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. italy and france are battling it out in the influx of north african unrest but some countries tighten their borders there are concerns it will jeopardize free movement across the continent. plus enticing the young to the countryside parties close up to travel to rule side of volgograd region. all the stops to get the new generation out of the city and into the fields.

and other obstacle has emerged from russia's way to joining the world trade organization the new health scare and concessions offered to foreign carmakers to set up there are three points in front of a country more in business in twenty minutes. around the world and around the clock twenty four hours a day this is r.t. the syrian government is deploying tanks across the country ahead of the latest round of nationwide anti regime protests damascus has ordered troops not so far from the opposition this friday after dozens were reported killed by snipers activists on the grounds of the death toll from the rising. international it's a history of criticize the syrian government crackdown washington is even preparing

to examine the rule of president pressure. he's calling me from chicago courts many believe the u.s. is laying the foundations for more drastic action against a regime. who easily 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 and 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 united states is helping to lead an international effort to defer the turf 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. if it would open that door. true various steps taken to remove the governor but the south proclaims 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 or against the. president. in government you gentlemen are not to be a minority the americans are saying that even some of the u.s. long time allies like the yemeni president seem to be intimidated by the zest of the white house to act as the arbiter of who falls power in the world. are you president of the united states and president of the world when condemning government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the u.s. 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 oh and therefore have a book how to think. in a middle way you read a. story you know. your heart homos. you crossed. america's self-proclaimed humanitarian involvement has led it to take sides in the libyan civil war the u.s. has pledged extensive support for the rebels there senior political figure representing believe the end transitional national council mahmoud giver aisle as lieve been studied in the u.s. three years is now back in washington asking for money from could obvious frozen assets i am currently drafting legislation at the request of the state department and the administration that 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 seize the opportunity of putting in a friendly pro-american. government response of american interest 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 lebanon. they're in they're all likely to get involved in a collapsing were a war torn serious serious partnership with iran has long been irritating washington yet another reason say some to go after us aren't relying on iran as your best friend in. only strategic ally is not a viable way forward critics say the u.s. takes on the role of world policeman now claims that its own current culture is rather self interest and the bigger question is whether those increased circulate the world safer or have destabilized more and constrict our reporting from washington r.t. . russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned the syrian opposition against calling for external military help and told r.t. the latest participation in libyan conflict sets a dangerous precedent. libya case was created

a temptation for money opposition groups in the region to spark similar situations in the expectation that the west would keep out of even a conflict taking one side it's a very alarming prospect and i hope this won't it's crucial that governments should solve their problems independently. not in libya rebels have reportedly recaptured the city of misrata with help from nato warships and their strikes the city has been under siege from colonel gadhafi forces for nearly three months with hundreds of reported casualties they have targeted with his compound out of tripoli. this follows an april coalition attack which killed some of his close family members. to maintain just try to kill gadhafi something libyan rebels of course for the top rebel official is in the washington post for us a ministry of support and possible recognition of british war activist kate hudson

thinks the coalition's policy is making a mockery of international rule. 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 is 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 the achieve their ends and frankly it does look as though now that they may intend to target and execute. but still ahead for you this discovery. this is the minutes to find out the room where life in the country is volgograd reached. the unrest in north africa and the middle east is causing friction between you know a recent influx of immigrants into countries like italy and france has raised concerns their ability to move around freely within the e.u. in her son calling for the reinstatement of the internal border controls parties don't know bushell has more from brussels. the dream of european integration goes off the rails in a it's a 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

residence visas allowing travel in the european union that shattered the trust which the e.u. visa free regime relies. on a kind of neutral mistrust between two partners between france and italy france considering that italy is 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 we had one table of the five. just in the sea with people coming from outside and well not able to fix the problem we are not criminals terrorists mad men we don't want them here. protested to the french embassy for quotes voile ation of european principles

france counts as it already takes five times more immigrants than italy and police here of the european parliament say they need to control immigration with each member state putting its interests first and blaming each other for the problem migrants are just getting pulls from one state to another e.u. security chiefs this week held crosses talks i did knitted the systems roy for abuse one and the same applicants for asylum can have like seventy seventy five percent chance of being granted asylum in my 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 their mortgage reintroduced border controls for peace. coming from of the e.u. states builder home of the e.u.'s headquarters is now calling for the same but. instant browsing even though each other this is not possible isn't possible for the

