the latest news of the week in review russia accuses syrian rebels of. to bring down the u.s. . as a shipment of smuggled the opposition is intercepted by. chasing the boat to the far right after losing the first round of the french presidential ballot. with immigration and the euro among. more than twenty people are still being treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of the patrol a series of bombs exploded there on friday leaving thirty injured. plus guilty british lie detector 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 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's 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 the world body steps up its observer mission to syria franklin lamb director of the n.g.o.s americans

concerned for middle east peace thinks the latest arms smuggling effort was an attempt at regime change. great suspicion is that these are arms or were leftover from libya the craft was loaded with their worst to be fifteen containers but it turned out there were already in fact three that were filled with one hundred fifty tons of weapons and the americans almost surely knew about it nato nato did the israelis didn't touch that ship this time not this ship 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. is identical to this ship clearly headed for the so-called free syrian army has other shipments of or have a have come from lebanon into syria design is reaching change and that was done one believes the overwhelming evidence in support of that regime change so who's

gotten an 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 been calling for foreign military intervention but that's something many people on the ground there refuse to accept as artie's acceptable 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 a way. i like dancing in the street and i like the reaction it produces in people i

feel free this way. even he can't stay away from politics when i ask him about his biggest concern his sass syria should not dance to 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 position and their supporters are still asking for arms. and the. man they are all move on from a man 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 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 apposition activist says he was detained and mistreated by the security services and while he is calling on bashar assad to leave serious political scene he says the armed groups should do the same. thing. unlike him abdul aziz is not afraid to go public refusing to use 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 helping you know all the world know sees that we are supporting and as. 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. it will be a very dark era the syrian people will suffer too much there may be curious country maybe a civil war no one knows what. with libya 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 hong neighboring countries can avoid artsy damascus syria. or to get the latest updates on the situation in syria log on to our web site don't

comment on line all the time and here's some of. what else is waiting for you there right now should you know call america's most of both parts it's a ploy to southwest asia but how many and why more. the next edition of his controversial interview show will be airing here on tuesday morning waiting log on to our web site to what the programs in. nicolas sarkozy has been running support after losing the first round of the presidential election this week to force well under the current leader is reaching

out to far right voters ahead of the may the sixth runoff standing by his pledge to cut immigration siller explores the issues dividing french society. they say it's better to travel than to work right but for european unity the ride has been bumpy to say the least and where could it be headed. the eurozone will implode. a considerable number of economists admit as well the french of foreign that the eurozone is already dead it will collapse. 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 the campaign the fact that it's actually the cause of the problems much of the french political talks are

completely wedded to the euro project they cannot conceive a foreign policy or domestic policy which is more deeply. you know it is rooted in the whole european project one that finds itself an 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's 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. one story much on the fringe of the sort of political support terms on all being really mainstream in the right so to me it was

sort of sort and so when the left we kind of see that people are more racist so to me not to but there has been some sort of. reuther or wider or fortunately for people to express the hate and to also indulge in too violent behavior so where does that leave europe even the people who are against this kind of europe and against the euro in an idea that say they want a different kind of europe the e.u. may be trying to say in the past that's to achieve its vision and version of here are the obstacles are getting bigger from voters rallying behind anti brussels candidates to oppose also putting back border controls some e.u. leaders have dismissed them as a 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 here r t brussels. the eastern ukrainian city. 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 hurt ten of them children while doctors are continuing to treat the injured police sifting through c.c.t.v. footage of the blast sites. the reports. for some residents of new but a bit off skin ukraine their regular from jordan and through the city was cut short book will stop. listen i just got up from my chair when i heard the explosion but those were smashed the windows shattered all i remember when i got up there was smoke and dust everywhere and women were crying. i was selling tickets when it came out of nowhere i grabbed my 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 a tram stops even doctors admitted they were startled to see so many severely injured. it's mostly splinter 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 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. 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 a 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. let's see russia r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine this is the weekly here in r.t.

and all the way this why caro's iconic central square is still in a revolutionary mood. less than a month to go before egyptians vote for the next president the protests and clashes continue as people demand change we've the latest from caro coming up. a report on why fears grow in europe that anti islamic ideology is on the rise especially with the trial now underway in norway of mass killer and this plague. russian m.p. on the 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 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. were you involved in

alexandria listening cause death no. so you have never had any dealings with polonium know another step towards proving his innocence in a test administered by british experts andrey lugovoy passes the lie detector polygraph science says he didn't kill alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six when i get a result on certain in my mind the right result if or not i don't get 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 call 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 pollute our voice to undergo it thinks that's unlikely even every american police station has a polygraph test and if it was so easy to fall why security services would use it

or to date as far as they're concerned the examiner as they say that this is the ultimate way to determine if one is lying or telling the truth it might not sway british courts where lie detector tests on tax acted as standalone evidence the u.k. authorities are unlikely to make an exception in this case given the extraordinary lengths they've gone to to get their hands on look up 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 sergei lavrov gave his british counterpart short shrift a new government remains in russia but he knows there's nothing his country can do to persuade the british that they're accusing the wrong man. if i did the scene with the help of russian specialists that the british would have been suspicious

