a burthen nicolas sarkozy's losing out to socialist candidate. in the first round of the french presidential election but it said very softly the second stage in a fortnight. pullout point challenger secures more than twenty eight percent of the goals with nicolas sarkozy becoming the first incumbent leader to fail to take the lead in the first round of the presidential race in over fifty years but join me for more to few moments. we report on a new concern for u.s. soldiers over ground dependence on antidepressants on the battlefield. and syrian rebels refuse to dance to a foreign cheese insisting military intervention is no way to resolve the deadly conflict.

well these are the latest updates from r.t. and it's straight to our top story now because sarkozy and socialist challenger. go head to head in the second round of the french presidential election in two weeks time and their final results from the first round one twenty eight point five percent of the vote against twenty seven but it's the first time a french president seeking re-election has failed to win the first round hof a century crossed. who's in paris. humiliating defeat in this opening stage for sarkozy but how close will a voting be for the second round you think would be the sixth. well it is going to be very close neck and neck second round certainly is what we're going to see i mean the results coming out of the first trial does show what the polls have been saying throughout the campaign you have

a lot coming out first and cycle is he coming second but now the big question is the people who have voted for the other parties who are they going to vote for in the second round and there have been exit polls after the president first run of the presidential race and we see that about fifty three percent will vote for francois law that's according to the v.a. polls but that doesn't mean though that this cycle is he for example has already secured a lead pencil voters or that socialist candidate all along has secured voters and then there are the voters have sent centrist stuff and so by two he's the fifth in this first round and his voters are half and half that who they are going to vote for say the two candidates will have to have a stronger campaign indeed to win those voters from the other candidates many experts are predicting defeat. was his popularity song so much lindsey he's not just popular i mean some people have declared him but the most unpopular president in modern french history now his he came in as

a reformist president he wanted to do a lot of changes and however we see a france now that has become poorer and if people are saying that it's become less about the people and more about capitalism or institutions us why there's a lot of feeling of adze globalization or or add to capitalism also the unemployment rate right now is still around ten percent at the deficit's of france still has not gone down it is predicted by some economists to be the potential center of the next wave of the crisis of the euro so again his presidency is that marred by one crisis after another and talk what sort of fresh people are jobs and the economy and these of course have not been addressed so he is very very unpopular at this point you mention marine le pen very briefly how much of a surprise was a strong showing by the national front leader. well the fact that she came in third was not a surprise but the surprise there is that the numbers that she had gotten was above all what the polls had been predicted more than eighty percent and this actually shows some are saying a shift in the ideology the sentiments of the french people there are those who say

that this is all there is and also an element of a protest vote voted for her because they don't see a choice in the center of the mainstream candidate so whatever some experts that said it has to be acknowledged that the support base that she had got in terms of the numbers does also show that this could be a vote of support for the far from the she has been a putting forward a very nationalist anti euro absi immigration platform that she has been using since the very start of her campaign and what kind of reaction has there been so far along the public and people you've been speaking to about these results well you know what's interesting is that there has been a projection a very low turnout but in fact the french came out eighty percent of them voted but the mood is still it's not enthusiastic be had come out to vote but they are still very very pessimistic very disillusioned with the candidates that they have at the moment the pair still saying that they don't see the solutions that should be

presented to solve the problems of the french people and what's interesting is that the french say the first ballot is about voting for the candidate you like the most in the second round will be about a compromise sort of a compromise because you'll be voting for a candidate that you least dislike so it's going to be very interesting how they're they will be casting their ballots in india basic selections. interesting reporting from paris thank you. professor. west university says nicolas sarkozy has massively failed his country. 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. doesn't have a very clear political line he says one thing one day. the next day also. incompetence because not been able to do very much about the crisis the president.

will have to face. to face a very tough situation. if there's a crisis in france which looks like the crisis in greece they would be demonstrations and. such a big 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 a systemic crisis but immigration doesn't. become such a problem because i don't. want to simplify everything. there is. laming a group of immigrants. they say with. difficulties . the french socialist party and it's

a pretty. significantly poorer than it was five years ago she's probably lost her influence in the world with for example the failure of. she's lost much of her influence in europe and the best example of this is. the sort of agreed on a draft european treaty which is very favorable to german interests and very unfavorable to the interests of the rest of europe france is mostly very defined what we are today. but on the way hair not rolling over the opposition find out why and i start to misapply brain a furious that government went ahead with hosting only one drone pre. there's been a record increase in the use of antidepressants and other prescribed pills among us soldiers and it's seen as a way to help a cyber space supply the brutality of war this concern is merely

a sticking plaster from the deep psychological damage suffered by soldiers whose only chance to come has the story. a record number of american troops are on antidepressants according to the u.s. army surgeon general more than one hundred ten thousand active duty servicemen and women are taking prescribed narcotics saturday vhs and anti-anxiety drugs that's an eighth full the increase since two thousand and five michael brown served as a marine in iraq up until two thousand and six he started taking antidepressants after he returned from war when i was i mean. i couldn't grasp it and i. wonder. when my. great importance here and. so i mean i will be able to make a decision on whether

