syria gears up for a day of prayers and protests as washington promises to punish the government for human rights abuses fueling fears it's planning a repeat of libya. it's in france are battling it out over an immigrant influx sparked by the north african on rest of some e.u. countries tighten their borders their concerns it will jeopardize free movement across the continent. plus enticing the young to the countryside parties close up team travels to the rules of world to graduate and. all the stops to get a new generation out of the city and into the fields.

twelve noon here in the russian capital this is r t a good to have you with us today our top story now the syrian government is deploying tanks across the country headed the latest round of nationwide when jean protests the masochists has all the troops not to fire on the opposition this friday after dozens were reportedly killed by snipers activists on the ground on the two month long uprising eight hundred its national committee has strongly criticized the syrian government everything track record of russian players and ok sunny weather and their rule of president bashar assad is reform. he's going to chicken reports many believe the u.s. is laying the foundations for more drastic action against the regime. who is a legitimate international leader and who is not it seems america will decide

a white house source said the obama administration is edging closer to declaring assad's ruling syria illegitimate and that it would be just the first step we will continue to work with our international partners in the e.u. and elsewhere on additional steps to hold syria responsible for its gross human rights abuses sounds familiar the united states is helping to lead an international effort to defer deter further violence put in place unprecedented sanctions to hold the gadhafi government accountable when the u.s. says it's going to hold someone responsible expect action once the u.s. has officially declared the syrian government illegitimate. it it would open the door. true various steps taken to remove the government but the south proclaimed position of the us as the world's

policeman and judge of which government is legitimate or not doesn't sit well with everyone. else now against the. american president. your government gentlemen are not to be in the world of the americans. even some of the us longtime allies like the yemeni president seem to be intimidated by those arrests of the white house to act as the arbiter of who vaults power in the world. are you president of the united states and president of the world when can get a government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the us claims the higher moral ground declaring human rights is the basis for its involvement but the critics say this is a smokescreen for the real reason for interference you know sourcing and the d.n.a. of. all hollow and working out of our place. in the

middle east. or so. he crossed to become. america's self-proclaimed humanitarian involvement has led it to take sides in the libyan civil war the us has pledged extensive support for the rebels there senior political figure representing believe again transitional national council mahmoud jibril as lieve been studied in the u.s. three years is now back in washington asking for money from could office frozen assets i am currently drafting legislation at the request of the state department and the administration there will authorize the trails for of available cash. to the council so that they will have available money it will not come from an american taxpayer it will come from colonel gadhafi himself newly released wiki leaks cables show the u.s.

had been funneling money to syria's opposition for several years now but some say the help comes with strings attached and nobody gives away money for nothing or arms and the u.s. sees the opportunity of putting in a friendly for all american. government responsive to american interests the coalition efforts in libya have reached a dead end with the country now in military stalemate in the meantime civilian casualties there continue to grow. analysts say foreign involvement in syria could trigger a much worse conflict syria's in the heart of the arab world and if it explodes or implodes it will affect all its neighboring countries iraq saudi arabia jordan israel lebannon. they're in they're all likely to get involved in a collapsing or awards or in serious serious partnership with iran has long been irritating washington yet another reason say some to go after are silent relying on

iran as your best friend. only strategic ally is not a viable way forward critics say the u.s. takes on the wall of the world police may not be used on its inherent altruism but rather self interest and the bigger question is whether those increased seventy eight the world's sleeper or have destabilized or i'm going to strike our reporting from washington. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has warned the syrian opposition against calling for external military help and told r.t. that they to his participation in libya. dangerous precedent. libya cases created a temptation for money opposition groups of the region to spark similar situations in the expectation that the west would keep the old and religion of even a conflict one side it's a very alarming prospect and i hope this won't happen it's crucial that governments

should solve their problems independently. well in libya rebels have reportedly recaptured the city of misrata with help from nato war ships and airstrikes the city has been under siege from colonel gadhafi forces for nearly three months with hundreds of reported casualties nato bombs total the gadhafi compound in the capital tripoli to this so who. knows the coalition attack which killed some of its close family members know to maintain its not trying to kill gadhafi something the libyan rebels are calling for a top level official is in washington for talks with the u.s. administration and more support possible the mission and more activist kate hudson thinks the coalition's policy is making a mockery of international law. when the u.n. security council voted to take action against libya it was designed as they said to protect civilians and now it seems that with the escalation of the air attacks they

