a blow for nicolas sarkozy losing out to a socialist candidate from small arms in the first round of the french presidential election set to face off for the second stage in a fortnight it. would allow for in challenger secure is more than twenty eight percent of the vote so with nicolas sarkozy becoming the first incumbent leader to fail to take a lead in the first round of the presidential race in over fifty years join me for more in a few moments. plus popping happy pills to forget the horrors of war you can send for u.s. soldiers over grim dependence on antidepressants. and syrian rebels refuse to dance to a foreign chews insisting military intervention is a way to resolve the deadly conflict.

well he's in much more twenty four hours a day you're watching on t.v. nicolas sarkozy and socialist challenger francois alone will go head to head in the second round of the french presidential election in two weeks time their final results from the first round show on that one twenty eight point five percent of the vote against sarkozy's twenty seventh is the first time a french president seeking reelection has failed to win the first round more than half a century correspondent there's also the reports from paris. that connect 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 for us 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 to will vote for

francois law that's according to the v.a. polls but that doesn't mean though that the cycles he for example has already secured a look and voters or that socialist candidate all along has occasionally been arsenal's voters and then there are the voters have sent centrist sufferance a bio he's the fifth in this first round and his voters are half and half of whom they are going to vote for see the two candidates will have to have a stronger campaign indeed to win those voters from the other candidates nicolas sarkozy it is not just the 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 in france however we see in france now that has become poorer and people are saying that it's become less about the people and more about capitalism or institutions as well there's a lot of feeling of antiglobalization or are anti capitalism also the unemployment rate right now still around ten percent of the deficits of france still has not gone down it is projected 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 at the top concern of french people are jobs of the economy and peace of course have not been addressed so he is very very unpopular at this point a look at scott a bob a what the polls have been predicted of more than eighty percent and this actually shows us some are saying a shift in his 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 voting for her because they don't see a choice in the center the mainstream candidates so well for some exercise. 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 platform that she has been a putting forward a very nationalist anti you row add to your b gratian platform that she has been easy since a very sort of her campaign the french came out eighty percent of them voted but the mood is still it's not enthusiastic they have come out to vote but they are

still very very pessimistic very disillusioned with the candidates that they have at the moment the very 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 first ballot is about voting for the candidate you like the polls 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 that they will be casting their ballots if you have basic selections. professor of political science at paris western university says nicolas sarkozy has a recipe for this country. whoever wins will have his hands full. as a person who is 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 mind he says one thing one day the opposite the next day

also. incompetence because he's not been able to do very much what the crisis the president. it's likely to be alone will have to face the market will have to face a very tough situation. if there's a crisis in france which looks a bit like the crisis in greece there with the demonstrations and then france being such a big amount 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 immigration is one part of a systemic crisis but integration doesn't. become such a problem because people want to simplify everything. very sort laming a group of immigrants. who have power they say with their country with severe

economic difficulties. vision. the french socialist party. is a preview for. the french we heard today is significantly poorer than it was five years ago she's probably lost her influence in the world with for example the failure of the union for the mediterranean she's lost much of her influence in europe and the best example of this is how angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy have 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 divided as we hear today. but also on the way arundhati rolling over the opposition to find out why a place to activists and a furious they probably went ahead with these two four wheel ones one free.

there's been a recording crease in the use of antidepressants and other prescribe pills among us some just want it seen as a way to help service personnel supply the brutality of war there's concern that many a sticking plaster for the deep psychological damage suffered by soldiers and he's going to church again as 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 service men and women are taking prescribed narcotics sedatives and anti-anxiety drugs that's an eighth old 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 on the air i. make a rational if my brain were so cluttered regardless of.

when my. read it and went there and. so i mean i couldn't i wouldn't be able to make a decision on whether. a person scaring the crap underground of me we're going to get at me or anywhere. just carrier production 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 guns this is crazy and now we're seeing this terrible combination and reaction of these these medications next scene 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 manic 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. to consider.

