video for your media project free media r t dot com. a blow from the curse sarkozy losing out to a socialist candidate. in the first round of the french presidential election set to face off in the second stage in a fortnight. pull out point challenger secures more than twenty eight percent of the vote so with sarkozy becoming the first incumbent meter to fail to take the lead in the first round of the presidential race in over fifty years join me for more in a few moments. being happy pills to forget the horrors of war new concerns of u.s. soldiers over dependence on seventy's and the presence of. syrian rebels refused to guards to foreign children system but the truth eventually is no way to resolve the deadly conflict.

broke lasting live from moscow twenty four hours a day this is r.t. i'm kerry just the top story nicolas sarkozy and socialist challenger runs all along and will go head to head in the second round of the french presidential election in two weeks' time their final results on the first round show that one twenty eight point six percent of the vote against sarkozy's twenty seven is the first time a french president seeking reelection has failed to win the first round for more than half a century a correspondent reports now from paris. that connect second all 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 france all along that's according to the v.a. polls but that doesn't mean though that. the for example has already secured a lead pencil odors or that socialist candidate all on his secure job was voters and then there are the voters of sent centrist and so by two he's the fifth in this first round and his voters are half and half but who they are going to vote for so the two candidates will have to have a stronger campaign indeed to win those voters from the other candidates nicolas sarkozy he's not just a popular i mean some people have a declared him but the most unpopular president in modern french history now his cave in as a reformist president he wanted to do a lot of changes in france however we see a 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 why there's a lot of feeling of add to globalization or or add to capitalism also the unemployment rate right now still around ten percent at the deficits of france

still has not gone doubt 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 at the top could sort of pressure people are jobs and the economy and these of course have not been addressed so he is very very unpopular at this point to look at is god above all what the polls have been predicted of more than eighty percent and this actually shows us some are saying a shift in thinking here ideology the sentiments of the french people there are those who say that this is all there's an also an element of a protest vote voting for her because they don't see a choice in the center of the mainstream candidates or whether some experts. said it has to be acknowledged that the support base that she got in terms of the numbers does also show that this could be a vote of support for the apart from the she has been a putting forward a very nationalist anti euro add to your declaration 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 at the z. asked if they had come out to vote but they are still very very pessimistic very disillusioned with the candidates that they have at the moment the bears 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 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 that they will be casting their ballots if you have basic selections. a professor of political science at paris western averse to this because sarkozy has a recipe failed his country. with. 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 line he says one thing one day the opposite the next their.

incompetence because you know he's not being able to do very much about the crisis the president whoever years it's likely to be alone will have to face the market and we have 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 then france being such a big guy want to me within europe that would make a big difference from my point of view they don't understand that there's a systemic crisis and that immigration is one part of this systemic crisis but immigration doesn't cause the economic crisis it becomes such a problem because a lot of people want to simplify everything and therefore there is. blaming a group of immigrants. well whoever inherits power at least a palace will also inherit

a country of its economic difficulties record unemployment and social division next hour we talked to a member of the french socialist party an amount as a preview. of france 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 lost much of her influence in europe and the best example of this is how i got a miracle that nicolas sarkozy have agreed on a draft european treaty which is very favorable to german interests and i'm very i'm very verbal to the interest of the rest of europe with france is mostly very divided as we hear today. but also on the way here in r.t. rolling over the opposition why oppressed in bahrain view is that the head most informed of what. there's been

a recording crease in the use of antidepressants and other prescribed pills among us soldiers. as a way to help with personnel survive the brutality of this concern it's really a sticking plaster for the deep psychological damage suffered by soldiers what is going to the store. 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 prescribe narcotics sedatives and anti-anxiety drugs that's an eight fold the increase since two thousand and five michael brown served as a marine in iraq up until two thousand and six he started taking anti-depressants after he returned from war when i was under arrest i couldn't make a rational if my brain was. harder or cards.

when my. three different points during the middle. so i mean i couldn't be able to make a decision on whether a. person carrying the button in front of me. pointing it at me or whether or not anywhere. just very little action michael says while in iraq he could see about his 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 next scene and and a lot of the soldiers self medicate with alcohol and those don't mix military officials see no reason to panic saying the use of psychiatric drugs this 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 good and send you out in no to face danger i mean you're even supposed 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 it was handed over first. sitter.

