israel warns is a peace treaty with egypt is in danger after karl rove says it's terminated the gas export deal over payment and prices. reports that a senior afghan official believes the u.s. could leave its troops in afghanistan for another decade after the twenty fourteen withdrawal deadline that's following an agreement between both governments. the commitment is a reminder that while u.s. forces are drawing down in afghanistan over the next two years the american military will remain active in the country after that but more on that join me in just a few minutes. and in other news sarkozy's slips the french president spells to convince enough voters narrowly losing to a socialist archrival turnout go head to head in the second round.

on the political situation in france is tight he is told on the markets the russian forces closed down and there is a sharp sell off in europe germany twenty minutes a happy face to face for you. it's seven pm here in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live on these the now wait with our top story the middle east peace is taking another vonderen this time as egypt determinates its twenty year gas x. words deal with israel both countries insist it's just a business dispute but observers in israel warn it's putting their peace treaty on the line our two star first is encouraged. well the head egypt stating gas company has said that this is a trade knott's

a political issue and that the terminations of that deal with some form of payment is another false reports of the coming from egypt but it seems some people in israel have interpreted that as a possible violation of the can't david peace treaty that was signed between the two countries in the one israeli opposition figures come out of one of the crisis in relations between egypt and israel and called on the u.s. who is the sponsor of the castille between the neighboring countries to intervene and i was called to be said that a very controversial here in egypt is a very unpopular amongst egyptian people who view it as a deal which the night egypt's a fair market price on gas provided to israel and also very much seen as representative of the much warmer relations between israel and egypt that were formed under the former president hosni mubarak said no the popular little it's certainly been

a target for resentments recently for the first time egyptians have been debating egypt's relations with israel quite publicly by now the current rulers and the islamists it in parliament have vowed that they're going to uphold international relations because i think it's been a feeling here in cairo a lot of people that you could pass in the run up to the elections be about to see a rocky period in relations between the two countries now the three front men currently full presidential support have placed it they're going to respect the peace deal every single one of them has said that they're going to be looking very closely at the fairness and appropriateness of this very unpopular guest. oh israeli journalist a l says the gas rao is a consequence of the trouble interruption revolution. right now is in flux it's in francis and nobody knows exactly when. the new order in egypt will emerge we need geo political patients in this regard what we're witnessing right now in egypt and

the sinai peninsula is a microcosm of this when you think of it we're witnessing a political twilight we understand what we're parting with we do not know what we're approaching. and this is truly how the americans view the situation in egypt . many in washington today as far as we understand regret the haste with which america helped. barak and his regime leave the scene but that is of course going to water under the bridge. turned itself from an emerging markets to higher was the economy one where no foreign investor can assume with signs and written statement on the part of any gyptian interlocutor is worth more than the ink with which it is signed. now the u.s. could use its military in afghanistan for at least a decade after its withdrawal in twenty fourteen it's part of

a new strategy agreed on sunday afghan officials say america will only be able to act with cobbles approval what the document was crimes as being to defend afghanistan but our washington course you can now joins us live with more than a this could see the u.s. in afghanistan in some way one way or another intil twenty twenty four over two decades in total. well and he said the u.s. and afghanistan have agreed on the terms of this new strategic pact which the presidents of both countries will have to sign the document is needed to provide u.s. forces with the authority to continue in afghanistan after two thousand and fourteen when the afghan government is scheduled to take over control of security there so the majority of u.s. troops are expected to be out of the country by twenty fourteen but some combat forces will continue to go on missions and trainers and advisers to the afghan security forces will also remain the strategic partnership agreement that covers the period from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty four it is not aggress specific