about the results so i insisted. that the test should be administered by british experts the people who came to test me are 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 andrei lugovoy has taken to attempt to clear his name with the british authorities last november harris simpang chris coroner's court because wife marino won the rights to a new wiser ranging inquest into her husband's death said he welcomed the news and offered to give evidence by video link look of oil realizes this won't close the case but for him it's more evidence to suggest he's as innocent as he's always claimed norris smith r.t. london. the british ministry of defense is considering placing surface to air missiles on residential buildings people in east london the receive leaflets saying

their rooftops could be used to deploy their weapons during the olympic games this summer residence so the concern about the safety of the system could become a target for official stress the missiles are a last resort which would only be used in case of an extreme terrorist threat london based investigative journalist paul ashmore told me earlier maschmeyer should say told me earlier that those living within five kilometers of the missiles should look to the skies for fear of sudden death. i don't think they're trying to be secretive about it i think they're trying to stop it happening in the first the but it's all part of a mountain of hysteria i think that sort of sweep in london a bit but you've got this huge. and there is this sort of looming nine eleven threat about it i mean it's just because everybody realizes that it's a terrorist sort of ideal situation to have a big if they could but i think the london public if you twitchy because they it's what it seem is you're in a lot of your

a lot potential danger because actually it's not the people on the least the group it's people within five kilometers of the real danger if you know if those rockets are fired it's going to come down somewhere they explode so you know anybody in the five clubs a range of that is if it's followed. less than a month before the presidential election is not a protest as of clash with security forces in car with one person killed and dozens wounded the ruling military is accused of trying to cling on to power while barring several candidates from the presidential poll the parliament has suspended its sessions for a week in protest against the military appointed government artie's sara first has more from the egyptian capital. protests nation after the revolution toppled president mubarak egyptians have continued to use people power as a way to force change the sights the sounds of protesters on cairo's tahrir square have become a familiar one more than

a gift of president mubarak was ousted from power with presidential elections just around the corner and the activities here have once again taken center stage but if the last year has taught us anything is a revolution alone is not a democracy make is why the upcoming elections appraising so important. as a discussion group focused on a paced arab spring egypt we met a former members mubarak's regime now a prominent speaker here in egypt says the revolution was a must and it's a great action but unfortunately after we had a lot of problems and the challenges we have to discuss and we have to reach a vision for that 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 pulls but he's not given a clear round. on forces and the. administration

. after. they get. in their lives in february. we order. food revolution we will we will give the people what you want we'll give you. freedom we'll give you a democracy he told us of the frustration of many people he 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 what is a democracy is the. promise of course is a common complaint with an equally common answer. but the revolutionary mood which homes can last indefinitely i can see a second wave but we will expect to know waves of. people staying against certain actions in

a different way more realistic to understand that there is this region it's a more polished slogans or shoutings it's the economy the culture and the politics overestimating all thirty and underestimating people has seen regimes across the arab world full now with the announcement of the list of candidates attention turns to the policies he might become the next president they'll need to be careful not to allow power to turn out the voices of face who are determined that this time they'll be heard so r.t. . now some other world news in brief in our world update the u.s. drone attack has killed four suspected militants in pakistan's tribal region near the afghan border it's the first american drone strike since islamabad demanding a complete halt to the controversial program highly unpopular in pakistan relations between the countries where model november the twenty sixth when

a cross border type by nato aircraft killed twenty four pakistani troops the u.s. military is intensifying the attacks in the past three years as part of its counter terrorism message. these sudanese president omar hassan al bashir has declared a state of emergency in three areas bordering self promotion follow the money for border clashes with the south which separated last july after a decades long civil war that killed over one and a half million people. is wanted by the international criminal court for alleged crimes against humanity war crimes and genocide in the darfur region. but explosions and gunfire rocked nigeria's northern city of car killing at least sixteen people the blast took place in the university lecture theatre used by christian students for religious services there was yet claimed responsibility for the attack in january the militant sect carried out a bombing in the same city killing one hundred fifty people. self-confessed mass

murderer anders breivik 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 have taken root elsewhere in europe is over but it talk to a far right british movement that some believe inspired campaign 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 in just three years its ranks have swelled to more than seventy thousand all united against what they call the threat of islam the same ideology inspired norwegian mass murderer anders behring breivik and now it's on the rise according to a report by a u.k.

anti fascism group a worldwide counter jihad network has surged since predicts attacks with over one hundred far right groups in europe alone it names e.t.l. leader tommy robinson a key figure given 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 the far right now i'm not far and i write none of my views are far far islam is for islam these is responsible for a thousand nine hundred terrorist attacks of september eleventh there were about one in one man brevik praise 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 fascist who's now switched sides we've being our government for two years specifically 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 honestly . 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 them its chairman paul weston was another cited by brevik highlighting a blog that claimed the west is fighting a european civil war against islam but i'm not saying go out and commit violence and the most astonishing thing about this for me is it is the whole breivik thing has been picked up picked up on by the media with no documentary evidence of any so-called right wing movements saying go out there and shoot whereas when the islam

it was clear that your blog posts acted 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 or extremist by the or thora sees the two recently joined forces and planned to run in the next round of local elections the worry for anti fascist campaign as is that they could attract support on to bennett's tea leaves and. brings up take the moment to recap the week's top stories from the weekly in just a few minutes from now this is r.t. live here in moscow stay with us.

to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is encroaching upon liberty. to leave early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms legal empire that the united states

is trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have power bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in the last hour basis of. the noises our north as it doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions.