tel aviv. well look now at some more world news for you this hour and series of blasts have wronged the syrian capital with several people said to have been killed syrian state t.v. and anti-government activists claim three intelligence officers intelligence officers i should say died in damascus another person is believed dead after an army truck driving your brilliant embassy attacks thomas u.n. cease fire monitors are are in the city but the government blaming rebels for the attacks. violent clashes have erupted between protesters and security forces and rain overnight they followed the few role of a man whose body was found riddled with birdshot pellets a day after he was involved in a confrontation with police demonstrators threw stones and petrol bombs that police officers who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. egypt's ruling generals have approved a law passed earlier by parliament banning mubarak era officials from running for president the move quoted five former prime minister

tel aviv. elsewhere in the world is choose day and night developing story in the last hour or so former egyptian prime minister average has no being disqualified from the presidential race the move came after the country's ruling generals approved a law banning would barrack era officials from running for the top job another hoping to run the country's former intelligence chief omar slade when it's already been barred as well as two leading islamists. two people have been killed and dozens injured after a huge explosion struck a major real weigh station in eastern pakistan during rush hour a bomb was planted in a bag placed on a platform it allows of a luxury business express train but has done such as frequent attacks blamed old qaeda and taliban linked militants almost five thousand people across the country were killed by insurgents in the past five years. a series of blasts is what the syrian capital has several people said to have been killed syrian state t.v. and anti-government activists

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tel aviv. well to get the latest updates as well as extensive background on the conflict mark onto our team dot com here's what else can be found there right now if you attack find out how a computer virus has hit the technology running key parts of your brand's oil facilities. all the speculation over who's going to become france's next president continues from world wide we have all the analysis and background on the true runoff contenders. plus the great olympic selloff spain gives up its ticket allocation for the twenty twelve london olympics with the brits first in line to snap them up. and there's just been president elect reports in advance to meet her midriff to take over as head of the ruling united russia party and it is also expected to be appointed as prime minister under putin let's start crossfire charges arena galoots following these developments why is was you know putin endorsing medvedev as head of united russia. well in russia the president is not supposed to belong to any on

they would do things differently or at least prepared a public policy r t tel aviv. but look now at some more world news and grief egypt has denied permission to eight u.s. based nonprofit groups to operate in the country the social affairs ministry says it's denied licensed licenses i should say to american organizations because it's believed the group's activities violated state sovereignty and could cause further damage to car was relations with washington last year gyptian authorities raided the offices of several american pro-democracy groups and other n.g.o.s charged sixteen american activists with working for organizations that received illegal foreign funding. china's president has strong ties with north korea despite an international outcry over the north's recent felt rocket launch whose been found made that show of friendship in a meeting with the workers parties delegation headed by a top north korean envoy on monday meanwhile the u.s. says it has raised allegations with china that a missile launcher seen in crying in military show last week was of chines

tel aviv. also around the world this choose the night two people have been killed and dozens injured after his version struck a major railway station east in pakistan during rush hour a bomb was planted in a bag placed on a platform in the lounge of a luxury business express train pakistan suffers frequent the thai explained on taliban and al qaeda linked militants almost five thousand people across the country were killed by insurgents in the past five years. a series of loss of rock the syrian capital with several people said to have been killed syrian state t.v. and anti-government activists claim three intelligence officers died in damascus another person is believed dead after an army truck blew up while driving near the iranian embassy type sperm as u.n. cease fire monitors were in the country the government blaming rebels for the violence. south sudan's president says attacks by neighboring sudan that amounts to a declaration of war now violence has escalated over all disputes since both

which has many wondering what exactly tel aviv has planned up its sleeve if a government will rarely. kurds to start a war. they would do things differently or at least prepared a public policy r.t. tel aviv for more world news in brief for you now this hour china's president has pledged strong ties with north korea despite international outcry over the recent failed rocket launch into a show friendship and a meeting with workers party delegation headed by a top north korean envoy on monday. meanwhile the u.s. says it is very very gracious of china the missile launcher seen on the show last week was of chinese origin south korea also says there are signs that north korea planning a third nuclear test. that's prime minister has handed in his resignation after the collapse of government talks over austerity measures he stepped down along with his cabinet after debates on state pension cuts and the crisis talks were aimed at slashing the country's budget by sixty billion euros to meet e.u. rules ratings agency fitch says will. use its aaa status of the debt crisis one of the few remainin