first and foremost and so you have everything else second prior to the iraq war soldiers could not go into combat and psychiatric drugs but the stress of combat took its toll once were in order to keep the ranks or maybe less depressed the u.s. army started getting out more pills but what seemed like an easy solution has become a part of all of its own i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . remember there are more stories not dates waiting for you at her website or call what you can find there right now during controversy egypt cuts off its natural gas supply to israel describing it as a business decision israel ones it could have serious implications for politics and he's. also annoyed today saying their prayers tens of thousands of orthodox

believers gather in central moscow show support for their fate for only recent attacks on churches and christian relics. and watch the first episode of something new show but i want site catch the next edition of the program tomorrow arundhati to see whether we can include guilty of treason. in the bahrain opposition activists venting anger at the government which took decisive measures to make sure sunday's formula one grand prix race went ahead security forces crack down on protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets their own streets has blocked several roads leading to the racetrack burning tires and heaps of garbage they said the government had held recently and as a listener this not going to make a nation appear unified one person was found dead on saturday taking part of a mass protest that was violently dispersed rayna seen more than a year upon rests with dozens killed at least expert american really since the gulf

states friendship with america and its wrongdoings go unpunished. we've had demonstrations and anger to split on the eve of this event clearly security was a very high level western police and security officials have been called in to help and former senior scotland police chief john yates warned apply brown to the family mission would be used interesting we're defend democracy the west affectively is not the least bit interested to be accrued of this so ruler because he's one of this 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 they are covered but we have the west reacts and this just shows the blatant hypocrisy in relation to human rights and the use of human rights for human rights and ask to

get their own wit strategically bahrain is of key importance for the united states and its allies and been so we have here in the arab world a grotesque display of double standards yet again. well there are still ahead in the program setting so you the report from the joint exercises with russia and try to find out what the big guns are aiming for. a few minutes and what kind of challenges future tense will astronauts face on the way to becoming space lives. the u.n. is beefing up its observer mission to syria because of violence there continues unabated political leaders of the rebellion against a merciless are calling for military intervention but something many people on the ground refuse to accept these balkan are reports. 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 my feet mohammad is in opposition too bad he sounds syrians are so worked up about politics that it's become difficult to make people smile but he found the 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 he says syria should not dance just somebody else's tearing down my head we don't need any countries meddling in our affairs. here. while the prospect of believe us the intervention seems every last likely the militarized position and their supporters are still asking for arms. and. when they are all move on from and the president of other countries is that they

support personnel cause we the rebels wants to get armed. all the rebels may have caused all the media attention this syrian opposition speaks with many voices it's often faulted for being just organized and for granted. there is a surprising unity when it comes to the issue of military intervention. this opposition activists he was detained and mistreated by the security services and while he is calling on bashar assad to leave serious political scene he said the armed groups should do the same. thing unlike him abdul aziz is not afraid to go public to refuse abuse 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 helping you know all the world know so yes. we are supporting and

. we know that some. of the states are not supporting barack and some are trying to play some sort of pressure. that. will not succeed or it will be a group work. the syrian people will suffer so much. less a country maybe a civil war no one knows what. with libya and iraq just across the border in forty democracies are not held in high regard here even among the opposition well syrians remain highly polarized across political lines most of them agree that the solution to their current crisis they should be worked out within the country even

for the opposition they dugald they know it's still better than the demons that now hong neighboring countries. are to see damascus syria but a second look at some other news in brief from around the world fighting erupted on the border between sudan and south sudan the south troops were pulling out of the street in order to make the south sudanese official say up to four hundred of their soldiers were killed during the battle both countries have accuse each other for attacking oil facilities in the area which would probably damage to the longer function south sudan became independent from an orthodox year following gonging civil war which led to nearly two million deaths. 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 majority which is believed to belong to the far colombia's largest rebel group distribution of cocaine is the largest source of income financing

a campaign against the colombian government that's been raging for one hundred fifty years. anders breivik is set to give his final day of evidence to a norwegian court on the killings he carried out last july really admitted slaughtering all seven to seven victims in the bombing and shootings on a nearby island pleads not guilty on friday braving a chilling details of a gun rampage which he systematically shut down schools of young people anyone whether or not he is sane he faces either prison or committed to a psychiatric institution. e.u. has delayed making a from the signal completely cutting. off oil imports from iran some countries are concerned that the ban which had been due to come into force and by their economies agog has now pushed at the sitting back until the end of may the u.s. and its european allies are stepping up sanctions on iran based on fear is the