how to first and foremost. you hold everything else. prior to the iraq war soldiers would not go into combat on psychiatric drugs but the stress of combat took its toll on. in order to keep the rank or maybe left depressed the u.s. army thought it getting out war pills but what seemed like an easy solution has become a problem all of it down i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . and remember there are more stories and updates waiting for you at our website auti dot com he's in the courts what else you can find there today saying there fred are tens of thousands of wolf books believers in central mississippi in a show of support for their faith in recent attacks on churches and christian religious. also watched the first episode of jena songes a new show on our web site and that's next edition of larry king tomorrow parallel

to the same brother who thinks was due to treason. in the bahraini opposition activists venting anger at the government which took decisive measures to make sure sunday's formula one of their own pre-race went ahead security forces crackdown on protests as a tear gas and rubber bullets then straight is blocked several roads leading to the racetrack running towards an accommodation they said the government held the event as a publicity stunt it's a show euphoric one person was found dead on sartorial taking part of a protest that was long and dispersed but really the scene wouldn't hear of on the rest doesn't scale at least experts tarrant county says the gulf states friendship with america needs its own doings and want punished. we've had demonstrations and anger displayed on the eve of this ok and clearly security was they were very

high level. police and security officials had been called in to help and former senior scot columbia police chief john yates warned apply brown supply munitions would be used interesting way to defend democracy in the west affectively it's not the least bit interested to get rid of this so ruler 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 governments as their opponents and the weird how word the way the west reacts and this just shows the blatant hypocrisy in relation to be human rights and be useful for human rights for 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 no group test display of double standards yet again. still ahead in

a program setting sail with reports from the joint exercises between russia and china find out all the guns. and then what kind of challenges. astronauts are going to be coming up space by. the u.n. is beefing up its observer mission to syria as the pilots they continue unabated political leaders open rebellion against a mass consequence for military intervention and that's something many people on the ground refuse to accept. boycotts. almost everyone in syria these days is in opposition to something ready to lash out at opponents at any moment and seventy six year old must beat mohamed is in opposition to that he's fast syrians are so worked up about politics that it's become difficult to make people smile but

he found the way it was. like dancing in the streets and i like their reaction it would be no remiss way yet even if he can stay away from politics when i ask him about his biggest concern is to ask syria should not dance to somebody else's two year. old i did we don't need any countries meddling in our family. all the prospect of a levy as well intervention seems everlast likely to militarize the position and their supporters a still asking for arms. and national monday and almost one from an hour and a president of other countries is that they support us and now we the rebels wants to get armed. all the rebels may have caused all the media attention is syrian opposition speaks with many voices it's often faulted for being disorganized and

fragmented but there is a surprising unity when it comes to the issue of military intervention. is the position activists asked he was detained and mistreated by the security services and while he is calling on bashar assad to leave serious political scene he sassed the armed groups should do the same. like him abdul aziz is not afraid to go public refusing to use them 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 syria crisis are really out. you know all the world sees that we are supporting. well we know for sure that some overstates much support there and some are trying to write some sort of pressure

and if it comes. and that's because i did not succeed. it will be a good dark. people or so for too much. of the country maybe a civil war no one knows for. levy and iraq just across the border imported democracies are not held in high regard here even among the opposition. well syrians remain highly polarized across political lines most of them agree with their current price they should be worked out within the country even for the opposition they know no better than the demons that now hong neighboring countries that's on the boycott artsy damascus syria let's take

a look now at some other news in brief from around the world by taking up today on the border between sudan and south sudan as the south's troops are pulling out of the disputed border town heading south sudanese officials say up to four hundred or four soldiers will travel both countries have a musical like a local citizens to a badly damaged mental function in south sudan became independent from the north last year from going on long running. its. military says it seized more than two tons of cocaine in the western powerful country it happened during a raid on a drug aboard train which is believed to belong to the fog of colombia's largest rebel group distribution of cocaine is the rebels largest source of income by seeing a campaign against the colombian government that's been raging for years. and this break is set to give his final day of evidence to

