france's new socialist president francois hollande sworn in but in a few hours he'll take his austerity grievances to europe's powerhouse for. thousands of palestinians parts of the west bank but there are violent clashes as they commemorate the day they call it after field which saw thousands of routed when israel was created. the world's top whistleblower takes on torture and illegal rendition in his latest interview here on our t.v. in a half an hour. pm in moscow. good to have you with us here on r t our top story france is welcoming

in its new leader socialist francois hollande officially sworn in as president no time is wasted though straight to business after his inauguration alond is heading to berlin for an austerity showdown with german chancellor angela merkel has been campaigning for growth while merkel is europe's main advocate for belt tightening both have intense political pressures at home which is bound to make for tough talks as our peter all of our reports from berlin. from alone two in the french presidential election. of the biggest nicolas some see when it came to pushing on steroids as the only way to tackle europe's debt crisis it's not been a great recent period for the german chancellor seeing some of the proposed their own christian democrats 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's all eyes are now looking to see if they knew a range of arrangement can be sorted out between the leaders of europe's two largest economies francois along deciding he it's a straight after he is sworn in as french president being welcomed here by angle of merkel and 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 no for his policy on land campaigned on a plage 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 all renegotiated be watching it 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 who have polarized political views all along and believes that you have to spend money to create growth and to try to drag european countries out of the financial minded they find themselves in. 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. german euro m.p. marcus ferber thinks cuts are necessary but will boost the european economy over night. i think we are in

a good trick because one can fit with the other i think there's no alternative for storage of program all over europe as markets have decided not to read money anymore to those member states who can't afford it in on the other hand of course we need growth but who is creating growth with new debt will fade and that is. missed all and i think germany is a good example in the last two years and finland was a good example. ninety's which shows if you do reforms if you do things which means to concentrate the public money on those areas you really need it 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 this way like all on has promised in the election campaign will fail because at the end of the day the country will be bankrupt and

that is not a solution that is a problem. for one country fifteenth of may is a day of sorrow for much of its deeply divided people palestinians market as the day when israel was born referring to what has not meaning attached and large protests are underway clashes broke out between demonstrators and police in several cities across israel youngsters threw stones at troops who responded with tear gas a rocket was reportedly fired from gaza into southern israel but caused no injuries or damage to rally during deepening impasse is between jews and palestinians with peace talks still paralyzed next artie's parsley or has the remarkable story of one woman who's felt pain. for seven decades hid her secret only now has this muslim mother of seven and grandmother of twenty nine live yield to her family the full truth about her past and. i didn't want my children to

be afraid for me and be part of my grief we're here all the time in a war between jew and arab so why tell them about another war that other war was in one nine hundred forty two parents were among the millions of jews rounded up across europe and sent to all should stay at a camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time or they are put everything again i was born in auschwitz i was a jew i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only because a christian doctor in the camp hit me and my two brothers under the floor in his house my mother and father worked for him and at night they would crawl in with us and give us dry bread soaked in hot water with salt well they are medicine make you . still feels fear when she hears loud knocking at the door i will i think they're coming to kill me i remember the bones the bodies legs hands the people this barbed wire fence i remember terrible beatings in the camp that i cry

a lot when i cry my heart is calm. after she was freed from the camp 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 we liked each other and decided to get married it did not matter to me that she was jewish. but had matter to layla's 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 later converted to islam she says so that whole 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 to be a holocaust survivor. i did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews definitely not i really only converted for my children i feel good. absolutely accepted here if i hear someone say they hate jews i answer them and say you

receive right from this country why hate the people who give them to you. now after seventy years her secret has finally come out clearly went to collect a pension money and the clark made the connection and the feds that we were shocked we didn't know what to say it was so difficult to hear but we opened our mouth and nothing came out she got she survived. his jewish name is leah the shufti but she hasn't really essence all those years ago when she arrived in israel is a refused she just months before the state of israel was declared him a nine hundred forty eight a date israeli celebrate but one that palestinians mourn is the catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors should i'm not happy or sad on this day i understand how israelis feel and i understand how arabs feel and

i feel both a lot of people have died for nothing the jewish mother and the muslim mother feel the same pain and it's that pain that palestinians around the world remember today . r.t. almost for israel. is really all i was at the withhold funding from organizations commemorating nakba day but tel aviv university is allowing oriel ceremony on its campus and its owner and some of the country's leaders later israeli arab m.p. are made t.v. tells our our tells our team that to bring change his people suffering must be acknowledged. to writing to prevent me from saying that i am sad that my family was killed or deported in one thousand nine hundred did they want us to dance in this story. as them. we can we have a human and natural human feeling when you recognize the suffer of the other