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tel aviv. well to more world news in brief for you now egypt has denied permission to eighteen u.s. based nonprofit groups to operate in the country social presence recessing divide licenses to american organizations because it believes the group's activities violated state sovereignty. because the courage to color its relations with washington last year egyptian authorities raided the offices of several american pro-democracy groups in other n.g.'s and charged sixteen american activists with working for organizations that received illegal foreign from the. china's president has pledged to strong ties with career snot international outcry the recent failed rocket launch we can be sure of friendship and the meeting with the workers' party during cation headed by a top envoy on monday meanwhile the u.s. says it has raised allegations which are about the son of st john which i'm sure last week was of chinese origin south korea also says there are signs that korea probably a third nuclear test. dutch prime minister mark has handed in his resignation after the collapse of government talk

tel aviv. well there's more world news in brief for you now the south china is a president pledged strong ties with north korea this right international outcry over the recent failed rocket launch. into a show of friendship meeting and workers party delegation of north korean envoy monday meanwhile the u.s. says it has raised allegation that china. last week was a chinese origin. also. planning a nuclear test. years judge prime minister marc rich has handed in his resignation after the collapse of government talks of austerity measures he stepped down along with his cabinet of the debates on state pension cuts and the crisis talks are aimed at slashing the country's budget by sixteen billion euros is intended to meet the rules ratings agency fitch better than simply lose its aaa status over the debt crisis one of the few remaining eurozone states to hold the top ranking but russia and china are holding their first joint naval exercises as both countries seek to boost their authority in the glob

>> guest: in tel aviv which is -- she lives in a suburb of tel aviv, and it is ten minutes' drive from my home. c-span: are you still in the military? >> guest: that's right. i still have one year to go in the military. c-span: why do all young people in israel have to serve in the military? >> guest: because this is an obligatory service, mandatory. um, but it's also essential to the existence of the israeli nation. c-span: and what do you have to do? how long do you have to serve? >> guest: girls have to stay in the army for 19 months and boys for three years. c-span: when did you first go in? >> guest: i joined the army on august 15, 1995. c-span: you tell us in the book a little bit about basic training. >> guest: that's right. [laughter] c-span: what was it like? >> guest: no big fun. [laughter] it was difficult in terms of discipline because you have to wake up 5:00 in the morning and be downstairs, three floors. no living room. showered, dressed and prepared for the day in seven minutes. c-span: and you say throughout the book from time to time that you've always been known as y

the a lutheran differently or at least put it in public policy r t tel aviv. in brief is tuesday night former egyptian prime minister ahmed shah rigs being disqualified from the presidential race in the last couple of hours the move came after the country's ruling generals approved a law banning mubarak era officials from running for the top job another hoping to run the country's former intelligence chief most laymen's also already been barred as well as two leading islamists. two people killed and dozens injured after a huge explosion struck a major railway station in eastern pakistan during rush hour a bomb was planted in a bag placed on a platform near the lounge for the luxury business express train pakistan suffers frequent attacks blamed on taliban and al qaeda linked militants almost five thousand people across the country been killed by insurgents in the past five years . a series of blasts rocked the syrian capital with several people said to be killed syrian state t.v. and anti government activists claim three intelligence officers died in the mask

regime sadly i will go back to that ornon in tel aviv what do you think about the political calculus of the muslim brotherhood you know political actors anywhere in the world that want to increase and maintain and retain their power whether it's the egyptian army or the muslim brotherhood or you name it i don't know of any party in the world. that doesn't want to hold power . in the case of the army you would rather sort of reap the benefits and second of having its fingers and almost every economic thought in egypt without you know having to take responsibility for the economy but surely that both the army and the brotherhood want to maintain their interest maintain maintain power through the bill what do you think about that because that means the it's quite obvious the army doesn't the military doesn't want to give up power because the controls mostly of the economy and their privileges and their you know they have a very nice lifestyle they've had it for a long time and they have a very good friend in washington as well i mean the status quo was always suited the military in egyp