a norwegian court on the killing as he rode out the last long when it's all true seventy seven items and there were none and then why aren't the police not guilty on friday very big game chilling details of the gun rampage written systematically shot down and scores of young people depending on whether or not this violence saying a place inside their prison or committed some psychiatric institution. the e.u. has delayed making a final decision will probably go off while imports one rod some countries are concerned the ban which had been commuting into force and i would hurt their opponent is a glock has now pushed the decision back to the end of may the u.s. and its allies are stepping up sanctions on iran based on fears that country wide in trying to. all russia and china holding their first joint naval exercises but some had stressed the war games near the korean peninsula not

aimed against anyone else in this plot skis on deck so explain what political waters was going to beijing saying towards. i'm standing on board the russian destroyer a neutral going to ground up and we are now in the chinese port of think it took us nearly a week to reach the starting point for the joint russian chinese maneuver it's called mabel cooperations two thousand and twelve the russian convoy consists of four big warships armed with conventional weapons three destroyers and the flagship missile cruiser body og basically what we are going to see here in the next few days is an exercise in cooperation between russian and chinese naval forces for the first time over four key areas anti-terrorist missions protection of marine winds of communication guarding of civilian battles and joint supply operations the exercises are the plaque building on wants both forces have been each doing in the past couple of years in the gulf of aden counterfire received both chinese and

russian warships ever for the civilian convoys of the coast of somalia and now they'll be learning to make it a joint effort and 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 harbin 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 creasing concern and both moscow and 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 with 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. alex

a dream for many young people to one day become an astronaut's space agency is now open for new applicants but hopefuls need to prove that their body and mind to be able to withstand the challenge is to help us get off right 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's space agency is now recruiting. we need to have several. language one of them health one of them but of course. desire to be. reading has to go through all these difficulties all africans have to go through a tough filtering system and moving tests and exercises some are new some are going around since the very start like the century fuge so that's not my cause of says for him doing a g.'s on that centrifuge was the most difficult we've been training for two years now and it's set to officially become

a cosmonaut after passing one final state exam. one after 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. are well. i i start fresh out. of the way i. signed the survival in the wilderness training is one of the toughest test for three days the can move in the woods using nothing but keep working from the ship but still how hard can it all be. this is one of the first tests in the first stages of the selection process that all candidates have to go through all basically it's a coordination pass so it shows how the mind and mind of each candidate is able to

control the body and the swedes are jumping tests so what about should mean to thank you. thank. you. thank you. thank you thank you. but this is a four point six out of ten. but the real challenge still we head to . i was expecting the spinning would be my problem but it turned out it was the damn red not look up you know that's the graphic going to be like central to click one of them

pick and i want to take to get off and but they just didn't let me and said to me it's you and said i have to go through these i think and to coach finally after the speech comes to run from hell. ok. i'm not really. becoming a space. you go to school or see star sitting. time to find out what's happening in the world of big money with daniel and it seems the famous kalashnikov rifle is getting a second should exist six yes korea's main makers got a plan to come out of bankruptcy despite being the world's top producer or small arms factory stop six hundred million dollars of that as of twenty ten and it's now

finished the first page of recovery and we've spoken to say the more the week to come general motors we went through a very deep hole for just rushing through the bankruptcy case and creation of a new company which took all good assets and just sold by the similar strategy we used to use marsh design of the factory was for single product very modest production so now market demands many more products with much less williams so efficient or production we need to change and that's what will work. to finalize the rubble investment problem within three years. let's check the markets now because the chinese manufacturing base is pushing the hang thing lower the nikkei is slightly better but it's still down because a weaker yen is supporting exporters tied to canonise the lot of a half percent the new york finished mixed on friday it was boosted by better than

expected results from general electric microsoft. on to oil which is flood because it hit three day high as iraq called some crude exports and the international monetary fund pledged over four hundred thirty billion dollars to protect world economic growth and the euro is losing value against the dollar but it regained some ground from the ruble on friday after a nervous week with paul good news from italy spain and france cumulus to the opening bell here in moscow friday turned a mostly negative week on the back of a strong girl and drop today join us next hour for the opening rush not. ok i thank so much that. but i'll be back headlines just a few minutes say. when

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