side you'll bridge the gap between you and him i have. empathy for those who survived the holocaust i have. talked about it here in the knesset. and i see it disappear from the jewish people who suffered and looked in europe as a victim. to have empathy for the suffering of the victims victim. full interview with made t.v. coming your way in about an hour here on r.t. still to come this hour on words and for a soyuz rocket with three crew members aboard heading to the international space station where they'll spend the next four months or at the launch site at fighter. but first a month into the ceasefire syria still suffering from violence and it's casting serious doubt on the un backed peace plan doesn't said to have been killed in the

recent surge of unrest in several flashpoint cities monday the e.u. imposed a new set of economic sanctions against the country to pile on the pressure but only on the government european leaders want to speed up implementation of kofi annan peace plan which they say has so far failed damascus claims its defending the country from terror groups backed by foreign powers syria's unrest has spilled across the border into lebanon with sectarian clashes between pro and anti assad supporters leaving at least five day international relations professor mark allman thinks even if syrian troops lay down their arms it may not bring stability. i think the tragic situation is even if president assad retire gracefully. a lot of his supporters will be ready to have. a lot of people watch to gain control of the. we're now into a cycle of violence. and as we saw in libya. just because the regime is overthrown

doesn't stop when you this kind of civil war and also external commenting on. you know all the irresponsible were people who were doing was fine. really concerned about what happens. the united states is resuming arms sales to bahrain after freezing delivery last autumn because of the bloody government crackdown washington insists none of the weapons would be used against demonstrators but human rights groups say the deal as a signal america could be supporting a dictatorship he's got it she reports the decision marks a striking difference in its approach to other countries in the region. and meet bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and human rights activists washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince and his back to the united states. and pledges to resume arms supplies to a key ally in the gulf. the us had suspended weapons sales to bahrain in the light

of massive human rights violations by these sorties there but now the state department has issued a statement saying that american weapons will soon be heading to bahrain again. we've made this decision i want to emphasize on national security grounds we've made this decision mindful of the fact that there remain a number of serious unresolved human rights issues in bahrain which we expect the government of bahrain to address bahrain host the u.s. fifth fleet it's around forty ships two aircraft carriers sixteen thousand personnel a major force in the gulf clyde prestowitz a top economist in the reagan and clinton administrations argues the us has traded principles for military bases we've sided with the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of the so of the fifth fleet. in the gulf.

and so yeah i mean i think we compromised in the same statement announcing the resumption of arms supplies to bahrain washington calls for the country's opposition to show restraint. we concerned by what has now become almost daily street violence. and we in this context bahrain's political opposition to call for an end to the violence against police that's a stark difference from the u.s. approach towards other countries in the region engulfed in anti-government protests where the u.s. has tacitly or openly encouraged violence against government forces and libya the united states was openly attacking and supporting it was open openly supporting the libyan rebels and their attacks against the states even though this was. an arson essentially sure that now was the doing proper board and then syria similarly there has been no and there were only four or restrain from violence by the opposition

forces there so it's a little bit odd to see this only in bahrain it's a highly asymmetrical about a situation it's not a case in which. in which there's enormous violence of work by the protesters against the police forces it's clearly by the bahraini state against the civilians the general perception is that the u.s. doesn't want to rock the boat in bahrain because of its fifth fleet there so it's a case of eyes wide shot at human rights violations it might seem like a normal trade off in the walls of politics but critics say it makes a mockery of america claiming the high moral ground in other countries in the arab walled where political unrest wages company check out reporting from austin r.t. . torture in guantanamo bay britain's complicity in illegal rendition on suspects in a selective approach on whom to regard as a threat u.s. war on terror leaving a decidedly murky trail and that's what julian assange takes on in his latest edition of his show here on our t.v. our london correspondent laura smith takes

a look at what's to come in today's edition which comes your way in about twenty minutes. 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 two 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 listening to the sound of

a woman screaming next all i'm told is led to believe it's my wife my children's pictures being waved in front of me 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. bag 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 scene guantanamo. charge of the. extradition and all of these things common and you will actually be abused for very specific purposes and all of them have been used to be involved something was

working against these these policies in prisons is this an important voice. almost the same power that's just a little bit self the program you can see the whole thing that which is being full of cost for the first time on all day at eleven thirty g.m.t. don't miss it. or stories on analysis at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now how the hacker group anonymous could be the most powerful organization on earth berms on lawmakers and that it has access to every classified database in the u.s. and other countries. at our team sits down to speak with afghan president hamid karzai about his own battle country's next phase as nato hands control over the more regions despite a rise in violence the full interview on our t.v. dot com. is.

