now with the palm of your. success russian that's the right host the two thousand and sixteen ice hockey world championship. and syria's opposition pledges more protests despite violent crackdowns while russia cautions demonstrators against seeking support from foreign states. the flow of refugees from arab uprisings threatening to defy the european union member countries consider reestablishing borders in the free travel zone. and russia's eighteen year long bid to join the world trade organization may encounter gets another obstacle as the e.u. slams tax concessions that russia has to for in the call make his joy means what he

would have done from the. five pm in moscow i met trezeguet good to have you with us here on r t our top story in spain a sweeping victory for russia as it winds its bid to host the two thousand and sixteen ice hockey world championship the country slid to the top with a snap shot beating out rivals denmark and ukraine our correspondent europe eskin all will join us live from some in a little bit with a live report. but before we get to that syria is stepping up security measures closing off areas setting up checkpoints across the country to prevent nationwide anti-government protests damascus has ordered troops not to fire on opposition after dozens were reportedly killed by snow. as irrational pressure is mounting on the syrian

government over the brutal clampdown at least eight hundred reported killed and thousands detained in the two months on arrest he and us have imposed sanctions against syria washington is seemingly debating whether the eleven year rule president bashar al assad is lawful authority he's got a chicky on reports many believe in u.s. media laying the foundations for drastic action against the regime. who would easily judum an 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 there 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 lead an international effort to 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 true remove that 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. now against the american. government generator not. the annuity americans. even some of the us longtime allies like the yemeni president seem to be intimidated by the zest of the white house to act as the arbiter of power in the world. are you

president of the united states and president of the world when can damage government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the us claims the higher moral ground declaring human rights as the basis for its involvement but the critics say this is a smokescreen for the real reason for interference and you know certainly and the d.n.a. of u.s. foreign policy if you or your and economics were obviously they. are going to use when they. are whole rows. we crossed a country. 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 the libyan transitional national council mahmoud jibril as lieve been studied in the u.s.

for years is now back in washington asking for money from could of his frozen assets i am currently drafting legislation at the request of the state department and the administration there will authorize the transfer of available cash assets to the council so that they will have available money it will not come from the american taxpayer it will come from colonel gadhafi himself really 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 pro-american. government responsive to american interests the coalition efforts in libya have reached a dead end with the country now a 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 more war torn serious serious partnership with iran has long been irritating washington yet another reason say some to go after our side 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 with wall police and not being spun its inherent altruism but rather out of self-interest and the bigger question is whether those interests have to meet the wall sleeper or have to stabilize the more i'm going to strip their reporting from washington. warns a syrian opposition against calling for external military help russia's foreign

minister sergei lavrov tells our team that nato has participation in the libyan conflict may have set a dangerous precedent please consider its libya cases created the temptation for money opposition groups in the region to spark similar situations in the expectation that the west would keep on the intervening the conflict taking one side it's a very alarming prospect and i hope this won't happen it's crucial but should solve their problems independently. turning back to our top story now our correspondent joining us from slovakia where the voting has been taking place in russia's winning bid to host the ice hockey championships so i go there. there you are so how tense it was the race tell us more about that. it was pretty cool was in fact up to the very last moment all three bidding countries were stayed in this

race but right just several minutes before the winning bid was announced then mark and the other contestants of the ukraine of course they said that they're just not ready for such a massive sporting event so russia one this bid fair and square moscow and st peters were going to going to fold to the world hockey championship in two thousand and sixteen to two capitals the russians are going to become the capitals all hockey if you wish for that the year he did big ceremony and the presentation was held here in but i just love russia's prime minister vladimir putin personally came curates watch it and here's what he had to say on this. sure deserves because through these children should not just. go away glorious. and not just because we have not been his former indicates but because of our

great desire to feature to great the room and from all the ideas of muslim chief eslick to use them where fully. in fact to be we need a new start in the roof of this beautiful kid and i do for him to to learn to ski. and i must admit it was not easy not even for those who had been practicing sports with the kids and even harder time learning to play ice which is. now i have first hand experience of a link these truly great. russia's prime minister vladimir putin praising the fact that russia is going to hold the two thousand and sixteen world hockey championship still some time to go and a lot of preparation is needed but for more on this i'm now joined by the president

of the kontinental hockey league alexander we did it for you on the thank you very much for joining us i. will indeed have more when we were in the you said that we still have a lot to do russia still has a lot to do to prepare for this but there's already a b. sc in your calls more about yes his restaurant shoes are ready because boss was going to be here has a. cost class i sorry this was a mascot because the. world championship is not just a city in itself. it's hard to get around it's a fan zone and i believe we should take a lot of lessons from serbia champion schuster brilliant first class advance for moscow and serbia was way over our guest. in sum peter broke in moscow. respectively in two thousand and ten two thousand and seven but i didn't even get all the lessons and vocally he got us here that all the fans will enjoy and i understand that there's also going to be

