latest news and of the week in review on our t.v. rusher accuses syrian rebels of. bringing down the un brokered cease fire and this comes as a shipment of smuggled arms for the opposition is intercepted by lebanese. nicolas sarkozy is chasing the vote of the far right after losing the first round of the french presidential ballot to francois hollande with immigration and the euro among

the main rally. more than twenty people are still being treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of. after a series of bombs exploded there on friday leaving thirty injured. not guilty british lie detector experts say the u.k.'s main suspect a russian he was not involved in the murder of former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago. for the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly with me roll research. as the violence in syria continues unabated neighboring lebanon has seized a shipment of smuggled weapons destined for syrian rebels the cash apparently came

from libya which is backing the opponents of president assad this all 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 at least nine people in the capital russia says the opposition is seeking to scuttle the u.n. brokered cease fire as the world body steps up its observer mission to syria. now the syrian conflict balancing on the. brink of civil war is also costing the country's economy dearly alleged terrorists are destroying industrial sites under the pretext of fighting against president assad two socks on a boy who has more from the syrian city of aleppo. 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 interpret 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 north bratz 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 for the rest of the evening he just watched his entire fortune go up in flames. so much pride in textile machines they've bought from spain three years ago had to be sold for scrap lost in place lost their only source of income and i do think it was a personal attack against me to 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. 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 chamber 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. robbing robberies of drugs getting the raw 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 al 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 they tell them 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 to the racketeers to keep their business afloat the owner of the textile factory had to fire a piece of 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 different cars at 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 of 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 and wreck it tears . some boycott art see. syria. now to work out the latest updates on the ongoing situation in syria just log on to our website at www dot com i hear some of the items are waiting for you there right now just a click away say shortly before his death the libyan leader. agreed to put forward a fifty million fortune to fund these election campaign naturally it's something the french president strongly denies. and america's most

advanced jet fighters are deployed to southwest asia but how many and for what reason those details of. the next edition of. controversial talk show soon to be airing on r t that will be choose day in fact i want you waiting you can log onto our website and watch the previous programs in full. by from moscow this is arts he. has been rallying support after losing the first round of the presidential election this week to francois hollande the current leader is reaching out so far right voters ahead of the may sixth runoff standing

by his pledge to cut immigration. now explores the issues dividing french society. they say it's better to travel. but for european unity the ride has been bumpy to say the least. and where could it be headed and know what the euro is and will implode it a considerable number of economists admit as well the french of four and that the eurozone is already dead it will collapse that it should be all over. 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 as the main solution as she has identified in her campaign the fact that it's actually the course of the problems much of the french press the talks are 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 is 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 end there amnesty international's recent report documents examples of prejudice in the block against muslims in education and employment ideas that were once very much on the fringe of the through a political spectrum on no being really mainstream in the right certainly able to

sort of sort of say when the left would come and see the people more racist certainly not but there has been some sort of. a wider or fortunately for people to express their hate and to indulge into violent behavior so where does that leave europe even the people who are against this kind of europe another against the euro in an idea say they want a different kind of europe the e.u. may be trying to say in the past it's to achieve its vision and version of the obstacles are getting bigger from voters rallying behind brussels candidates to oppose also putting back border controls and 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 tell us are still the r t brussels. r.t. is coming to you live from moscow it's good to have you with us today the eastern ukrainian city of inappropriate slowly getting back to normal after its residents

were left in a state of shock by a series of bomb explosions on friday thirty of them ten of the injured were children now while doctors are continuing to treat the injured police have begun sifting through c.c.t.v. footage of the blast sites with this report now it's a. scam. for some residents of new bit of skin ukraine their regular tri majority through the city was cut short because of the last one 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. beach i was selling tickets when it came out of nowhere i grabbed my knees trying to hold on 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 it's not like it's a horror 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 or freeze 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 cellphone connection was down twitter was flooded with messages of not four but explosions 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 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 this case ukraine is not known to have any terrorist organizations operating on its soil and all of those in the past would treat it as an act 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 bro. the attacks 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. reporting from kiev in ukraine you're watching the weekly here

on r.t. still to come on the program why cairo's iconic central square is still in a revolutionary mood with less than a month to go before egyptians vote for the next president protests and clashes continue as people demand change and we have the latest from cairo coming your way shortly. and waging war on the web millions are outraged by a new cyber security bill which would let the u.s. government obtain your private browsing data from internet companies. russian m.p. look avoid who the u.k. considers the main suspect in the killing of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko has now passed a lie detector test evaluation that was specially conducted by british experts to see if he had anything to do with the lugovoy questions relating to live an enclosed death from polonium poisoning six years ago however the polygraph test is

unlikely to be decisive in resolving the case as british courts won't accept it as a stand alone evidence journalist kenneth mctaggart spoke to under a look of all in an interview that failed to materialize and today's sunday times people leave the story is being largely ignored by the u.k. media. the newspaper was very interested in the article right up until close of play late in the evening of friday. except of the article and i haven't heard anything since it's not appealing today's newspaper i have held some rumors that was the subject of the de suppression noticed on national security grounds but i'm not really certain on that matter but no i still await an explanation something of a polygraph or lie detection is is currently a big story in one of the sunday papers today in regard to a criminal case. and it's very odd that this technique which which is very newsworthy i believe and shows some very interesting results has not been the

subject of public attention i would've expected it to have interestingly when i spoke. about his reactions to the test this was very typical of all of your average trash receiving the test he walks in confidence to study consing of his innocence but when he's confronted by the equipment and by the expert he suddenly feels now reversed as do most of the people who've taken this test about the about the quality of the equipment about the professionalism of the individuals the confidence is immediately deflated and then of course he didn't sign the very positive answer so his reaction was it was not. half so. a trained deceiver that was actually typical of people in the people who have taken his test before that in itself doesn't prove anything but it is a significant part of his reaction to the test this is r.t. in our dmitri medvedev is counting down the days until he packed his bags and moved out of the kremlin to make way of course with lot of putin's return this will be happening on may the seventh along with his belongings he'll also be taking with

