to make this news of the week in review rush or accuses syrian rebels of fighting on to bring down the un brokered cease fire as a shipment of smuggled arms for the opposition is intercepted by lebanon. because he is chasing the votes of the far right after losing the first round of the french presidential ballots. with integration and the euro among the main rally calls. more than twenty people are still being treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of the new pope across after a series of bombs exploded there on friday leaving thirty injured. plus not guilty british blooded tech to experts say the u.k.'s main suspect

a russian m.p. wasn't involved in the murder of the former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago. with a note back at the past seven days top stories on the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. as the violence in syria continues unabated neighboring lebanon has seized a shipment of smuggled weapons destined for syrian rebels the sea bounty cash apparently came from libya which is backing the opponents of president assad 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. . and brokered ceasefire as the world body steps up its observer mission to syria

franklin land be director of the n.g.o.s americans concern for middle east peace thinks the latest on smuggling effort was an attempt at regime change. great suspicion is that these are arms that were leftover from libya the craft was loaded their worst would be fifteen containers but it turned out there were already in fact three that were filled with one hundred fifty tons of weapons the americans almost surely knew about it nato nato did the israelis didn't touch that ship this time not this ship it seems very clear that with all the differences and we could name twenty or more between the situation in libya and the situation in syria the fundamental pillar i read a shame change is identical to this ship clearly headed for the so-called free syrian army has other shipments of have have come from lebanon into syria

design is regime change and now it's done one believes the overwhelming evidence in support of that regime change so who's got time answer now is washington and certainly brussels with nato of the world what they know about about that ship if we follow where the facts lead in the coming days i think there's going to be a remarkable. result in investigation of exactly what's going on. the political leaders of the syrian opposition have been calling for foreign military intervention but that's something many people on the ground refuse to accept the boy to reports now 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's thousand

syrians are so worked up about politics has become difficult to make people smile but he found the way. i like dancing in the street and i like their reaction it was . remiss way yet even if he can stay away from politics when i ask him about his biggest concern is that syria should not dance to somebody else's. head we don't need any countries meddling in our affairs. while the prospect of believe the us dollar intervention seems everlast likely to militarize the position and their supporters are still asking for arms. monday and all we want from a nun and the president of other countries is that they support us and now 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 activists 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 i. kim abdul aziz is not every right to go public refusing to do so he just returned back from moscow where the opposition delegation tried to persuade the russians of the regions to put more pressure on their side regime he says not all powers mediating the syria crisis are really how to being you know all the world now sees that we are supporting a. well we know for sure that some of the states are not

supporting that and some are trying to close some support there and if that happens i mean and then supplant the not succeeded or that will be a very dark era the syrian people will suffer too much there may be curious in the 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 it won for the opposition the devil they know is still better than the demons that now hong neighboring countries. artsy damascus syria. well to get the

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nicolas sarkozy has been rallying support after losing the first round of the presidential election this week to forswear all and the current leader is reaching out to far right voters ahead of the may the sixth runoff sarkozy's failure to meet promises to lower unemployment is considered to be the main reason he legs behind his socialist rival by around ten points in the polls he also focuses campaign around tougher laws against illegal immigration and the national front of really pens did better than ever as it came third with almost eighteen percent of the vote john locke like these from the institute for democracy and cooperation explains why her policies appealed to so many voters there. whereas all the other candidates without exception regard the european union as part of the solution or as the main solution you know they say things like europe will protect us or whatever. she has identified in her campaign the fact that it's actually the cause of the problems

she has said that the solution can only come from national politics from national responses to these to the great issues of the day and not from international ones and that's why i think her victory is so interesting because what it represents is the sort of rebirth. reappearance on the french political scene in strength of what we used to call a go list movement it's a sovereignty based movement that wants france to act as a nation state and not just as a region of a supernatural entity. the eastern ukrainian city of the appropriateness of skin is only 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 while doctors are continuing to treat the injured police are sifting through c.c.t.v. footage of the blast sites. reports. for some residents of new but a bit of skin ukraine their regular try majority through the city was cut short

because of the cliff and i just got up from my chair when i heard the explosion of the doors was smashed the windows she answered 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 but you 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 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 face i'd like to show

you some of the splinters be 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 a well coordinated nature of the blast authorities had no doubt this was a terrorist attack. this is the 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 a 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 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 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. you're watching the weekly here and we're with the twenty four hours a day on the way this is why co-wrote iconic central square is still in the revolutionary mood. less than a month to go before egyptians vote for their next president protests and clashes continue as people demand change we've got the latest from caro coming up. reporter

why fears grow in europe that islamic ideology is on the rise especially with the trial now underway in norway mass killer anders breivik. so those stories still to come of first russian m.p. on the lookout boy who the u.k. considers the main suspect in the killing of the former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko passed a lie detector test earlier this week the evaluation was specially conducted by british experts to see if he had anything to do with the murder london 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 but were you involved in alexandria listening cause death you know. you have never had any dealings with borneo no another step towards proving his innocence in a test administered by british experts andrei lugovoy passes the lie detector

