you know it's an arty from says million moderated presidents delayed on route to berlin for key euro crisis talks with angela merkel for his plane was forced to turn back when it was hit by like their. classes break house between israeli police and arab protesters during rallies by palestinians marking not the 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 spent their anger at the us presuming arm sales to the bahraini regime despite its continued crackdown on dissent. and still under house arrest during this santa brings us the latest edition of his talk show this time raising the subject of torture and illegal rendition.

welcome to our team live from moscow at nine pm my name is kevin irwin with our top stories for you tonight and sworn in as president first offered and then struck by lightning in the sky it's been a momentous day for a new french leader francoise alarmed he is now on his way to a key meeting in berlin second time round after his initial plane was forced to turn back after being hit by lightning earlier land was sworn in for a five year term in a ceremony at the only safe palace for months in germany even after you have a welcome dinner with the chancellor angela merkel and hold a crucial meeting to discuss the eurozone crisis socialist leader alarms and campaigner for measures that stimulate growth in the once a compromise over germany's focus of austerity the two leaders of eurozone largest economies face immense pressure to try to widen out their differences peter all over. reports of the. what francois hollande will in the french presidential

election he rolled. off the biggest ally in 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 monaco's the date 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 it is expected to be looking to gauge. opinions on things such as fiscal discipline and the promotion of the economy and of juleps though for his part and campaigned on

a plate that he would try and renegotiate 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 all 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 the political leaders here who are very polarized who have polarized political views all along and believes that you have to spend money to create growth and to drain it you drag european countries out of the financial minded they find themselves. whereas angela

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 . richard asked worth is a member of the european parliament u.k.'s conservative party he says merkel and alarmed will have to listen to the needs of the entire eurozone to deal with a crisis. 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've got to print money or unless you're going to raise taxes to efficiently that's just not going to happen so i suspect a certain amount of reality will kick in here the markets will tell 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 euro zone on the one side the one

culture is the german school disciplinary and culture which says look if you've got a budget deficit if your in other words max stuff 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 low oh no there is another way that we actually can continue government expenditure we can continue with 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. 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 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 leftist opposition and supporters of more bailout which would be further painful austerity economic analysts nick's crackers told us a viable compromise can be reached but only if the politicians are more in tune with the population if you ask most greeks about the bailout yes they're very happy to take it if you ask them whether they would rather be in the year when the eighty percent will say yes if you ask them about the austerity of course they say no i think that they may be some ways that the memorandum can be renegotiated to take away the worst of the us there eat 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 modulation you have to understand that in europe 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 the message that we will have members of the eurozone loose and that the eurozone

could dissolve and shrink 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. reporting extensively on the shaky economic situation in the eurozone over on our website r.t. dot com they're examining the botched attempt to form a government in greece jolted markets there and rocked other members of the e.u. why you wrote r.t. dot com as well if you get a moment you might be interested in checking this out as well sweeping up the opposition iraqi forces detain the suspected anti government activists fire what might happen to the next at r.t. dot com.

clashes have broken out between protesters and israeli police as palestinians mark nack but all catastrophe day they're remembering the hundreds of thousands displaced after the creation of the state of israel in one thousand forty eight artie's paul asli a report. protesters have been throwing stones at israeli security forces to help in the spondee with water cannons and tear gas but also hearing reports of multiple 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 i refer 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 may take he recalls israel's commitment to peace and restarting negotiations that was in response to later that a bus in netanyahu last month and then again we heard the same words being expressed at the key 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 said well we're

this year around many criticizing this as a violation of freedom of speech and also second exclaimed by the israeli government to silence the suffering of palestinians no i met up with a woman who perhaps more than most i. 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 putting 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 campaign 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 members and make a playlist all 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 and she brought me something to drink. 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 the 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 and to now they knew their mother had been through it but they didn't know she being a holocaust survivor their loss 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 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 of gut she survived. layla's jewish name is leah at the shop 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 is really celebrate that one let palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors led them 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 painting and it's that pain that palestinians around the world remember today policia r.t. omar for israel. they might be interested to know as well that later on at eight thirty pm g.m.t. on this channel we're talking to a prominent member of the israeli parliament telling us that the bring changes

people suffering must be acknowledged. trying to prevent me from saying that i am sad that my family was killed or deported in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight they want us to dance in this tree. as then we can we have eleven natural human feeling when you recognize the suffer of the other side you'll bridge the gap between you and him i have gotten 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 victim.

in bahrain 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 arms sales to the bahraini regime which is a key u.s. ally that is gone if you can reports. 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 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 u.s. has traded principles for military bases have sided with the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of the. in the gulf. and so yeah i mean i think we compromised officials 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 acts against the state even though this was. an art and essentially sure that now was the doing proper board and and then syria similarly there has been you know when 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 wall of politics but critics say it makes a mockery of america claiming the high moral ground in other countries in the arab waltz where political monographs wages company check out reporting from washington r.t. . still ahead for this hour a space reinforcement a soyuz space cell for five more in kazakhstan sending a crew three to the international space station because details about that as we watch a launch coming up. next the randi. of alleged terror suspects and torture in the notorious guantanamo bay prison there the focus for julian assange argy in the latest edition of his controversial talk show his guests one of whom has been in guantanamo share their point of view about america's war on terror is