are hitting as it seems more and more civilian targets we've heard from a u.n. agency expressing concern to the security council that civilians are suffering in a number of ways shortages of food and so on as a result of the airstrikes this again raises the question of international law it's not legal to intervene within civil wars and i think inviting. those leaders to washington for talks shows that obama is disregarding that aspect of international rule trampling upon the very legal structure that our states have built up over decades it is a regime change war that's absolutely apparent that of course again it's illegal under international law but they will do that until they achieve their ends and frankly it does look as though now that they may intend to target and execute exactly well so ahead for you this hour discovering russia joyless in a few minutes to prove one of the country's well the growth region.

the unrest in north africa and the middle east is causing friction between members recent influx of immigrants into countries like italy and france as raise concerns their ability to move around freely within the union has some calling for reinstatement of internal border controls things don't know a bushel has more from brussels the dream of european integration goes off the rails in a bit of feud between two of the e.u.'s founders france blocked all train services from italy after finding carriages full of african migrants italy had handed out visitors visas allowing travel in the european union that shattered the trust of which the e.u. visa free regime relies it has shown a kind of mutual mistrust between true partners between france and italy france

considering that italy has not implemented in a good way the rules. for thousands fleeing the violence in north africa italy is the nearest e.u. border security experts who've studied the country's patrols on the strength but fellow member states argue they shouldn't have to pay for italy's mistakes. of the third baby tell us just from the sea with people coming from outside and are not able to fix the problem we are not criminals there is mad men we don't want them near has protested to the french embassy for quotes voile asian of european principles france counts as it's already takes five times more immigrants than italy in peace here and the european parliament say they need to control immigration but with each member state putting its interests first and blaming each other for the problem migrants are just getting calls from one state to another

e.u. security chiefs this week held crisis talks admitted the system's roit for abuse one and the same applicant for asylum can have like seventy seventy five percent chance of being granted asylum in one country of the european union and less than one percent with the same reasons in another country states are now taking the law into their own hands on wednesday reintroduced border controls for people coming from of the e.u. states bill jim home of the e.u. headquarters is now calling for the same. immigrants and illegal immigrants to give back to each other this is not possible isn't possible for the people in question but it's not possible to the. situation ask for more internal border control lighting growing numbers in the union's biggest country wants border checks to germany could propose possible restrictions in terms of freedom of travel

and this is really something that many people are concerned of richard. in the e.u. all through the invasion from. restrictions on working and benefits for citizens from simple and east european states which joined the union in two thousand and four were lifted on the first of may. be was still flawed to the u.k. tracks people from the countries are just joined it attracts people from outside the european union because they know once they get into europe in your country they can cross borders they can work if i want to or take advantage of a generous benefits system in nigeria or some european countries like britain for example and actually attracts more not gratian which is what we're seeing now from north africa the soiling of the shingle agreements on visa free travel e.u. leaders all smiles the fear now is they've opened the pandora's books that they no longer control the new bush you see brussels. so more international headlines for

you now this hour eighty people have been killed more than one hundred injured in the western part of the two explosions at a paramilitary training center all of the training recruits this is police say both of us were called by suicide attacks starting taliban same time to avenge the death of a solid. thousands of people flocked to the streets of the capital in protest actions of police during wednesday's anti demonstrations action came to protest it was seriously injured by riot police the government has expressed regret at the victim's condition a full investigation. has faced near a strike civil governance. gyptian authorities have extended the detention of former president hosni mubarak for another fifteen days and some three year old has custody of

a military hospital after suffering a heart attack. it is accused of ordering the deaths of protesters since the barrack was forced from power twenty ministers are detained in. a petrol bomb attack at a rural bank in northwest china has injured at least thirty nine people a former employee threw a bottle filled of gasoline into a meeting room setting is a blaze the suspect was fired last month for allegedly and president public phones witnesses said some people were jumping on the fourth floor window to scare fire the government identified the instance as an arson attack. in japan the finnish nuclear plant operator admits the damage to its reactor was worse than the region they thought the quake hit a facility has been leaking radiation into the sea for two months now the japanese government has agreed to help your tepco compensate victims of

