as friends welcomes its newly inaugurated president francois law and it's down to business for the socialist leader heading to berlin for a key euro crisis talks with german chancellor angela merkel. classes may cost between police and the protesters doing my kind of sting and mocking not a day that some of the displacement of thousands of people in the state of israel was established in one nine hundred forty eight. grain backlash activists and human rights groups spent anger at the u.s. for assuming arms sales to the new regime despite its continued crackdown on dissent. still under house arrest julian a son who brings us the latest edition of his talk show this time raising the subject of torture as a legal rendition. six

pm in moscow i match reza 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 emmys a palace in a modest ceremony in central paris just hours after the inauguration he's now headed to berlin where he'll have a welcome dinner with german chancellor on the merkel and whole a crucial meeting to discuss the eurozone crisis socialist leader a law it is an avid campaigner for measures to stimulate growth and most a 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 below that. francois alone when the french presidential election the role. of the big. ally and nicolas sarkozy when it came to pushing the

rich as the only way to tackle your debt crisis has not been a great recent period for the german chancellor seeing some of the post their own christian democratic party suffered a 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 along is that he it's straight after he is sworn in as french president he's 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 gauge. opinions on things such as fiscal discipline and the promotion of the economy and

of juleps no for his part campaigned on a plate that he would try and renegotiate the 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 they're 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 alongside 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 drag european countries out

of the financial minded they find themselves in. remains committed to all stare and belt tightening saying that it's the only way that europe is going to be able to get itself out of recession and back on its feet. for more on the troubles facing europe's economy and joined by professor of european studies at stanford university will be based at the school for a living center so the case for fiscal consolidation will be put by german chancellor merkel and growth oriented policies for new friends but for a french president alone but are these two approaches mutually exclusive do you think germany and france can work together to hammer out a compromise and get europe on the right track. of course germany and france will work together because they always work together and they have been the engine to keep the european integration project going and i don't really see much of a controversy coming up because we have a similar discussion in germany that we have to more about growth and not only

focus on austerity and i think it was sort of cozy didn't immediately warm to merkel's austerity plans but he did finally succumbed after a long talks in negotiations with her over the years how do you think this new will new relationship could be different from the previous one. whatever the relationship so far has been different we saw close friendships like with cola and false while veto all we saw cases in which it was certainly not based on personal friendship but in all the cases it worked perfectly well because these are professional leaders and they know that they have to get their act together to keep the european integration project running. tax hikes and spending cuts have triggered a political and popular backlash against austerity across europe especially in the countries like greece and ireland portugal italy moving many people toward the political left now germany says the european investment bank should lead should lend more generously to start to soften austerity do you think that will help

people get back into work. well it is pretty clear from the numbers that focus only on austerity doesn't lead to anything but a debt problem which will be traumatic for all the countries involved so we will see a stronger role of the european investment bank and we will also see a smarter use of the spending that is orchestrated through the transfer policies of the european union we are negotiating the next seven years financial forecast hence the money is about a trillion euros and that will certainly be used in a more efficient way than mean previous packages which were rather seen as side payments not only four months ago italy's prime minister mario monti warned chancellor merkel that of protests and unrest in italy if it didn't see progress coming out of the austerity measures now moody's agency has lowered the credit ratings of twenty six italian banks do you think germany might be forced into any

kind of rethink over its austerity plans. germany is in a way committed to the rule of law and we have seen a number of proposes with various governments which were. in no way focusing on the will flaw as a core principles so no german government will ever negotiate the self binding commitment of the expert back but what we will see is a more concentrated a more concentrated focus on. public spending in a way which is more investment and not so much consumption. right really bruckner professor of european studies at stanford university's berlin center thanks very much for your insight. reporting extensively on the shaky economic situation in the euro zone on our web site r t v dot com greek markets bracing for iraq friday's analysts predict a continuing downward trend tuesday also online. sweeping up the opposition iraqi

forces detain suspects. antigovernment activists find out what might happen to them next. clashes broke out between protesters and israeli police as palestinians mark nakba or catastrophe day they're remembering the hundreds of thousands displaced after the creation of the state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight or his policy or as the latest. protesters have been throwing stones at israeli security forces to 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 fall from the united nations building there and that is to

commemorate the day in ramallah city itself protesters marched on the scene of the format of the p.l.o. yes our fight to the palestinian authority government building but on the whole things ought really to be 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 let's pause we came to be israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu sent to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and in that recall israel's commitment to peace and restarting negotiations that was in response to later that a bus said 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 gave a finance minister the discretion to reduce funding to those organizations that organize the naacp commemoration of this and it's the same government that's a world where this year around many criticizing this as a violation of freedom of speech and also an experiment by the israeli government to simonds the suffering of palestinians now i met up with a woman who perhaps more than most. stance why in the uk the day means so much to the palestinians but is also able to empathize with these ways 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 auschwitz death camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time all our pleasure 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 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. list of fields fear when she hears a loud knocking at the door and i think they're coming to kill me i remember the bones the bodies legs hands the people i sparked 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 a neighbour's house and she brought me something to drink. decided to get married it did not matter that she was jewish. but had matter to his family her father didn't speak to her for a year and most of her israeli jewish cousins have disowned their young couple moved here to. an arab village in northern israel where local versity is. 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'd been a holocaust survivor. i did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews i was definitely not really any converted from 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 her pension money and the clark made the connection and the feds. we were shocked didn't know what to say but it was so difficult to hear that we opened our mouths and nothing came out of that i think got she survived. his jewish name is leah shockey but she hasn't really are 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 left palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors and i'm not happy or sad on this day i understand how israelis feel and i understand how

arabs 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 that pain that palestinians around the world remember today policia r.t. omar for israel. later this hour a private arab member of the israeli parliament tells r.t. that to bring change people so his people suffering must be acknowledged. drying 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 the street. as then 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 but i anticipate from the jewish people who suffered a look in europe as a victim. to have sympathy for the suffering of the victims victim. in bahrain the security forces have dispersed and other anti-government rally by launching tear gas and rubber bullets as 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 key u.s. ally as art has got a reports. and meet bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and human rights activists washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince as well thanks 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 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 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 state even though this was. an art and the situation that now was the doing proper board and then syria similarly there

has been no then there were only four or restrain from violence by the opposition forces there so it's a little bit are you there's only in bahrain it's a highly asymmetrical not a situation it's not a case in which. and once there's enormous violence abroad 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 wall of politics but critics say it makes a mockery of america claiming the high moral ground in other countries in the arab walter where political monographs wages company check our reporting from washington marty. still ahead this hour space reinforcement a soyuz spacecraft blocks off from baikonur and kazakstan sending a crew of three to the international space station details ahead. but first their

rendition of alleged terror. specks and torture in the notorious guantanamo bay detention center of the focus for julian a songe in the latest edition of his controversial talk show his guess one of whom has been a guantanamo detainee shared their point of view on the u.s. war on terror laura smith has the details on the program that 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 kate prison is 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 that's what brought 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 kicked listing to the sound of a woman screaming next all i'm told is led 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 or do 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 seeing guantanamo. charge in the u.k. traditionally you know all of these things common and you will actually norms being abused for a specific purpose and all of them convince me that i used to be involved something was working against these these policies in prisons is this an important voice. almost instant power that's just a little bit self the program and you can see the whole thing which is being for the first time on day methods. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe fresh clashes in syria left these thirty dead just a month after the ceasefire came into effect state troops launched a military assault on the town of harasta and where rebel fighters are still holding out against the government a ceasefire was negotiated by kofi anon as a plan to end the turmoil that swept the country since last year the revolt against

