as well and france is suffering as a result of the e.u. imposed austerity program so really so cosy years where did himself too and chancellor angela merkel in germany and really if hollande is going to break from that will be a major paradigm shift within the european union and it will take a very bold man a very bold french politician to do that and he's hollande the guy that will do that well will he break with the german axis which is really forcing austerity along many nations within the european union and that's what's causing the economic harm now richard it's interesting because one is now considered a man being told ok he's considered boring and maybe that's what the french one compared is that of course the what do you think of are there is he a bold politician i mean he's a socialist he's a socialist. here but. for me he is nothing i mean. my knowledge of him is rather shallow and you i have to admit but i mean here i think is boring and the reason for him being you know being number one at the moment is not what mr holland hims

france's far right. this is a very great step back of what we're saying is that we need to discuss the conditions of economic migration and the needs of different sectors of the french economy if we must add rules to be canonical immigration we will do so we don't want to make immigration issue used to divide and frighten the french this is a serious matter that must be treated as such and must be subjected to political economic and social responses it should not be a subject used by nicolas sarkozy while a pen to win votes and raise racism in france for five years the french reality is the rights of intolerance and violence is perhaps more races now than it was five years ago yes there's discrimination in hiring yes there's discrimination in access to housing and yes there's discrimination in access to leisure it depends on whether you have a white face like mine it anyway in a position like mine with a socialist party all your name is cadia of arab or north african origin or omar from mali but i think

no stretches in france is. saying are we going to do anything because we need to ask brazil but always brazil nobody. you will never accept the people we never accept to be different like we are from bruce that they are also for withdrawal from mates are you not worried that in the future should fascinating help you may not be able to rely on your current partners if you so i agree can be a dance or you will want to stay in the i.r.s. but they don't want to see our force on the american decision we have zero interest in africa for example i don't want to be enough against him because he sent troops in afghanistan it's a failure it's a dramatic failure. i want my country deciding where to go in charge actually heart was a great president and he refused to go in iraq. he refused and he was right. and i want to be free as a people french people to decide where we want to go a million against the size this phone system it's a crazy thing and you agree with. we are we have all. this regime. and we need to keep it an

sarkozy are all around the tough race for the top job in france goes into a second round with official results now show an equal outcry procedures the one and they are the son behind his main rival the turnout has been unexpectedly high despite fears of a lecture it might ignore the budget as a time of record unemployment and a faltering economy. if you are security council has agreed on a resolution to assign a three hundred observers to syria to monitor the french troops in the country but despite the unanimous vote some remain skeptical of the ten day old thesis by the europe threatening to adopt fresh sanctions against a master. bahrain host be controversial formula one grand prix motor greystone be a new wave of public projects beginning regime in clashes between demonstrators and security forces continues through the week with a brutal crackdown by police leaving one out there. says minutes the global attention juliana sunshine premiered his own interview on r.t. this week giving voice to those trends. as to size rather by the mainstream media they show up as part of a range of r

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as no strategic france is. we cannot do anything because we need to ask brazil but who is brazil i'm nobody. you will never accept the russian people will never accept to be different like we are from here also for withdraw from nato or you're not worried that in the interest of france need any help you may not be able to rely on your current partner safin do so i agree. i dance i will i want to stay in the ions but they don't want to see how force the american decision we have an interest in africa for example i don't want to be in afghanistan because the sainted troops in afghanistan it's a failure it's a dramatic failure. i want my country decide where to go in. was a great president and he refused to go in iraq. he refused and he was right. i want to be free as a people french people to decide where we want to go up against the sides distant system it's a crazy thing i know you agree with. we are we are all nuclear decision. and we need to keep it and i am against this american defense and any size i think

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decision time in france after a final appeal to voters are made by presidential hopefuls all the top job in the country hit by social divisions and record unemployment. plus the chinese economic powerhouse sets its sights on the arctic as beijing weighs in for a slice of the untapped riches that. it is a good to have you with us here today on r.t. i'm. welcome to the program the u.n. is expected to send hundreds of observers to syria after the security council votes on a resolution that will be later saturday russia wants the monitors to fly out at once as the violence in syria grinds on despite the u.n. brokered cease fire. hasn't this latest report from new york. there's been a combination of two resolutions to drop resolutions that were submitted to the u.n. security council one was submitted from russia the other submitted by the your european union now odd the accommodation of these resolutions calls for. you and observer mission in syria to expand. their ernie car observers to a total of three hundred unarmed observers to go to syria and continue monitoring the cease fire that

wayne it was students for france i certain for example i cannot accept that. if i left this party and i created my party let's talk about what happened in that. a gunman had killed seven people there he is an immigrant empacher our what do you think this incident represents it's represents a danger that i was the i left it for ten years. so the french government we need to control our borders so you're saying it's a problem of immigration no it's a problem of security because you have many french people were coming from ms and in country were very crime. actually yard so many soldiers enough against all who died and they were from the immigration so there is no problem of immigration if we have a state controlled things but they don't accept that. in the immigration system there is some people who don't respect the french law and these people have been. exposed. conferencing their control but the government did nothing when ten years and now is the discovery of the program so we need to integrate people respect friends and we need to say. we don't respect and

