mine. would be soon which brightened if you remove the sun from the suns to pressure these. stones on t.v. don't come. at six thirty pm moscow time these are your headlines on archie israel warns its peace treaty with egypt is in danger after cairo says it's terminated a gas exports deal over payment and prices observers say the ground was a consequence of the troubled revolution and foreign interference in egypt's affairs. france's current leader nicolas sarkozy narraway loses to his socialist rival francois long in the presidential elections first round which will

see the pair go head to head in a runoff in just under a fortnight the winner will face a tough job of fixing a faltering economy and record on employment. but syria's opposition keeps the calls for military intervention despite the un troops observing mission for their plea is finding little public sympathy for him the country is our correspondent in tonight's guests and finds out. now as the french debate and i sat for the first round of sunday's presidential election we'll talk to a member of the socialist party mom he gives us his views on the second stage runoff and talks about the huge challenges the country's facing. today we're joined by a good while he's been a member of the french socialist party since lighting eighty seven he's also been a member of the european parliament from two thousand and four to two thousand and

nine and today he's the spokes person of the socialist party of french presidential candidate francois hollande thank you very much on this for joining us today first question will be of course on the future of france there are two top candidates socialist laws and incumbent. what kind of friends are we going to see on the presidency. probably affronts that's a much fairer a much more egalitarian it is today the french one here 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 interest and very unfavorable to the interests of the rest of europe. france is mostly very divided with heritage today the task for france where i learned will be to somehow repair

rebuild and assemble the french to avoid opposition to one another this is why his political project is intended primarily to address inequality and. the. like when you're talking about redefining or reestablishing france's a role in influence in europe and you bring up the treaty. does want to renegotiate the fiscal part agreed upon by e.u. leaders but how much leverage does the we have is going to go against german chancellor angela merkel and let's be frank what she wants usually a very important role in decision making before with a clear his message is clear if the treaty is not renegotiate it from this will not ratify it and therefore it cannot come into force if want to impose fiscal discipline in the euro zone area we will require a growth measure in the treaty where now there is no one we want to make progress on euro bonds we want to expand the role of the european central bank there's no

question for us that we would not accept a treaty that would result in austerity measures in france and europe at the same time most of our growth is related to trade with you if the french cannot buy companies cannot invest because of austerity policies then our neighbors can either buy in or invest either because they too practice austerity or we believe that merkel is prepared to hear we're simply saying that the treaty cannot proceed only under the terms of germany's economy in fact this treaty does not benefit the italian economy nor the spanish nor the french economy our great regret is that nicolas sarkozy has not defended the interests of the french economy or the economies of european countries sarkozy agreed to sign the treaty to appear a protector of from its europe and of the euro zone for simple public relations purposes he signed a treaty that weakens. because if it is only honest territory that's the kind of you know the. other talking about

a sturdy are you against all types of belt tightening nationals do you not see any merit to where i'm speaking about growth measures he's bringing it up what does it really mean that. we want a real industrial policy based on a new instrument in public finance a public investment bank or we will develop tools that allow us to compete with other european countries but also with countries outside being european union or new york with well let's talk about immigration other presidential candidates such as the national front somebody lappin and even the glass keep bringing up the problem of immigration by using this as a campaign point what is your view on immigration in france in general any particular illegal immigration. because in the morning you go quite honestly immigration being an economic and social problem is primarily a political problem in many european countries the issue is systematically used to

say that immigration is a threat to the country when they talk about immigration they usually mean arab ever going to new zealand this is the way people approach the immigration question in a political debate in france and europe i think in france what the president of the republic said was nothing but a caricature as probably it will reach the point where a great number of anglo-saxon newspapers could no longer see the difference between one and nicolas sarkozy sorry about islamic immigration. this is a major setback for france to see that the president today finds inspiration in the program of france's far right. this is a very grave step back of what we're saying is that we need to discuss the conditions of economic migration and the needs of different sectors of the french economy if we must add rules and economic immigration we will do so we don't want to make immigration issue used to divide and frighten the french this is a serious matter that must be treated as search and must be subject to political

economic and social responses it should not be a standard used by nicolas sarkozy will append to win votes and raise racism in france for five years the french reality is the rise of intolerance and violence is perhaps more racist now than it was five years ago yes there's discrimination in hiring and yes there's discrimination in access to housing and yes there's discrimination in access to leisure it depends on whether you have a white face like mine and when a white man in a position like mine in a socialist party or your name is cadia of arab or north african origin or omar from mali but if you are in the. ok let's talk about nato and air france's participation campaigns in various countries launder wants to with the graw more troops in afghanistan earlier than planned however he doesn't want to withdraw france completely from nato but. may regarding nato we want to evaluate the

decisions made by nicolas sarkozy to rejoin the integrated military command of nato we're not sure that our reintegration into the military command has had the expected results above all what we regret is that there has been no strong initiative of france in favor of a genuine european defense system for five years we do not believe today that european defense and protection of the broader strategic interests of europe and the european union can be supported only by need to. we consider it necessary to develop autonomous structures that's why we insist on developing a european defense we will evaluate the benefits and drawbacks involved with a return to the integrated military command of nato and as you said in connection with our allies so as not to destabilize nato in afghanistan we will withdraw our troops from afghanistan before the end of twenty twelve. ok you want to reassess

