the latest news on the week in review russia syrian rebels of. bring down the u.n. brokered cease fire as a shipment of smuggled arms for the opposition is intercepted. nicolas sarkozy is chasing the boat of the far right after losing the first round of the french presidential palace. with immigration and the euro among the main rally calls. all the people are still being treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of the nipple patrols after a series of bombs exploded there on friday leaving thirty injured. plus not guilty british lie detector experts say the u.k.'s main suspect a russian m.p. wasn't involved in the murder of former security officer alexander litvinenko in

london six years ago. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. 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 comes as the rebels step up their assault on government forces saturday for 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 un brokered cease fire as the world body steps up its observer mission to syria frank director of the ngo americans concern for

middle east peace the latest smuggling effort was an attempt at regime change. great suspicion is that these are arms or were leftover from libya the craft was loaded the 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 know about it nato military 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 really change is identical to this ship clearly headed for the so-called free syrian army as other shipments of have come from lebanon into syria the design is regime change and that was done one believes the overwhelming evidence in support of that regime change so whose contact 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 as artie's accel of boyko 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 says syrians are so worked up about politics it has become difficulty make people smile but he found the way. i like dancing in the street and i like the

reaction it was easy to read this way. yes even he can stay away from politics when i ask him about his biggest concern is to ask syria should not dance just somebody else's tune. we don't need any countries meddling in our food. while the prospect of believe be a style intervention seems ever less likely the militarized the position and their supporters are still asking for arms. over one from another and the presidents of other countries is that they support us and now we the rebels want to get armed. while the rebels may have caused 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 like him abdul aziz is not afraid to go public refusing 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 the world. that we are supporting and that's. what we know for sure that some. of the states but supporting that and some are trying to close some support that. if that

comes. and that's not succeeded. that would be a very dark. people for too much. of 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 even for the opposition the devil they know is still better than the demons that now honk neighboring countries in the boycott artsy damascus syria to get the latest updates on the situation in syria log on to our website it is all too you

don't come online all the time so here's some of what else is waiting for you that right now. america's most advanced jet fighters of the ploy to southwest asia but how many. more north you don't call. the next edition of julian assange just controversial interview show will be airing here on tuesday while you're waiting or going to a web site to watch the previous programs in full. because because he has been running support after losing the first round of the presidential election this week to foster or learned the car nader is reaching out to far right voters ahead of the may the sixth runoff sarkozy's failure to meet

promises to lower unemployment is thought to be the main reason lags behind his socialist rival he also focus his campaign around tougher laws against illegal immigration the independent national front did better than ever as it came with almost eighteen percent of the vote french journalist says that causey will have to work hard to attract these far right voters in the second round. i think the reason one of the reasons why a. high score which is the highest of party ever is partly because of rejection of nicolas sarkozy so this rejection those people who voted for that reason that would have to be overcome in the coming two weeks if he wants to sway them it's probably all that he will carry on as he has in the last few weeks trying to send messages more strongly on the issues of. security and immigration and will not like this kind of talk so it's really

a tricky game to play for sarkozy to be able to get his speech just right to sway the people he needs i still think. should win it but the programs especially on economic matters. very close there was very little to tell them apart so from what we've heard and read about from these candidates it's very hard to tell which one could make a difference frankly speaking. both programs look very dangerous and looks like increasing the risk of serious economic trouble for france. the eastern ukrainian city and inappropriate traffic 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 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 artie's alexy has more. for some residents of new but

a bit of skin ukraine their regular try majority through the city was cut short because of the earth and it just got up from my chair when i heard the explosion of the doors was smashed the windows shattered all i remember when i got up there was smoke and dust everywhere and women were crying. i was selling tickets when it came out of nowhere i grabbed my knees trying to hold on but you know 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 the soldiers it's a horror of previously unseen in ukraine's third largest city for homemade explosive devices hidden in trash cans detonated one after another a tram stops even doctors admitted they were startled to see so many seriously injured. it's mostly splinter injuries to the back chest or face i'd like to show

you some of the splinters of 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 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 a brokered the attacks on people who are still being investigated but they already have very serious implications we are only forty days away from the start of the euro twenty 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. r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. this is the weekly here in r.t. on the way this caro's iconic central square is still in a revolutionary mood this month to go before your passions vote for the next president protesting clashes continue as people demand change we've the latest from caro coming up. plus find out why indian companies are weighing in on the u.s.

economic crisis by employing more americans. all that still to come for you but first the russian and a look of 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 and 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 litvinenko his death you know. the shock and 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. in my mind the right result if i'm not i don't give a result it's inconclusive why would 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 voigt 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 the security services would use it or to dates 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 tax 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 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 their 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. we 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 i insisted that the tests should be administered by british. people who came to test me on 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 i think at 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 made r.t. london. to me to prevent him is counting down the days until he packed his bags and moves out of the kremlin to make way for vladimir putin's return on may the seventh along with his belongings he'll be also taking with him four years of memories as head of state and the outgoing president has been reflecting on those thoughts is going to glasgow reports. but he did 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 needed also the fact that some tablets are still living at or below the poverty line and of course he also spoke at length the bald corruption . we have declared war on corruption we have identified our enemy and we will not back down in the last four years we created legislation needed to battle corruption for the first time in the 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 the reset off relations between russia and

the united states forced the and last year was marred by the parliamentary elections and the consequences of protesters all across the country with the biggest of them being in moscow and that was the subject of 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 there is such a thing as an 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 as kind of course you need to be very upset 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 the washington times 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 him a lot harder. to both are american and european partners i said to 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. becomes the president of course but your presence of migration is going to take place on me

seven. tensions are soaring in egypt less than a month before the presidential election in the latest round of violence islamic protesters clashed with security forces in korea with one person killed and dozens wounded protesters want the ruling military council to surrender power which it's been since the ousting of president mubarak the 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 also this week karo terminated a deal to supply gas to israel. he says the move threatens peace in the region. this is very serious indeed and we could be witnessing if things go one way or another the beginnings of what could well be a war in the middle east against. like we haven't seen for decades the finance minister of israel yuval steinitz

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 egyptian 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. 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. well now to some other world news in brief in our world update this a u.s. drone attack has killed four suspected militants in pakistan's tribal region near the afghan border it is the first american drone strike since and demanded a complete halt of the controversial program highly unpopular in pakistan relations between the countries were model november the twenty sixth but a cross border attack by nato where kraft killed twenty four pakistani troops he was military's intensified the attacks in the past three years as part of its counterterrorism efforts. the sudanese president omar al bashir has declared a state of emergency in three areas bordering. the motion followed a month of border clashes with the self which separated last july after a decades long civil war that killed over one of the half million people bashir is wanted by the international criminal court for alleged crimes against humanity war crimes and genocide in the darfur region. and explosions and gunfire

rocked nigeria's northern city of killing at least sixteen people the blast took place in a university lecture theatre used by christian students for religious services nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack and generally 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 system claiming it could become a target for attack or would shower potentially deadly if fired. the missiles would only be used in case of an extreme terror threat. 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. is in india with more. infosys is india's second largest high tea 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 afforded to claim for sure because of the high i'm number i meant in the us to drink and it's companies to record again 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 win and good businesses to come well 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. they're going to be hard. to go on but i wasn't going to. have a job. 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 food. 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. later here on r.t. waging a war on the web of millions r.l. raids over cyber security bill which could lead the u.s. government taking users with browsing history from internet companies now up to president obama whether to give the controversial law a green light that report for you is coming up in the next hour here in the weekly . but it's not somebody evening here in the russian capital and a reminder of the week's top stories coming your way in just a few moments this is party.

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