if you move. from phones to pressure. don't don't come. taking a look right now at live pictures france's new socialist president francois hollande he is sworn in but in a few hours hope to take his austerity grievances to europe's powerhouse that's berlin. a mixed feeling over in european markets well moody's rating agency downgrades twenty six italian banks unicredit included g.d.p. figures in germany come out better than expected more of this in the business. serious deadly cease fire a month into the truce about the violence persists with neighboring lebanon and now dragged into the fighting. and the world's top whistleblower takes on torture and illegal rendition in his latest explosive interview and it's here on our t.v.

later this tuesday. thanks for joining our tea this tuesday it is one o'clock here in moscow but in france while france is welcoming its new leader socialist francois hollande is officially sworn in as president they'll be no time wasted though it's straight down to business out of your his inauguration alond will head to berlin for an austerity showdown with chancellor angela merkel along has been campaigning for growth while merkel is europe's cheez chief advocate for belt tightening both have intense political pressure at home which is bound to make for tough talk says peter oliver reports. put francois hollande will in the french presidential election he rolled. off the biggest ally of nicolas sarkozy when it came to pushing state

richie as the only way to tackle your debt crisis has not been a great recent period for the german chancellor to seeing some see the post their own christian democratic party suffered major losses and an election in the state of north rhine-westphalia a state viewed by many as a bellwether for gauging the opinion of german national politics as well so with macos each day it all eyes are now looking to see if a new range ment can be sorted out between the leaders of europe's two largest economies francois long is heading he it's a straight after he is sworn in as french president he's being welcomed here by angle of what's being called very much a getting to know you exercise as opposed to a decision making wall however it is expected to be looking to you gauge. opinions on things such as fiscal discipline and the promotion of the economy and

of juleps though for his part campaigned on a plate that he would try and remake go she ate the euro zone's fiscal pact which binds member states to austerity measures though this is something though that germany says is not on the table fiscal pact is closed it will not be reopened or renegotiated it's going to be watching this closely expect will see some form of agreement some form of compromise reached but ups with a parallel treaty being created or an onyx to the wooding of the original document that could see could favor growth a long sight cutting the deficits now what is going to be interesting though is even if they can come to some form of compromise this could just be papering over the cracks we have to pull the political leaders here who have very. polarized you have polarized political views all along and believes that you have to spend money to create growth and to drag european countries out of the financial my that they

find themselves in whereas angler merkel remains committed to austerity and belt tightening saying that that's the only way that europe is going to be able to get itself out of recession and back on its feet. and for more on this story let's now talk live to a german your m.p. marcus further from the european peoples party marcus thank you for joining us today now has one on the anti cuts take it which is no doubt rattling chancellor merkel who is the eurozone strongest austerity advocate both do face massive public pressure at home do you really think the talks can end in any sort of agreement. saying we are in a good trick because one can fit with the i think there's no eternity for storage of program all over europe as markets have two sided not to borrow money anymore with those member states who can't afford it and on the other hand of course we

need growth but who is creating grows from this new debt roof that is. missed all on now speaking of angela merkel how much of a blow do you think it was for her to to lose such an ally such as sarkozy. i think if you look into history and always took some time the german chancellor and french president became such close friends as merkel and nicolas sarkozy have been in the last few years the first year was a horrible. because he always told ms merkel he was elected by the french previously only by the by the parliament and it took a long time to those two guys met and the same was in the history was. made with so much for them but on the other hand both sides know that they have to work together if we want to progress in europe france and germany and that is about all on knows and that is was merkel knows now it closely been following what's been

happening in greece and greece is parties can't seem to agree on a team to get them out of their mass now another election is more likely to sway towards anti cuts leadership which way do you see them heading i mean who can really sort the country out. i think greece is a special program which has to be dealt specially well we have to award that all the broadness from griese jumbo or why a to leo or spain even to france or then to germany on the other hand if greece is not fulfilling what has been brummies by the form of government there will be run out of. international community has given to agrees and it has to be taken into account you can take the money but not do reforms and that is the rule which fits for all in europe whether it's green greece or another state in the european union that has to be safeguarded and therefore i appreciative german finance minister of controllable it becomes the head of the euro group because that is the signal for a strong euro and for strength in the in the decision taken procedures on european

