since original roku till much grown to be go there till because it really should marco results will be subject to some. bloke who turns results michael is really closer to home the riviera the children citrusy told the. thousands of syrian opposition activists taken back to the streets in defiance of violent crackdowns while washington reportedly prepares to denounce the country's government as unlawful. russia gets on its hockey here as it nets the right to host the twenty sixteen world championship. because she scores again in the chino successful bids for top level sporting events all the details are coming up shortly . and the floor over a few days from arab uprisings threatening to divide the european union as member states consider reestablishing borders in the free travel zone. and russia of the

trading week on a positive note with my six put on just point one percent among the top again as a banking stocks more in the markets than the top business news and twenty the front. seven pm in moscow i met treasurer good to have you with us here on r t our top story at least one person reported killed is syrian security forces opened fire on thousands at anti-government protests after friday prayers this despite government vows not to shoot at the opposition international pressure is mounting on the syrian government over the brutal crackdown at least eight hundred reported killed thousands detained in a two month unrest the e.u. and u.s. have imposed sanctions against syria washington is seemingly debating whether the eleven year rule of president bashar al assad is lawful. ortiz got

a ticket chiefly on reports many believe the u.s. may be laying the framework for a 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 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 to 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. else now against everyone for an american president. in government is legitimate or not. even some of the us 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 holds power in the world. who are are you president of the united states and president of the world when condemn a government atrocities in different countries in the middle east and north africa the us claims the higher moral ground in clearing human rights is the basis for its involvement but the critics say this is

a smokescreen for the real reason for interference and you know certainly in their d.n.a. of us foreign policy it or or and economics were our three days. in a movie with a. story you know. how heroes. the process of. 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 here senior political figure representing the libyan prime zisha known national council mahmoud jibril as lieve been studied in the us for years is now back in washington asking for money from khadafi is 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 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 pro-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. and they're all likely to get involved in

a collapsing more a 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 and. only strategic ally is not a viable way forward critics say the u.s. takes on the role with world policeman not done its inherent altruism but one of their self-interest and the bigger question is whether those interests have the waldstein for or have to stabilize the more i'm going to check the reporting from washington r.t. last hour as war in the syrian opposition against calling for external military help russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov tells our teenager his participation in the libyan conflict may have set a dangerous precedent. it's libya cases creates a temptation for money opposition groups in the region to spark similar situations

in the expectation that the west would keep those unwilling to even a complete taking one sides it's a fairly alarming prospect and i hope this won't happen it's crucial both solve their problems independently. in libya rebels are said to over again control of the besieged city of misurata with help from nato warships an air strikes a top libyan official opposition officials in washington with talks with the u.s. administration on more support and possible recognition but british anti-war activists kate hudson thinks the coalition policy is making a mockery of international. 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 peace 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 is 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. stay with us here on our team the forgotten life of the russian provinces pastimes of the failing to hold young people in the countryside but change could be around the around the corner i don't know few minutes. first the russia has a clear is on for hosting the world championship in two thousand and sixteen main

rivals denmark and ukraine past the part of the country without a fight or he's europe is going to has morphed from slovakia where the voting has been taking place. 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 train of course they said that they're just not ready for such a massive sporting event so russia one this big the fair and square moscow and st petersburg are going to hold the world hockey championship in two thousand and sixteen to two capitals of russia are going to become the capitals of hockey if you wish for that year he could be the ceremony and the presentation was held here in british law russia's prime minister vladimir putin personally came curates watch it and here's what he had to say on. russia deserves the cost of these championship

not just the glorious each humans and not just because we have not been his former indicates but because of our great. boost the great in them and from all the ideals of sportsmanship as little use them where fully in fact to be we meet in you thirty and went through this period of forty and i took time to to learn to ski. and i must admit it was not easy not even for those who had been practicing sports with the chiefs and i had even harder time learning to play ice with you. know a first hand experience link these truly great he still some time to go into

a lot of preparation is needed but for more on this i'm now joined by the president of the continental alexander we did it for you on the thank you very much for drawing how you. win the bet for 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 piece think it was more about yes you trust that she was ready because boss was going to be here to work as a. first class i study and assist you by please allow us we'll take the car back here well championship is not just a city in itself must fear itself it's a fan zone and i believe we should take a lot of lessons from the previous championships company and first class advance that was going to be a was we have our he's pretty in some detail work in moscow. effectively in two thousand and ten two thousand and seven but i believe it will get all the lessons and. you can post fear that all the fans will enjoy this is a definitely

a green event for russian hockey and for just all the sports lovers out there in the country but it's also part of a whole chain of very successful big soar to 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 mean if it's it's appreciation of that all of russia in the world because you can get that for granted. with a very serious company that was was then mark and ok. already owns around the first glass of coke in the nation's. but they decided that was there or because they are lies that i want to go with a stronger and there's also another competition obviously still going on here but i just love the current world hockey championship and russia is going to play in the semifinal today against finland what do you think are the chances yes the majority of. the bats away against russia by the russian one i do believe that russia will