a. person carrying the banner in front of me. or you know that me or her and where. just there in the section michael says while in iraq he could see about a third of his fellow servicemen taking psychotropic pills to get through the day. some suggest the current increase in suicides and homicides in the u.s. military is not a coincidence although the link with the use of drugs has been proven in court only in a handful of cases american soldier david lawrence was charged with murdering a detainee he was guarding in afghanistan his sentence was reduced to ten years it was proved that the psychotropic medication that he was prescribed made his mental condition worse the fact that our military is saying oh if you just take these pills you'll be fine and go on back out there and give these people commons this is crazy and now we're seeing this terrible combination and reaction of these these

medications mixing and and a lot of the soldiers self medicate with alcohol and those don't mix military official see no reason to panic saying the use of psychiatric drugs is comparable to civilian use if you were a civilian. spoke to a psychiatrist and said i have trouble sleeping and i have anxiety problems and i have post-traumatic stress disorder. they wouldn't give you a gun and send you out you know to face danger and i mean this was to drive if you're taking some of these medications michael says when he complained of depression he was given drugs before he even had the chance to talk to a doctor i was handed over. told that i might want to consider. it just seemed. kind of first and foremost. you have

everything else second but prior to the iraq war soldiers could not go into combat on psychiatric drugs but the stress of combat took its toll on. in order to keep the ranks for maybe life in the u.s. army getting out more pills but within my pain even for wolf it has become a problem all of it i'm getting straight out of body r.t. . but remember that there are more stories not data waiting for you at our web site r.t. dot com here's a look at what you can find there right now praying for the church tens of thousands of orthodox who leaders gather in central moscow to show support for their faith. in the tax and church isn't just to the knicks. also watch the first episode of the song kids you share with our website and that's next additional. tomorrow here. in bahrain the opposition activists star venting their anger at the government

which took decisive measures to make sure sunday's formula one well pre-race went ahead security forces crack down on protesters tear gas and rubber bullets going straight has blocked the roads leading to the racetrack and burning tires in some coverage and they say the government held the event as a publicity stunt and regulation replied this was found dead inside after taking part in a mass protest that was going to be dispersed in a scene of more than a year of unrest with dozens killed at least as far as the gulf states friendship with america and its run unpunished. we've had there one stray from some anger displayed on the eve of this event clearly security will set a very high level. elise and security officials have been called in propel. former senior scotland police chief john yates warned that lie brands of ammunition

would be used in christine were different democracy the west the fix terribly slow police speed increase stage to get rid of this through. or because he's one of their 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 cupboard the way the west reacts in this trial shows out the blatant hypocrisy in relation to be human rights and the use of human rights of free human rights marches 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 group just just play of double standards yet to get. ahead in a program setting sail we report on the ongoing joint naval exercises between russia and china the big guns are only four.

minutes and then what kind of challenges into potential astronauts. becoming. the u.n. is beefing up its observer mission to syria as a balance there continues unabated political leaders of the rebellion against a massive calling for military intervention that something many people on the ground refuse to accept things of some of what the reports. almost everyone in syria has days is in opposition to something ready to lash out at opponents at any moment and seventy six year old my feet mohammad is in opposition to that he says syrians are so worked up about politics that it's become difficult to make people smile and he found a way. i like dancing in the street and i like the reaction it produces in people i feel free this way even if he can stay away from politics when i ask him about his

biggest concern is to ask syria should not dance just somebody else's tune. i did we don't need any countries meddling in our fans no nato here. while the prospect of a levy a style intervention seems everlast likely to militarize the position and their supporters are still asking for arms. and. monday at all one from anna and the presidents of other countries is that they support us in our cause we the rebels wants to get armed. all the rebels may have caught all the media attention the syrian opposition speaks with many voices. it's often faulted for being disorganized and fragmented but there is a surprising unity and it's constant the issue of military intervention. is this a position activist he was detained and mistreated by the security services and

while he's calling on bashar assad to leave serious political scene he says the armed groups should do the same. like him abdul aziz is not afraid to go public refusing and he just returned back from moscow where the opposition delegation tried to persuade the russian authorities to put more pressure on their side regime he says not all powers mediating the syrian crisis are really helping you know all of the world sees that we are supporting. what we know that some of the states supporting. and some are trying to play some sort of crash. if it comes. and its plan will not succeed.

