friends welcomes its newly of the overrated president francois hollande it's straight to business for the socialist leader heading to berlin for a key euro crisis talks with german chancellor angela merkel. classes may cost between his rating police and protesters during rallies by kind of sting and mocking not the day that some of the displacement of thousands of people in the state of israel was established in one nine hundred forty eight. bahrain backlash activists in human rights groups vent anger at the u.s. for assuming arms sales to the bought her a new regime despite its continued crackdown on dissent. and still under house arrest julian assad who brings us the latest edition of his talk show this time

raising the subject of torture at a legal recognition. four pm in moscow i might try as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story francoise hollande has officially become france's new president he was sworn in for a five year term at the elysee palace in a modest ceremony in central paris just hours after the inauguration and is now headed to berlin to have a welcome dinner with german chancellor angela merkel and hold a crucial meeting to discuss the eurozone crisis the socialist leader hollande is an avid campaigner for measures stimulating growth and wanting to compromise over germany's focus on austerity the two leaders of the euro zone's biggest economies face immense pressure to iron out their differences as artie's peter all over reports from berlin. what francois hollande will in the french presidential

election he rolled. off the biggest ally of nicolas sarkozy when it came to her she will stay as the only way to tackle europe's debt crisis has not been a great recent period for the german chancellor seeing some of the post her 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 a range range meant can be sorted out between the leaders of europe's two largest economies francois along deciding he it's 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 part and 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 about fiscal pact is closed it will not be reopened or renegotiated be watching it closely expect we'll see some form of agreement some form of compromise reached but ups with a parallel treaty being created or an onyx to the would ing of the original document that could see could favor growth a long sight cutting the deficit 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. paula rice you have polarized political views all along 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 a stereotype 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 alone won't be enough to solve the crisis and that strategies must be combined to have a positive effect on the european economy. i think we are in a good trick because one can fit with the other i think there's no eternity 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 and on the other hand of course we need growth but who is creating growth his new debts will fade and that is the lesson i'm going to teach mr all and i think germany is a good example in the last two years and finland was

a good example in the early ninety's which shows if you do reforms if you do things 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 the way spain portugal italy has to go through and two is changing mr way i call on has brahmanist 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 brought them. or reporting extensively on the shaky economic situation in the eurozone on our website our team. greek markets are bracing for a rough ride as analysts predict a continuing downward trend tuesday also online. sweeping up the opposition iraqi forces detained suspected anti-government activists find

out what might happen to them next. clashes have broken out between protesters and israeli security forces as palestinians park nakba or catastrophe day they're remembering hundreds of thousands displaced after the creation of the state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight as good leaders from archy's policy or. last year it's not but they saw clashes that left a dozen dead what do you think we can expect today. one of reading so far we have seen a number of clashes breaking out in the west bank between palestinian protesters and israeli security forces there taking place at checkpoints the most volatile being the checkpoint of columbia between jerusalem and ramallah and the protesters

have been throwing stones at israeli security forces who have been responding with water cannons and tear gas we're also hearing reports of molotov cocktails being thrown and tires being burned meanwhile in gaza thousands of protesters have participated in a rally just not far from the united nations building there and that is to commemorate the day in ramallah city itself protesters marched from the tomb of the format of the p.l.o. yasser arafat's to the palestinian authority government building but on the whole things are relatively quiet certainly compared to last year when twelve people were killed when they try to storm the israeli lebanese and syrian borders but the police remain on a state of high alert because certainly the day is young and there is a fear that these commemorations could descend into violence as the day progresses . so paula what efforts are approach more being made between these two sides. while this past weekend to be israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu sent

a letter to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and then that may take recon firmed israel's commitment to peace and restarting negotiations that was in response to a letter that a bus sent netanyahu last month and then again we heard the same words being expressed at the weekly cabinet meeting on sunday by netanyahu saying that he hopes that the advancement of dialogue will see the resumption of diplomatic talks between both sides but no one here is holding their breath and certainly the word coming out of the palestinian camp is that netanyahu government remains as right wing as ever just last year the government approved a change in the budget that gay. a finance minister is the discretion to reduce funding to those organizations that organize their luck but commemorations and it's the same government that's where this year around many criticizing this as a violation of freedom of speech and also and explained by the israeli government

