the latest news in the week in review here on artsy russia accuses syrian rebels of fighting on to bring down the un brokered cease fire and this as a shipment of smuggled arms for the opposition is intercepted by levanon. nicolas sarkozy is chasing the vote of the far right after losing the first round of the french presidential ballot to francois hollande this with immigration and the euro among the main a rally call. more than twenty people are still being treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of the now proper throw off scarfed or a series of bombs exploded there on a friday leaving at least thirty injured. plus not guilty british lie

detector experts say the u.k.'s main suspect a russian m.p. was not involved in the murder of former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago. but the headlines of the week and of today this is the weekly with me will receive shame as the violence in syria continues unabated neighboring lebanon has seized a shipment of smuggled weapons destined for syrian rebels the cash apparently came in from libya which is backing the opposite opponents of president assad and this comes as the rebels step up their assault on government forces saturday saw the first insurgent attack from the sea a day after a suicide bombing killed nine in the capital russia says the opposition is seeking

to scuttle the un brokered cease fire as the world body steps up its observer mission to syria rebel leaders are calling for foreign intervention which some people on the ground refused to. as r.t. is also on a boy who reports now from damascus. most 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 says syrians are so worked up about politics that it's become difficult to make people smile but he found a way. i like dancing in the street and i like the reaction it produces in people i feel free this way yet even he can stay away from politics when i ask him about his biggest concern his sass syria should not dance just somebody else's tune. been held had we don't need any countries meddling in our fares. but.

while the prospect of believe be a style intervention seems everlast likely the militarized the position and their supporters a still asking for arms. and the national man they are all one from another and the presidents of other countries is that they support us and now cause we the rebels want to get armed. while the rebels may have caught 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. this is a position activist says he was detained and mistreated by the security services and while he is 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 refusing to do so 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 of the world sees that we are supporting. what we know for sure that some of the states are not supporting that and some are trying to play some sort of that. if that happens i mean and that's planned they're not succeed well that will be a very dark. the syrian people will suffer too much

and make me curious the country maybe a syria war no one knows what. let's leave the air 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 the solution to their current crisis should be worked out within the country even for the opposition they doubt though they know it's still better than the demons that now haunt neighboring countries. r.t. damascus syria. meantime america has expressed strong doubts the un back cease fire in syria will succeed political analyst christophe horst or thinks that outside players are supporting the syrian rebels to make sure the country stays in crisis be our. turn is doing targeted killings doing terrorist attacks and then are still in gauging and shootouts with personnel or

interfering in peaceful demonstrations so we had all kinds of activities in the past but this time it seems as though he's saying that this is exceeds services furnishing the mercenaries themselves we can save very clearly and there's ample proof that without the united states of america ference syria would not have been possible it is very clear that no the qatar saudi arabia or france will britain not turkey would be doing anything in syria without a very clear green light or goal from washington. now want to get the latest updates on the ongoing situation in syria just log on to our web site. some of the items are waiting for you there right now for example i reports say that shortly before his death the libyan leader moammar gadhafi. to put forward a fortune to fund an. election campaign this is something the president denies.

america's most advanced jet fighters have deployed west asia but how many. more. controversial talk show will be airing here. to watch the previous programs. it's good to have you with us today. has been rallying support after losing the first round of the presidential election this week to. the current leader is

reaching out to fall right voters ahead of the runoff on may sixth. promises to lower unemployment is considered to be the main reason he lives behind his socialist rival by around ten points he also focused his campaign. against illegal immigration. better than ever as it came third with almost eighteen percent of the vote i want to. explain why her policies now appeal to some many voters. we had to deal with some real problems of integration in france coming specially from muslim. immigrants of of muslim backgrounds but not only there were many many topics of socials problems adult monetary problems of what's going on in spain in greece we proposed it was very courageous for mind of ben they were proposed to have the euro as a common currency for big business is

a big exchanges but to have the french franc as an everyday life currency now they're serious years their own their their only solution this is not the solution we're thinking about we could have made billions of economies in other subjects voters have. really heard her message on several topics not only a bounce immigration insecurity but as well as social matters and on the future of europe which europe do want about monetary questions about the euro i don't international policy like what is going on in libya or in syria there are many topics in which she's been heard i guess you're watching the weekly here on r.t. now the eastern ukrainian city of than a proper troughs is slowly getting back to normal after its residents were left in a state of shock by a series of bomb explosions on friday thirty people were hurt ten of them children now while doctors are continuing to treat the injured the police have been sifting through c.c.t.v. footage of the blast sites with more analysis on this and they report as artie's