troop levels or the size or location of us bases this is something that many afghans are still worried about and that is that the u.s. runs permanent bases there would have preferably keep them as an occupying power for maybe they case to come the withdrawal from iraq was also not complete the u.s. still has to bases there four thousand troops plus thousands of contractors after the big scaled down though iraq has sort of moved out of the media spotlight but the forces are still there. series of angry protests against the u.s. presence in afghanistan even coordinated attacks on nato buildings very recently how might this long term deal impact on an already volatile situation in the whole region. i begin with the reaction in the u.s. the u.s. government is very anxious to tell the american people that they are leaving afghanistan especially anxiously calm when some horrendous news makes it to the

headlines which happens on a regular basis the american people want their troops out and they want them out immediately afghanistan saying we constantly see people there expressing outrage over the killing of civilians over night raids and other actions of u.s. troops like the burning of korans or cheerfully posing with u.s. troops cheerfully posing with dead afghans so both countries both governments are anxious to tell their people that this is over but the agreement is talking about continuing military assistance the commitment is a reminder in a way that while the u.s. forces are drawing down in again it's going to be the next two years the american military will remain active in the country longer after that. can reporting live from the u.s. capitol thanks for that. there are thirteen live from moscow still ahead for you this hour the war games held in a more than sensitive region as russia and china hold there for doing

a whole exercises of the yellow sea we explain what their political plans are selling towards. and the second episode of whistleblower doing a signs of hard hitting interview show airs here on tuesday we look ahead to what's in store. there's a tight fight for france's top job with president sarkozy narrowly losing in the first round to his source of this rival france. they've now got two weeks to win over voters before the runoff whole artist has personally is in paris and across the action. right now if you look at the numbers it is certainly neck and neck to be a difference between at the top two candidates is very small on the right now it's a one appointed differences so the question that people be asking is which way will the voters who had voted for the other candidates how will they vote in the second round will be will it be all large will it be so close enough for diggler psycho's e he will have to try to get the voters of money in the pen who is on the far right

from the national front she had managed to get seventy point nine percent of the votes according to the exit polls about half of her voters may go to nicolas sarkozy but again these are just estimates and as far as a lot is concerned he will have to get a shot from the left front his voters who have been a very a very creating a lot of noise towards the end of this campaign while ninety percent of voters from that side say they will vote on a lot but still there are a lot of factors that could affect it swaying the vote in the second round and not least of all the costs of missive and the lack of enthusiasm of the french people they may have come out to vote for the for in the first round at eighty percent but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll do the same in the second round another factor to be considered but let's get more insight now from our guest today mr john locklear from the institute of democracy and cooperation thanks very much for being with us today with regard to the. the high numbers that many in the pet of the far right have got and there's a lot of reaction here from the french press that this is a surprise to them what significance is this hold and how will the voters of money

independent you think that it's it's an absolutely incredible result and it's definitely the biggest story of this this election how will the voters behave we don't know that is the big question marine le pen has said she will announce her choice on the first of may but. boyfriend the head of the fulness of all the number two in the fullness of the louis elio has said he will he will cost a blank vote on the first of may so what does that mean though in ideology and what it means is that there is no certainty a tool that the fullness of the voters will vote for the right wing candidate because of sarkozy on the contrary one of the main reasons why our independence done so well is that that electorate hates nicolas sarkozy for various reasons not least because they felt betrayed by him after having voted for him in two thousand and seven one of my to follow up on again is the the campaign ideologies the biz that has been been put forward how will the next president whoever he is be able to meet all the demands from the far right who are anti immigration anti euro and on

the left who are anti capitalist and you know so all of these ideologies the striking thing about this campaign has been precisely the extent to which many lives and has run a left wing campaign and he capitalist and the free market in favor of protectionism and so on most of her voters are young people and people from the working classes this is not a classic right wing or least bush electorate. on the immigration yes there is a right wing discourse i agree lauren older is also a right wing issue but her appeal goes way beyond the simple left right prism fos well lawns might be able to reassure those as it were left when former sort of voters well sarkozy might be able to seduce the as it were right wing ones but. we'll have to see. will thanks very much service and also for joining us well there you have it still a lot of topics issues to be put in the political debate

