as france welcomes its newly inaugurated president francois hollande is straight down to business for the socialist. euro crisis talks with chancellor angela merkel . classes break house between israeli police and arab protesters during rallies by palestinians marking now a day that saw the displacement of thousands of people when the state of israel was established in one nine hundred forty eight. hour a backlash activists and human rights groups vent their anger at the u.s. for resuming arms sales to the bahraini regime despite its continued crackdown on dissent. and some under house arrest during the sun brings us the latest edition of his talk show this time raising the subject of torture and the legal rendition.

welcome to r.t. live from moscow at eight pm my name's kevin now in france where lands officially become france's new president he was sworn in for a five year term with the palace in a modest ceremony in central paris but just hours after his inauguration alarms know heading to berlin you'll have a welcome dinner with german chancellor angela merkel and hold a crucial meeting to discuss the eurozone crisis so she is later allowed is an avid campaigner for measures that stimulate growth once a promise so germany's focus on austerity the two leaders of the reserve largest economies face immense pressure than to iron out their differences parties paid roll over reports from burning. 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 with as the only way to tackle europe's debt crisis has not been a great recent period for the german chancellor the 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 the day it all eyes are now looking to see if they knew a range range meant can be sorted out between the leaders of europe's two largest economies francois along is heading. straight after he is sworn in as french president being welcomed here by angle of oakland 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 or law and campaigned on a plate that he would try and renegotiate the the euro zone's fiscal pact which binds member states to austerity measures now 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 wooding of the original document that could see could favor growth alongside 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. political leaders here who have very polarized you have polarized political views. 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 where is anglo merkel remains committed to austerity and belt tightening saying that the only way that europe is going to be able to get itself out of recession and back on its feet. the role of a reporter never got a footnote so it is well plain we're hearing now is being turned back to paris after being hit by lightning on route to berlin this according to a presidential source mr caused too much panic the other planes to get hit by lightning quite frequently couple times a year or so but the turning it back obviously we don't know any more details just as a security precaution for now so that's the way it's been used to go on but i'm sure i'll be heading back to berlin shortly which is a member of the european parliament for the u.k.'s conservative party says merkel and hollande will have to listen to the needs of the entire eurozone to deal with a crisis when they do eventually get to speak. absolutely true that alone did promise of french people that he would continue government expenditure but the same

time follow a policy which was a reducing the national budget deficit now actually less you're going to print money or unless you're going to raise taxes significantly that's just not going to happen so i suspect a certain amount of reality will kick in here the markets will tell all on what we can and can't do but in the meantime bank of america is going to have to listen very closely to france which is the closest allies because between them they have to determine how to resolve the crisis in the eurozone on the one side the one culture is the german fiscal discipline area and culture which says look if you've got a budget deficit if your in other words maxed up on your overdraft there's only two things you can do one is to stop spending and two is to earn a little bit more but on the other hand we have a loan say oh no there is another way that we actually can continue government expenditure we can continue the size of government that we have and yet somehow we

can either live with the debt or it will gradually reduce itself i think there's a clash of culture happening here and i think it's not just about a law and merkel important that is if you listen or look at what's happening in greece the greek people are saying i don't care what you say we don't want austerity we like the way it was now that if that mood becomes infectious right through your is extremely dangerous political leaders in greece are in talks trying to secure a workable government after failed elections nine days ago the country split between the left is opposition and supporters of more. the painful austerity economic analyst nick scratches says a viable compromise can be reached but only if the politicians are boring to the population. if you asked most greeks about the bailout yes they're very happy to take it if you ask them whether they would rather be a leader well the eighty percent will say yes if you ask them about the austerity of course they say no i think the fed maybe some ways that the memorandum can be

renegotiated to take away the worst of the austerity but keep some of the supply side reforms and for greece today able to stay within the european union in that way but of course political leaders have to come clean with a population you have to understand that the new up at the moment there is a bit of a dichotomy they don't want to give in to greece completely because then they will have everybody else lining up as well but on the other hand they don't want to send a message that we will cut members of the eurozone loose and that the eurozone could dissolve a trinkaus overnight we already see today after the announcement of the repeat griego actions that yields on borrowing costs for the whole periphery have gone through the roof and so some evidence sustainable levels so there are direct this there were reporting extensively on the shaky gnomic situation in the eurozone over our website r t dot com there were examined i bought ten form of government in

greek jolted markets there in iraq other members of the e.u. while you're also in line as well if you get a check this out sweeping up the opposition iraqi forces detain suspected anti-government activists wonder what might happen to them next. clashes have broken out between protesters and israeli police as palestinians marked knack for all catastrophe day that remembering the hundreds of thousands displaced after the creation of the state of israel in one hundred forty eight paul asli is called the latest. protesters have been throwing stones at israeli security forces to help the desponding with check and this and tear gas but 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 off 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 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 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 commemorations and it's the same government that's what all of this year around many criticizing this as a violation of freedom of speech and also an experiment by the israeli government to silence the suffering of palestinians now i met up with a woman who perhaps more than most. it stands for why in the uk the day means so much to the palestinians but is also able to empathize with israelis 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 to camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time or they are part of ritchie 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 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 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 we liked each other and decided to get married it did not matter to me 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 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 she being 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 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 hundred 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 to gut she survived. layla's jewish name is leah the shaft 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 but one that palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors. 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 that pain that palestinians around the world remember today policia r.t. . israel. well i let you know a bit later this hour a prominent arab member of the israeli parliament talks to us and says that to bring changes people suffering is big knowledged. trying to prevent me from saying that i am sad that my family was killed or deported in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight they want us to dance in this tree. as then we can we have eleven natural human feeling we knew we recognized to suffer all the other side you'll bridge the gap between you and him i have

to tell him pretty full of those who survived the holocaust i have i talked about it here in the knesset and i see it but i anticipate from the jewish people who suffered a lot in europe as a victim too ill to have sympathy for the suffering of victims victims. in bahrain the security forces have dispersed another anti-government rally by firing tear gas and rubber bullets it's the latest violence against a peaceful movement that flared up more than a year ago but despite the oppression washington's resumed sales to the bahraini regime which is a key u.s. ally that is going to change you can report. that was the emmett 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 u.s.