him four years of memories as head of state and the outgoing president has been reflecting on those thoughts there were no 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 a needed 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 and 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 we says that there was the war between georgia and south the city 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 it is rather proud of russia's events but to do w t o for example and the reset off relations between russia and the united states force the and last year was marred by the parliamentary elections and the consequences protests are 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 russian as a journalist from five television channels. regarding people who protest first of all they have the right to but the other thing here is that they can be a genuine protest and i will calculated political opposition and let me see right away i'm not judging anyone on the monitor 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 q we could be very upset that he couldn't pardon the man because that was not asked to be freed then of course there were. those protests which we've just mentioned were financed by none other than the united states the state department. also had something to say. washington can reach different places regarding russia we shouldn't demonize american. influence some serious political process in our country. when it came to international issues and forced me to could not possibly step by the goings on in the middle east. of course the situation is unstable there radical forces are trying to grasp power in a whole number of countries and if they do working with the move came a lot harder. to both are american and european partners and the transfer of power to extremists should be the purpose of any transformation is going to be russia's

next prime minister take over the post. party which is the largest party in the country. and becomes the president of course. is going to take place seven. parties are in a reporting. tensions soaring in egypt it's less than a month before the presidential election and the latest round of islamic protesters clashed with security forces in cairo at least one person reportedly killed protesters and the ruling military council to surrender power which it's been wielding since the ousting of president mubarak on sunday the egyptian parliament suspended its session in protest against the military appointed government the generals are accused of trying to cling on to power while barring several leading candidates from the presidential poll this week in cairo terminated also

a deal to supply gas to israel journalist says the move threatens peace. this is very serious indeed and we could be with. if things go one way or another the beginnings of what could well be a war in the middle east against zionism like we haven't seen for decades the finance minister of israel and it's a dangerous precedent that overshadows the peace agreements an atmosphere of peace between israel and egypt that kind of language really that since the camp david accords all before we know that the israelis rely on gas for forty percent of their electricity well of course we're not really hearing the name washington in all these stories they must be desperately trying to persuade the supremes council or whatever it calls itself in cairo as it struggles to maintain some kind of unity post mubarak because two sides of the gyptian regime seem to be saying different

things one side was saying yes this is an act of solidarity and suddenly we're now hearing it's all a commercial dispute that one thing's for certain right around the arab world will be cheering this on and washington is it behind the scenes tries to keep the gas deal open it just shows how completely disabled the u.s. state department is the obama administration is after one foreign one failure after another in terms of the so-called arab spring this is very important. you're watching the weekly on r.t. the arctic and its vast energy reserves are a key focus for china as it's been looking to gain a city check foothold in the region the country's prime minister has toured europe stopping in iceland and then sweden wish chairs the arctic council beijing the world's largest energy consumer is seeking to become a permanent observer in something that stockholm supports investment expert francis learn says well not all arctic nations are keen to have beijing on board it's

unavoidable reality. in the key question where did the nordic six explosions. give china. fighting for resources in the arctic ocean. never you find the tough because the arctic powers like. you. norway. we are not one to people would other countries expression a strong china china is now china is really in a big petro the arctic ocean as of now but. that will stop china's premier in trying to exercise some diplomatic even to the arctic ocean because china now is the second largest economy and it has a stake in just about every economic issue for europe. growing.

year. china outpace europe economical east soon or later maybe sooner and i think the global community. in accepting the emergence of china economic superpower and accept work with china rather than outpost china. internet users are bracing themselves for more protests over the new controversial cyber security act cold that ultimately threatens online privacy and the bill was passed in the u.s. house of representatives son is now waiting for either a green light or a veto by president obama if approved it will permit a u.s. based internet companies to legally share private user data and joel personal browsing history with the american government dr richard stallman the president of

the free software foundation believes the law would give the author of he's way too much power. if you store any data in a u.s. company that company with few exceptions is legally required to hand that data over to the u.s. government without even a search warrant so i think both individuals and governments should take precautions to make sure that their citizens data is not being handed over to u.s. companies or their foreign subsidiaries which are subject to that same hypocritically named quote unquote act governments are far more powerful than people acting on their own underground clandestinely or as criminals or whatever and so we must protect ourselves from abuse of government power first of all and secondarily of course there are other people who might do us harm and the

government could conceivably help protect us from them but that's a secondary so governments that don't respect human rights those are the most important threat we must constantly protect ourselves from cyber security is not a valid goal but of course it doesn't justify doing terrible harm just because you're doing it in the name of a valid goal. straight into the arctic we go the world update starting with nigeria and an explosion of gunfire have rocked the northern city of killing at least fifteen the blast took place in a university lecture theatre used by christian students for religious services and nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack though it was in january that the militants. carried out a bombing in the same city killing one hundred fifty. al-qaeda has said it's freed a seventy three soldiers captured by its militants in yemen during battles with

government forces in the south of the troops were released in the city of jar during a ceremony attended by the top leaders of the terror network in yemen the city has been held by al-qaeda militants now for at least one year forces have used the political instability in the country to take control of a number of 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 howls the weapons during the olympic games this summer residents say they're concerned about the safety of the system claiming it could become a target for attack all would potentially shower deadly dead if used officials stress the missiles would only be used in case of an extreme terror threat. or i shall be back with a recap of today's headlines on the week's top stories in just

a moment i hope you can stay with us. but did i kill innocent kids i was a base of course and that's never absent. mom a song from the school still with me i think of it every day. i steal the

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