a lot in cycles he will have one to one and this could also sway the voters depending on how they do want god to pay so we're looking forward certainly to the second round of the presidential race. well for more stories head on to ards he got com there you'll find a swedish online piracy religion thinking official recognition in the u.s. computer based out of the so-called communist that's already been officially recognized in the scandinavian country but now wants to go on a worldwide mission. and moscow joins cities across the globe marking international earth day as thousands of lender and candle lit the capital's night sky shine a light on that and more news at our t.v. dot com. well the first episode of julian assange just show premiered on our t.v. and certainly caused a media stir it produced strong reactions ranging from praise to hostile criticism

across the atlantic with your commentators remaining indifferent to say r t airs the next episode or smith gives us some details. so tomorrow the second episode is airing we did see a lot of backlash from the first episode but this new program features two people as i was talking to two different people one of them's the slovenians level which is a who is a philosopher. and communist dissidents and now turns communist and also david horowitz who is a former left wing radical to distant countries into the black panthers back in the day and is now a radical right wing zionist jew from two completely different sides of the fence and when i went to talk to us on this program was broadcast he said that this was one of the most heated episodes that he filmed during filming he tried to sort of talk about other stuff talk about a range of issues but the two of them kept on coming back to the jewish question they kept on talking about israel and palestine he had to drag it away from that

repeatedly and in fact at one point he says had to be physically restrained even know david horowitz wasn't even in the room he was in fact on the telephone so it's a bit an extraordinary piece of television in the final cut there we do understand that they do talk about a range of issues they they do talk about the palestinians in the nazis they talk about the black panthers and the israelis and they also talk about the american presidential race part of the conversation also goes into europe and specifically what happens in europe after the second world war so the creation of this sort of social welfare state all three of them seem to agree that the welfare state was created in europe is dead now and that in fact it is not all that it's supposed to be european well. if you put a. european love more then i think even united. may be unique period in human history after world war well first

state where many people live in shacks. three dorm and should warm don't know much fun. it's always was a disastrous spirit europe and europe is a cultural scene pork and significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state it just took you out of. the socialist green paradise or sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like you have a time when arsenal's talks about his personal experiences sweden of course he's talking about the expected results of his extradition hearing sweden's trying to extradite him on allegations of sexual assault that result is still pending so we still don't know whether our songs will get further experience of sweet and. it is quarter past the hour let's take a look at more of the world news for you that's fine minister mark root has

resigned along with his cabinet after the collapse of government talks over austerity measures the junior coalition partner the right wing freedom party refuses to agree to constant state pensions talks which have been going on for a month for trying to slash the country's budget by sixteen billion euro to meet you rules rating agency fitch has warned that the netherlands may lose its aaa rating over the debt crisis one of the few remaining eurozone states to hold the top ranking. region extremist anders breivik has said sorry to some of his victims' families during the final day of his testimony over apologize for those killed when he bombed in oslo government building but not for the massacre of mostly young people on a holiday island he called them legitimate targets and denies criminal guilt of judges decide breivik was sane during the murders he faces a maximum twenty one year jail sentence otherwise it will be indefinite psychiatric treatment. and clashes over the demolition of

a slum in the filipino capital have killed one person and left dozens injured authorities want to build houses on the site of a flea market hundreds of squatters block to kill road and threw rocks at security forces which responded with tear gas about a third of militia residents live in such slums and their forests regeneration often results in deadly clashes. and the un's bolstering its observer mission to syria as multiple reports continue that the teetering cease fire is being violated by both sides but rebels political leaders still want a un backed military intervention but as a lot of boyko reports from damascus the public have no appetite for foreign interference. 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 to that he's thousand 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 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 tune. we don't need any countries meddling in our affairs. while the prospect of illegal style intervention seems everlast likely the militarized position and their supporters are still asking for arms. and they are all one from the nine and the presidents of other countries is that they support us and now because we the rebels want to get armed. all the rebels may

have card 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 when it comes to the issue of military intervention. is driving this a position activist says 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. thing like him abdul aziz is not afraid to go public or refuse to lose 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 things. we are supporting.