has traded principles for military bases we've sided with the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of the of the. 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 in 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 and

essentially sure that now was the doing proper board and 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 are see there's 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 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 monographs wages company check out reporting from washington r.t. . just ahead here this hour a space reinforcement that i. wrote like an orgasm sending

a crew of three international space station with one over our heads with all the details on that coming up in just a bit. but the. the rendition of alleged terror suspects and torture in the notorious guantanamo bay prison their focus for julian assange in the latest edition of his controversial talk show his guests one of whom has been in guantanamo share their point of view on america's war on terror is laura smith who has the details on the program which airs here 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 us in correctly 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 interviewee 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 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 and kicked and listening 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 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 and our super s.-u. 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 any time you will actually the norms being abused and for very specific purposes and all of them under convince me that i used to be involved something was working against these these policies in prisons is this an important voice. for muslims empowering that's just a little bit of the program and you can see the whole thing which is being broadcast for the first time on r.t. cheese day don't miss it. running up more world news for this tuesday night from moscow fresh violence i've learned. today after forces opened fire on a crowd in the central part of the country during a un visit to a car belonging to u.n. monitors was also damaged comes just

a month after the ceasefire came into effect meantime syria's announced the results of its parliamentary election state media released the names of the two hundred fifty winning candidates but didn't mention which party they represent or how many votes they received president assad's national unity bloc has claimed victory. yemeni military officials say they've intensified a new u.s. back to fence against al qaeda insurgents in the south of the country the clashes continued into loli on tuesday killing at least four soldiers and thirteen militants officials also say that in a separate incident raids had mistakenly killed eight civilians and wounded twenty in the southern town of jaar. political turmoil in yemen has led to a growing is limited insurgency in the south of the country. enable forces have continued their first grade on pirate bases in somalia helicopters and warships were used in the overnight attack the official say there were no injuries somali pirates are believed to be holding around seventeen seas chips and three hundred

crew members demanding huge ransoms for their release anti-piracy forces have been reluctant to attack mainland bases in the past though fear of the crew is. the former editor of the news the world's been charged with the attempts to conceal evidence over britain's phone hacking scandal rebecca brooks faces three counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and could face life in prison if found guilty the husband and four others have also been charged the charge is the first to be eighteen months ago and relate to concealing documents and computers from police the last july. soyuz spacecraft settled for money cosmodrome in kazakhstan carrying two russian cosmonauts and the u.s. astronaut to the international space station but he's really going to watch the team. where 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 are ready to

set off for the international space station let's have a moment and take a look at this amazing occurrence. 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 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 scientific experiments will be taking place. they will be docking will be docking with several. european japanese americans. also will be doing several spacewalks as well one of those will be concerning the situation where. they will be joining the. three people

already their course. when it comes to. to celebrate his birthday on may seventeenth when the use is actually scheduled dog international space station what a way to celebrate a birthday. twenty four minutes past eight o'clock at night here in moscow the markets are reacting to the greek drama that continues to play very for the. numbers for you got to read every day what was happening was a change of fortunes that should have been the u.s. markets are demonstrating with their lives really towards the great job as you say they're creeping into the positive that's after of all the wobbly. well the best to see though there's some positive news coming out one of them is home builders sentiment improving in may to the highest rate of the recession but investors are also digesting of that news coming from greece the new elections will indeed take

place after the government filed. also as well worth a match just very quickly to having such tell you about this yesterday the whole j.p. morgan two billion dollars trading loss would you believe jamie diamond the shareholders today the people's job and i'll leave the family of ten. million dollars for. the european markets and see how they're reacting to all of the drama is going on today and they are indeed dropping the thirty just six basis points and the eight tenths of now as i say there will be a new vote a party is going to be held as early as next month that's with polls showing that to give a brief. part to their apartment and get the top spot that's what the concern we did have german g.d.p. coming out and it did expand but this didn't exhaust many people one of those was alexei is what he had to say. by don't know what statistics you see of minus five percent plus percent of people who. pay a lot of attention to. 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 minutes so today we will have some respond to the international markets alone the russian market some response from the recent. but. it is the start of the. only long term of course. we still have to see. not only day the coming banking sector vote of no confidence. is cut the credit ratings on twenty six lenders and that was including the country's major. credit ten of them were downgraded to the so-called junk. ratings as much as poor as the agency said the banks were increasingly vulnerable to this recession and the effects of a government. all of them were also put a negative credit watch meaning that the downgrades. the ball now this check out

the your dollar book has the calling card maybe. greece. watching the situation very closely in the days as you can see there right now it's plummeting one twenty seven c. the trade is. not helping it we will finish up that is a mix with. the russian market. from the. well that. is you can see that the mindset is just in the last hour. yesterday. sent down if you look at this not moving and. probably suffering from the effects going on in europe exports dropping twelve percent in the first four months of this year which was the biggest lender here seven tenths of a cent up call the energy major eight percent look at the oil prices i was just raising

this just. going to drop that iranian imports by eleven percent of the. country. ok let's move on. and there by these banks there was no way ok now in the way we talked to an arab m.p. in israel's parliament about a day which defines the country's polarized people we're talking much more about that after i've updated the headlines next. to urge you. to ask. you you. you .