the latest news and at the weekend review on r t russia accuses syrian rebels of fighting on to bring down the un brokered cease fire the shipment of smuggled arms for the opposition is intercepted by. 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 calls. more than twenty people are still being treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of the net profit trough scoffed or a series of bombs exploded there on friday injuring thirty. plus not guilty british lie detector experts say the u.k.'s main suspect a russian m.p.

i was not involved in the murder of former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago. the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly with me role research live in moscow as the violence in syria continues unabated neighboring lebanon has seized a shipment of smuggled weapons destined for syrian rebels the sea bound cash apparently came from libya which is backing the opponents of president assad now 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 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 of its observer mission to syria rebel leaders are calling for foreign intervention which some people on the ground refuse to accept as. reports from damascus. 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 says 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 yet even he can't stay away from politics when i ask him about his biggest concern he says syria should not dance just somebody else's tune. we don't need any countries meddling in our affairs. while the prospect of the libya style

intervention seems ever less likely the militarized the position and their supporters are still asking for arms. and the. man they are all move on from and the president of other countries is that they support us and now cause we the rebels want to get armed. while the rebels may have card all the media attention this 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 this a position activists as 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. when i came abdul

aziz is not afraid to go public refusing 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 to mediate in the syria crisis are really how being you know all the world sees that we are supporting. well we know for sure that some of the states are not supporting that and some are trying to close some support there. if that happens i mean and then supplant the not succeeded or it will be a very dark. the syrian people will suffer too much there may be curious country maybe

a civil war no one knows what. with leiby and iraq just across the border imported democracies are not held in high regard here even among the opposition while syrians 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 the delgo they know is still better than the demons that now hong neighboring countries can avoid artsy damascus syria to get the very latest updates on the situation in syria just log on to our website all to you dog call but here are some of the other items are waiting for you there right now for example america's most advanced jet fighters deployed to south west asia but how many and for what reason more on that at all to dot com. now the next edition of julian assange controversial talk show to be airing here on our own choose day i want you waking you can log on to our website to watch the previous programs in

full. it's good to have you with us here in our to you today nicholas sarkozy has been a rallying support after losing the first round of the presidential election this week to a front end of the current leader is reaching out to a far right vote was ahead of the may sixth runoff psychoses failure to meet promises to lower unemployment is considered to be the main reason he likes behind his socialist rival by around ten points in the polls he also focused his campaign around tougher laws against a vehicle immigration the national front of marine le pen's did better than ever as

it came third with almost eighteen percent of the vote let's get some more reaction now from the french election i'm now joined by a most eager and independent journalist working in paris so good to see you thank you for coming on r.t. today obviously the main problem is that of the economy and unemployment can either suck cosy or remain wedded to the euro idea and solve these issues that are specifically about france. i don't think so. mr sarkozy is invested in the european central bank and the euro in the european union his. economic strategy and that of global management and said exists in europe would be. the the phony economy falls from overspending mismanaged natural terrorism. mr cozy will direct his government and the nation to seek loans from the european central bank it probably wouldn't interest prices he doesn't see

another way around that mr alone the socialist party has a history of launching mastery of launching the american union they will find themselves with their pants down if they reject it outright and neither one of the two major parties has a viable solution for the economic mismanagement of their economy as you say neither of the of the two candidates all the incumbent president. they can solve the whole ongoing euro crisis but let's talk about one of the one of the other side say we know sarkozy is is now trying to bring in the far right his anti immigration policies he's trying to ramp up the rhetoric that is it possible is it possible that he could get these votes to help him cling on to power all. most certainly you'll get some of the vote the right now the voters are loyal identifiers let's

hear now not all of them are neo fascists the core of them are in the old fascist almost all of them are observing a photo ops once again blame it on the brown guy however a lot of people have drifted to marine le pen in a form that says no are there because they don't seem to have any other voice to speak out on the issues that the conservatives or the liberals dare not speak out or. given the status quo is bankrupt with economic and political management the left wing in the right wing are addressing issues that people are talking about in the metros in the corner shops so indeed mr sarkozy will get. a substantial amount of the. vote and he's trying to get a bigger amount because he's catering to fear fear and zina phobia which always plays well as you say good for you theory layer incentive to interrupt you but many say when it came to george w. bush and his election and his reelection he was using the whole nine eleven terror

attacks to again create create fear and xenophobia to get him back into the office be a if if i may i apologize for interrupting you here we are running low on time i can i can i just bring it to another issue here recent claims by the full i.m.f. chairman dominique strauss kahn that the allegations put forward against him last year well orchestrated by cozy true and why is this claim coming out. well because one there's a lot of people in good places who understand that this does not seem to be right the way he was arrested at that time me and many others believe hughes arrested because he was he had already announced that if you were reelected he was going to stop raping africa so severely with i.m.f. policies and the guard said oh no no no no we're not ready to give africa a break we're making too much money on our lending practices and economic management in africa he shook a major pillar of global economic management and he had to go all right so.