polygraph science says he didn't kill alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six give a result. in my mind the right result if or not i don't give a result it's inconclusive i would buy my guns one hundred percent and if it was admissible in court i would be very pleased to go about producing called a skeptic might say that as a former security services agent look up void might have had training to cheat the test but alexander cut up the 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 are concerned they examine 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 tech sector does stand alone 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 there 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 he's. country could 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 i insisted that the test should be administered by british. people who came to task we are members of the british polygraph associations with us and we will invite these experts as witnesses in any court proceeding i don't

expect any serious change but for me it was the moment of truth that i did it this this is just the latest step that andrei lugovoy has taken to attempt to clear his name with the british authorities last november harrison pancras coroner's court because wife marino won the rights to a new wider 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 may r.t. london. to me to move any of his counting down the days until he packed his bags and moves out of the kremlin to make way for the to meet putin's return 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 ongoing president has been reflecting on those thoughts in english 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 was of course just the fact that the technological advancements are still in need also the fact that some of them of these are still living outside or below the poverty line and of course he also spoke at length about corruption. we have declared war on corruption we have identified our enemy and we will not budge in the last four years we created legislation needed to battle corruption for the first time in the thousand year history of our country 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 it too w t o for example and there reset off relations between russia

and the united states force the and 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 boss 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 but the 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 that matter still that 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 of these political gurus. on the subject that's kind of course you may think is that you have said that he couldn't pardon the man because it's a lot to ask to be freed but of course there were. also issues it was some were saying

that those protests which we've just mentioned were financed by none other than the united states the state department to that makes me have also had something to say . to them washington's hands can reach different places regarding russia we shouldn't demonize americans where they can influence some serious political process in our country. when it came to international issues of forced me to meet various could not possibly step by the goings on in the middle east because it's 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 and i told this to everyone to both or american and european partners i said the transfer of power to extremists shouldn't be the purpose of any transformation he is going to be russia's next prime minister and take over the post of the chairman of the united russia party which is the largest party and the country after which it becomes the president of course but your presence migration

is going to take place on me seven. tensions are soaring in egypt less than a month before the presidential election the latest round of violence islamic protesters clashed with security forces in cairo with one person killed and dozens wounded protestors what the ruling military council to surrender power which it's been wielding since the president mubarak egyptian parliament has suspended its sessions for a week 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 one of them was reinstated after an appeal despite being a former barak official middle east blogger kohl shero thinks the military is trying to strangle the revolution. interpretation in egypt at the moment is that this is the military's push to maintain a credible candidate credible that there's from their point of view someone that could take votes away from the islamist candidates and other candidates simply

allow them to control the transition for the transition into egypt and maintain their military is going to or it's all about become because of this rushed nature and this extreme disqualifications it's going to be into second choices and perhaps their choices and i don't think that at all represents the egyptian when they started this uprising and that aspiration for a more democratic egypt this would be for about their say the next six months or two whatever would be a period people will see who the president will be but ultimately this will not be an end to the process there's a lot of. hope that i've been. through this process and the liberal parties and the secular parties and the leftist forces in egypt are not going to put up with it. now to some other world news in brief in this world update for 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 islam about demanded the complete halt

of the controversial program highly unpopular in pakistan relations between the countries were model november the twenty sixth when a cross border attacks by nato aircraft killed twenty four pakistani troops the us military has intensified the attacks in the past three years as part of its counterterrorism efforts. the sudanese president omar hassan al bashir has declared a state of emergency in three areas bordering sell sudan the motion followed a month of border clashes with the south which separated last july after decades long civil war that killed over one and a half million people here is wanted by the international criminal court for alleged crimes against humanity war crimes and genocide in the darfur region. an explosion and gunfire right. nigeria's northern city of killing at least sixteen the blast took place in the university lecture theatre used by christian students for religious services they would is it claimed responsibility for the attack in january the militant sect carried out

a bombing in the same city killing one hundred fifty people. 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're concerned about the safety of the systems it could become a target for attack all would show potentially deadly they fired official stress the missiles would only be used in case of an extreme terror threat. self-confessed mass murderer and as brave it has tried to convince judges this week that he was sane when he killed seventy seven people last july the right wing extremist wants his ideology to be taken seriously as fears grow his islamic views of taken root elsewhere in europe or his other bennett talk to a far right british movement that some believe inspired 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 and also 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 just three years its ranks have swelled to more than seventy thousand. 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 right one for right now i'm not for any right none of my views. follow

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 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 for separately on the 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 nonsense 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 with sixteen anti islamic groups operating here the

report classes the british freedom party is one of the 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. when the islam is it's 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 but we cannot do you know 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 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 campaigners is that they could attract support on the bennetts r.t. luton. a little later here in r.t. waging a war on the where millions are outraged over a new cybersecurity bill which could let the us government obtain muse's private browsing history from internet companies it's now up to president obama whether to give the controversial law the green light that report is coming your way in the next. but i'll tell you. what i'll be back with a recap of today's headlines on this week's top stories after a very short break it is the weekly live here in moscow stay with us.

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