their francis separatists and fast or large ones cooperation on this and european their defenses system however by pulling out troops in afghanistan earlier than planned that a solid relationships with britain or germany for example who are investing a lot in that effort and. our analysis is that our military intervention is not able to add a value that allows a peaceful solution to the crisis in the conflict in afghanistan by our military intervention there we lost the ability to act on political and diplomatic levels we want to regain freedom in our room to maneuver politically and diplomatically in order to find a solution together with major regional players in the conflict that requires to first withdraw our troops from afghanistan would we believe that a military solution is doomed to deadlock but we do not believe that the solution to the conflict in afghanistan requires a military only approach otherwise we would have solved the conflict already the

last synchronized attacks by the taliban in many parts of afghanistan will show that there is no longer any area in afghanistan today that is truly protective order must find ways to influence the immediate neighbors of afghanistan the larger regional players in order to find a political solution to the afghan conflict a military operation must one day come to an end and we think it is now the time for that. with the goal of. talking about political solutions does that apply as well in syria for example. your theory syria is on the edge of civil war a proof is that despite the end plan there are still dozens and dozens of deaths hundreds of deaths i want to come to talk about the role of russia in this matter by its place in the security council and through its role it can play by the syrian regime russia was in a key positions unlock the syrian situation and to avoid

a bloodbath and civil war both at levels of bilateral franker russian relations and on the level of the e.u. russia relationship we want to ritually tense association with russia we also want to show role on the international scene to contribute to stability we can understand the historical relations of the russian state with the syrian state but today with russia is a destabilizing factor in his country but also the whole region we must respond in a concerted and coordinated way between russia the european union france and permanent members of the security council can a military intervention go through nato in syria at this point it seems premature and this is where the plan by kofi annan opened a possibility of a political solution with the involvement of observers in fact considering the number of observers who will go there and the difficulty in verifying whether or not atrocities are committed against civilians should be a strong force in place to ensure that observers really do observe what happens for

. a very big and central role in the libyan intervention or do you. in libya we played two different roles at one point nicolas sarkozy wanted to sell nuclear power plants to gadhafi then he could elfie. when you're a friend of nicolas sarkozy always be wary. it shows the completely incoherent nature of nicolas sarkozy's foreign policy i think the intervention in libya was a necessary because gadhafi used his armed forces and bombs against his own people but that doesn't mean that the situation is now stabilized. of the movement of weapons and as a whole region is linked to the consequences of the conflict in libya this helps to arm groups like. al qaeda or an islamic magreb that in some of the events in mali related to what happened in libya therefore we need stabilization policies growth

and development here two fronts as intervenes to help end the gadhafi regime but the french development they develop in countries fell from point seven percent to naught point four percent of our g.d.p. so we give weapons but we don't help the development growth and job creation and as we know if there are weapons and no jobs there will be no more instability francois hollande ambition is to focus on stabilizing the margret north africa region because it's a hotbed of potential unrest for europe and beyond including much of the african continent of africa thank you. for your time.

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party's top stories israel warns its peace treaty with egypt is in danger after cairo says it's terminated the gas tax for deal over payments and prices and the servers say the raw was a consequence of the troubled revolutions and foreign interference in entrance affairs. france's current leader nicolas sarkozy gnarly loses to his socialist rival francois long in the presidential election first round which will see the pair go head to head in a runoff in just over a fortnight the winner will face a tough job of fixing a faltering economy and record unemployment. syria's opposition keeps the calls for military intervention despite the un troops on a serving mission but their plea is finding little public sympathy between the country as our correspondent in damascus find out. up next paul joins us

with the latest for. hello welcome along it to the world of sports here is what we've got coming up dreams dentist moscow's a making the champions league for the first time in six years suffers a setback following defeats and gene. pool perfection russia's swimming squad for this summer's olympics in london is named following the national championships here in moscow. and back on track after six years without a p.g.a. title former open champion ben curtis gets his hands on the texas open. but we start with football well after a great recent run spartak moscow being brought back down to earth in the russian premier league the reason why it's missing three male hands angy on sunday

a bit of an upset this one spots are dominating possession but it was because having charges who made their limited opportunities count samuel eto the man getting the scoring going six minutes before half time substitute sharma lucky fellow would have doubled to visit his nature shortly after the break but really it was a good start a questionable goalkeeping from scratch archer mcgregor of angie's push for europa league qualification next season was further strengthened sixty nine minutes in an own goal from nicklaus prayer and not a dismal day for the muscovites who remain third and out of the champions league spots. now the premier league title race in england looks as if it will go right to the wire after the weekend's action and all eyes in our nine chester united saying rarely talk to three points on sunday in the champions involved in a full four thriller at home to everton second place manchester city meanwhile taking full advantage of that draw but you know win over wolverhampton means they could go a level with united when the two sides meet in

