right. from the stupid. stunts on t.v. dot com. the latest news and the week's top stories lebanon seizes an arms shipment apparently bound for opposition forces in syria as russia cuse of the rebels of trying to destroy the u.n. brokered peace plan. nicolas sarkozy looks to the far right for support after losing the first round of the french presidential election to the socialist candidate francoise hollande less than a week of campaigning left until the final ballot. police in ukraine released a photo fit images of the men believed to be responsible for multiple bombings in the perpetrator of friday l.f. thirty injured officers reopened that investigation into a similar bombing in the city last year leaving the attacks. and

a lie detector experts from the u.k. say the country's police have the wrong suspect in the killing of former f.s.b. agent andrei living go in london six years ago. two am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us as we bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news as violence in syria continues unabated neighboring lebanon says they've seized a shipment of smuggled weapons they believe to be bound for syrian rebels the cash which apparently came from libya is backing which is backing the opponents of the assad regime this is the rebel step up their assault on government forces saturday seeing the first insurgent strike 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 step steps up its observer mission to the

country franklin lamb director of the n.g.o.s merican is concern for middle east peace because the latest arms smuggling effort was an attempt at regime change. great suspicion is that these are arms that were left over from libya the because the craft was loaded there were to 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 of the differences and we could name twenty or more between the situation in libya and the situation in syria the fundamental pillar i read change is identical to this ship clearly headed for the so-called free syrian army as other shipments of have have come from lebanon into syria 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 way 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. political leaders of the syrian opposition have been calling for foreign military intervention but it's something many people on the ground refuse to accept as artie's oksana boyko 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 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 food. 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 always on from and the president of other countries is that they support us and now because we the rebels want to get armed. while the rebels may have card 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. through this apposition 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. if i like him abdul aziz is not afraid to go public with his 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 mediating the syria crisis are really helping you know all the world. we are supporting. what we know for sure that some. well the state's not supporting that and some

are trying to play some so with that. if that comes. and that's not succeed. it will be a very dark. the syrian people will suffer too much it might be curious 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 they know is still better than the demons that now hong neighboring countries in the boycott artsy damascus syria to the latest updates on

the syrian situation log on to our website r t v dot com here's what else is a click away right now. america's most advanced jet fighters deployed to the persian gulf we take a look at how many and why all this and more at r t v dot com. and get ready for julian assange is next guest on his controversial interview show airing here on our t.v. tuesday while you're waiting you can log onto our website or watch a previous programs at full. the first round of the presidential election in france those weeks are nicolas sarkozy lose the battle to francois hollande the two candidates now face

a runoff may sixth or he starts arsole explores the issues dividing french society . they say it's better to travel than to arrive but for european unity the ride has been bumpy to say the least and where could it be headed. the euro is and will implode a considerable number of economists admit as well the french of four and 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 her 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 of a foreign policy or domestic policy which is deeply. rooted

in the whole european project one that finds itself in ever more shaky ground the should get agreement one of european integration sacred cows allowing border free travel across the e.u. is under fire. germany and france want member states to have the option to bring back those internal borders for thirty day period if there'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 their amnesty international's recent report documents examples of prejudice in the block against muslims in education and employment by jesus one story much on the fringe of the sort of political support terms on the whole being really mainstream in the right so to me it was sort of sort and so when they left we kind of see that people are

more racist so to me not to but there has been some sort of. roy why do what you need to do for people to express the hate and to indulge into violent behavior so where does that leave europe even the people who are against this kind of europe another against the euro in an idea that say they want a different kind of europe the e.u. may be trying to say in the past that set to achieve its vision and version of europe the obstacles are getting bigger from voters rallying behind that to brussels candidates to proposal so putting back border controls some e.u. leaders have dismissed them as populist threats but the question is are they merely still threats or is this growing resistance already the tip of an iceberg. sylvia r.t. brussels the eastern ukrainian city of slowly getting back to normal after its residents were left in a state of shock by a series of bombings friday thirty people were hurt ten of them children well

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 off skin ukraine their regular crime jorn and through the city was cut short because the estimate just got up from my chair when i heard 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 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 doubt this was a terrorist attack. there says that 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 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 bloss to gain points but is also about to welcome many guests from abroad the attacks on people but there 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 reporting from kiev in ukraine still to come this hour why cairo's iconic central square is still in a revolutionary fervor with less than

a month to go before it gets installed for their next president protests and clashes continue as people demand we have the latest from cairo. and popping pills to cope with the horrors of war the u.s. army facing growing concerns over the excessive use of antidepressants details still to come. but first a russian m.p. andrey lugovoy who is with the u.k. considers the main suspect in the killing of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko has passed a lie detector test earlier this week lugovoy denies that he has anything to do with her murder and turn to british experts to conduct the test or he is laura smith looks at how this step may influence the inquiry into the killing. stephen did you do anything that led to the death of alexander litvinenko no but were you involved in alexander litvinenko is death. 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 when i give 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 called a skeptic might say that as a former security services agent look up boyd might have had training to cheat the test but alexander corrupt core a documentary maker whose idea it was for leucovorin 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 or even asking russia to change its constitution to allow his extradition so 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 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 insist. the test should be administered by british experts the people who came to test me are members of the british polygraph associations