people in question but in some possible to do this situation ask for more internal border. growing numbers in the union's biggest country want to pull the chicks to germany it could be. possible with corrections in terms of freedom of travel and this is really something that many people are concerned of richard nations in the e.u. all through invasion. restrictions all working and benefits for citizens from central and east european states which join the union in two thousand and four were lifted on the first of may one. flood to the u.k. tracks people from the countries have just joined it attracts people from outside the european union because they know once they get into a european union country they can cross borders they can work if they want to or take advantage of a generous benefits system in my security or some european countries like britain for example and actually attracts more migration which is what we're seeing now

from north africa the soiling of the shingle agreements on visa free travel e.u. leaders were all smiles the fear now is they've opened the pandora's box that they no longer control. party russel's in japan the fukushima nuclear plant operator admits the damage to its reactor was worse than regionally throughout the quake hit the city has been leaking radiation into the sea for two months now japanese government has agreed to help the operator tepco compensate the victims of the nuclear crisis however presser robert jacobs from the hiroshima peace institute believes the rescue plan shows just how critical the situation has become. affairs are much more serious than we were told earlier this plant 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 there were leases of radiations certainly implied to many

people and many people did say that first week but the plants were melting down so . it definitely is a much more serious situation then we have been led to believe. there's very good reason to believe that there is much more serious situation going on in reactor number two and 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 would take us it would take us probably years to know the extent of the contamination and the extent of the fuel melting. there are some more international headlines for you this hour . eight people have been killed one for the western pakistan after two explosions at a primary training center there were training. civilian casualties they say both lost are caused by suicide attacks. taliban said they carried out the

bombing to avenge the death of osama bin laden. thousands of people flocked to the streets of the greek capital in protest of the actions of police wednesday's anti-government demonstrations. about a protester was seriously injured by riot police the government has expressed regret at the victim's condition promising a full investigation of this is based on numerous strikes and. the triple authorities have extended the detention of former president hosni mubarak for another fifteen days eighty three year old is in custody and richly hospital after suffering a heart attack the former president is accused of ordering the deaths of twenty regime protesters since were forced from power twenty ministers and prisons are tainted. petru to

rule breaking in northwest china has injured at least thirty nine people former employee threw a bottle filled with gasoline into the meeting room setting the blaze the suspect was fired last month for allegedly embezzling public phones said some people were jumping onto a fourth floor window to skate before the government identified the incident as an arson attack. now russia's national ice hockey site stunned the long time rival canada two one victory at the world championship on thursday russia is looking to capitalize on that success with a break to become the host of the charity and chip in turn sixteen what is your place going off is instead rockier where the bidding on the action on the ice is taking place. this is quite an important day for russian hockey both within the framework of the current world championship here in bratislava and also in some ways in terms of the future of the sport in russia first of all on thursday team russia beat one of their most fierce rivals team canada to one moving to the

semifinal against bill and that match is going to be played a leader on friday should be pretty exciting feelings just what a strong team last night he beat norway for one and your other match is going to be played tonight is the one czech republic in sweden also very strong players so it's on friday that it's going to be decided which two teams are going to take it off in the final of this championship but another thing which is going to be decided here in but i just love on friday is the country to host the two thousand and sixteen ice hockey world championship russia's prime minister vladimir putin is going to watch become trees final presentation of the big russian is getting along with denmark and ukraine and he's hoping to host this championship in two thousand and sixteen in moscow and st petersburg and nothing is certain when it comes to sports but it is friday the thirteenth hopefully this will bring some luck both to russia

the team and russia the country and the stuyvesant traveling but you don't have to pack your bags just join our close up team. again in the past and then grecians russia. today we take you to russia graduation the cake in a southeastern part of the country it's named after the mighty volga river europe runs through the whole region its history as witnessed by some wealth. parties tom barton takes a look. back at the area and discovered why it's close to the hearts of so many russians. and it's time for these kids to give something back to their own or their wool. and that's where we do a little bit at a time stars are going after

