latest news in the week in review in lebanon seizes an arms shipment apparently bound for opposition forces in syria as russia accuses 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 vote to socialist candidate francois hollande less than a week of campaigning left until the final battle. police in ukraine released photo fit images of the man they believe are responsible for multiple bombings in the patrol friday that left thirty injured officers a reopen it investigation into a similar bombing in this city last year believing the attacks could be like. lie

detector experts from the u.k. say the country's police have the wrong suspect in the killing of former at bisbee agent alexander litvinenko in london the six years ago. six am in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on our t.v.'s we bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news as violence in syria continues unabated neighboring lebanon seized a shipment of smuggled weapons believed destined for syrian rebels the cash apparently came from libya which is backing opponents of the assad regime this comes as syrian state television claimed rebels have stepped up the offensive with attacks on the syrian central bank and police patrols in the capital while saturday saw the first and surgical sin seargent attack from the sea a day after a suicide bombing killed at least nine people in damascus russia says the

opposition is trying to scuttle the u.s. brokered cease fire as the world body steps up its observer mission in the country franklin lamb director of the n.-g. o. americans concerned for middle east peace thinks the latest arms smuggling attempt was a try at regime change. great suspicion is that fees are arms that were left over from libya the because the craft was loaded 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 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 have have 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 got time 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 people on the ground are refusing to accept as are his oxana 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. 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 a libya style intervention seems ever less likely the militarized the position and their supporters are still asking for arms. and the. man they are all move on from and the president of other countries is that they support us and now because 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. 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.

well we know for sure that some of the states are not supporting that and sun are trying to play some say with that. and if that happens i mean and then supplant did not succeed. it will be a very dark. the syrian people will suffer too much there may be chaos in the country maybe a civil war nobody 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 hong neighboring countries can avoid artsy damascus syria to get the latest updates on the situation in syria you can always log on to our team dot com and there's plenty more for you there right now is what else is a click away america's most advanced jet fighters deployed to the persian gulf we take a look at how many and why. but you can also find latest episodes of julia sagas controversial interview show or the next installment airing tuesday right here on our to. one of the presidential election in france this week saw nicolas sarkozy lose the

battle the socialist cavite francois hollande the two candidates now face a runoff may sixth. 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 foreign that the eurozone is already dead its will collapse. so says the candidate whose. surprise 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 course of the problems much of the french press but also completely wedded to the euro project they cannot conceive of

a foreign policy or domestic policy which is more 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 ideas that one is very much on the fringe of the sort of political support terms on the whole being a really mainstream in the right so to me with

a sort of sort of someone on 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 fortunate for people to express to 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 brussels candidates to proposals the putting back border controls of 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 eastern ukrainian city of ny proper trotskyist slowly getting back to normal after its residents were left in a state of shock by

a series of bomb explosions 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 are. reports from here. for some residents of new but a bit of skin ukraine their regular crime joran and through the city was cut short . i just got up from my chair when i heard good splosion 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. there says that it's another challenge for us for zero country

so we're going to think of a proper response to it who 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 wars. 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 are still being investigated but the 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. let's see reporting from kiev in ukraine stay with us here on r t still to come why cairo's iconic central

square is still in a revolutionary mood but less than a month before egyptians head to the polls to vote for their next president protests and clashes as people continue demanding change we have the latest from cairo. and israel's rhetoric of attack on iran leads to a spot within the government is provoking terror on the wall not fully prepared for retaliate tori's strike. but first russian m.p. andrey lugovoy who the u.k. considers its main suspect in the killing of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko passed a lie detector test earlier this week lugovoy denies he has anything to do with a murder and turn to british experts to conduct the test or he's laura smith takes a look at how the step may influence the inquiry into the killing of. stephen did you do anything that led to the death of alexander litvinenko. 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. in my mind the right result if i'm 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 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 tech separated as standalone evidence the u.k. authorities are unlikely to make an exception in this case given the extraordinary lengths they've gone to to get their hands on look up voigt even asking russia to change its constitution to allow his extradition though we were clear that while it was a reasonably big ask it was not unreasonable to say that they should change the constitution to make possible the sort of judicial corp foreign minister sergey lavrov gave his british counterpart short shrift and lugovoy 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 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 association and we will invite these experts as witnesses in any court proceedings i don't expect any serious change but for me it was the moment of truth i think this is just the latest step that andre has taken to attempt to clear his name with the person so 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 said he well couldn't the news and it's 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. the british ministry of defense is considering placing surface to air missiles on a residential buildings people in east london have gotten a leaflet saying their rooftops could be used to deploy the weapons during the

