the sworn in french president francois orlando arrives in the crucial talks with german chancellor angela merkel about the financial future of europe. class of great house between israeli police and arab protesters during rallies by kind of sting and 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. also bahrain backlash activists and human rights groups vent their anger of the u.s. for resuming arms sales to the bahraini regime despite its continued crackdown on dissent. and sit under house arrest today this brings us the latest addition of his talk show this time raising the subject of torture and illegal rendition.

hello and welcome to r.t. live from moscow to levon pm with me kevin now in this hour sworn in as president then struck by lightning in the sky as bit of a meant to stay for the new leader of france from land he's now arrived for a key meeting in berlin at the second attempt after the original flight suffered a dramatic mid-air scare of a report from the german capital. well french president francois hollande has arrived here in for talks with angle merkel and it's been a very busy day for the new french president he was soon in power surlier in the morning because he went to the arc de triomphe to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier he then picked his new prime minister before purchasing a flight to germany and if he thought putting that flight was going to be the

easiest part of the day well he would be proved wrong that plane was struck by lightning on its way here to pearl in force to turn around and head back to paris he doesn't know better the second plane and made it here just a little bit late first and shot with angela merkel right is this such an important role it involves the two leaders of the two biggest economies in europe with two polarized political opinions and ideas on how to tackle the debt crisis in the eurozone socialist on lawns to believe that it's to investment and growth in a colonies growing economies that the countries in the eurozone will be able to get themselves out of the maya the says angle of merkel the champion of austerity and belt tightening not situation in the eurozone is in dire straits at the moment and it's going to need some form of compromise between these two leaders if they're to try and help the situation in europe now that situation being made only worse due

to what's going on in greece they are going to need to hold another election now that since the since the parties weren't able to come to any form of compromise over a coalition government they're going to have to go to the polls again in june to try to come to some form a solution there. are all of the reporting richard ashworth a member of the european parliament conservative party he says and a lion will have to listen to the needs of the entire eurozone to deal with this 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'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 what we can and can't do but in the meantime angela merkel is going to have to listen very closely

to france which is her 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 to say 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

people in greece is set to go to the polls again next month after coalition talks on a workable government failed the country split now between the leftist opposition and supporters of more bailout which would mean further painful austerity economic i am listening script has told us a viable compromise can be reached he thinks but only if the politicians are more in choosing with the population. if you ask most greeks about the bailout cash they're very happy to take it if you ask them whether they would rather be in the euro 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 keep some of the supply side reforms and for greece to be 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 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 we are and we have been reporting extensively on the shaky economic situation in the euro zone over my website up there now we examine how botched attempts to form this government of greece and jolted markets there and rocked the other members of the e.u. also in line for you to sweeping up the opposition a rescue forces detained suspected anti-government activists you can find out what might happen to the next on our web site.

clashes have broken out between protesters and israeli police as palestinians mark catastrophe day remembering the hundreds of thousands displaced after the creation of the state of israel in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. as the story. protesters have been throwing stones at israeli security forces to have been desponding with water cannons and tear gas we're 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 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 our fight 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 let's pass weekend to be israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu sent to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and that may take meat 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 the finance minister the discretion to reduce funding to those organizations that organize the naacp commemorations 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 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 the israelis. for seven decades later. 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 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 a 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 oh well they are medicine make you. still feels 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 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 a neighbor's house and she brought me something to drink. decided to get married it did not matter to me that she was jewish. but it mattered 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 layla converted to islam she says so that whole children would not have to serve in the israeli army until now they knew their mother had been through it but they didn't know she'd been a holocaust survivor. i did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews i 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

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 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 israeli celebrate that one left palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors led invasion 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 paying and it's that pain that palestinians around the world remember today policia r.t. omar for israel. you know in just over an hour's time here a problem of the israeli parliament tells our two that the bring changes people

suffering must be acknowledged. to writing to prevent me from saying that i am sad that my family was killed or deported in one thousand nine hundred did they want us to dance in this three. event. we can we have eleven natural human feeling we knew we recognized this stuff are all the other side you'll bridge the gap between you and him i have done him pretty full of 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 lot in europe as a victim. to have sympathy for the suffer are all 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 there 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 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. 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 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 have sided with the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of the of the sicily. 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're 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 let me have the united states wants. openly supporting it was open openly supporting the libyan rebels and their acts against the state even though this was. an art to be situation that now was the doing proper board and and then syria similarly there has been no and there were all or or restrain from violence by the opposition forces there so it's a little bit are you there's only in bahrain so highly asymmetrical a situation it's not a case in which. in which 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 walls of politics but critics say it makes a mockery of america claiming the high moral ground in other countries in the arab world where political unrest wages company check our reporting from washington r.t. . still ahead for this hour an hour to spray serene for some of the soyuz spacecraft itself the bike doesn't stand sending a crew with a three to the international space station with details and some dramatic pictures of what. makes the rendition of alleged terror suspects in the notorious kuantan them obey prison they're the focus for julian assange and his latest edition of his controversial talk show his guest one of whom has been in guantanamo share their point of view about america's war on terror laura smith has