a cultural program even for the families of the delegation members and it's always not only thaws of deliberation i was a congress but fall for would like the comment to enjoy some petersburg and moscow both have such an a but you know bit special special program to choose and get calls a quietus in advance and i believe everybody will enjoy a bus must go on south beach and this is a definitely a great event for russian hockey and for just all the sport lovers out there in the country but it's also part of a whole chain off very successful big source u two thousand and fourteen and we've got the football world championship in two thousand and eighteen what does all this mean for russia i believe it says it's appreciation of those at all of russia in the world because you can get this for granted. with a very serious competitor to spazz their mark and to create. all the radio and surround top of the first class so fucking nations but they decided though is that

all because a.t.o. lies that power humans are stronger and there's also another competition obviously still going on here in the current world hockey championship and russia is going to play in a semifinal today against finland what do you think are the chances yes the majority of. the bats away against russia but russia won and i do believe that russia will want today against iran and our boys are you the go thank you very much you know him good luck. this was the president of the continental hockey league alexander he did it so everybody is now waiting of course for two thousand and sixteen for the moscow st petersburg's to host city. world hockey championship course there's quite a lot of excitement here at this current world hockey championship where russia is still supposed to play in the semifinal final against villains later on friday all right thanks for that report out here live in bratislava good to have you with us

and your guest alexander my better head of the continental hockey. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead the forgotten life of the russian provinces professional pastimes have been failing to hold young people in the countryside but change could be just around the corner find out in a few minutes. first though the influx of refugees fleeing uprisings in the arab world is driving a wedge between the states some are calling to reinstate temporary or even permanent border controls within the union unseen since the shang going to greenland came into force sixteen years ago or he's daniel bushell reports in europe might have opened the floodgates for trouble the dream of european integration goes off the royals it puts a feud between two of the e.u.'s founders front looked all train services from its early off to finding carriages full of african migrants it's really

a time to the president's visas allowing travel in the european union that's shots at the trust which the e.u. visa free regime is. a kind of truce between two partners between france and italy france considering that italy is not implemented we do good with the rules. for thousands fleeing the violence in north africa italy is the nearest e.u. border security experts who've studied become trees patrols on the strength but fellow member states argue they shouldn't have to pay for italy's mistakes we responsible of the fire brigade audience just want to see people coming from outside not not able to fix the problem we are not criminals terrorists mad men we don't want them here. protested to the fridge embassy for quotes voile ation of european principles france counts as it already takes five times more immigrants

than italy one piece here of 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 as i live in one country of the european union and less than one percent with the same reasons in another country states are taking the law into their own hands on wednesday their mortgage reintroduced border controls for people coming from of the e.u. states build your home of the e.u. headquarters is now calling for the same. intense an illegal immigrants two thousand back to each other this is not possible isn't possible for the people in

question but it's not possible to the new situation ask for a more broader. 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 richer nations in the. also the invasion. restrictions on work and benefits for citizens from east european states which joined the union in two thousand and four were lifted on the first of may want a.b.p. walls will float to the u.k. attracts people from the countries that have just joined the attracts people from outside the european union because they know once they get into your opinion the country can cross borders they can work if they want to or take advantage of the generous benefits system in most european 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 all smiles the fear now is they've opened the books that they no longer control. to see brussels turning out of some other stories making headlines across the globe eighty people have been killed more than one hundred injured after explosions hit a para military academy in pakistan two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the main gate of the facility close to the afghan border most of the dead were training recruits but there were civilian casualties to the pakistani taliban says they're behind the bombing to avenge the death of osama bin laden. the earthquake hit spanish town of war has held a mass for a funeral mass for victims of wednesday's disaster nine people died in much of the city devastated when the tremor struck thousands of people were forced to care about since the quake it was the deadliest tremor to hit the country for more than half

a century. egyptian authorities have extended the detention of the ousted president hosni mubarak for another fifteen days this comes after the eighty three year old was questioned in a military question in a military hospital on charges of profiteering the former president also accused of ordering the deaths of anti regime protesters meanwhile authorities have also ordered the detention of mubarak's wife for fifteen days in a corruption probe. dozens of people in have been injured in northwest china after a petrol bomb attack on a bank a former employee is said to appear on a bottle filled with gasoline into the building setting it up lays the cashier was fired last month for stealing money witnesses said some people jumped out of fourth floor windows to escape the fire. check out more stories and plenty of eye catching video online at archie dot com on our website we're also taking a look at how natural disasters even fuel apocalyptic fear with many fearing the worst yet to come we take

a look at how people are paying big bucks to build themselves an armageddon proof bunker like this one also online for you. the u.s. state of texas committing billions of dollars to wage war against the burger authorities but will still cameras in schools in a bid to fight growing student obesity more at our g. dug up. plan now to show you a bit more of life in a russia in our close up series where we explore the country's regions. so we visited volgograd a region a thousand kilometers southeast of moscow its name comes from the volga river running through the area the longest in europe it's one of russia's most progressive regions economically because of its well developed agricultural industry archies tom barton looks at how the hardships and benefits of life in the volgograd countryside. i'm currently stood in