the grand tour of france. it is not in his project.ertheless, he certainly considers germany and france as the leaders, legitimate leaders of europe. >> president charles de gaulle had a very well-defined idea of what france should represent and of its place at the head of the nations of europe. but today, as the country heads for presidential elections, it is national self-confidence has been battered by the economic crisis. and the standard bearer, president sarkozy is accused of losing his way and not knowing what on earth he stands for. president sarkozy's personal and campaign styles are a world away from the world simplicity's of french life for those of charles de gaulle. the economic crisis, most french people want to protect their lifestyle. the president is behind in the polls, and his position is hardly helped by the message they gaining economic vitality will require him to adopt a foreign models. >> now in europe, their two models. the swedish and german model, which means cutting spending. and reforming our economy so tha

whe jewish families are contemplating leaving france. spain -- while more horses have to be rescued from the slaughterhouse. informants on the church board. france's jewish community is the largest one in the eu, and french jews are particularly shocked at the series of attacks in toulouse. the perpetrator first killed three french soldiers. in his eyes, there were los souls. then he shot dead three jewish childrennd a rabbi. the attacks have renewed public debate in france about immigration and fundamentalism. those topics are now dominating the election campaign, and the attacks have already changed the daily lives of jewish families in france. >> the knapsacks are packed. he accompanies his daughters to school. after the attack, french jews are more cautious than before. the rabbi wrs a cap over his yamulke. not everyone has to see that he is a jew. his children attend the state's goal, not the district jewish school. that already increases the danger. >> we are careful, but a tax always come when you least expect them, so there is no

in a highly goal i had many successes when he decided france decide for herself based on what you're saying do you want out of the euro or do you want out of europe out together for me europe to change europe i like europe france is not able to do alone everything i want to cooperate i want this europe but they want i don't want a europe where there is twenty percent and we are not nearly like in soviet union before they broke in the same mind they know for people. never been elected. they are often curriculum. as they are under inference of financial interest then they decided we think it's not possible anymore and now you're arguing against study evils of the free market so to speak but the world has moved forward in terms of globalization don't you think it's a bit too late at this point that it's moved to progress forward a little too much to take that step backwards as the world is globally is that there is globalisation but you know corey corey. well his yard jap and argentina brazil. open of the world but the defense and self. russia has its own policy and the never accept the

because it's the future of france.nd you know, i would say you don't take the list from somebody, somebody who doesn't sk a drers license otherwise it's the crush, the car crush, you know. >> rose: meaning that mr. alan doesn't have experience. >> he doesn't have any experience . >> rose: he's never been a minister. >> he's never been a minister. >> rose: he was head of the socialist party. >> yes, that's all. and sometimes some americans people i met told me that barack obama is the same. >> rose: because rackobama had no experience. >> no, it's not the same. you know that they have more advisors, u.s. senators than the president. >> rose: the u.s. senators. >> yes. we can't compare. >> rose: i wouldn't measure anything by the number of advisors. i think that's not a way for all of us, it's experience and what kind of experience do they have and does that experience suggest they will be wise in a certain direction. presidt oba i ink american politics the conventional wisdom is that he has been more effective in foreig

france will not supply and therefore it cannot. give merkel wants to impose physical.labor market the growth measure anybody will know where no. we want to make progress on europe we want more expansion really the european central bank is no question that we would not accept a treaty or result in front of a war and throughout europe at the same time most of our growth is related to trade with you that if the french cannot buy companies can't invest there's a mysterious policies your neighbors could not live by. because they refuse. so there are as you know we believe that merkel is going to tell you that we're simply saying the treaty channel proceeded you only under the terms of germany's economy in fact this treaty does not benefit the italian economy or the spanish nor the french economy from a great regret is that nicolas sarkozy has not defended the interests of the french economy all the economies in europe are not actually for sarkozy greed to sign the treaty to appear a protector of for the security of the euro is a public relations because as he signed a treat

sarkozy has threatened to freeze money to france the money that russia said the money that france pays towards running the european union if he's reelected what do you think is behind this well we all know what it means i mean we all know that during a presidential election in france before the first round every sun to right or center left going to do trade to secure all the right wing votes so you know sarkozy's clearly campaigning on on its ratio he's clearly courting the extreme right voters that's why we have. mrs i mean this huge week euro skeptic rate. but i'm sure that. for the i mean just before the first round. i mean sarkozy. all these pledges to speak from right and move closer to the center . first of all do we see very much of a similar kind of rhetoric coming from him the first time around in the sense that i think it's fair to say it works and how much do you think it's going to work this time how much is that nationalist sentiment going to play with the voters but. you know the. euro skeptic left and right is know something about like thirty percent of the vote so it's