a while look you can even use your hands. again is eighty seven years old she's worked in agriculture since she was thirteen she keeps goats geese and chickens sells wooden clothes and eggs and does all the work herself. like i can't stay still i'm used to working am an old woman i don't have much left or anywhere to go . pelageya lives in farms in the town of all your friends and russia's volgograd region it's typical of russia's rural settlements growing from a small collection of villages 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 with major historical events often passing by as a result ruled russians are often the source of humor like english countryside spoof of popular television series sex and the city. 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. they become very protective. and they only ags the male to tax them and can attack you with his legs the needle cloisonne they're dangerous. this is one of many agricultural jobs he's had but her children are likely to follow. that i don't raise in university my son is in a tenth grade and we don't know what he will do i'd like them to stay but there is no future here. russian agriculture was hit by a huge depression 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 deserted the countryside and move into the city. and they need to encourage and stimulate young people to work in the countryside they need to pierce more and give us housing. but far from jumping ship

and let's just see it as one of russian other cultures bright new hopes she chose to work here one of them being led by volgograd and she's not the only one. half of the experts working here younger than thirty and 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. terms of box thirty thousand hectares of. the workers on the mound of they say they wouldn't trust younger staff with such expensive approach. but soon enough they're going to leap. frogging out here has wide horizons 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 watson our to all the great region. on these

stories or check out our web site at r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what's lined up few there right now a comet doomsday an alien spaceship the skies as a comet is fast approaching earth apparently has to do with that quickly spread panic across the internet. i'm the food police schools in the u.s. state of texas we're going through kids' lunch leftovers booming students eat. it. well let's check out all the day's business news with you there. allow time for business good to have your company and another horrible looms in

russia's eighteen year long marathon for the world trade organization the e.u. has slammed tax concessions offered to foreign carmakers to set up assembly plants 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 the rules program has had some notable successes with a number of world's biggest car makers setting up operations here but entry is a matter of negotiation and the kremlin may be prepared. off on the e.u. concessions on the import of agricultural products. and british b.p. has been hit by another lawsuit over its stores are to deal with your spirit while the. minority shareholders has sued that which is sure a giant in russia's. plain chief is seeking to turn billion dollar refunds for his company saying the actions of b.p. caused more sisters russian joint venture the stalled arbitration. between the

british company is acceptable only if they let it be joined there are tickets to ration bin while the deadline for finalizing the deal ends on monday with no decision reached yet. let's take a look at the markets now crude prices have recovered from yesterday's heaviest selloff as you can see lights which is still under one hundred dollars per barrel mark brand is trading at one hundred fourteen dollars. and precious metal prices are also on the rise gold is above fifteen hundred dollars but hundred percent and silver is trading at more than thirty five dollars for this hour. in asia japan's nikkei index finished lower on friday led by the selling of tech shares but hong kong was slightly high as mainland banks react to a hike in reserve requirements by the people's bank of china. european markets have risen on better than expected economy data on strong earnings results

just encourage is the strongest form of all of the tax on still make us higher profit reports in the u.k. mining shares are mostly higher as commodity prices call it flew past selloff in the european session on thursday. and finally here in moscow the r.t.s. in the my six opened up tracking us stocks the russian indices were heavily in the red on thursday dragged down by lower corporate prices on friday investors are not making any big moves ahead. the weekend as they await us inflation data. in that i . have a look at some of the individual moves energy shares like climbing after heavy banking shares also on the rise. gaining on the news it may be five paragraphs retail business and russian. well may just have been the first to get hit by the latest markets however michael's time for much prospect of change and

the new slow makes them a buying opportunity we believe that russian worlds in specific and was not are well positioned to benefit from a number of things happening in the marketplace both these names have underperformed the russian market and strangely 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 oil sector tax regime the government last week indicated by the end of june a concrete proposal on oil sector taxes there are various alternatives being laid out right now all of them are quite positive for drugs not. files time from a creative and russian helicopters for spend around one hundred and twenty four million dollars on developing a new high speed helicopter in the next three years the state run company said it

would also in first another four hundred forty five million into the completion of two other models and my three eight and a six to the head of the russian helicopters parent company also mentioned it would most likely hold its i.p.o. next year was pressed whether there were plenty of other ways of attracting funds. 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 an array of support mechanisms which the government allocates to us. and that's the latest join me in what i was more business stories here on r.t. .

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left the culture because it has become more about this all the games with then all the actual information. but thank you. the whole big ball around the won't. pay me. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to hope for asians or old today.