technology. lebanon seasoned weapons destined for syria said to be earmarked for the rebel forces as explosions in damascus do you another blow to the u.n. sponsored peace plan. it's a fine for the far right in a sarkozy loses the first round of the french presidential bout with immigration and the euro among the main of rally calls. series of last rock the grain cd of the appropriate friday leaving twenty nine people injured. and keeping the world web free online anger ready to boil over a new cybersecurity bill could lead to the u.s. government obtain people's private information from internet companies.

in the russian capital you are aware are t.v. today we take a look at the top stories of the week lebanon has seized a large cache of weapons and ammunition aboard a ship within its waters the cargo was said to be destined for the syria's opposition fighters rebels refused to lay down their arms as supporters accuse them of resorting to outright terrorism damascus was rocked by a series of blasts this week the latest blow to the u.n. backed peace plan the attacks of mostly targeted government forces and supporters as exxon avoid going on discovered some rebel forces have little desire for neutrality. a lifetime of work burned over night. this is one of a growing number of businesses in syria destroyed by those claiming to advance the cause of the revolution this factory was a classic example of syrian interpreter one hundred and fifty employees producing

textiles for furniture it was never churning out a lot of profit but provided a distant living for its people all of which is now gone. no threats no warnings one evening in february a group of young man threw molotov cocktails into the building the owner says they had just enough time to evacuate the workers to safety but the rest of the evening he just watched his entire fortune go up in flames. so much pride and textile machines they bought from spain three years ago had to be sold for scrap most emplaced lost their only source of income and i don't think it was a personal attack against me i'm not a political person i think the people who did it to me seeking to undermine the industry as a whole to terrify people into supporting them. aleppo is serious largest city and its industrial capital prior to the uprising it was enjoying some of the highest

growth rates in the region. this industrial park alone housed more than three thousand small and mid-sized factories in the past six months some have gone out of business because of the economic sanctions while others because of industrial terrorism. they had of the local chambre of industry sas it's almost impossible to distinguish between attacks reach out politically motivated and those that are outright criminal we witnessed kidnappings we witnessed. attacks on factories. that are being. of trucks going on material or finished goods. threats putting people on hit lists assassinations of course all these activities criminal activities are taking. on the the cause of supporting the revolution what they call it the us advocated engineer for us shahabi says many in

the industry side with the opposition when it calls for fighting corruption and liberalizing the country's economy but they couldn't disagree more with the means of achieving it. the first thing that older support us. we will kidnap your son or your kids. because you. and you didn't pay for our. cause peaceful cause and i wonder how can this be peaceful if you are getting money like. organized crime and there are many who said come to the racketeers to keep their business afloat the owner of this textile factory had to fire hard for the workforce after one of his production shops came under attack he says he now hands over thirty percent of his profits to those who claim to represent defray the costs of the i've been receiving threats to stop working

people to demonstrations we had to pay the money so that they leave us alone while the support the business people is seen as crucial for the survival of assad's government even the most liberal of them now want nothing to do with the militarized position dealing with corrupt officials may be frustrating but it doesn't compare to losing your entire business to the revolution reckitt tears it's on a boycott artsy aleppo syria nicolas sarkozy is rushing to rally support after narrowing losing the first round of the presidential election this week to a socialist candidate francoise hollande the current leader is chasing far ride votes ahead of the may sixth runoff reaffirming his pledge to address to go economy gratian as he says her so he explores the issues dividing french society. they say it's better to travel than to arrive but for european unity the ride has been bumpy to say the least. and where could it be headed. the euro is and will implode

a considerable number of economists admit as well the french of four and that the eurozone is already dead it will collapse. so says the candidate who surprised france by securing almost a fifth of the votes in round one of their presidential race all the other candidates without exception regard the european union as part of the solution or is the main solution she has identified in her campaign the fact that it's actually the cause of the problems much of the french press but also completely wedded to the euro project they cannot conceive of a foreign policy or domestic policy which is deeply. rooted in the whole european project one that finds itself in ever more shaky ground the should get agreement one of european integration sacred cows allowing border free travel across the e.u.