level now germany certainly has had a good growth figures this tuesday more so than expected don't you think that other nations being told by berlin to keep on cutting look at those numbers and really think that germany is looking after itself seemingly bigger than even though. i think germany is a good example in the last two years and finland was a good example. which shows if you do reforms if you do cuttings which means to concentrate the public money on those areas you really needed for growth can be created but not in a short time period it's a mid-term and long time period where you create new jobs and economic growth and that is the way greece has to go through that is spain portugal italy has to go through and two is changing mr way all along has brought in is that in the election campaign will fail because at the end of the day the country will be burned grew up

the is not a solution that is a broad bloom all right live from brussels markets ferber german your m.p. from the european people's party thank you. you're welcome. now still to come this hour and day of desolation for palestinians. it's not about day which will see protests to mark the birth of israel sixty four years ago we bring you the heart rendering story of one woman whose pain crosses the divide. and they're all ways i use rocket with three crewmembers on board is heading to the international space station where they'll spend four months where at the launch site in kazakhstan. a month into the ceasefire but syria still suffering from violence and that is casting serious doubt on the u.n. peace plan dozens are said to have been killed in a in the recent surge of several flashpoint cities on monday the e.u.

imposing new set of economic sanctions against the country to pile pressure but only on the government european leaders want to speed up the implementation of kofi annan peace initiative which they say have so far failed damascus claims its defending the country from terrorist groups backed by foreign powers syria's armrests has. spinet spilling across the border in lebanon with sectarian clashes between pro and anti assad supporters leaving at least five people dead international relations professor mark almond believes that even if syrian troops will lay down arms it won't bring stability. i think the tragic situation i was even the president to retire gracefully. a lot of his supporters will be very. very very. equally a lot of people want to go in control of the vote you see we're now into a cycle of violence the range and as we saw in libya. just because the regime was

overthrown doesn't stop the violence when you have this kind of civil war and also external commenting on supplying weapons you know all the irresponsible way where people who were doing this find where. are we concerned about what happens. torture in guantanamo bay britons complicity in the illegal rendition and suspects and a selective approach on who to regard as a threat america's war on terror is leaving a decidedly murky trail and it's what join us and takes on in his latest show here on our t.v. our london correspondent laura smith reveals what's to come into days edition. speaks to people who have had first hand experience of the effects of the war on terror one of them is who is used to be a corporate lawyer but now campaigns for detainees of the war on terror through an organization called cage prisoners the second interview he's a man called begg he himself spent years in guantanamo bay before being released

without charge during his detention actually signed a confession which said that he had been prepared to fight alongside al qaida he provided assistance to al qaida members knowing that they could commit terrorist attacks against the u.s. during the program he talks about how he came to sign that confession let's hear him. walk me to the point where i would sign something like this was being tied up with. my legs with a hood placed over my head being punched and kicked the listing to the sound of a woman screaming next door i'm told is led to believe it's my wife my children's pictures being waved in front of me and being asked by these interrogators when do you think you're going to see them again what you think happened the night that we took you from the back during the show goes into great detail about the horrors of his detention in guantanamo bay when he got home to britain he sued the british government for complicity in his ordeal and he reached an out of court financial

settlement with the government since then he and i. have been actively trying to end this practice of detention without trial. during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight seeing guantanamo. challenging the u.k. extradition and all of these things common and you will actually be abused for a specific purpose and all of them convince me to be involved something was working against these these policies and it was this important voice. almost in the same power and voice that's just a little bit of the program you can see the whole thing that which is being broadcast for the first time on our teaches day at eleven thirty g.m.t. don't miss it. india's efforts to reduce imports of iranian oil are not going down well with washington a top u.s.

diplomat says it's not doing enough to help america's global squeeze on iran for its nuclear program and there relies heavily on iranian crude but its refusal to sharply cut imports may lead to india with sanctions with me now dr shriram cholly who is an international relations professor and phys dean at the gentle school of international affairs in the delhi thank you for joining us so new delhi has already made significant cuts but washington still wants more what's in it for india by doing so. i don't think there's very much i don't think there's much to gain from this whole exercise of moving don't american pressure and i think in you sufficiently nationalist enough to also not buckle under the pressure what they have done is prudently reduce the imports of your own in oil slightly given to the chinese have also done so and it is very it could very well be part of a bargaining tactic in order to reduce the prices so i think so it's very you know