it will be a dark. people also for too much. of a country maybe a civil war no one knows what with leave and iraq just across the border in puerto democracies are not held in high regard here even among the opposition while syrians remain highly polarized across political lines most of them agree that the solution to their current crisis should be worked out within the country even for the opposition they've doubled they know it's still better than the demons that now hong neighboring countries i kind of artsy damascus syria. aspect of the person i've been using briefly around the world the south. fighting has erupted on the border between sudan and south sudan where the south troops were pulling out of disputed border towns live south sudanese officials say up to four hundred of us

soldiers killed in the battle both countries have accuse each other of attacking or facilities in the area of damage and the longer function south sudan became independent from the north last year for an innocent. was many of them it's. the colombian military says it seized more than two tons of cocaine in the western part of the country happened during a raid on a drug of archery which is believed to belong to number is not just rebel groups it's traditional to cater to the rebels the largest source of income which the groups to finance a campaign against the common government that's been raging for fifteen years. and there's grave it is set to give his final day of evidence to the norwegian courts all the killings and carried out last year that really makes its way through seventy seven victims of them so they were in on a nearby island last night but these not guilty on friday shooting at the details

of a gun run agency systematically shot in scores of young people anyone whether he's saying or what he says in the prison a little closer connection. russia and china holding their first joint naval exercises both sides stress the war games there the korean it's not a against anyone this closely is on deck to explain what was going for. i'm standing on board the russian destroyer of mineral vinogradov and we are now in the chinese port of it took us nearly a week to reach the starting point for the joint russian chinese maneuver it's called naval corp two thousand and twelve the russian convoy consists of four big warships armed with conventional weapons three destroyers and the flagship missile cruiser but they are basically what we are going to see here in the next few days is an exercise in cooper ration between russian and chinese naval forces for the

first time were four key areas anti-terrorist missions protection of marine lines of communication guarding of civilian battles and joint supply operations they have supplies as are the fact building on the roads both forces have been doing in the past couple of years in the gulf of aden to counter piracy both chinese and russian warships have a score to civilian convoys the coast of somalia and now they'll be learning to make it a joint effort russia has long been a major naval power chinese navy has been expanding dramatically recently a strategy to put up or asians away from its own waters rather than just the fronts of once you're home most of the chinese ships we've seen here in the harbor look brand new princes right across the pier you can see the guided missile destroyer hard being which will take part in the joint exercises in the yellow sea both sides stress that the war games are not directed against any particular country or

military blog but there's in the increasing concern and both mosco in beijing about the us naval build up in the asia pacific and that's not to mention japanese and south korean naval forces to close allies with the us we've seen signs of japanese and south korea on our way to china when our convoy it was frequently followed by nato reconnaissance planes destroyers and submarines hundreds of sailors will take part of both sides supported by planes and helicopters. dream for many young people to one day become an astronaut and russia's space agency is now open for you applicants hopefuls need to prove that their body and mind to withstand challenges . to see if he's got what it takes. this isn't an ordinary session at the gym these men are trying to prove they have what it takes to become cosmonauts russia space agency is now recruiting. we need to

have several. language one of them health one of them but of course. has to go through all the difficulties all africans have to go through a tough filtering system involving tests and exercises some are new some are going around since the very start like the thank you for huge. model of says for him doing a g.'s on that centrifuge was the most difficult he's been training for two years now and is set to officially become a cosmonaut after passing one final state exam. and i was a kid i used to think cosmonaut is like a robot who has to be able to run and jump twenty four seventh's like chuck norris and bruce willis combined with even james bond and superman but it's all much more serious in real life. we were i'd survive well.

i i was scared fresh out. of the way i. signed the survival in the wilderness training is one of the toughest test for three days the crew live in the woods using nothing but the equipment from the ship but still how hard can it all be. this is one of the first test in the first stages of the selection process that all candidates have to go through all basically it's a coordination task so it shows how the mind and mind of each candidate is able to control the why. it's a jumping test so what about should we be mythical. thank . you. this is a four point six out of ten great but the real challenge stoolie ahead.

i was expecting this would be my problem but it turned out it was the damn treadmill kook the you know this but look we're in the uk central to get what i meant to. look as long as i wanted to take to get off and but they just didn't let me and so he's here and said i have to go through these i think. are going to

finally after the speech hamster run from hell. ok. i'm not really here i'm becoming a space. artsy star city. ok well that time to delve into the world of business now and that process of daniel for the latest on what's happening hello good morning well investors a bit spacy this morning as well the pricing in fresh chinese manufacturing data which showed the fall this is not it's pushed hong kong down whole four percent this morning and nikkei slightly better because a weak again is supporting exporters prince of tides and canon is over a half a percent higher now in new york finished mixed on friday it was better than expected results from general electric microsoft and mcdonald's oil is flat this morning or hitting three day highs iraq some crude exports and the i.m.f. pledged over four hundred thirty billion dollars to protect world economic growth

the international monetary fund stride to support really the recovery now the euro is losing value against the dollar but it regained some ground from the ruble on friday after a week with paul didn't use from italy spain and france to the opening bell here in moscow friday turned a mostly negative week on the back of stronger oil and the maker of kalashnikov rifle is on its way to exit bankruptcy despite being the world's leading producer of the factory was right top six hundred million dollars of debt as of twenty ten it's now finished the first stage of recovery. the more the with two current gen more those which went through a very deep hole for just rushing through the bankruptcy case and creation of a new company which to all who despots until just sold better it's a similar strategy we used to use marshall designed all the factory was for single for the very must production sold no market demands many more products with much

less warriors sold efficiency or production we need to change and that's what we're working. to finalize a rumble investment problem and within three years now i will be gearing up to start the week on your stock markets makes that ok thanks a lot for that update daniel. but i doubt i'll be back up with that today's headlines in just a few moments stay with us. see

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