to silence the suffering of palestinians now i met up with a woman who perhaps more than most understands why in the uk the day means so much to the palestinians but is also able to empathize with israelis here in this day is a day of celebration the day that the state of israel was established. 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 i need that 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 al should stay at a camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time or they are plotting richey 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 in 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 when they are members and make a playlist still feels fear when she hears a loud knocking at the door 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 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 mattered 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 and to now they knew their mother had been through it but they didn't know she'd been a holocaust survivor. i did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews definitely not really any converted for my children i feel completely 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 that. we were shocked we didn't know what to say it was so difficult to hear that we opened our mouths and

nothing came out of the gut she survived. his jewish name is leah. but she hasn't really essence 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 left palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their and sisters and 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 painting and it's their pain that palestine. around the world remember today. r.t.e. . israel. and bahrain security forces are dispersed another anti-government rally firing tear gas and rubber bullets is the latest violence against a peaceful movement that flared up more than

a year ago but despite the oppression washington has resumed arms sales to the bahraini regime which is a king u.s. ally as our he's gotten sick young reports. that the us and meet bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and human rights activists that washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince and his brother to the united states. and pledges to resume arms supplies to a key ally in the gulf. the u.s. 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 and major force in the gulf region 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 cell of the fifth fleet. in the gulf. and so yeah i mean i think we compromised ourselves in the same statement announcing the resumption of arms supplies to bahrain washington calls for the countries opposition to show restraint. we concerned by what has now become almost daily street violence and we are 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 art to the situation 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 brought 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 laws 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. . still ahead this hour crude intentions find out why in the face hard sions if it doesn't surrender to washington's demands over its oil imports. this space reinforcement a soyuz spacecraft blast off from baikonur in kazakstan bringing a crew of three to the international space station details ahead. there anderson of alleged terror suspects and torture in the notorious guantanamo bay detention center are the focus of julian assange and his latest addition of his controversial talk show his guess one of whom has been an inmate in guantanamo share the point of view on the u.s. war on terror artie's laura smith has the details on the program which airs in the next hour. speaks to people who have had first hand experience of the

effects of the war on terror one of them is correct 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 here is 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 that's what brought me to the point where i would sign something like this was being tied up with. my legs with a good placed over my head being punched and kicked listening to the sound of a woman screaming next all i'm told is lead to believe is 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. 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 though he and i. have been actively trying to end this practice of detention without trial caressa during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight scene guantanamo. charge in the u.k. extradition and all of these things common in time you will actually be abused and for very specific purposes and all of them. i used to be involved something was working against these these policies in prisons is this an important voice almost in the same power that's just a little bit of the program you can see the whole thing which is being broadcast

for the first time on our teaches day don't miss it. washington's warning india it's not satisfied with its efforts to reduce iranian oil imports a top u.s. diplomat says new delhi is not doing enough to put pressure on terra over its nuclear program and the country could face sanctions if it doesn't make drastic cuts on imports international relations professor dr serum charlie says the two countries must reach 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 down to us like this i'm sure it's not being appreciated across the country the point is that you know india is a very clear have been from the beginning that as far as economic interests cool you don't need to barter and we're not going to give up this important card no matter what memory can start trying 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 they need to be here in this region i think the i'm very concerned realize there's so much interest

pretreated going on and americans certainly feel the need that they need to also try and get market access in this region everybody wants of piece of india because it's a large market it's one point three billion people so you know 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 you are either vetoes or against us i don't think it's going to look anything. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe fresh clashes in syria left thirty dead just a month after a ceasefire came into effect state troops launched a military assault on the town of rostov where rebel fighters are holding out against the government a cease fire was negotiated by kofi anon as part of a plan to end the turmoil sweeping the country since last year's revolt against the assad regime violence is happening as a results are coming through from syria's first multi-party election in five decades. yemen's military officials say they've intensified a new u.s.