, the west bank is 14 miles from tel aviv, the gaza strip is 14 miles from tel aviv. i not a jewish state. there are millions of arabs living in the same territory, living and working. as mentioned, jerusalem is the site of the third most sacred place for islam. so i don't see any -- barring an accident, i don't see any reason for iran to attack israel. for israel there is no reason to attack iran because, flaum, iran will not attack them and the israel economy is booming, tourism is strong and the stock market apparently is not paying attention to the crisis because it's going higher and higher. so what do you think about these? i also would like to ask you about this crisis atmosphere, which is created. to what extent does it actually benefit both israel and iran in the sense that for israel it's the diverting attention from the palestinian issue. usually when israeli prime minister is coming to washington, he's being rebuked for west bank settlements and expansion in the west bank. this time around he got a reprieve, they only talk about iran and israeli is the und

which has many wondering what exactly tel aviv has planned up its sleeve if a government really. intends to start a war. there were things differently or at least prepared a public policy r.t. tell of a. break up of the week's top stories coming up in a few minutes stay with us. world. series technology innovation all the rest of elements from around russia we've got the future covered.

director of the military balance project at the institute for national security studies here in tel aviv thank you very much for joining us here in r.t. your work and when you sat down together a couple of weeks ago you said it was not in is also interest to launch a military strike on iran why do you think is also not striking around i don't think that is ready or force is large enough or strong enough to actually destroy the iranian nuclear weapon project that might cost them some damage but it would not. destroy it so it could not achieve anything do you think that the u.s. would consider carburetor with israel in such a strike that quietly it first of all there's no quietly in this issue because things will tend to come out sooner or later so to begin with. on the one hand i think president obama has not ruled out an american strike yet even though his military is very reluctant to get into another war in the middle east i don't think you would do it during an election you can't that be a reason for it all to launch a strike now before there's a new american leadership in place there

forty activists from the welcome to palestine campaign have been detained by israeli airport at tel aviv ben gurion airport. israel has also refused entry to dozens part of a so-called fly killer who surveyed plain peaceful activities like planting trees in the west bank now it would have a campaign with activists from more than fifteen countries want to challenge what they call an israeli siege of occupied territories are the reports from tel aviv. they are part of this international campaign that has been dubbed palestine and the intention of this campaign is to highlight the plight of the palestinian people its intention is to really hold peaceful demonstrations in the west bank they were planning to meet with palestinian families to plant trees and to gather in bethlehem and they say that this is also an attempt to highlight the way the israeli police and the israeli authorities deal with activists all foreigners coming to as well who hold political views not kid by the government there was a small counter demonstration by a group of israelis who shouted at them go home go to syria w

policy and in tel aviv for. well we all received reports of more foreign activists arriving later on sunday so far forty five international activists have arrived the majority of them being french nationals they have been barred entry from israel and at the same time they entertained at bangor international airport not the forty five twenty nine have already been taken to a prison in the same time of the country from where according to the israeli police spokespeople they will be deported the remaining sixteen are still at the airport and will be put back on flights later on sunday to be returned to their home countries they are part of this international campaign that has been dubbed to palestine essentially what the activists are saying is that this is a peaceful try turn its intention is to really hold peaceful demonstrations in the west bank they were planning to meet with kind of sitting in families to plant trees and to gather in bethlehem and they say that this is also an attempt to highlight the way the

access denied of demonstrators viewed as a threat in tel aviv. for an activist someone even is all to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of the palestinian people need a tougher stance on the israeli police join me for more in just a few moments. it is the biggest holiday for millions of orthodox christians who celebrate easter sunday the day they believe marks the resurrection of jesus christ . will welcome for me kevin owen here in moscow tonight it's eleven pm you're watching r.t. in the weekly our round up of the top stories of the last seven days and today a first a mascot says it will respond to increased attacks from arm to gag since reports of more violence come out of syria that's ahead of the arrival of the first group of you and one of his to the country after the security council adopted a resolution on the conflict. of dates in from new york. according to russian ambassador to the u.n. to tell each earthquake one russian officer will be part of the group heading to syria the resolution that was adopted also calls on all parties

ramdani she is a journalist an academic who specializes in the middle east and north africa and in tel aviv we go to on kesler he is middle east affairs correspondent for the jerusalem post all right folks this is crossfire that means you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage and neville in london i go to you first here what do you make of the muslim brotherhood's decision to run a candidate only a week ago two weeks ago they in fact equally denied that they were going to do it now they are we see the movement slightly fractured it's a big gamble and if they win they have all power. well absolutely it certainly is a dramatic shift from the muslim brotherhood. prior policy not to fill the candidate in the presidential race precisely because the accusations directed at the muslim brotherhood for already really do too much power having the effect of your monopoly on egyptian state affairs following their overwhelming victory in the parliament but also because they are also in charge overwhelmingly drafting egypt's new constitution and i think their decision before not to send a ca