is under fire. germany and france want member states to have the option to bring back those internal borders for thirty day period if there's a threat to security and public order there's a danger and more and more people are also going to start attacking all the good aspects of europe and divisions within the union don't and there amnesty international's recent report documents examples of prejudice of the block against muslims in education and employment ideas that were once very much on the fringe of the through a political spectrum on the whole being really mainstream in the right so to me it was sort of certain someone on the left would come and see the people more racist certainly not but there has been some sort of. reuther or wider or fortunately for people to express their hate and to also indulge into violent behavior so where does that leave europe even the people who are against this kind of europe another

against the europe in an idea that say they want a different kind of europe the e.u. may be trying to say in the past that set to achieve its vision and version of europe the obstacles are getting bigger from voters rallying behind anti brussels candidates to oppose also putting back border controls some e.u. leaders have dismissed them as populist threats but the question is are they merely still threats or is this growing resistance already the tip of an iceberg. sylvia r.t. brussels. now you're watching r t live from moscow still to come on the program back on to one thousand rally in egypt's revolutionary square advancing their frustration over the upcoming elections which they say won't represent their voice . and texting the truth russian m.p.r. a little boy takes a radical step to rubbish britain's accusation that he killed former security officer alexander leave. on friday a series of explosions have hit the city of never trust in eastern ukraine almost

thirty people were injured when four consecutive blast went off within an hour and public areas causing widespread panic the suspected terror attacks both fear not only among the locals but also abroad as the country prepares to host the euro two thousand and twelve football tournament in june i see your task in our reports. for some residents of you but if at all skin ukraine there are regular from jordan and through the city was cut short. list and i just got up from my chair and i heard the explosion that was smashed the windows shattered all i remember when i got up there was smoke and dust everywhere and women were crying. i was selling tickets when it came out of nowhere i grabbed my knees trying to hold on with you when there was blood all over i got out sat down on a bench and blacked out it was a powerful blast trousers i was wearing were all covered in holes i couldn't see if

my legs were injured but the soldiers it's a horror of previously unseen in ukraine's third largest city for homemade explosive devices hidden in trash cans detonated one after another a tram stops even doctors admitted they were startled to see so many senior injured . it's mostly splinter injuries to the back chest or freeze i'd like to show you some of the splinters be extracted from the victims' bodies sadly one had. a blast and we failed to save it he had some serious. injuries the worst of all the victims we treated. for many hours the city was gripped by panic people stayed in their offices fearing more lost public transport was suspended cellphone connection was down twitter was flooded with messages of not four but ten explosions which proved to be mere speculation given the well coordinated nature of the blast authorities had no doubt this was

a terrorist attack. the system it's another challenge for us for zero country so we're going to think of a proper response to it which will find a way to tackle it we'll have the best investigators working on this case ukraine is not known to have any terrorist organizations operating on its soil and all explosions in the past were treated as acts of hooliganism by authorities and the timing of this attack just could not be warse not only the country is going through difficult political times with some already using the bloss to gain points but is also about to welcome many guests from a broke. the attacks on people who are still being investigated but they already have very serious implications we are only forty days away from the start of the euro twenty twelve football championship in ukraine and poland and the authorities are now under severe pressure to reconcile the hundreds of thousands of football fans who will be coming here. let's see reporting from kiev in ukraine.

from internet users over the cost of herschel cyber security access spot is set to spill onto the street the bill has passed the u.s. house of representatives but is now threatened to be vetoed by president obama if approved however it would permit u.s. based internet companies to merely share private user data with the american government under scott or is a member of the european parliament thinks that this is a very dangerous step for democracy. it gathers discriminately so the obvious threat is for freedom of speech kind of censorship practices that people abide also by so censorship knowing that they're being watched by their government or by a private actor and therefore modify the way in which they're behaved this can have very damaging effects for for instance democratic development and also actually the way that we construct our communities and social interactions between each other

unfortunately the american government is now increasingly moving into regulating what they have access to or what their commercial actors can do with the data means that the united states imposing kind of jurisdictional geographical jurisdictions online. and also online ways compiled an extensive background before you have to log on to learn how it differs from previous cyber security act who supports it and why on our website our teeth dot com. good laboratory was to build on the most sophisticated radar which i don't think you'd leave doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach creation why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. president is passing the reins of power to vladimir putin on the seventh of may but