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 curran escorts because wife marino won the rights to a new wiser ranging inquest into her husband's death voice said he well couldn't the news and also to give evidence by video link. 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 be. the british ministry of defense is considering putting surface to air missiles on a residential buildings people in east london have gotten leaflets saying their rooftops could be used to deploy the weapons during the olympic games this summer residence say they're concerned about the safety of the system claiming it could become a target for attack officials stress the missile missiles are

a last resort which would only be used in case of an extreme terror threat london based investigative journalist paul lashmar says the proposal shows just how uneasy u.k. government is over the game security. i don't think they're trying to be secretive about the i think they're trying to stop it happening in the first the but it's all part of a mountain air of his theory i think sort of sweeping love the bit that you've got this huge. and there is this saluting nine eleventh's writes about it i mean it's just because everybody realizes that it's a terrorist sort of ideal situation to have a big of a they could it i think the love of public. twitchy because they it's what it sign is you're in a lot of your a lot potential danger because actually it's not the people in the least the roof it's people within five kilometers of the real day if you know if those those rockets are followed it's going to come down somewhere and they they explode so you know anybody in

a five clubs or writing job that is at risk if it's followed. less than a month before the presidential election muslim protesters clashed with security forces in cairo with one killed and dozens injured the ruling military he's accused of trying to cling on to power while barring several candidates from the presidential poll the parliament suspended its sessions for a week in protest against the military appointed government r t sorry for of has more from cairo. protests nation after the revolution toppled president mubarak egyptians have continued to use people power as a way to force change the sights and sounds of protestors on cairo's tahrir square have become a familiar one more than a guess and president back 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 post arab spring egypt we met a former member of mubarak's regime now a prominent speaker here in egypt the revolution also must be it's a great action but unfortunately after we had a lot of problems and the challenges we have to the stairs and do we have to reach a vision. 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 an awkward pause but he's not given a clear answer. on forces and the. administration . in their lives in february. live in. 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 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 what is the democracy is the. source of course is a common complaint. equally common. but the revolutionary me which homes can last indefinitely i can say yes i can do it but we will expect to know waves of. people against certain actions should boom in a different way more to the list and to understand that the end to this region it's only slogans shoutings it's the economy the kind of short political aide who estimates single thirty in underestimating people has seen regimes across the

arab world full now of the announcement of the list of candidates attention turns to the policies as they see might become the next president they'll need to be careful not to allow power to drown out the voices of face who are determined that this time they'll be heard it's. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a u.s. drone strike has killed four suspected militants in pakistan's tribal region near the afghan border the strike targeting the base of the harkonnen network believed to be behind a series of recent attacks in afghanistan is the first u.s. drone strike since islamic demanded a complete halt of the controversial program highly unpopular in pakistan. sudanese president omar hassan al bashir has declared a state of emergency in three areas bordering south sudan the motion followed a month of border clashes with the south which separated last july after

a decades long civil war that killed more than one and a half million people all this year is wanted by the international criminal court for alleged crimes against humanity war crimes and genocide in the darfur region. the body of libya's former oil minister was found floating under a bridge in vienna when police say no signs of violence were found on the body although an autopsy is yet to be done once a senior government official under the could under colonel qadhafi he defected to the rebels during last year's civil war. the use of prescription antidepressants by u.s. soldiers has reached a record high but the military thinks there is no reason for alarm the drugs are supposed to help troops confront the brutality of war but there are those concerned that people with guns shouldn't be overly medicated or he's got reports from washington. a record number of american troops are on antidepressants according to the u.s. army surgeon general more than one hundred ten thousand active duty service men and

women are taking prescribed narcotics sedatives and anti-anxiety drugs that's an eight fold increase since two thousand and five michael brown served as a marine in iraq up until two thousand and six he started taking antidepressants after he returned from war when i was on the. make a rational if my. memory. greeted him points and sent. i mean i couldn't i would be able to make a decision on whether. the person that carrying the bison in front of me was pointing it at me or whether or not where. just. action michael says while in iraq he could see about a third of his fellow servicemen taking psychotropic pills to get through the day.

some suggest the current increase in suicides and homicides in the u.s. military is not a coincidence although the link with the use of drugs has been proven in court only in a handful of cases american soldier david lawrence was charged with murdering a detainee he was guarding in afghanistan his sentence was reduced to ten years it was proved that the psychotropic medication that he was prescribed made his mental condition worse the fact that our military is saying oh if you just take these pills you'll be fine and go on back out there and give these people gazans this is crazy and now we're seeing this terrible combination and reaction of these these medications mixing and and a lot of the soldiers self medicate with alcohol and those don't mix military officials see no reason to panic saying the use of psychiatric drugs is comparable to civilian use if you are a civilian. spoke to

a psychiatrist and said i have trouble sleeping and i have anxiety problems and i have post-traumatic stress disorder. they wouldn't give you a gun and send you out you know to face danger and i mean this was to drive if you're taking some of these medications michael says when he complained of depression he was given drugs before he even had the chance to talk to a doctor. told that i might want to consider. it does seem. kind of first and foremost as. you know with everything else second this prior to the iraq war soldiers could not go into combat and psychiatric drugs but the stress of combat took its toll. and in order to keep the ranks cool and maybe less depressed the u.s. army started handing out more pills but what seemed like an easy solution has

become a problem all of its own i'm going to check our reporting from washington. a recap of the week's top stories coming up stay with us. did i kill innocent kids i was a call at the base of course and that's never and said.

mom a song from the skull spoke to me i think of it every day. i feel the flashbacks from to memories. last i saw my son a long time i'm just here trying to help. i was ashamed. i was ashamed that i didn't. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got my arm i got my legs. in the mine. where i would be out. for to. get out believe what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but namo soldier on the other side and i think i'm just as good.

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