alexia scale. for some residents of you but a bit of skin ukraine of their regular crime joran he through the city was cut short because the police and i just got up from my chair when i heard the explosion but those were 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 niece trying to hold on to there was blood all over i got out sat down on a bench and like doubt it was a powerful blast the trousers i was wearing were all covered in holes i couldn't see if my legs were injured but this is all that 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 seriously

injured. it's mostly splinter injuries to the back chest to face i'd like to show you some of the splinters we extracted from the victims' bodies sadly one man had his arm ripped off in the 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 blasts public transport was suspended cell phone connection was down twitter was flooded with messages of not four but an explosion which proved to be mere speculation given a well coordinated nature of the blast authorities had no doubt this was a terrorist attack. the system only 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 abroad the attacks on people are still being investigated but they already have very serious implications we are only forty days away from the start of the euro twentieth well 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. r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine and r.t. is coming to life in the heart of moscow on the way for you in the program why cairo is iconic central square is still in a revolutionary mood but with a less than a month to go before egyptians vote for the next president protests and clashes

continue as people demand change we have the latest from cairo coming your way interest a few minutes. and we report on wife beares grow in europe the anti islamic ideology is on the rise especially with the trial now underway in norway mass killer. russian m.p. under lugovoy who the u.k. considers the main suspect in the killing of former f.s.b. officer. has now passed a lie detector test the evaluation was specially conducted by british experts to see he had nothing to do with the murder our london correspondent laura smith now looks into how it might change the inquiry into the killing. stephen did you do anything that led to the death of alexander litvinenko no. were you involved in alexandria listening cause death no. you have never had any dealings with borneo

no another step towards proving his innocence in a test administered by british experts andrey lugovoy passes the lie detector polygraph science says he didn't kill alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six when i give a result. in my mind the right result if i'm not i don't give a result it's inconclusive i want my guns one hundred percent and if it was admissible in court i would be very pleased a good thing called a skeptic might say that as a former security services agent look up voigt might have had training to cheat the test but alexander cut out the core a documentary maker whose idea it was for to undergo it thinks that's unlikely even every american police station has a polygraph test and if it was so easy to fall why security services would use it or to date as far as they're concerned the examiner as they say that this is the

ultimate way to determine if one is lying or telling the truth it might not sway british courts where lie detector tests on tax acted as standalone evidence the u.k. authorities are unlikely to make an exception in this case given the extraordinary lengths they've gone to to get their hands on look up or even asking russia to change its constitution to allow his extradition we would clear that while it was a reasonably big ask it was not unreasonable to say that they should change the constitution to make possible the sort of judicial corp foreign minister sergey lavrov gave his british counterpart short shrift a new government remains in russia but he knows there's nothing his country can do to persuade the british that they're accusing the wrong man. if i did the scene with the help of russian specialists that the british would have been suspicious about the results so why insist. that the test should be administered by british.

people who came to test me are members of the british polygraph associations and we will invite these experts as witnesses in any court proceedings i don't expect any serious change but for me it was the moment of truth i think this is just the latest step that andre lugovoy has taken to attempt to clear his name with the british authorities last november harris simpang chris coroner's court because wife marino won the rights to a new wiser ranging inquest into her husband's death said he welcomed the news and offered to give evidence by video link look of oil realizes this won't close the case but for him it's more evidence to suggest he's as innocent as he's always claimed norris made r.t. london. now dimitri many of their fears counting down the days until he packed his bags and moves out of the kremlin to make way of course for vladimir putin's return on may the seventh now along with his belongings he'll also be taking with him for

years of memories as head of state and the outgoing president has been reflecting on those thoughts so we're not going to score reports. we do have 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 are of course just the fact that some technological advancements are still in need also the fact that some families 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 the legislation needed to battle corruption for the first time in the face and year history of our control that we have says that there was the war between georgia and south the city in two thousand

and eight so almost immediately after he became russia's president there was also of course the economic crisis but also some things that meant that it is rather proud of russia's events been to do w t o for example and there reset off relations between russia and the united states force the and help last year was marred by the parliamentary elections and the consequences of protest a whole across the country with the biggest of them being in moscow and that was the subject of mosques discussion during it but it was a meeting with russia's journalists from five television channels. regarding people who protest first of all they have the right to be jealous thing here is that they can be a genuine protest and i will calculate a political opposition and let me see right away i'm not judging anyone on that matter still there is such a thing isn't hunger games if you've seen it i've seen it and those who do such things often pursue some obvious political gurus. on the subject that's called of

course do you really think is that you have said that he couldn't pardon the man because that was not asked to be freed but of course there were. those protests which we've just mentioned. by none other than the united states state department. something to say. the. different places regarding russia we shouldn't demonize american. political process in our country. when it came to international force could not possibly. be goings on in the middle east. the situation is unstable there radical forces are trying to grow 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 the. next prime minister

over. which is the largest party and the. president. is going to take place. reporting right there it is twenty minutes past the hour in moscow tensions are soaring in egypt a month before the presidential election and the latest round of violence protesters clashed with security forces in cairo with one person reportedly killed the military is accused of trying to cling on to power while barring several candidates from the presidential poll details 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 barack 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 says the revolution was a must and it's a great action but unfortunately after we had a lot of problems and the challenges we have to discuss and do have to reach a vision. not everyone was a positive one man asked the panel how they'd feel about the outcome if they'd been one of the young revolutionaries there's an awkward pause but he's not given a clear answer. on forces and the.