the assad regime violence is happening in syria announces the results of its first multi-party election in five decades something much. yemeni military officials say they've intensified a new u.s. backed offensive against al qaida insurgents in the south of the country clashes continue till early tuesday killing at least four soldiers and thirteen militants officials also say in separate incidents raids had 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 country. you naval forces conducted their first raid on pirate bases in somalia helicopters and warships were used in the overnight attack there with fish will say there were no injuries somali pirates are thought to be holding around seventeen seas ships and three hundred crew men demanding huge ransoms for the release anti-piracy forces have been reluctant to attack mainland bases in the past period for the safety of

the captured crew no. former news of the world editor has been charged with attempts to conceal evidence over britain's phone hacking scandal rebecca brooks faces three counts of conspiracy to avert the courts of justice and could face life behind bars if guilty her husband and four others also charged the charges are the first in the year and a half long inquiry and relate to concealing documents and computers from police last july. finally a new in the news block a soyuz spacecraft set off from a cosmic drone in kazakhstan bringing two russian cosmonauts and a u.s. astronaut up to the international space station or teaser was there to bid them farewell. 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 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. they will be docking at the ais this will be docking with several. cargo of european japanese american vessels they also will be doing several spacewalks as well one of those will be concerning the situation where. they will be joining the rest of the thirty one thirty two expedition three people already their 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. kate is now with us from the business desk for us markets are start of their trading what's going on yeah well not right now that she demonstration their resilience towards all the great drama that's going on right now that creeping up into positive territory not solve all the while but he starts with see that official figures do you write that the dow jones around a quarter of cent up on the nasdaq about a full tenth of december right now investors also just think that new elections will be held in the race not softer ted. to form a government i have indeed this was a sentiment going on in the us to be contemplating what's going on and you're absolutely see how the put me on the docks are doing all right now as they say there's been a breakdown in the talks there was a bit of rest by germany early on in the day when g.d.p. figures expanded by no point five percent but right now we've got the does eight

tenths of percent down on the footsie over half a percent now it looks to be about chords on limits with capital he was interested to buy those g.d.p. figures have a listen to what he had. i don't know what statistics you see of minus five percent blastoff percent people. pay a lot of attention to figures like this worse 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 very spiky as international markets alone the russian markets in response from the recent one but. it is the start of some or some decent rally long term of course not so we still have to see some more much more bloodletting to. sell something that may be a concern for investors the italian banking sector now it's seen a vote of no on confidence that solved the media's cut the credit ratings on twenty

six lenders that was including the countries may just like you credit ten of them were downgraded to the so-called junk status while some saw their ratings cut by as much as for not just the agency said the banks were increasingly vulnerable to this recession the effects of the government austerity measures all of them were also put on negative credit watch that means a further downgrade are indeed a possibility let's have a look at the door and see how that reacting as i said there was a breakdown in those talks between the greek ministers as you can see the euro dollar has dropped this hour is one twenty seven ninety just they're not surprising that we've got a mixed picture for the russian ruble that will stop. trading in just under ten minutes time says looking up to finish it makes against the basket cars is asked for the russian market right now it's also a mixed color palette on your screen change of fortunes for the mind sex in the last few minutes or so now that let's head into the movies and save his and see how the stocks performed in today's trading session talk about gazprom but they are

indeed down left feeling the pressure from europe as well that exports twelve percent in the first quarter of this years it's really been in the contagion effect if we get on to other energy measures go loophole that i have a two and a quarter of them stand up step by the biggest lender here must around seven tenths of a percent off in positive territory to get into the oil prices because they are in deep now they all. of this hour but if you look at the actual prices them selves that if we talk about stockpiles in the u.s. you just when i mentioned this one there now that highest level in twenty one years we could see a drop in those prices right now but the now if you look at the brant price the minister of saudi arabia has actually said that he would see that price are no stranger down to one hundred dollars per barrel for markets to now all have the closing because for the russian market and then i started simply thanks for tracking that katie will check back with you in an hour we'll all be back with

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