summer olympic games residents say they're concerned about the safety of the system claiming it could become a target for attack officials stress the missiles are allowed to resort which would only be used in case of an extreme terror threat london based investigative journalist paul lashmar thinks 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 of his theory i think that sort of sweep could not do that but you've got this huge. and there is this salute and nine eleven threats about it i mean it's just because everybody realizes that it's a terrorist sort of ideal situation to have a big event that they could i think the london public if you twitchy because it's what it's saying 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 date if you know if those those

rockets are followed it's going to come down somewhere and they explode so you know anybody in a five clubs a range of us is if it's followed a. bus then a month before the presidential election muslim protesters clashed with security forces in cairo with one person killed and dozens wounded the ruling military junta trying to cling to power while barrett while barring a several candidates from the presidential poll the parliament suspended its sessions for a week in protest against the military appointed government as r.t. sarah for has more from the egyptian capital. of protests nation after the revolution toppled president mubarak egyptians have continued to use people power as a way to full of change the sights and sounds of protesters on cairo's how this have become a familiar one more than a gift and president back without food from power with presidential elections just

around the corner and the activities here have once again taken center stage but it's the last year's protest anything is the revolution alone does not let them of course being make is why the upcoming elections appraising so important. as a discussion great fake a stunt to paste arab spring egypt's we met a full members mubarak's regime now a prominent. speaker here in egypt the revolution was a must and it's a great action but unfortunately after we have a lot of problems and the challenges we have to discuss and do 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 that he's not given a clear around. his own forces and the. administration say to us after. we get. in there live in february

twenty seventh. we or the protection 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 a democracy is the. promise of course is a common complaint with an equally common answer. but the revolutionary me which homes can last indefinitely i can see a second wave but we will expect to know waves of. people protesting against certain actions they should go in a different way more realistic and to understand the real interests rejigged it so

not only slogans or shoutings it's the economy the culture and the politics of us i'm a single 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 as they see might become the next present. and. be careful not to allow power to drown out the voices that face it determined that this time they'll be hanged it's. turning out as some other stories making headlines across the globe i least twenty one people were killed at a church service on a university campus in northern nigerian city of kaino witnesses say a gunman threw explosives into a lecture hall where the service was held and worshippers were shot as they tried to flee no group claimed responsibility for the attack but the islam is second boko haram is active in the area and recently attacked christian churches. 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 here is wanted by the international criminal court for alleged crimes against humanity war crimes and genocide in the darfur region. in new york seven people including three children were killed when the minivan they were driving in plunged more than fifty meters off a highway bridge and landed on the grounds of the bronx zoo the cause of the graph has not yet been determined reports say the car was going at very high speeds. the body of libya's former oil minister was found floating under a bridge in vienna police say no signs of foul play were found on the body although an autopsy is yet to be performed once

a senior government official under the khadafi regime he defected to the rebels during last year's civil war. israel's former security chief criticizing the country's prime minister and government for misleading the people on the need to strike iran he said the threat of an attack might force tehran to start working on building a nuclear weapon as our correspondent paula slee reports it's feared israel may not be prepared enough to provide enough protection to its own citizens in the event of regional. the rule of any family lives in missile range of gaza for years they complained to the government they had no shelter to protect them from because some rockets fired by hamas but disappointed immigrant town wasn't a top priority for tel aviv far from it prompting yakov to eventually build a shelter himself to protect his family though we went through some very tough years we used to worry all the time every time we left the house we were in danger when we went to the store to school or to work it took a direct hit on your courthouse five years ago before the government finally woke

up and built him a shelter opposite the one he did way people to solve now across israel's closest city to gaza there are bomb shelters in the street on sports fields and in children's playground where they cleverly disguised like this one but that won't reassure the rest of the country in the event of a conflict with the much bigger threat of iran this morning about a government wants to start a war. the day after a poor pair of the civilian population. for a show of walkers of our current. coverage from several directions we've got one point seven million people that haven't got a mission. we've got three and a half million people that haven't got a gas mask israelis themselves are skeptic about the country's ability to defend itself many still remember iraqi scud missiles landing in the center of israel some twenty years ago and

a scathing government report issued months ago suggests the home front is woefully unprepared and the government. doesn't want to put obviously doesn't want to put the public into panic but i think the public itself probably does not believe in a strike is imminent otherwise people who've gone crazy the experts say any israeli military strike is very likely to draw any rain in retaliation the target of which is no secret this is the city that iran has threatened to pummel with missiles in response to any israeli attack but many of the public bomb shelters here are dusty and neglected and whereas in previous times of tension tel aviv distributed gas masks many of those masks remain in storage i really don't know why they're talking about it so much that's why i think there won't be a war because we are talking about it i don't think there will be a war because i think the government is. gone and not doing nothing to prepare citizens for the situation if someone will bore me i don't know i need to one.

which has many wondering what exactly tel aviv has planned up its sleeve if a government really. intends to start a war. there were things differently or at least prepared a public policy r.t. tell of a. break up of the week's top stories coming up in a few minutes stay with us.

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