on the job corps. the tough race for the top job in france goes into a second round with official results now shari neagle and slackers e just one and a half percent behind his main rival prince rolland is leading by a little over twenty eight percent. around 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. the un results to expand its monitor mission and see rare but despite a unanimous vote in the security council some members are accused of undermining the peace after which. bahrain hosts a controversial formula one grand prix while sending in police to brutally crowd down on demonstrators angry at the regime. of thirty minutes the grip of the global attention julian assange on its premiere is our only t.v. show on r.t.

this week sparking reaction that range from price to hysteria. this is all seized weekly hello and welcome to the program in france president bush election frontrunners nicolas sarkozy and his main rival socially is france are on land but you have reached the second round of voting which takes place in two weeks time with almost all the ballots counted along wins the first round by a small margin. see that is falling of votes 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 that eighty percent turnout and that is a big difference indeed we know from the last few weeks of the campaigns of psychos

and a lot of they have been encouraging people to vote throughout all of this is it about jobs and employment and the economy 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 to the second round at this point of francois wanted nicolas sarkozy will have to certainly more break out into their campaigns much stronger than they have done in the a 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 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 szell 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 and 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'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 too with a very pessimistic french public. and professor of political science at parris west university says nicolas sarkozy has not only 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 with the president. it's likely to be a long we'll have to face the markets we have to face a very tough situation. 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 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 this system a crisis but immigration doesn't cause the economic crisis it becomes such a problem because a lot of people want to simplify everything and therefore there is sort laming a group of immigrants. the u.s. top body has agreed in a resolution to send three hundred observers to syria to monitor the fragile truce that welcomes the move but washington warned it may still take action against assad's regime if it fails to comply with

a peace plan also remains skeptical of the ten day old cease fire threatening to adopt fresh sanctions against don't ask this marina partner has more from new york . once again the united nations security council has unanimously adopted a resolution on syria the most recent one drafted by russia co-sponsored by eight other countries the resolution calls for and authorizes up to three hundred unarmed u.n. military observers to go to syria and monitor the truce the cease fire that was put in place april twelfth between damascus and the opposition groups this resolution also calls on the syrian government to meet its responsibilities and pledge is called for in the six point peace plan laid out by a u.n. joint envoy mr kofi i know i'm russian of course of believes that this most recent developments 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 shipped 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 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 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 is

a signal to the opposition they give criticizing the government saying no and go bold what they expect the opposition which is unfair oh it live really clearly in the second. resolution which they themselves had just voted for and all those predictions of a boom and gloom on threats of that is brown's which are being hatched this hour we're those things are not productive i think they are distracting from the implementation of the course and on plan and from the political efforts of the security council and they may give a ground for some extremists to believe. their cause is. still has some prospect for for taking over the political process we're not naive even though the security council voted unanimously some members of the security council some important members of the international community. still continued to think and confrontational terms towards a syrian government and that's richardson says the syrian government will be primarily responsible for the safety and security of the u.n.

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 to say should of violence this resolution the most recent wanted to adopt it also underscores that the syrian government and the opposition group both have to put their weapon sound weapons down and begin in teaching in dialogue. the syrian opposition are three new dates calls for yuan box military intervention in place as the friends of syria group not in paris this week to discuss putting more pressure on the suffering under such a siren marie sig believes that one sided efforts only underlined the importance of the service 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 this region that's 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 after it's 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 for example 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. coming your way in the program called blooded confessions the horrific details revealed in a we gen mass killer very brave it's trial of son shivers down the spines of the international community. to another setback for the controversial web policing proposal and access as its chances of being passed by you know made his head toward see red. when truth in a song or a show premiered on r.c. this week the needier reaction was global from praise to hysteria the response was i nothing about indifferent. can has been gauging opinion across the atlantic for most american media julian assange is guilty without charge reckless traitor and a threat to our national security interests sleazeball me and 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 also saw it coming. from the bottom to. the record. if you recall. terrible radicals or. i think that's the sort of the. current republic. with if you look at harvard. we have a pretty good control of the guests over whose 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 united states is looking. into us as well.

they want to be able to tell people that one of us is terrorism a terrorist organization and you know this but the one that people listen to us hi from ohio for example if there was a just a trial then you know this very thing is the defendant then 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 agrees or doesn't agree with has what was ideas or all of their ideas ideology or their theology in american people to hear the voice of hezbollah rather than simply have them demonized targeted as a quote terrorist by the purpose of demonizing somebody like nasr or nelson mandela who was considered a terrorist until one thousand nine hundred 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 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 assad's the founder of wiki leaks and bring him to justice as a close of violator of the espionage act because if we don't just keep happening the dead men 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 i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a what about freedom of information cherish this is a core principle of democracy it's almost like leaving and letting genie out of the

bottle mr saunders has the internet and the government. 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 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 but it's up to the viewers 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 and burnished are now reporting from washington by plane and american journalist and antiwar activists tones of asa saga shows a far cry from what can be seen in the american media so the criticism is no surprise. it is

a twin 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 it 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