a nuclear crisis professor robert jacobs from hiroshima east institute believes the rescue plan shows just how critical the situation has become. affairs are much more serious than we were told earlier mr iott has been in meltdown for a while we were not told that for a long time probably because tepco did not even realize it for a long time even though the releases of radiation certainly implied to many people and many people did say that first week at the plants were milking cows so it it definitely is a much more serious situation then we have been led to believe there is very good reason to believe that there is much more serious situation going on in reactor number two in reactor number three and also in the spent fuel pool in reactor number four i have a rule of thumb that i tend to go by which is that anything that is publicly stated is probably around ten to twenty percent of what's true so it will take us it will take us probably years to know the extent of the contamination and the extent of

the fuel melting. meanwhile the casino disaster as forced a rethink on nuclear safety around the world calls have been made to test a nuclear power plants against flooding something we need to wait until taking drastic measures and paying big bucks to protect themselves. discovered russian inventors could soon be cashing in on safety famous. tsunami in japan. the earthquake in haiti. the gulf of mexico oil spill big disasters are rarely out of the headlines. and many say the worst is yet to come because only one way to be safe this is a cold war era bunker and. personnel were meant to be kept safe from chemical biological and most important nuclear attack these days apocalyptic fears have

changed the solutions welcome to. play for the rich just outside moscow recently as well as erecting how's that resemble fortresses local residents have started to build bunkers strong enough to withstand a disaster of biblical proportions the company that makes them both the end of the world awaits they can resist vaults and watch our free negotiation rooms for them and what is the cause of our client a successful person thinks he's free from fear he has the reinforced doors that only guards their money but then suddenly events happened outside their control at least people realize no one is safe. since last year we have followed invent the again you because efforts to build an armageddon prove capsule and a hundred thousand dollars. so far has been little demand but some

aiming higher than the twenty first century. a multimillion dollar building that can sustain itself in any environment purifying its own water and air and growing its own food all powered by the natural source of energy that. several countries are interested in the project we are going to see this move from a blueprint to real construction. the future will tell whether people will be prepared to invest their money in fear through the cold war bocas this particularly inspiring you are clearly in never have to be concerned here as. never came true. see. the time for some travelling but you don't have to pack your bags just join our team as we explore the vast and varied regions of russia.

today we take into russia's volgograd region located in the south eastern part of the country it's named after the mighty volga river largest in europe runs through the whole region its thousand year history regions witnessed something well i was thinking. tom barton takes on a rural area and discovered why it's close to the hearts of so many russians. it's time for these goo to give something back to their own or their wool. and that's where we do little bit at a time as there is going to move or after a while look you can even use your hands. pelageya is eighty seven years old she's worked in agriculture since she was thirteen she keeps go it's nice and chickens sells wool and clothes and eggs and does all the work herself. like i can stay still i'm used to working am an old woman i don't have much left or anywhere to go

. pelageya lives and farms in the town of all europeans in russia's volgograd region it's typical of russia's rural settlements going from a small collection of it is with many people there still herding cattle fishing and keeping small holdings throughout history russia's countryside has quietly got along with its natural cycles of major historical events often passing by as a result rule russians are often the source of humor like in this country side spoof of popular television series sex and the city. but behind the jokes rule russia suffers from a much more serious problem nina works for an emu farm outside a tiny village she says it's not easy work there they become very protective when they lay in bags and they help to tax them and can attack you with its legs the needle cloisonne they're dangerous. this is one of many adult cultural drug she's

had but her children are unlikely to follow that that might arise in university my son is in a tenth grade and we don't know what he will do i labelled as tea but there is not finishing here. russian agriculture was hit by a huge depression in the one nine hundred ninety s. livestock numbers fell by half the area of grain planting a quarter even now young people all over russia are desert in the countryside. ride and move into the city. they need to encourage and stimulate young people to work in the countryside we need to pierce more and give us housing but far from jumping ship and mr cea is one of russian agriculture's bright new hopes she chose to work here rather than being in nearby volgograd and she's not the only one. half of the experts working here younger than thirty it's promising young people come here to work the work is very interesting and you can grow as a professional in many different fields in the fields this isn't