the details of the program which is here just a little 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 cage prisoners this 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 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 kicked listing to the sound of

a woman screaming next all i'm told is for all the 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 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 he and i. have been actively trying to end this practice of detention without trial. during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight scene guantanamo. charge of the u.k. extradition and all of these things common and you will actually be abused for very specific purposes and all of them have been used to be involved something was

working against these these policies and. it's an important voice. almost in the same power voice that's just a little bit of the program you can see the whole thing which is being broadcast for the first time on r t h e's day don't miss it. running those who will do so brief now this every late tuesday night in moscow a bomb explosions hit a major problem in eastern syria the area is a current trouble spot the site of an army offensive into regaining villages from rebel control elsewhere in the country at least twenty one people were killed after forces opened fire on a crowd during a un visit to central syria meantime parliamentary election results that have been announced as well state media released the names of the two hundred fifty winning candidates which didn't mention which party they represent or how many votes they had president assad's national unity blocks claimed victory. a bomb attack killed at least five in the colombian capital bogota two dozen others were injured during the explosion which hit

a crowded street in the city's northern commercial district president juan manuel santos says the blast was targeting the country's former interior minister who was injured in the attack his driver and police escort though were among those killed. 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 continued until early on chews day killing at least four soldiers and thirteen militants officials also said in a separate incident raids had mistakenly killed eight civilians and wounded twenty in the southern town of. political turmoil in yemen has led to a growing is missed insurgency in the south of the country. e.u. naval force have conducted their first raid on pirate bases in somalia helicopters more ships we used to be over night attack though officials say there were no injuries somali pirates are believed to be holding their own seventeen things chips and three hundred crew members demanding huge ransoms for their release anti-piracy forces be reluctant though the main place is in the past fearing for the crew look

after the ships. a soyuz spacecraft set off from the cosmodrome in kazakhstan carrying with it to russian cosmonauts and the u.s. astronauts to the international space station we've got the footage captured the team's grand 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 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 at the ais this will be docking with several. european japanese american vessels the 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. is actually scheduled to dog the international space station what a way to celebrate a birthday. but . look at those want to take in all the numbers and crunch them forces.

things reacting on the markets the chaos in europe going yeah exactly is chaos it has been. have and as far as the numbers. and ministers they can rock however they want. with overpraise kwan certainty in greece this will certainly evident in the european markets today you can see them on your screen now the best expected g.d.p. figures from germany that they're worse than gains in the early parts of the session but the more is the morning's rally soon are not because of greece's decision to return to the ballot box after failing to form a government now not only is out warningly the german finance minister is already calling the vote a referendum on whether or not the country will stay in the euro as you can see if it's down half a percent down the docks eight tenths of a percent in the red zone and more disappointing news for europe i'm going to talk

about family and banks now the attorney banking sector they've seen a vote of no confidence that was after the credit rating agency moody's cut their rating on twenty six lenders a good thing we can't do is a mage's like unique or it is now ten of them are downgraded to the so-called junk status while some full their rating is caught by as much as four not chiz the agency said the banks were increasingly vulnerable to its of this recession and the effects of government will certainly measures all of them also put on negative credit watch which means there may be further downgrades in the future now let's get over to the u.s. they are indeed trading and the great divide is having its effect over in that region who investors are also watching the j.p. morgan story as well that was to them or to kevin of the c.e.o. jay when diamond kept hold of his job as

a multi million dollar salary twenty three million dollars he gets here who ok now dow jones and the hope of the stand down as you can see red colors are so we need to know the euro dollar as of world will greece be saying goodbye to the common currency it's a having a reaction we've got one twenty seven twenty seven is continuing to. with the finishing figures for the russian ruble on your screen it right there and it's no surprise that it gave against the euro and today trading session we get a sense of russian market all see it was a mixed session here in moscow today for the russian board says it will check those out what having two of the world multiply the mine six did manage to regain some momentum towards the end of the session but the are eight basis points down if we have a snapshot look at the movers and shakers gazprom is also feeling the pressure from all the uncertainty coming out of the euro zone today twelve percent exports were down about from the euro zone in the four first months of this year as well as that

we got the biggest then despair back seven tenths of that up call two point eight percent say define those expectations and have a look at the oil price and see how they're getting on. and the prices on the screen they are indeed it makes at the mine in general terms in yearly terms i should say they're now hitting a five month low again i know i sound like a broken record but it's the greek solver that's really taking its toll and that's because of course the mon will have an effect on the oil prices should greece exit that is the big shoot at the moment now that it's over make haven't made the rest of the business seem to be too many but i'm going to be here more giving up that i never sound like a broken record i'm a do through going to talk about this for some time yet as well so keep talking all right have a good night with you again tomorrow look forward to seeing you then things you know shortly on to the next brand installment of judas tonight she's talking to a former guantanamo bay detainee about america's war on terror policies that's

coming up after i've updated the headlines next.

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