

successful but i think he's he's one of. many baby too strong really he's certainly not unique in a maze whatsoever and least groups are actually working together to promote these climate of lone wolves to in the only sense is follow the same party loosely as some of the muslim fundamentalists. another weekend another scandal for native forces in afghanistan the latest are pro-choice are the new photos showing american soldiers smiling and posing with a corpse is a bargain who are said to have been suicide bombers the white house maintains it's just another isolated incident but 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 are about 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 at these are stressed. patients 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. let's not read some of the news in prove this hour in southern yemen violent clashes erupted between troops and the militants linked to al qaeda two of the

insurgents and seven soldiers have been killed the fighting occurred in this south where the given a government is trying to regain parts of the nation taken by militants government forces lost control due to turmel elsewhere in the country last year before the ousting of the former president ali abdullah saleh. south sudanese soldiers came under airstrikes from sudan's army while was pouring from the oil city of headley around four hundred troops from south sudan have reportedly died in the battle for the disputed border town which was captured earlier this month or the nations in the region have allegedly been severely damaged during the occupation threatening the sudanese economy which is heavily reliant on energy exports from. egypt's national gas company egads has counseled its natural gas supply deal with these are all the contracts negotiated during the reign of ousted leader hosni mubarak has come under heavy criticism in egypt tel aviv has already responded to the news saying relations between the two countries have hit president. the e.u.

has postponed for a month its plan to rein in all but while italy and greece remain in protracted economic crisis both countries a major importers of your former can't afford to buy alternative supplies then by all imports are set to come into force on july the first this is just one of the many measures targeting these live regimes nuclear program which tehran claims it isn't highly peaceful. also australia's parliament speaker peter slipper has resigned amid claims his sexually harassed his openly gay adviser according to local newspapers delage the victim has filed a lawsuit against his former employer and is seeking compensation was a point at spica last last late last year to assure our. ruling labor party and french on hold on. the controversial and city council facing trade agreement all accept has been

a heavy blow as the second largest group in the european parliament has announced that one supports the parked sparks anger among many europeans one e.u. state signs agreements in january thousands turn straight against it saying it will give major corporations unprecedented control over their personal data about all ratification is due this summer in the european parliament but david martin the e.p.a. responsible for monitoring its progress has already said it should be rechecked it's. in terms of what i was trying to achieve quite happy with i think it's important you know it does protect us and the actual property but i don't number of unintended side consequences one was it would have put a duty in internet service providers the fact that we are as the european police force of the internet i don't think not right of the not for the formal judicial authorities secondly i didn't like the idea that could possibly have criminalized young people who were quite innocently doing boarding films and music and so on in

the for the sort of the old line back to say the should over be for commercial purposes for commercial purposes are very weakly defrauding the other concern that people have about that because it was negotiated who were five six you appeared behind closed doors the rights holder simply be involved in that discussion but the civil society did not seem to be proud about this question and most of the members being partly didn't really understand what they were signing up for i mean the british house of commons had a one warning reported october said i could have not met a debate on the floor of the house of course. as an aside actually demonstrates the importance of the european parliament in the european decision making process because without the european problem i would probably know below. coming up next they join us for a fascinating trade deep into one of the world's most beautiful ice cabins turned out about going to headline fest and guy away.

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