country might be trying to develop nuclear weapons. russia and china are holding their first and joint naval exercises both sides stressed that the war games near the korean peninsula not aimed against anyone else is in his blood skis on deck explaining what political waters were school in beijing also lean towards. i'm standing on board the russian destroyer admiral vinogradov and we are now in the chinese port of king it took us nearly a week to reach the starting point for the joint russian chinese maneuvers called mabel corp two thousand and twelve the russian convoy consists of four big warships armed with conventional weapons three destroyers and the flagship missile cruiser abody 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 vessels and joint supply operations the exercises are the fact building on what's good forces have been doing in the past couple of years in the gulf of aden to counter piracy both chinese and russian warships of course the three billion convoys the coast of somalia and now they'll be learning to make it a joint effort 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 an increasing concern in both moscow and beijing about the u.s. naval buildup in the asia pacific and that's not to mention japanese and south korean naval forces to close allies with the u.s. we've seen signs of japanese and south korea on our way to china with our convoy it

was frequently followed by a nato reconnaissance plane for the stewards and submarines hundreds of sailors will take part of both sides supported by planes and helicopters. now it's a dream for many young people to one day become an astronaut russia's space agency's new applicants hopefuls need to prove that idea behind. being able to withstand the challenges that office can offer and 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. one of them healthy and it was one of them but of course. it is the wars of all the difficulties all africans have to go through a tough filtering system involving tests and exercises some are new some have been

around since the very start like a centrifuge so that's one of my all 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. one of the person i was a kid i used to think cosmonaut is like a robot who has to be able to run and jump twenty four seven or like chuck norris and bruce willis combined were even james bond and superman but it's all much more serious in real life. we could survive. ok. i was fresh out. of the way. jokes aside the survival in the wilderness training is one of the toughest test for three days the can live in the woods using nothing but the equipment from the ship but still health board can all be. this is one of the first

test in the first stages of the selection process that all candidates have to go through basically it's a coordination test sold out shows how the mind and mind of the candidate is able to control the body and we screen for jumping tests so what about should movie difficult. for a point six out of ten. but the real challenge still ahead. i was expecting the spinning would be my problem but it turned out it was the damn

treadmill kook and you know this but look in the uk central perk requirement. s. . are going to. sleep i wanted to take to get off work but they just didn't want me to go to have to go through these i think are going to. finally after the speech hamster run from hell. i'm not really. becoming a space where. you go to school or to the store seeing. it's not easy at all ok or time to get the latest news from the business desk that

your staffer said now what's happening here for. his election is a negative for traders the front slumped almost one and a half percent in the opening minutes split between sarkozy and hollande report supporters and that's bad for market stability as teams the socialist candidate has the upper hand and he's also perceived by some as anti business promising a seventy five percent top rate of tax the footsie and the tax in the first hour now the most six has dropped off in percent in morning trading here in moscow. also lower prices on healthy energy stocks most of the blue chips are trading in the red blue call down over forty four percent an accident led to an oil spill on its traditional fields in the russian spills no contain. more than one percent of fertilizer giants placed five euro bonds or four hundred billion dollars that's seven and three quarters percent. is among top gainers often reported almost three fold increase in net profit for the first quarter is falling as weak economy growth

. for crude is still under one of the one mind team dollars apparel they sell. has slipped into the red in the afternoon over in japan off chinese manufacturing data the high i'm seeing is extending losses now down one percent the euro is losing value against the dollar but it regained some ground from the ruble on friday afternoon certainly good news from italy and spain and the maker of the kalashnikov rifle is on the way to existing bankruptcy despite being the world's leading producer of small arms the factory has racked up six hundred million dollars in debt as of twenty ten but it's now finished the stage of recovery. more the would concur general motors which went through a very difficult or just rushing through the bankruptcy case and for creation of a new company which took all good assets and just sold better it's a similar strategy we used to use marshall designed all defective was for

a single product very must production so no market demands many more products with much less wadhams so efficiency of production we need to children but what will. the final was a billion rubble investment problem within three years let's news on a website called c dot com slash business ok i know that thanks for that update more feelings. about coming up the headlines in just a few moments and right after that more lively debate with people of bill and his guests and crosstalk.

culture is that so much a given a there's a huge decision to try to mark when we got the best me sanction of israel movement where does it stand on the question of a q state solution of the palestine israel conflict. did i kill innocent. allies across the face of course and that's never answered. the song from the skull still with me i think of it every day. the flashlights from the memories. of so much a long time ago i'm just here trying to help. i was. i was ashamed that i

had been. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got my legs coming off. what i what the vietnam i was a. about what i was going on was what i think. that i was a good soldier. but now most older on the other side and i think i'm just an. admission free cretaceous free instruction which is free coming from and three. three stooges free. mostly.