the official. from the. video. and. now in the palm of your. home indian efforts to reduce imports of iranian oil aren't going down well with washington a top u.s. diplomat says it's not doing enough to help america's global squeeze on iran over the country's nuclear program india relies heavily on iranian crude but its refusal

to sharply cut imports may land india with sanctions international relations professor dr charlie things there must be a compromise. we have come to expect the united states to treat us as sovereign equals if it's not happening any of their talking don't do us legacies i'm sure it's not being appreciated because the country the point is that you know indians are very clear from the beginning that as far as economic interests cool you don't need to barter and we're not going to give you the same bottom card no matter what memory can start trying to do in fact i think we're also waiting to signal it's not it's not that fear could that this pressure will go on did need to be here in this region i think the i'm very concerned realize there's so much into a broad trade going on and americans certainly feel the need that they need to also try and get market access in this region that everybody wants of piece of video because a large market is one point three billion people so you know on the beat united states we want to have good relations with everybody and we don't like triangles in

vitriol being forced to make a choice on one side or the other you're either vetoes or against us i don't think it's going to look at the. turnout of some other stories making headlines across the globe the e.u. says its naval force all somalia's coast has carried out its first air strikes against pirate targets onshore aircraft an attack helicopter apparently took part in the rain with no casualties reported so far european union is a major donor to the transitional government and for reinforcing somalia and neighboring states navies and counter piracy actions. are reports emerging blaming nato for dozens of civilian deaths 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 to account nato refuted the claims saying its campaign was conducted with unprecedented care and procession member states meet for a summit in chicago later this week. u.s.

congressman ron paul suspending his active campaign for the white house he hasn't won a single state primary but he is in giving it instead 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 election. a new expedition on its way to the international space station a soyuz rocket carrying two russian cosmonauts and a u.s. astronaut blast off from kazakhstan. reports. we're at the baikonur cosmodrome as close as we could get to the launch pad with the three man crew part of this thirty one thirty two expedition 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 two they will be in orbit. for the next four months 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 and. 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 these displays john 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. now if only this business news in europe again in the

spotlight tell us more that is true the political turmoil in the greece has been keeping. the pressure for weeks now with investors now say the possibility of a greek pulling out of the euro zone is. more. but shooting these head of russian cash equity trading. it's good to see you now your gambling man what. do you give to grease coming out of the years. well as in their well known joke about the possibility of meat in the dinners or in the street i would say fifty fifty dollars to get out or not but. i don't know and i don't think it's actually bears a lot of the reckon sequence for the russian stock market for example the important thing is not the case itself which is relatively small and investments in greece already written down by most banks. but the potential contagion effect for spain

and especially italy is that is the real danger so what you greece somehow manages to get out without making a contagion effect the best of the lot of people it was a while as a country was actually welcome so you think right now greece is not that much important but overall what do you think is. spain is important italy more important but most important is. i don't know i have a feeling that since the crisis that the whole world is moving in japan the japanese were in a sense and however people try to to avoid it this vicious cycle of printing a lot of money you get and rates to zero as a whole because the economy will start will start to grow and it still doesn't happen and since so there is some rebound but still no. where in kind of dire straits again and this is not in the whole history of humankind when i was there was some deep economy crisis is

a normal scene was to forgive debts. and you know the expression of starting from clean slate in english comes from that from five thousand years ago when i would people were just to march and a couple of days of brought the temple just to give all this was a presence because otherwise they would die or actually go and riot because i don't want today i don't know what day it's all the day it's kind of work considered to be sacred and the money is printed to help people pay some of the that's probably not the right way rights workers more on the temple of the eurozone that would be germany it's now reported g.d.p. going up point five percent the first quarter how encouraging is this data view. i don't know it statistics you see of minus five percent boskoff percent people. pay a lot of attention to this worse actually come to think of it as just one month's of some some statistical data. i'd say that the big of the bigger picture is much more in a solar today where you have somebody spite in the international markets and knowing

the russian market some response from the recent walls but was it will it is the start of some or some decent rally long term of course so we still have to see the moment calls more bloodletting to this we. all right there exhibited thank you so much for being with us. i was able to the head of russian cash equity trading our nation's capital i think the situation in greece right now is not that much important nor is it g.d.p. data from germany was take a look at what the market really thinks now we've seen a lot of declines in the past couple of weeks and now finally some kind of positive movement coming in the in the on the footsie and on the dax and indeed it is limited right now polls we only talk to you guys have been busy capital and he thinks the effect from the g.d.p. data could be assured me. this basically alone leader everybody else is suffering the consequences of the crisis so the risk of

trade is still on. and investors are basically getting rid of risky assets russia's innovation market so naturally some are dead taking place in emerging market funds the performance of late has not been spectacular and maybe some speculate of positions being cut as well has nothing to do with the fundamentals of the russian economy or with the oil price surely it has dropped fifteen dollars off the off the top but it's still. at a very high level. try very quickly now look at the russian markets and they're not feeling any optimism base we have to dropping free and a half percent all monday you'd expect a correction upwards but now the obvious and the my six of within one third of a percent now on the m i six if we just take a look quickly financials are feeling a bit better than the market was burbank up more than one percent energy shares are mixed with gazprom down one percent fluke or up one percent and that's basically all we have time for join my colleague katie pilbeam she'll be here next hour to bring an update.

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