hardnosed economic strategically can be done in delhi i don't think they're giving it to american pressure and this envoy who seeing that he's on our beer and that they're not doing bristol i mean it doesn't go on well in india because you know we have come to expect the united states should treat us as sovereign equals if it's not happening any of their talking don't like this i'm sure it's not really appreciated across the country this visitor is not really welcome i mean of course the government will receive him because he's a high level envoy from the obama administration the point is that you know he's not going to cut much ice here even. it's a very clear from the beginning that as far as economic interests cool you don't need borders and we're not going to give up on this important card no matter what the americans try to do in fact i think we're also reading the signals now it's not that clear cut that this pressure will go on after the election of france who alone in france after the expansion of the israeli cabinet with the pollution of the want

of which is a centrist party and the fibrous one talks with iran that are happening in baghdad and the previous armies stumble i couldn't be watching these carefully and seeing signs for weakening of this so-called coalition that the americans have trying to put up our american driving sharia to interrupt you but i do want to ask you know washington doesn't need a strategic partner to bridge its priorities in east asia but iran is an era ted and ties between america and india do you think that the u.s. can't afford to lose its key ally in the region if it pushes too hard with these sanctions. i've said this before that they would not want to do that i think you are there trying to ease to. you know squeeze as much as possible out of this. triangle but you know i mean you know united states trying to as much as possible but beyond there's a limit to it and the indians know it and they said we're also seeing signs that this whole new thinking game or for trying to marginalize iran is not going to work

the deployment to good changes in france and in israel off lead a clear indications that i don't think in the long run because even now there's the so-called sanctions sword the american boys are dangling at india ease to do months of aid and into months for all the north i mean dianne feinstein in the u.s. is saying that a breakthrough might be possible in the five plus one talks. with iran so i don't think i can really go to we dove our the indian pollution clearly the. smart ones i think we do eighty dollars going to see and i hope feeling that before the elections in the u.s. there are women owns a big package that will stay that you know the iran issue has been resolved and that's a positive development and we'd better we don't rather than succumbing to pressure in this fashion right now and very briefly because we do have only less than a minute left we saw america as a chief diplomat just now on the screen hillary clinton chief visited india last week after her trip to china what does it say about the international role and the clout of the brics group of the fastest developing economies. they need to be here

in this region and i think the americans realize there's so much interest rate created going on and americans certainly feel the need that they need to try and get market access in this region. and with a big you know. it's a delegation of business of. trade of the shields and i think. they want to play this carefully because there was also an iranian delegation at the same time in delhi even mrs clinton was here and it was being shown as a kind of a juxtaposition the point is that everybody wants of peace of india because a large market is one point three billion people so we are on our beat united states we want to have good relations with everybody and we don't like triangles in which we are being forced to make a choice on one side or the other are i doubt you are experiencing truly undersell side interrupted but unfortunately we are running out of time thank you professor as if i seen at the gentle school of international affairs. for

one country the fifteenth of may is a day of sorrow for much of its deeply divided people for palestinians it's the day israel was born it's referred to as not meaning catastrophe and as marked with very large protests policy where has the remarkable story of one woman who has felt the pain on both sides. for seven decades hid her secret only now has this muslim mother of seven and grandmother of twenty nine revealed to her family the full truth about her past and i need the bad guys you don't want my children to be afraid for me and be part of my grief we are here all the time in a war between shia and hours so why tell them about another war that another war was in one nine hundred forty two parents were among the millions of jews rounded up across europe and sent to auschwitz did camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time or they are put on ritchie again i was

born in auschwitz i was a ga i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only because the doctor in the camp me and my two brothers under the floor in his house my mother and father worked for him and night they would crawl in with us and give us dry bread suit in hot water we still feel well they are murderers and mickey. still feels fear when she hears loud knocking at the door. i think they are coming to kill me i remember the brains the body legs hands the people this barbed wire fence i remember terrible beatings in the camp i cry a lot when i cry my heart is a car. after she was freed from the camp or immigrated to israel when she was sixteen she met her husband a local arab man. i was working. in she brought me something to drink. very decided to get married it did not matter to me that she was jewish.