before the grand handover the outgoing leader wanted to reflect on his challenging four years in office and there are now reports. mr davis spent most of the week summing up the accomplishments and discussing at the shortcomings of his four year tenure as head of state he's got about a week left in that post and so on tuesday he was meeting with the state council giving a speech before them highlighting some of the issues which are still facing russia at the present moment among them all of course just the fact that some technological advancements are still in need also the fact that some tablets are still living out or below the poverty line and of course he also spoke at length the bald corruption in the d.v.d. we have declared war on corruption we have identified her enemy and we will not back down in the last four years we created legislation needed to battle corruption for the first time in the face and year history of our country that leads us that there was the war between georgia and south the center in two thousand and eight so most immediately after he became russia's president there was also of course the

economic crisis but also some things that meant that if it is rather proud of russia's events but to do w t o for example and there reset off relations between russia and the united states the the and last year was marred by the parliamentary elections and the consequences of protesters all across the country with the biggest of them being in moscow and that was the subject of last discussion during it but it was a meeting with russia's journalists from five television channels. regarding people who just first of all they have the right to but the other thing here is that they can be a genuine protest you know will calculated political opposition and then you see right away i'm not judging anyone on the monitor still there is such a thing isn't going to get much if you've seen it i've seen it as well to do such things often pursue some obvious political gurus. on the subject that's called of

course you would you have said that he couldn't pardon the man because it's not just to be free but of course there were. also issues that some were saying that those protests with which we've just mentioned were financed by none other than the united states state department to that makes me also how does something to say. the washington's different places regarding russia we shouldn't demonize americans who have. some serious political process in our country. when it came to international issues of forced me to bet if i could not possibly step by the goings on in the middle east because it's the situation is unstable there radical forces are trying to grasp power in a whole number of countries and if they do working with a lot harder. to both american and european partners the transfer of power to extremists should be the purpose of any transformation he is going next prime

minister to take over the post of the chairman of the united russia party which is the largest party in the country. and becomes the president of course but your presence migration is going to take place on me seven. reporting there now kyra as to harir square filled with anger again on friday as it gets islamists vented their frustration over the country's military rulers pro-democracy activists rallied there as well chanting slogans from last year's revolution which toppled hosni mubarak and when the presidential election drawing nearer many feel the fine for democracy has been replaced by a scramble for power artist sara for a three ports from cairo. protests nation after the revolution toppled president mubarak egyptians have continued to use people power as a way to force change the sights the sounds of protesters on cairo's tahrir square have become a familiar one more than

a guess and president back without the from power with presidential elections just around the corner and the activities here have once again taken center stage but if the last years taught us anything is a revolution alone is not a democracy make this why the upcoming elections appraising so important. as a discussion group focused on a post arab spring egypt we met a former member of mubarak's regime now a prominent speaker here in egypt the revolution also must be a great action but unfortunately after we had a lot of problems and the challenges we have to discuss and do we have to reach a vision for that not everyone will say positive one man asked the panel how they'd feel about the outcome if they'd been one of the young revolutionaries there's no quid pools but he's not given a clear answer. on forces and the. administration

. of to. get. in their lives in february. we order. food revolution we will we will give the people what you want we'll give you. freedom we'll give you a democracy he told us of the frustration of many people he turned out to tahrir they now feel they've been left represented with a new struggle for power creating many of the regimes old guard what is a democracy is the. source of course is a common complaint with an equally common. belief but the revolutionary mood which homes can last indefinitely i can see a second wave but we will expect to know waves of. people against certain actions should goon in

a different way more realistic to understand the real interest this region it's not only slogans or shout things it's the economy the culture and the politics overestimating authority and underestimating people has seen regimes across the arab world full now with the announcement of the list of candidates attention turns to the policies that he might become the next president they'll need to be careful not to allow power to churn out the voices of who are determined that this time they'll be heard surface r.t. . or you find more on the stories that r.t. dot com here's what else is waiting for you there at the moment. no sex or booze for us secret services while on duty as new good behavior rules are imposed on its agents find out what caused the sudden breakdown on bad behavior at our t.v. dot com. amazon season r t his new talk show the whistleblower has already