administration. of to. begin. in their lives in february. we or the protection of 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 who turned out to tahrir but now feel they've been left represented with a new struggle for power creating many of the regimes old guard who is a democracy is the. source of course is a common complaint. an equally common. but the revolutionary me which homes can last indefinitely i can't say. but we will expect to know. people again

a. different way more of a list and to understand. that it's this region. or shoutings it's. the kind of sort of political overestimate single thirty in underestimating people seeing regimes across the arab world full now of the announcement of the list of candidates attention turns to the policies they see might become the next president but they'll need to be careful not to allow power to drown out the voices of days who are determined that this time they'll be heard so. straight to nigeria which kick kicks off the r.t. was update for us now and an explosion and gunfire have rocked nigeria's northern city of kano killing at least fifteen of the blast took place in a university lecture theatre used by christian students for religious services at

this point nobody has claimed responsibility although in january the militant sect of boko haram out of bombing in the same city killing one hundred and fifty. al-qaeda has said it's freed seventy three soldiers captured by its militants in yemen during battles with government forces in the south of the country the troops were released to the city of jobs during a ceremony attended by the top leaders of the terror network in yemen the city has been held by al qaeda for a year now and militants have used the political instability in the country to take control of a number of key towns in the south. the british ministry of defense is considering placing surface to air missiles on residential buildings people in east london have received leaflets saying their rooftops could be used to house the weapons and this during the olympic games in the summer residents say they're concerned about the safety of the systems claiming it could become

a target for attack and would potentially. deadly if fired official stressed the missiles were going to be used in case of an extreme terror threat. now self-confessed mass murderer anders breivik has tried to convince judges this week that he was sane when he killed seventy seven last july the rightwing extremist wants his ideology to be taken seriously as fears grow his anti islamic views have taken root elsewhere in europe artie's i've been a talk to one farai british movement that some believe inspired brevik scum pain of terror. this is looted was considered the breeding ground of far right extremism in the u.k. so to a large muslim community but also home to the english defense league who are now considered one of the most dangerous groups of the global counter jihad movement it started as a gang of football hooligans and in just three years its ranks have swelled to more

than seventy thousand all united against what they call the threat of islam the same ideology inspired norwegian mass murderer anders behring breivik and now it's on the rise according to a report by a u.k. anti fascism group a worldwide counter jihad network has surged since predicts attacks with over one hundred far right groups in europe alone it names e.t.l. leader tommy robinson a key figure in that they just some far left organization again hate say things that when we express how we feel we're called far right extremist so you say you're not far on one the far right now i'm not for any right none of my views. for what islam is for islam these it is responsible for a thousand nine hundred terrorist attacks of september eleventh there were about one in one man frederick praised the deal in his manifesto calling them a blessing campaigners fear these views could inspire a similar attack in britain if the government doesn't crack down soon matthew

collins is a former far right fascist who's now switched sides we've being our government for two years specifically only so you must. you must view the deal as we do the radical islamic groups the problem is that they inspire people they organize people they fill people's head up with numbers and there are people in the deal who actually do think they are some kind of religious crusaders often extremist groups can be the trigger for somebody to do something something quite unpleasant quite nasty britain is considered a hotbed of far right extremism and sixteen auntie's many groups operating here the report classes the british freedom party is one of them its chairman paul weston was another cited by brevik highlighting a blog that claimed the west is fighting a european civil war against islam i'm not saying go out and commit violence and

the most astonishing thing about this for me is it is the whole breivik thing has been picked up picked up on by the media with no documentary evidence of any so-called right wing movements saying go out there and shoot whereas when the islam it is clear that you'll blog posts act as an inspiration to him amongst other several of these are these are simply that they may well be an inspiration to him but we cannot deal with that we cannot say nothing simply because there might be some lone psychopath somewhere in europe groups like the british freedom party and the e.t.l. still aren't considered far right or extremists by the or thora sees the two recently joined forces and planned to run in the next round of local elections don't worry for anti fascist campaign as is that they could attract support on the bennetts are tea leaves and. now it all tobacco we have with a recap of today's main headlines of course on the week's top stories with the

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