backed offensive against al qaida insurgents in the country south clashes continued until early tuesday capturing six militants with at least four soldiers killed officials also say that in a separate incident raids have mistakenly killed eight civilians and wounded twenty in the southern town of jaar political turmoil in yemen has led to a growing islamist insurgency in the south of the country. naval forces conducted their first raid on pirate bases in somalia helicopters and warships were used in the overnight attack though officials say there were no injuries somali pirates are thought to be holding around seventeen seas ships three hundred crew members demanding huge ransoms for the release anti-piracy forces have been reluctant to attack mainland bases in the past fearing for the crew of the captured a. former editor of the news of the world has been charged with attempts to conceal evidence over britain's phone hacking scandal brett rebecca brooks faces three

counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and could face life in prison if found guilty her husband and four others have also been charged the charges are the first in the eighteen months inquiry and relates to concealing documents and computers from police last july. a soyuz spacecraft has set off from a cosmic drone in kazakhstan bringing two russian cosmonauts and a u.s. astronaut up to the international space station artie's alina watched the departure . 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 seventeenth they will be in orbit. for the next four months that have died

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. they will be docking at the ais as will be docking with several cargo vessels in 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 joe acaba he's lucky enough to celebrate his birthday on may seventeenth when the so hughes is actually scheduled to dog the international space station what a way to celebrate a birthday. katie pilbeam joins us now from the business there as well ok do so the

greek situation still the main topic on the markets yet it come as no surprise that the political turmoil in greece is keeping the global markets under pressure for yet another wait now this is saying the possibility of a great exit from the euro zone is more likely than ever let's have a look at the first three of us and see how their way out so you get to see that and it seems like they're pretty sure that i've got the first thing i just want to negative than the dax just ever so slightly out into positive territory now alexei but still in that form and i have to says german g.d.p. is a silverlight in an otherwise go in a while the seven of them. i don't know if statistics you see of minus five percent blastoff percent people. bring a lot of attention to figures like this was actually come to think of it is just one month's of some more some statistical data. that says it's a big of the bigger picture is just much more minnesota day we will have some

respond to his international markets alone the russian market's own response from the recent. but. it is the start of some or some decent rally long term of course not so we still have to see some more marching more bloodletting to this way. hey let's talk about how the banks now the italian banking sector has seen a vote of no on confidence that says moody's cut the credit rating on twenty six lenders including the country's majors like you need credit ten of them were downgraded to the so-called junk status while some saw the ratings can't buy as much as for not just the agency says the banks were increasingly vulnerable to its business session on the effects of the government will start its measures all of them or also cause a negative credit watch meaning that further downgrades all a possibility ok that brings us on to the euro dollar we'll see how the traders favor is performing at this hour it is. surely we mentioned it just now that the

german data has offered some. point zero percent so we've got the euro trading at one point twenty eight fifty today but the ruble there is going to get us. this hour and moving on with the how the russian market is forming now off to losing over three and a whole percent yesterday we can see it's not too bad we just got five basis points for the arts yes i don't want to tell both of them for the my sakes their salaries see the. bank as well that's russia's biggest lender we'll see how that's getting on this hour and it is getting around one and of course percent is energy mage's there is a mix view for them nearly one percent. or one percent in the polls to that now we're talking about energy mages that get on to the oil prices were important to the russian market is just trading just now but those prices are now trading near their lowest level in five months and that just before reports of full costs to show that u.s. could still polls have risen to the highest level in twenty years so i certainly

think that i came out the markets and i'll be back about fifteen minutes thank you very much again you will see you in the next hour well still to come we'll talk with an arab in israel's parliament about a day that defines the country's polarized people that's after the headlines stay with us.

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