laura smith has the details on the program which airs here later this 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 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 and listening to the sound of a woman screaming next door i'm told is led to believe as my wife my children's pictures being waved in front of me and being asked by these interrogators when do you think you're going to see them again what you think happened the night that we took you from the. back during the show goes into great detail about the horrors of his detention in guantanamo bay when he got home to britain he sued the british government for complicity in his ordeal and he reached an out of court financial settlement with the government since then though he and i. have been actively trying to end this practice of detention without trial and are simply arrested during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight seeing guantanamo. charge in the u.k. extradition are all of these things common and you will actually be abused for very specific purposes and all of them i'm convinced 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 and you can see the whole thing which is being broadcast for the first time on our teaches day don't mess it. on air in about ten minutes in fact tonight now that we round up small world news before the briefer fresh violence in syria as well but he won't people dead today after forces opened fire on a crowd in the central part of the country during a un visit a car belonging to or monitors was also damaged it comes just a month after a cease fire came into effect meantime syria's announce 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 represented or how many votes they received president assad's national unity bloc to claim victory. yemeni military officials say they've intensified a new u.s. backed offensive against al qaeda insurgents in the south of the country the

clashes continue to until early on tuesday killing at least four soldiers and thirteen militants officials also say that in a separate incident rate of mistakenly killed eight civilians and wounded twenty in the southern town of jar but ical turmoil in yemen has led to a growing as we must insurgency in the south of the country. you know evil forces have conducted their first raid on pirate bases in somalia helicopters and warships were used in the overnight attack though fishel say there were no injuries somali pirates are believed to be holding their own 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 fearing for the crew which it was a. monitor of the news of the world's been charged with 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 found guilty her husband of four others have also been charged charges are the first in

the eighteen month inquiry and relate to concealing documents and computers from the police last july. two russian cosmonauts u.s. astronauts to the international space station. where the baikonur cosmodrome as close as we could get to the launch pad with a three man crew part of their 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. 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 on the. they will be docking as will be docking with several. european japanese american vessels they also will be doing several spacewalks as well one of those concerning the situation where. they will be joining the. three people already their course. when it comes to. celebrate his birthday on may seventeenth when the so he was actually scheduled to dog. space station what a way to celebrate a birthday. ok let's get across business knows he was something this is marketing into the debacle playing in front of

a very odd. faraway place yeah that's right i mean investors have a great deal to digest kevin now with greece's decision to return to the ballot box that's in search of a new government well the german finance minister he's already calling the vote a referendum on whether or not the country will stay in the year i so it's a big big stuff going on today let's have a look at the u.s. stocks and we'll say that they are indeed brushing off those revelations and now as you can see gains both the dow jones the nasdaq they're saving a revolution maybe they're not necessarily taking the german finance minister is tony if you look as well we can see it the nasdaq is point seven percent we got the facebook i.p.o. as well that had to call it in two days early that's because of such high demands about keeping that stock for healthy at the moment that's where we placed this fire they started citing let me talk about the euro situation again we're going to get

on to the scene the dots and see how they finished up because they're now closed by german g.d.p. now it did show expansion but the docks is eight tenths of a percent down now to put this in perspective for us we're going to like see it back or in it from renesas capital he was an impressive how the list. i don't know what statistics you see of minus five percent blastoff percent people. bring a lot of attention to figures like this research really come to think of it is just one month or some more some statistical data. is a big of the bigger picture is much more on a saw today we will have some respond to his international markets alone the russian market some 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 margin goals more bloodletting to go this way. more news in your career in banking sector has seen a vote of no confidence about solve the mood is cut the credit ratings 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 their ratings cut by as much as for not just the agency says the banks were increasingly vulnerable to its literal session the effects of the government of thirty mergers all of them were also put on negative credit watch we mean that further downgrades are possible now let's go over to the euro dollar and have a look at how it's trading right now this is the current say that greece could be waving goodbye to a lot of people are saying that their exit is now inevitable as you can see that it is indeed falling again the u.s. dollar is down a. one twenty seven sixty five the figures on the screen you're also looking at how the ruble the russian ruble finished up today is now closed up i was makes against the basket of cards and so it's not surprising that it gains against the euro and if we get on to the russian markets we see how they perform now they were edging

towards a twelve month as you can see the my state in the last hour trade managed to really regain some strength half a percent. if we go into the movers and shakers we see this bank we'll see how they are performed in the trading session game seven tends. the percent just that gasper as well as really feeling the heat from europe last as exports actually fall by twelve percent in the first four months of this year much from the european trading sector right there was what low calls while the energy major two point eight percent are in a positive territory this rule is a mix really for the russian market says get on to those oil prices now the prices on the screen as you can see they are indeed a mixed we've got the bread there hundred eleven at seventy three and the prices themselves are actually trading there at the lowest level in five months if it were going some strength are from at that level that is a big performance that i carry that sort of a five off and i have been up about racial in day with the latest figures are you

boatloads about an hour and a half ago c.e.o. last may be back to mr ok now we're sure to let my viewers know over the next brand new installment from julian assange much anticipated show if you're not called already for half an hour he talks to a former guantanamo bay detainee about america's war on terror policies that's coming up and straight after the headlines next.