areas around sensitive sites like the military headquarters in tel aviv are blurred. peck tours offer sights of different areas. israel is the first country to be featured on street view. >> ama: thousands celebrated earth day today. many swayed to the sounds of a band while learning about waste and how to help the environment. this highlighted the hardships the giant creatures face because of global warming. others talk -- >> alan: people in several california counties reported shaking but it was a meteor, not an earthquake. >> ama: wicked winds pound parts of china. there's so used to it. >> alan: no harsh withins here but temperatures did drop yesterday. >> alan: a blast of cold air from siberia blew through china today and tried to take everything with it. hurricane force winds made travel difficult. the winds swept through northwest china. the area is nope as the 100-kilometer wind zone because it experiences strong winds 320 days out of the year. >> ama: a big spring storm is bearing down on parts of the east, bringing heavy rain and even snow. up to three and a

they made their first capital in tel aviv. jerusalem became a divided city.he boundary drawn between west and east jerusalem was called the "green line," and that's what highway number one is still called today. east jerusalem was then part of jordan, and it contained the jews' holiest sites, inuding theiancient temple, destroyed by the romans. once the temple was destroyed, all that remained was the western wall. this place is important for the jewish people worldwide. ross: this is what people prayed to ever since the second temple was destroyed, ever since the jewish people were dispersed. narrator: but because they were in jordanian east jerusalem, the site was off limits to jews until 1967. that year, israel defeated threatening arab armies in the six-day war and gained control over more territory. from syria they took the golan heights. from egypt they captured the sinai peninsula and the gaza strip. from jordan they occupied the west bank of the jordan river, including the rest of jerusalem. ross: after the six-day war, after the victory in '67, with t

some of us sprung for the wedding in cairo, others subsidized the honeymoon in tel aviv. captain calendar became a colonel. he didn't go out on assignment too much anymore. preferred to stay in washington with his wife and two children whose birthdays we remembered with gifts. but there were those of us who recalled him fondly, especially as college tuition bills came due. in 1993 when cbs and i were going through a divorce, it seemed fitting that captain, now colonel calendar, be retired as well. for this final party, the end of his secret life he could appear in public. i took my friends and colleagues from the dieing rome bureau and gave the captain and his wife a splendid dinner. at least they were there in spirit and on the bill, of course. a legend going out as he had come in on the expense account. sadly, though, there's a new breed of news management. incidentally, i didn't see much of news management represented here in this day of homage to those who are sent out to get the stories. but that new breed, they may be terrific at something, but they don't have much

meanwhile israel is also powering on with its campaign against another a foe iran tel aviv says it's easy islamic republic's nuclear ambitions and political rhetoric as a nick existential threat and why tolerate crossed off later today parallel brings the two camps together with predictable results. the iranian president never said that he will attack or destroy israel he said israel must cease to exist as a political entity and the willful mistranslation in the words of what he said is clear to all he said basically that this has always been iranian policy that israel as an apartheid state most used to exist just as apartheid south africa ceased to exist that's what they mean when they call israel the two bomb states that israel must cease to exist that he's already after a good thing when the iranians date whoever said there are no i want a world of you know we're in the line of a movie in a world of google i would advise you not to tell viewers of this program that the iranians have not referred to israel's or one bombing of two bombs they can also do you know you can only hear th

the views of prime minister netanyahu to discuss what appears as a discord among the leaders in tel aviv we're joined live from beirut by middle east expert ali risk mr risk so is there really a rift within the israeli government regarding the iranian issue and if so how serious is the disagreement. yes i do believe there is a rift but i think that this rift was contribute to buy or actually the americans had a big role to play in this rift because the gun the israeli joint chief of staff who made this comment actually made it just one month you have to remember last march in on march nineteenth he met with his american counterpart martin dempsey in washington so i think that the americans gave i clear message to the israeli military establishment because we all know politically when it comes to their relations amongst american and israeli politicians that there are some problems you know between netanyahu and obama the personal chemistry problem so i think that the . americans actually conveyed the message to the military and use their relations if we could say the american israeli mili