a massive clash next monday at eastlands defeat saw it clearly a motional terry connors man relegated from the top flight. for. if they for games . in ways include to kill bill you know to stay in. these communities and. she really. means you in the rules you need to recruit. to him so. the stuff plays simple says from community to group. forming a community chill. now while there will be another trophy this year old supporters can at least celing stahmann robin van persie has been named the a professional footballers' association player of the year the dutch international leads the english scoring charts with thirty four goals in all competitions while england

international call walka as we recognize as the cream of the crop among the league's rising stars a twenty one year old son and a friend that made young a player of the year he's. now swimming where the russian olympic team has been finalised the national swimming championships have concluded his sky and his michael corruption car reports they also doubled up as qualifying for this summer's games in london. although the haven't been many breathtaking results and even fewer records broken the annual russian swimming championships has slowly but surely been picking up swimmers for its olympic charge in london and on the final day it was no different than us to see a challenge narrowly beating out hot favorite and already qualified olympian. in the women's two hundred metre breaststroke event good men she will now also join the theme of in london based this result means a lot to me of qualify for the olympics i'm really pleased that everything starts now ahead of them in an event. of course it's an honor to be crowned national

champion but representing your country at the olympics seems to be even more coveted unlike in other countries the russian nationals think championships is the only chance for russian swimmers to qualify for the summer olympics and that means it would make a break for a lot of takes for the actual championships as many of the minds of the slimmest of cooling focused on qualification. in the women's one hundred meter backstroke and us to see as we have a justified her place on the olympic team winning gold and posting the world's best time in the distance in twenty twelve hours ago since overall i'm very pleased with my performance at the championships and i hope i'll be able to repeat i've been impacts. in probably the most closely contested event the men's one hundred meter freestyle nikita loads of finally made good after a dreadful start to the finals of us all i came to the championships completely out

of form which was plain to see i completely flunked the four hundred metres and didn't do much better in the two hundred metres but now i've more last found my form again i got silver in the one hundred metres and i managed to qualify and i still think that's a success. but it was daniel is a lot of who claim gold in that event he to consolidating his place on the olympic team russian swimming federation president of afterward stated there were still areas that need improving but overall was very pleased with the selected batch of athletes. those who'd been selected to the national team. is used in one hundred freestyle. group. was in peace. with each other so. after a short break the swimmers will convene in spain where they will begin the first of many training camps planned in the run up to the summer olympics.

meanwhile australia has an impact swimming squad have gathered for a training camp although they will without one big name star rising talent james magnussen was missing because of a chest infection the twenty one year old is a big hope same australia at the london games and is looking to become the first australian to within one hundred metre freestyle olympic gold since one thousand nine hundred sixty eight he's currently world champion in the discipline and has already swum the fourth fastest time in history. look it's disappointing for everyone james is a big character now in that same and equally in in the realize. he'd be very disappointed that he's not here but he's had a bit of a chest infection and we're just a motorcycle wrists now it's been a good weekend for ben curtis over on the go with greens with the american winning the texas open place first trophy in six years because he's going from holding up the british open clarett jockey in two thousand and three to only being able to enter for p.g.a.

events this year he would roll in one of his three purdy's here on the seventh hole not every meanwhile stayed in contention by sinking three birdies in a row with the final outcome of the six john hart finish tiflis second with every occurrence is held is no accountability on the final hole unsecure much needed when perseverance just paying dividends for curtis and that's who struck the. i don't know how i do it but. from my own you know last couple of years this you know there's fighting through it and you stay positive that's all you can do and you know rock radio a good support team back home now in n.b.a. the rockets hopes of launching themselves into a post-season play off place have been dashed by miami the porn james coming to the fore in place of entertainment wainwright and chris bosh making sure houston missed the playoffs for the third straight year the rockets are by seven at the end of the

first call shane battier clearly down to five would have possibly shot in the quarter james they put on an electrifying one man show once again finishing the night with thirty two points i agree downtown five assessed they were there for finish the year with twenty eight wins and five losses at home the best such percentage in the franchise's history ninety seven eighty eight the final score of the night. now there could be a new name on the kontinental hockey league trophy later today adam gault currently three two in the best of seven series against him or sky as the squad prepare for game six in the russian capital the hawks had a commanding three one series before the nominee brought themselves back into contention and the control of the made in game five on saturday problem got to frenchman's on beloff side out that much apparently due to injury but according to the country's deputy sports minister the twenty five year old but earlier tested

positive for performance in housing drugs the russian anti doping committee has now temporarily suspended the aspiring international pending further investigation. and finally this year's fred cup finale will feature the czech republic and first time in serbia they saw the serbia soar thresher three two in the semifinals schools were tied out one apiece heading into sunday's final day of action in moscow and things looked to be going at the host way but on a stage where probably ten covertly first set against an advantage which the former world number one rallied to win time consecutive games to take a notch three six six love six three months or a lot of business over needed a win against me like the young rich the russian don't know when they won going down comprehensibly in straight sets six one six four. well that is all the sport for now a lot more for you in a little under two hours so i'm here in art's a regular.

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