what you're saying here but what you've just said it's going to have the conspiracy theorists pouncing all over us for that but we accept it here at all it's a fortnight before i let you go before i let you go acted he wanted to know not just a moment i wish we had more time for this but there is one issue i do want to get you here we're not seeing and finally there have been claims made. by holland. took fifty million euros from the then leader libyan leader colonel gadhafi to fund his presidential campaign five years ago any truth to that do you think are we talking talking dirty politics here. i think there's probably a germ of truth to it i mean it's the fed now to take money from virtually anybody who will give you a the large and i'll sum of money for it for your electoral interests in return for favoritism toward them i mean the koch brothers in america you know rupert murdoch

in the u.k. . giving money to for cozy these folks take money wherever they can get it so long as the sum is large enough to keep them in office space rental at the palace or at ten downing street or the white house who's running the elections why don't we get to the deeper issue financier's are now running the major outcomes and positioning of elections in the twenty first century western world. most eager independent journalist joining us live from paris thank you for coming on today ok. we're coming to you live from moscow it's good to have your company the east and you a ukrainian a city of been a perpetrator 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 ten of them children now while doctors are continuing to treat the injured police have become sifting

through c.c.t.v. footage of the blast sites with this report now it's artie's alexi. for some residents of new but a bit off skin ukraine their regular tribe majority through the city was cut short because. it just got so much exposure. but those were smashed the windows shattered remember that 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 there was blood all over i got out sat down on a bench and blacked out 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 of previously unseen in ukraine's third largest city for homemade explosive devices hidden in trash cans detonated one after another tram stops even

doctors admitted there were startled to see so many severely injured. it's mostly split into injuries to the back chest or 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 explosions which proved to be mere speculation given the well coordinated nature of the blast authorities had no doubts this was a terrorist attack. is that it's another challenge for us for zero country so we're going to think of a proper response to it. well we'll 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 blast 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 twenty two 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. to let's see russia ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine and the r.t. is coming to life from moscow it's good to have your company or still to come on the program why cairo is like central square still in

a revolutionary but with less of 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 up. plus find out why indian companies are weighing in on the u.s. economic crisis by employing more americans. russian m.p. looking for who the u.k. considers the main suspect in the killing of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko has passed a lie detector test the evaluation was specially conducted by british experts to see if he had nothing to do with the murder how long the correspondent laura smith 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 had been in cause death you know. have you ever 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 give a result. more and more and the right result before not i don't give a result it's inconclusive i would 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 corrupt core a documentary maker whose idea it was palooka 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 examiners 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 tech separated 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 voigt even asking russia to change its constitution to allow his extradition to we were 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 and leucovorin remains in russia but he knows there's nothing he. this 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 at the british would have been suspicious about the results so i

insisted that the test should be administered by british experts people who came to test me or members of the british polygraph association 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 wise arranging inquest into her husband's death hugo voice said he well couldn't the news and offered to give evidence by video link look of void 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 london. it's a right turn and twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow tensions soaring in egypt are less than a month before the presidential election and the latest round of violence islamic

protesters clashed with security forces in cairo with one killed dozens wounded the military is accused of trying to cling on to power while barring several candidates from the presidential poll in cairo with the latest is south. protests nation after the revolution toppled president barack gyptian siv continue to use people power as a way to force change the sights the sounds of protestors on cairo's tahrir square have become a familiar one more than a guess and president barrack 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 paced 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 have a lot of problems and the challenges we have for the stairs and do we have to reach a vision for. the 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 pool's but he's not given a clear answer. on forces and the. administration . of to. live in february. eleventh. is a protection food revolution. we will give the people what they 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 which is a democracy is the. source of course is a common complaint. an equally common answer. but the revolutionary me to it tolls can last indefinitely i can't see. but we will expect you know we've the. people against. the should have a different more realistic to understand. that is this region it's slogans show things it's the economy the culture and the political overestimating of thirteen underestimating people has seen regimes across the arab world pull 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 into the artsy world of that now with pakistan starting it all off a us drone attack is killed four suspected militants in pakistan's tribal region near the afghan border it is the first american drone strike since islamabad demanded a complete halt of the controversial program highly unpopular and pakistan relations between the countries were marred on november the twenty sixth when a cross border attack by a nato aircraft killed twenty four pakistani troops the us military has intensified the attacks in the past three years all as part of its counter terrorism it's. an explosion and gunfire rocked nigeria's 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 claimed responsibility for the attack though in january the militant sect. carried out a bombing in the same city killing one hundred and fifty. has said it has freed seventy three soldiers captured by its militants in yemen this is during battles with government forces in the south of the country the troops who were released in the city of joy during a ceremony attended by the top leaders of the terror network in yemen but 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 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 during the olympic games this summer residents say they are concerned about the safety of

the system claiming it could become a target for attack over potentially showered deadly deborah if fired fishel stressed the missiles would only be used in case of an extreme terror threat. now as the u.s. struggles to avoid a double dip recession emerging economies are racing to take advantage of the american market indian companies are now expanding their workforce is in the u.s. where unemployment is on the rise in india with more preassure. infosys is india's second largest i.t. company and has been a pioneer of outsourcing using highly skilled indian staff on low wages working for western clients but with recession in the west the boots on the other foot infosys is now one of several top indian firms recruiting in the u.s. with over twelve million jobless many in america are willing to work for less pay

the u.s. is also providing tax breaks to indian firms keen to woo those offering much needed jobs there is of course a political pressure because of the high i'm number armond in the u.s. to do and it's companies to gain is one of the reasons why we had according there there are incentives for companies to set up operations in the u.s. most states and businesses to come while infosys predicts a quarter of its staff will come from outside india in a decade another tech firm ages already has five thousand american workers and plans to hire ten thousand more in the next three years. who are. far from that along. with indian

companies winning more work in the u.s. using local staff also makes good business sense one of the biggest reasons indian companies are expanding their workforce is in the united states is they're making a lot of money there and folks this is generating sixty five percent of its revenue in north america and indeed outsourcing companies as a whole are generating fifty percent of their revenue there or thirty billion dollars indian i.t. firms are increasing their global operations at a record pace coming from one of the fastest growing economies in the world but the domestic boom. has driven wages higher in india further making recruitment in the west more attractive to some companies while washington has repeatedly spoken out against offshoring of american jobs it looks like the east might just be bailing it out from its jobless crisis preassure either r.t. bangalore india or in just a few moments here and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories hope to see.

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