first one resulting in nine activists killed policy things for yourself to restore it emerged from tel aviv but the french just a week away from choosing the next president the two main rivals are rushing to secure a last minute support as they hold rallies in paris socialist candidate francois hollande head of the polls president sarkozy's joining the charge now to the right to try to sway voters exactly to the reports it's growing immigration and fear of terrorism that many french politicians are braintree on these days. anti immigration anti euro antiglobalization and advocates of protectionism. all in the name of the french state and national identity there is not a single french person not one european who does not know that i am a sworn enemy of the european single currency buskers it is radical islam as a direct consequence of mass immigration that the left and the right in hose on us for decades it is make no. traditionally on the fringes of france's national politics the rhetoric of today's far right may no longer be as far off for its citizens as it once was opinion polls suggest

but the jerusalem post is on the line from tel aviv tonight. these are strong words strong choice of words well let you know which i guess going to offend egypt is not what he intended. certainly didn't intend to offend anybody but unfortunately we have seen over the past year the sinai peninsula becoming an area where global jihadi elements. as well as hamas in gaza all of these radical forces have been using the sinai peninsula as a base to store arms to launch attacks on israel we had a rocket attack on a lot earlier couple of weeks ago and all the evidence is mounting that unfortunately. at the moment is not under anybody's control not the best time in the coming war just twenty four hours after the business disagreement cutting the gas supplies to israel on sunday causing. your country to say the peace treaty between the two is now in danger what you know where is this all heading and is this the best time a to come out with a statement today do you think well actually the two issues are intrinsically linked and can't separate one from the

countries wants to challenge what they call israel's siege of occupied territories are a report from tel aviv. they are part of this international campaign that has been dubbed welcome to palestine and the intention of this campaign is to highlight the plight of the palestinian people its intention is to really hold peaceful demonstrations in the west bank they were planning to meet with palestinian families to plant trees and to gather in bethlehem and they say that this is also an attempt to highlight the way the israeli police in these maybe close he's deal with activists all foreigners coming to israel who hold political views not shared by the government there was a small counter demonstration by a group of israelis who shouted at them go home go to syria what are you doing here the israeli police accuse these activists of provoking the situation they said that they were intent on destructive public all the net they really were trying to be legitimized his role this heavy handedness by israel is not something new we've witnessed at a short time ago with the way the israeli police dealt w

those hated during the reign of alstead leader hosni mubarak has come under heavy criticism in egypt tel avivhas already recovered i responded to the news saying that relations between the two countries have had an unprecedented low. parliament speaker peter slipper has resigned amid claims his sexually harassed his openly gay adviser according to a local newspaper was deluged victim has filed a lawsuit against his former employer and is seeking compensation he was appointed speaker late last year to shore up the ruling labor party's fragile hold on power. now the controversial anti counterfeiting trade agreement all actually has been dealt a heavy blow as the second largest group in the european parliament has announced it won't support its big pops sparks i'm gay mung many europeans e.u. states signed an agreement in january thousands demonstrated against it saying it will leave major operations plus dentist control over that personal data of ratification is due this summer rain for european parliament's but david martin the e.p.a. responsible for monitoring its right breast has already sai

from the welcome to palestine movement have been detained by authorities said ben-gurion airport in tel avivisrael also worth . dozens part of a so-called fly to work plan peaceful activities like planting trees in the west right now with his third year of the campaign with activists from more than fifteen countries wants to charge what they call an israeli siege of occupied territories or just cause leaders and they are part of this international campaign that has been dubbed to palestine and the intention of this campaign is to highlight the plight of the palestinian people its intention is to really hold peaceful demonstrations in the west bank they were planning to meet with palestinian families climb trees and together. this is also an attempt to highlight the way the israeli police in these rebel forces deal with activists all foreigners coming to israel who hold political views not shared by that was a small. ladies who shouted at them go home go to syria what are you doing here the israeli police accuse these activists of provoking the situation they say that they were intent on dest

during the reign of egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak has come under heavy criticism in egypt tel aviv has already responded to the news saying relations between the two countries have has an unprecedented low. also australia's parliament speaker peter slipper has resigned amid claims he had fractionally harassed he is openly gay had died that according to local newspapers dilation a victim has filed a lawsuit against his all in law and its legal visitation it was appointed speaker late last year to shore up the ruling labor party's fragile old own power. the controversial answer counterfeiting trade agreement or act has been dealt a heavy blow as the second largest group in the european parliament has announced a one supported the pact that sparked anger among many europeans when a eustache fine think we went in january sounds demonstrates against it saying major corporations and presidents control over their personal data about how and ratification is g.d. somebody in the european parliament david martin be an e.p.a. it was possible for monitoring ice and process has already said it