that are not valid by the american you know censorship basically so you have people like julian assize being grown each of these is offensive to the paradigm here and so the fact that they're beating up on assad is on the one hand and on ora t.v. on the other is that surprising. just last month for you this second edition of three and that show is coming your way this tuesday at fifteen thirty moscow time or eleven thirty g.m.t. and this time he will be speaking to a professor. philosopher and leftwing commentator and do it horribly it's so good so to write and compare together they'll discuss global politics and whether we can leaks was guilty of treason. barry's controversial formula one grand prix motor race has taken place as here astri testers vented their anger against the country's regime outside the track actually it's claim the ruling family that crushed arab spring grass ration is last year should not have hosted the race there

have been continued clashes between demonstrators and security forces for the past week police have responded with tear gas and rubber bullets protests in terms of fighters that a day after the body of a man had been shot it was discovered on a rooftop and there are reports that turned female activists demanding freedom for political prisoners have been arrested all that under middle east expert to regularly explains why political changes in bahrain are not in western interests. we've had demonstrations and anger displayed on the eve of this ok and clearly security will save a very high level. police and security officials have been called in to help and former senior scotland police chief john yates warned apply brown's ammunition would be used interesting way to defend democracy in the west affectedly is not the least bit interested in trying to get rid of this so ruler 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 there we have been covered the way it always 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 know we can mass killer under spray being will be classified for sixty years the judges say the documents could be harmful to the public and will be kept secret until trying to seventy the decision came after brave expired lee televised trial began earlier last week has admitted to killing seventy seven people in separate government a gala time last year but denies criminal kills claiming he was protecting norway

from being taken over by muslims and he also gave a step by step account of exactly how he massacred his victims claiming had to it humanize himself to become a mass killer if found guilty of raping could face a maximum twenty one year prison sentence but if the judges decide he's insane he'll be detained indefinitely for psychiatric treatment of the european parliament going forward believes the trial of extensive coverage could turn it into a showcase for grave extremist ideas that is the way to fuel the justice system works in it in the european union in norway he he will clearly i was opportunities to express his own views one just hopes that be over when we reach europe you people will reject over what they are signs of if you want to. who is deluded. 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's just he was politically successful

but i think you see he's one of. many maybe too strong really 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. another weekend another scandal for nato forces in afghanistan the latest out through is over new photos showing american soldiers smiling and posing with the corpses of afghans who are said to have been so saigon it's the white house maintains it's just another isolated incident let's and he will accept it 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 or the united states are overwhelmingly against the war and this is bound to produce

a situation where the occupation becomes more brutal before james 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 occupation and what the situation will be like when they've gone 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 that we should have left that kind of mentality behind in the nineteenth century. and right now elsewhere around the world this hour in southern yemen violent clashes have erupted between troops and militants links to al-qaeda to other

insurgents and seven soldiers have been killed the fighting occurred in the south where the yemeni government is trying to regain parts of the nation taken by militants government forces lost control due to turmoil elsewhere in the country last year before the ousting of the former president ali abdullah saleh. the south sudanese soldiers came under airstrikes from sudan's army while was drawing from the oil city of headley around four hundred troops from south sudan have reportedly died in the battle for the just because of border town which was captured earlier this month new orleans is in the region have allegedly been severely damaged during the occupation threatening the sudanese economy which is heavily reliant on energy exports there. egypt's national gas company e-cards has canceled its natural gas supply deal with israel 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

an unprecedented low. the e.u. has postponed for a month its planned iranian oil baron while eighty three and greece remain in a protracted economic crisis but the country's a major importers of fuel from iran and can't afford to buy alternative supplies they involve their own oily ports are said to come into force and this is just one of the many measures targeting that islamic regimes nuclear program which to rightly is entirely peaceful. the truth is parliament speaker peter slipper has resigned amid claims he's 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 was appointed speaker late last year to shore up the ruling labor party's fragile hold on power. the controversial anti counterfeiting trade agreement to accept has been dealt a heavy blow as the second largest group in the european parliament has announced

it won't support the pocked stocks anger among many europeans when e.u. state finds that remains in january thousands demonstration against it saying it would be of major corporations unprecedented control over their past all data. of ratification is you this something big european parliament but david martin the e.p. responsible for monitoring its progress as i just said it should be rechecked it. in terms of what i was trying to achieve i'm quite happy with i think it's important in europe does protectors of the actual property put out a number of unintended side consequences one was it would have put a duty on internet service providers to affectively act as the european police force of the internet and i don't think that's right i think that's for the formal judicial authorities secondly i didn't like the idea that baxter could possibly have criminalized young people who were quite innocently doing loading films and music and so on in the publicity of their own homes. like this or this should only

be for commercial purposes or commercial purposes or very weakly defying the other concern that people have about because 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 proud about this question 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 had a one lying reported article which said that i did not read a debate on the floor of the house of course. as an aside i actually demonstrates the importance of european fall in the european decision making process because without the european part i would probably know below. care of today's i'll be back with the headlines in just about love moments and right after that we talk to one of the kind of at st francis presidential election.

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