but it mattered too late his family her father didn't speak to her for a year and most of her israeli jewish cousins have disowned the young couple moved here to. an arab village in northern israel layla converted to islam she says so that her children would not have to serve in the israeli army until now they knew their mother had been through it but they didn't know she being a holocaust survivor where her dog lie did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews definitely not i really only converted from my children but i feel completely accepted here if i hear someone say they hate jews i answer them and say you receive rights from this country and that is why i hate the people who give them to you. now after seventy years her secret has finally come out clearly went to collect her pension money and the clark made the connection and that that's where we were shocked we didn't know what to say whether it was so difficult to

hear but we opened our mouths and nothing came out of god she survived. his jewish name is leah shockey but she hasn't really since all those years ago when she arrived in israel as a refugee just months before the state of israel was declared him a nine hundred forty eight a date israeli celebrate that one let palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors who are delusional that i am not happy or sad on this day i understand how israelis feel and i understand how arabs feel and i feel a lot of people have died for nothing the jewish mother and the muslim mother feel the same pain. and it's their pain that palestinians around the world remember today. r.t. omar for israel. time now take a trip around the world for more of this our. era says its naval force offs.

somalia's coast has carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets on shore aircraft and attack helicopters apparently took part in the raid with no casualties reported so far the european union is a major donor to the transitional government and reinforcing somalia and its neighboring states in the these counter piracy out shows. a report has emerged blaming nato for dozens of civilian killings during last year's military campaign in libya human rights watch in new york says the alliance downplayed the deaths and needs to be held accountable nato has refuted the claims saying its campaign was conducted with unprecedented care and precision member states meet for a summit in chicago later this week. u.s. congressman ron paul is suspending his active campaign for a white house he's not one to any of the single state votes but he's not giving in

and said he is plowing his resources into the national convention to win the republican nomination paul is the last main party challenger to mitt romney in the race against president barack obama in november selection. a new expedition is on its way to the international space station is to use a spacecraft carrying two russian cosmonauts and a u.s. astronaut blasted off from kazakhstan and. was there to watch them go. we're at the baikonur cosmodrome as close as we could get to the launch pad with the three man crew part of the thirty one thirty two expedition are ready to set off for the international space station let's have a moment and take a look at this amazing occurrence. now they are going to be docking with the international space station in two days on may seventh they will be in orbit. for the next four months that have that

period has been shortened from the initially scheduled six month period still a lot of work to be done first and foremost cosmonauts and astronauts are scientists so a lot of the scientific experiments will be taking place on the says they will be docking at the ais as will be docking with several. european japanese american vessels they also will be doing several spacewalks as well one of those will be concerning the situation where the space junk they will be joining the rest of the thirty one thirty two expedition three people already there but of course the big do have to have a good time and now when it comes to he's lucky enough to celebrate his birthday on may seventeenth when the so use is actually scheduled to dog the international space station what a way to celebrate a birthday. while dimitri will be here shortly for the business and the area as

well it seems like the data is coming out of germany and how is the market reacting well it seems the market is very much lost all of its steam when it comes to reacting says g.d.p. data coming out of germany which showed. grew half percent in the first quarter better than expected but as you can see the flat to positive picture because of concerns about banking sector it has seen a vote of non-confidence moody's cut the credit ratings on twenty six it's. banks including countries majors like you need credit now ten of them were downgraded the so-called junk status while some saw their ratings cut by as much as four notches the agency said the banks were increasingly vulnerable to italy's recession on the effects of government austerity measures now all of them were also put on negative credit watch meaning that further downgrades are also positive. meanwhile in russia the reaction is still negative we're seeing the outyears my six declining within one percent that's after dropping three and

a half percent there's no room for buying really on the russian market lately now among the main the movers on the. of course energy shares take a look at them lukoil and are actually better than the markets where the gazprom is losing two percent as you can see that this by the fact that world prices have somewhat recovered as burbank is declining one percent most liquid stock out there on the russian market in asia also a mixed picture the hang seng was some are recovering after a big drop in the previous session but the nikkei was down by pretty much the same amount on worries about what's going to happen with the greece with its political stalemate and the fact that it may actually leave the euro zone. and in the commodities light sweet is declining thirty six cents brant is well pretty much where it was at the close yesterday we're not seeing any buying bag of to these sharp drops of oil is very much where it was five month lows. and finally let's

take a look at what's going on the currencies market do you real or is that bouncing back up as g.v. dates and the ruble strengthening against the buy currency basket. and that's what i have for you this hour we're back of course next hour with that with more. thanks very much for that update. and soon we had to one of russia's smallest republics to get back to basics that's after the headlines in just a moment. you

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