a traditional picture of russian farming these three huge and high tech tractors planting some of the farms vast thirty thousand hectares of wheat the works on the mold of man they say they wouldn't trust younger staff with such expensive equipment but soon enough they're going to need them. falling out here has wide horizons it has a lot of land potentially producing a lot of food what it needs now is the incentives and enthusiasm to make young farmers want what's out here tom dart an artsy bridge or. check out our website or. what's lined up for you right comet to use day an alien spaceship disguised as a comet is fast approaching earth apparently that's the rumor that quickly spread panic across the internet. and the food police in the u.s. state of texas will be going to kids and lunch leftovers and filling what the

students eat to monitor their diet. the. next seven days business. that's right time for your business update a very well welcome russian helicopters will spend one hundred and twenty four million dollars on developing a new high speed helicopter in the next three years the state run company said would also in first another four hundred and forty five million into the completion of two other models be m.-i free state and eight six two. from russia's helicopter parent company also mentioned it would most likely hold its i.p.o.

next year distressed however there were plenty of other ways of attracting funds. look. we have many sources for financing and we have a sizeable credit portfolio which has an average interest rate of seven percent this takes into account subsidized interest rates and then you're a support mechanisms which the government allocates to us. let's take a look at the markets now current prices continue to lose and years of load not from china and other emerging countries like sweden is still below the one hundred dollars per barrel mark while brant is trading at almost one hundred and thirteen dollars. that's a look at the person's muscles but prices are down gold is currently in the red but still fifteen hundred dollars per ounce and silver is also losing its trading up from thirty four dollars per ounce. and asia japan's nikkei index finished low on friday led by the selling of protect shares thoughts hong kong is slightly higher

as mainly banks react to a hike in reserve requirements by the people's bank off china. and here in moscow there are tears in the eyes it opened after cracking u.s. stocks the russian interest was heavily in the road all dragged down by locomotives prices on friday investors are not making any big moves ahead of the weekend and as they wait as inflation data to you out later in the day let's have a look at some of the. individual i don't you share as a climbing. banking says are also on the rise to. the skinny one percent on the news of a five. retail business in russia. well all major oil majors have been the first to get hit by the latest selloff in the russian markets how the michael steinmetz criticise the prospects of the change in the news makes them opportunity we believe that russian oil is in specific lukoil and was now are well positioned

to benefit from a number of things happening in the marketplace both these names have underperformed the russian market substantially over the past couple weeks in addition both are down more than ten percent over the past month and both companies are well positioned to benefit from pending changes in the government's oral sex attack machine the government last week indicated that by the end of june we would see a concrete proposal on the oil sector taxes there are various alternatives being laid out right now all of them are quite positive for both. b.p. has been hit by another lawsuit after its still dark to deal with all snapped while one of the team phoebe's minority shareholders has sued the british all giant in russia's regional court that is seeking a five to ten million dollars refund for his company saying the actions of be because losses to its russian joint venture last week the strike on arbitration

said the shares between the british company and ross and aft is acceptable only if they lead to join the arctic exploration meanwhile the deadline for finalizing the deal ends on monday with no decision reached yet. another hurdle looms then russia's eighteen year long marathon to the world trade organization the e.u. has slammed tax concessions offered to foreign carmakers just set up some new plans inside the country the government wants to extend the program started in two thousand and three until twenty twenty which the e.u. says is against their rules the program has helped some notable successes with a number of world's biggest car makers setting up operations here but w t o entry is the matter of negotiation now and we may be prepared to offer the e.u. concessions on imports of other cultural products. that's the latest for now get more stores more website articles of com slash business.

for some this is just a parliament building in berlin. once again sixty six years ago it was the final targets. and the last major offensive for the red army.

its capture became the symbol before the fascists into the big three for nazi germany the book. the fall of the berlin an article. on the for. the. russian middle east soon which brightened if you knew about some movement from first impressions some. of. these.