a typical russian village street as you can see it's probably not the most glamorous of places not that that's particularly important to the people who live here the russian countryside is always been seen as a very practical place whether it's building up extra works on your home and working to try and improve your lot in the countryside it's been a difficult place to live for most of russia's history but it's also been very central to russia's culture here today it has problems of its own and it's some of those themes that i've been examining in my reports. it's time for these groups to give something back to their own or their wool. that's where we do a little bit at a time if there's going to move or after a while look you can even use your hands. pelageya is eighty seven years old has worked in agriculture since she was thirteen she keeps goats geese and chickens sells wooden clothes and eggs and does all the work herself i'd 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 growing from a small collection of the ledges 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 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 in a new farm outside a tiny village and she says it's not easy work there they become very protective when they lay in bags and male to tax them and can attack you with good legs and little cloisonne they're dangerous. this is one of many agricultural jobs she's had

but her children are unlikely to follow. the reins in university my son is in a tenth grade and we don't know what he will do i label to stay but there is no future 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 a desert in the countryside. right and moving to the city is the one that's the need to encourage and stimulate young people to work in the countryside they need to pass through and give us housing but far from jumping ship and mr c. is one of russian agree cultures bright new hopes she chose to work here rather than being in nearby volgograd and she's not the only one. half of the ex-pats working here are younger than thirty it's promising that young people come here to whack the work is very interesting and you can browse

a professional in many different fields thinking of fields this isn't a traditional picture of russian farming these three huge and high tech truck has a plant in some of the farms vast thirty thousand hectares of wheat the workers on the mold the man they say they wouldn't trust younger staff with such expensive equipment of some nuff they're going to need the. farming out there 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 watson r.t. volgograd region in a few minutes we'll explore whether a world without secrets is possible but first a retreat brings you all the latest business news stay with us. thanks very much that the chief of b.p. robert dudley says he thinks there's still value in exploring russia's arctic with rosneft. joint venture russia shareholders and have already made clear their wish

to be involved that leads ross never to make a decision the deadline for that to happen is monday next week when it's agreement to undertake a sixteen billion dollars share swap with expires russian oil majors given few clues as to what it will decide except to say it will act in its shareholders best interest. another hurdle looms in russia's eighteen year long marathon to join the world trade organization the e.u.'s land tax concessions office of foreign carmakers to set up assembly plants inside the country where government wants to extend the program started in two thousand and three until twenty twenty which the e.u. says is against w t o rules the program has had some notable success with a number of world's biggest car makers setting up operations in russia but they're easier entries a matter of negotiation on the ground than may be prepared to offer e.u. concessions on the import of agricultural products. they're going to knock it's

that was that with oil crude prices have been recovering after a couple of negative sessions that we've seen this week light sweet is still under one hundred dollars per barrel while brant is trading over one hundred forty. it's moved to stocks now and the european markets pretty much in line with what we've seen just an hour ago better than expected economic data and strong earnings results are putting pushing stocks forward tyson crop is one of the strongest performers in frankfurt on steel makers higher profit reports in the u.k. mining shares are mostly high as not of the prices are recovering it's going to russia now and the r.t.s. and them i say moved slightly forward compared to last year that's because u.s. consumer prices rose seasonally adjusted point four percent in april led by high gasoline costs as the water by the labor department and that's in line with expectations moving us futures forward therefore we are seeing stocks likely to be up two and

a half percent one point three percent energy shares are mostly climbing except for gas from the still down by a quarter of a percent on fears that some of its customers might follow the example of lithuania which has announced plans to buy gas from the u.s. as prices there thirteen percent you know. in other news russia's natural gas producer noble tech has boosted its a net profits by almost seventy percent to six hundred eighty million dollars in the first quarter showing an expected result was mainly driven by high gas prices the company's stock is up one percent on the nicer. and russian bank pretax profit not including the largest lenders berber had jumped sixty three percent of the first four months of the year banks earned over five billion dollars during a period according to a report from the central bank. the billions of dollars being spent on construction for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi are attracting foreign investors among them american company guardian which is opening

a glass factory in southern russia around two hundred thirty million dollars will be invested a lot to produce free hundred million square meters of glass a year that's enough to cover the whole city of rust on the on the capital of the region where the plant will be built with the ford millimeter thick sheet of glass more russian garbage will provide raw materials germany will be supply equipment and the long planned merger of russia's two stock exchanges the nice exam the r.t.s. should be finished by the end of this year but some technical issues might be left aside this year the legal integration is likely to be completed by the deadline as the president of nice x. told business r.t. . if you terms of being me good bye to you is not going to be here there are some details which are working on this new principle of being in the sun we think that's a major mystery time when this will happen the end of the year deadline the deadline

for tremendous someday is the deadline for business for gracious and by business inventories should we meet the site for the so here are a small integration and making progress for the end of the years he's the best person to be able to achieve integration i.e. when big deal lol somewhere maybe. we're going to be legally will movie cover one company coming next on our scene the headlines with matthew save us that.

first song this is just a parliament building in france. but sixty six years ago it was the final targets. and the last major offensive for the lead on. its capture became the symbol of the fall of the fascists sitting down. and the victory over nazi germany. the fall of the early on r.t. . more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kandahar.