we know for sure that some of the states not support that and some are trying to close some sort of pressure. that. france. and that's probably not succeeded. that would prove dark. you know people will suffer too much. use of a country. going to war no one knows what with lead b. and iraq just across the border imported democracies are not held in high regard here even among the opposition wealthy rents remain highly polarized across political lines most of them agree that dissolution to their current crisis should be worked out within the country even for the opposition dugald they know it's

still better than begin ones that now hong neighboring countries. are to see damascus syria. russia and china are holding their first ever joint naval drills taking place in the yellow sea near the korean peninsula gulf of sellers will take part in exercises which will simulate the rescue of high tech vessels and these submarine operations these boards he is following the work. i'm standing on board the russian destroyer. and we are now in the chinese port of king and 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 but we 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 ever four key areas anti-terrorist missions protection of marine lines of communication guarding of civilian battles and joint supply operations the exercises are the fact building on what's good forces have been each doing in the past couple of years in the gulf of aden to counter piracy both chinese and russian warships have assaulted civilian 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 for instance 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 is in the increasing concern in 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 conway was frequently followed by nato reconnaissance planes destroyers and submarines hundreds of sailors will take part of both sides supported by planes and helicopters. and the international space station could be in danger from microbes that's according to the russian cademy of science says it says the organisms found on the i assess. could harm the equipment on board scientists say a similar problem of the sort aboard the soviet and russian mir orbiting sation which is the predecessor of the. microbes which come from words affecting metal and probably murs and could damage the station itself. is a manned orbiting station that's used as a research complex because currently a crew of six on board to nassau and one european astronaut and three russian cosmonauts. does not check in with katie at the business of global

markets still losing the fight or is it looking better out there they are taking an absolute beating at a nice and it's because of the political uncertainty that we've seen in europe it's coming from france it's coming from the netherlands as well as that we have data indicating that china's production will contract for six months internationally is all going on now let's talk about europe the concern that is being fueled by the victory of francoise hollande in the first round of the elections in france now rode in the national journal cap and so says this is because he's less likely to support your starting rushers. a lot of political change as a result of the crisis and if he was to become president probably the biggest change. so far the germans in particular the french germans in particular have been pushing. on a part of the world already some very difficult. i think. it

will be more of a shift towards. more spending as a way to get out of the european crisis. so let's have a look at those numbers about the sharp losses that particularly heading towards three and a half cents down at this hour there's not long to go as fast as looking to end up on the back for now let's talk about the euro dollar as well that's also suffering i mentioned the neverland as well over the weekend a government official town that was over the spending cut this year we've got the ruble that's how it finished up today makes against the main currencies there is higher against the u.s. dollar ok moving on to the u.s. markets now the insertion pressures are also taking their toll there the beginning of trading to domestic league as a few things going on with head of the cereal i was nearly five percent down after cutting their two thousand and twelve forecast as well as others but if

a situation going on the market as well the stores down around for a. bribery investigation going on with the russian markets this is how they closed . down in david at the r.c.s. two point eight percent down the my set at two point four percent down if you look at the stocks to see who really really suffered we have lou call it down over two percent and oil prices are down. as well they're five times asian program take place also that magni. in the green the nearly two and a half percent. of ports almost three. a net profit for the first quarter ok that was the russian market is a first today let's see how the oil got on and it's really taking taking its toll that all the concerns are from china from europe as well as. i just i'm reading just now actually this is an interesting one iran's all shipments to china for a full month in march that was lowest in twenty two months amid delays in signing

contracts that certainly be one to watch i paid our markets for now anything i'll be back in about fifteen minutes with another days all right thanks for that we'll see you then. that coming up here in our take crosstalk looks at weather ok palestinian justice movement is simply out to destroy israel that's coming up after a short break and that's what. people.

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