attracted political streams with more of his next car herschel interview airs on tuesday while you can log onto our to counter one. the previous show. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and grenade has been thrown into a church in the kenyan capital killing one and injuring over a dozen the shell exploded during the service in a working class area of nairobi it's the latest in a string of attacks in the east african country since it sent troops into neighboring somalia no one has yet claimed responsibility. a boss carrying

holidaymakers to disneyland tokyo has crashed in japan killing seven police say some forty other passengers and the driver were injured thirteen of them seriously the bus drove into a wall along the highway some one hundred kilometers northwest of the capital this comes as japan enters a busy spring holiday season when travel around the country peaks. insurgents with guns hidden in their shoes evaded security and nearly succeeded in assassinating a provincial governor in southern afghanistan a fierce shootout ensued when a guard of the file checkpoint noticed something suspicious and stopped them both gunmen and two security officers were killed in the attack the taliban claimed responsibility for the failed plot. gyptian migrant workers have clashed with police in the lebanese capital and around a hundred people gathered in front of the egyptian embassy in beirut to protest foreign labor a law that limits the ability to improve working conditions or change jobs several

policemen as well as protestors have been injured in the clashes with a dozen migrants arrested. russian m.p.'s really give away has passed a lie detector test to prove he had nothing to do with the death of former security officer alexander we've been and go who was poisoned in london six years ago the test was conducted by british experts the u.k.'s prime suspect answered questions relating to the financials death however the result may not sway british courts were a lie detectors are not accepted as standalone evidence some skeptics think that as a former security services agent will have one may have had training to cheat the test but xander grow up though a documentary maker whose idea it was for a little boy to undergo the questioning things that's unlikely. even if every american police station has reported drug test and if it was so easy to fool why security services would use it obviously to be as far as they are concerned. examiners they say that this is the ultimate way to determine if one is lying or

telling the truth regarding the independence of the test i must say that is going to be even more impartial and accurate than it was couldn't be more independent because bruce burgess and his son are very renowned experts they were the first ones quite blunt started this business in the u.k. and i think that also really didn't know who they're going to test before they actually met here israel's former security chief has accused the government of misleading the people on the need to strike iran he said the threat of an attack my fourth iran to start working on building a nuclear weapon but as a strike come sooner rather than later how well is israel prepared for iran's response policy or investigates. the move any family lives in the range of gaza for years they complained to the government they had no shelter to protect them from because some rockets fired by hamas but disappointed in the good town wasn't a top priority for tel aviv far from it prompting yakov to eventually build

a shelter himself to protect his family we went through some very tough years we used to worry all the time every time we left the house we were in danger when we went to the store or to work it took a direct hit on your courthouse five years ago before the government finally woke up and bought him a shelter opposite the one he did with people to solve now across israel's closest city to gaza there are bomb shelters in the street and sports fields and your children's playground where they cleverly disguised like this one but that won't reassure the rest of the country in the event of a conflict with the much bigger threat of iran. more global government wants to start a war there for poor parents civilian population for a show of walkers of all kind. from several directions we have got to one point seven million people that haven't got any shelter. we've got

three and a half million people that haven't got a gas mask israelis themselves are skeptic about the country's ability to defend itself many still remember iraqi scud missiles or manned in the center of israel some twenty years ago and a scathing government report issued months ago suggests the home front is woefully unprepared the government. doesn't want to put obviously doesn't want to put the public into panic but i think the public itself probably does not believe in a strike is imminent other words people who've gone crazy the experts say any israeli military strike is very likely to draw any rain in retaliation the target of which is no secret this is the city that iran has threatened to pummel with missiles in response to any israeli attack but many of the public bomb shelters here are dusty and neglected and whereas in previous times of tension tel aviv

distributed gas masks many of those masks remain in storage and i really don't know why they're talking about it so much that's why i think there won't be a war because they are talking about it i don't think there will be a war because i think the government is. wrong in doing nothing to prepare citizens for a decision to ation if someone will bore me i don't know or they need to one. which has many wondering what exactly tel aviv has planned up its sleeve if a government really. intends to start a war they would do things differently or at least prepare their public policy r.t. tel aviv. while a recap of the weeks of stories is on the way stay with us. well

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