if france begins to fail, the europe project begins to fail. and both on the european central banks calls for them to ease up even further on their lending, and essentially to debase the europe as a way of getting themselves out of their mounting debt. innate, inflate. >> inflate indeed and spend. today has gotten around to a point where we can understand the real divisions. the european central bank gave a speech this week in which he said, spending alone is not sufficient to produce growth. and francois hollande is getting credit for-- angela merkel says spending alone is not going to solve our growth problems here, we need structure reforms and labor market reform and i think that's the division that's now showed up in the european debates. >> and they've always wanted to undermine the ecb and mettle with the ecb. the germans, are stronger than they've been. >>. biggest economy. >> and merkel is facing her own election. >> and the last thing that she wants to do is give into the french on this. >> what's astonishing and interesting, here you

france will not ratify and therefore it cannot. give merkel wants to impose fiscal discipline eurozone area because we will require a growth measure when you treat your. course you want to make progress on your a levels. really with the european central bank is no question we would not accept a treaty will result in austerity measures in front of the world. most of our growth is related to trade when you if the french companies are going to invest as austerity policies your neighbors could not afford to do it because. we believe that if he thought that it was simply saying a treaty channel received the only understands of germany's economy i think that this treaty does not benefit the rich having an economy with all the spanish nor the french authorities with a great progress is that nicolas sarkozy has not descended the interest of the british economy or the economies of europe are not actually for suckers read to sign a treaty to appear a protector of the for the security of the euro is a simple public relations but says he signe

france the u.k. and some western allies regional capital mainly qatar and saudi arabia are now unfortunately turkey has joined the orchestra they are working on actually dismantling the very structure of the city and the state but i guarantee you and i got into your reviewers and i respect to the viewers worldwide that they will be defeated that one small in syria syria is not libya syria is not. syria is not yemen so that is a very strong country with a very strong army with the people that you have never seen anywhere in the way of the syrian people is a miracle by itself it's been with the standing almost fourteen months have sanctions of of caylee has been only killing of innocent. syrians and members of the syrian army and law enforcement forces today and yesterday was last article thirty five adversaries and soldiers and almost twenty civilians killed by those terrorist gangs or leveled the country. it was an international world that has been waged against syria for the last fourteen months but

allande has found huge sympathy around france. his success in transforming that support into votes will determine what momentum he carries into may 6's crucial second-round vote. christian fraser, bbc news, paris. >> well, i'm joined now by the hugely distinguished and famous french broadcaster journalist. lovely to have you with us. thank you very much. how do you see it? here we are, voting on sunday, last day of campaigning. >> yes, it's high time it's over, because, frankly, it's been going on and on and on. everybody complaining it's boring, and at the same time, very predictable. now, allende is obviously running pretty much ahead, but strangely enough, there's no enthusiasm. even people on his side reckon that. they say, ok, there's no enthusiasm but we're going to win. >> why? why is no one feeling -- do they not believe he can build france a greater future? >> first of all, as you said earlier, there's a general gloom, high unemployment, high uncertainty about the economy. everybody understands there's need for major stru

what the french citizen kane east family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this kind of terrorism comes from inside france of society it's not just something that is imported from the middle east. and you cannot. take away french nationality from a french nation or this is not allowed under the french constitution and then there's marine le pen the far right national front party candidate having long pushed a more radical and immigration line call for the revival of the death penalty for child killers and the deportation of any foreigner who goes in a suspicious trip to places like afghanistan how many mohammed merah are there in the boats and planes that arrive in france full of immigrants how did marriage is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg it's time to wade. on this from the mentally ill it's religious groups who are killing our children in threat of islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated locally and i think all that's been announced after these tragic events are proposals put forward solely for the elections it goes to the one who pr

once we reintroduce her for the french franc the french currency course mr awad wants to renegotiate the the the treaty on the fiscal compact incumbent nicolas sarkozy is no exception pledging to freeze france's e.u. funding and bringing back border controls over in the left corner. who roundly rejects europe's budget belt tightening pact people are an easy with the fact that they or from tribute to the failed policies in other parts of the union then people don't really understand why is it there's more and more legislation coming in from the european level in member states have to adjust for the mostly pro europe french public it's about jobs and social security just as brussels and birth women want tough cutbacks. and that doesn't rest easy with voters who gave a resounding no to giving the e.u. machine even more power seven years ago even though it's been a perfect tool to offload questionable policies. criticizing europe can be a convenient scapegoat because it appeals to people who do not like the functioning of europe and it can divert responsibility if something goes wrong it

decision time in france have a final appeal to voters or maybe i can presidential hopefuls on the top job in a country riven by social divisions and records unemployment. plus the chinese economic powerhouse sets its sights on the arctic gets me she weighs in for a slice of the untapped reaches they're. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program. the u.n. is expected to say and hundreds of observers to syria after the security council votes on a resolution layer on saturday russia wants the monitors to fly out of ones as the violence in syria grinds on this by the un brokered cease fire are just more important i has the latest from new york. there's been a combination of two resolutions to drop resolutions that were submitted to the u.n. security council one was submitted from russia the other submitted by the your european union now od the comedy show of these resolutions polls for. you and observer mission in syria to expand. their money arm of their verbs to a total of three hundred unarmed observers to go to syria and continue monitoring the cease fire