want the day against villa and our boys how did that go thank you very much and good luck. this was the president of the continental hockey league alexander he did it so everybody is now weekend off course for two thousand and sixteen but of course there's quite a lot of excitement here at this current world hockey championship where russia is still supposed to play in a semifinal final against finland later on friday so if he's a reporter from the seraphim capital bratislava. the influx of refugees fleeing the an arrest in the arab world is driving a wedge between some e.u. states are calling to reinstate a temporary or even permanent border controls within the union something unseen since the schengen agreement came into force sixteen years ago as are his daniel schorr ports europe might have opened the floodgates for trouble the dream of european integration goes off the rails in

a pizza feud between two of the e.u.'s founders front blocked all train services for its elite off the phone didn't carriages full of african migrants it's really a time to doubt visitors visas allowing travel in the european union that's shots at the trust which the e.u. visa free rishi relies he does shown a kind of mistrust between two partners between france and italy france considering that it's me us not implemented in a good way to 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 leave it on the strength but fellow member states argue they shouldn't have to pay for italy's mistakes we have responsible of the fact that the audience are just from the sea with people coming from outside and not not able to fix the problem we are not

criminals terrorists madmen we don't want them here has protested to the french embassy for quote boy lation of european principles france counts as it 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 polls 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 applicants 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 and they are taking the law into their own hands on whims they've been more 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. legal immigrants to.

back to each other this is not possible isn't possible for the people in question but in some possible to the. situation ask for more internal border control i think growing numbers in the union's biggest country want to pull the chicks to germany today proposed possible restrictions in terms of freedom of travel and this is really something that many people are concerned off nations in the. also. restrictions on benefits to citizens since eastern european states which join the union full were lifted on the first of may one a b.p. will still float to the u.k. attracts people from the countries that have just joined the trucks 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 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 shingled agreements on visa free travel e.u. leaders all smiles the fear now is they've opened the books that they no longer control. or see brussels train 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 trainee recruits there were also civilian casualties pakistani taliban say they are behind the bombing ended avenging the death of osama bin laden. the earthquake stricken spanish town of worker has held funeral mass for the victims of wednesday's disaster nine people were killed much of the city devastated when the tremors

struck thousands of people have been forced to care about since the quake the deadliest trying 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 after the eighty three year old was questioned in a military hospital on charges of profiteering the former leader is also accused of ordering the deaths of enteric protesters meanwhile authorities have also ordered the detention of mubarak's wife for fifteen days as part of a corruption throw up you can always check out more stories and find i catch in videos online at r.t. dot com on our website we're also taking a look at how natural disasters could fuel apocalyptic fear with many scare the worst is yet to come we explore how people are paying big bucks to build themselves armageddon. punkers and shelters like this one that's also online. in the u.s. state of texas committing billions of dollars to wage war against our readers authorities

plan to install cameras in schools in a bid to fight the growing student obesity problem by the. time now to expose you to a bit more of what life in russia is really like because our close up team explores the very regions of the world's biggest country. so they were in volgograd some thousand kilometers southeast of moscow the area got its name from the volga river running through it the longest river in europe one of russia's most progressive regions economically to its well developed agricultural industry artie's town barton takes a look at 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 always been seen as

a very practical place whether it's building up extra work 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 has problems of its own and it's some of those themes that i've been examining in my report. it's time for these goods to give something back to their own or their wool. that's where we do a little bit at a time it starts going over after a while look you can even use your hands. again here is eighty seven years old he's worked in agriculture since she was thirteen she keeps goats geese and chickens sells will impose an 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. kill again lives in farms in the town of all europeans and russians well the grab region

is typical of russia's rural settlements going from a small collection of the edges with many people there still herding cattle fishing and keeping small holdings throughout history russia's countryside has quietly caught 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. but behind the jokes rule russia suffers from a much more serious problem we know works for an emu van outside a tiny village and she says it's not easy work there they become very protective and they laid eggs and they all tax them and can attack you with its legs the needle cloisonne they're dangerous. this is one of many agriculture the drugs she's had but her children are unlikely to follow. my domains in university my

son is an attempt great 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 the one nine hundred ninety s. livestock numbers fell by half the area grain planting a quarter even now young people all over russia deserted the countryside and move into the city these days is the one that they need to encourage and stimulate young people to blacken the countryside it need to pass move and give us housing but far from jumping ship and mr sia is one of russian and rakoczy is bright new hopes she chose to work here one of them being in nearby photographs 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 hack the market is very interesting and you can browse a professional in many different fields talking of fields this isn't a traditional picture of russian farming these three huge and high tech trip to the front and some of the farms bust thirty thousand hectares

a week the workers on the mall demand they say they wouldn't trust younger staff with such expensive equipment but soon enough they don't need. 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 enthusiasms about young farmers want what's out here tom watson artie shaw got richer. stay with us here on our team i mean trees up next with the business report. thanks matt the chief of b.p. robert dudley says he thinks there's still value in exploring rushes out with rosneft fruits joint venture and russia's energy minister sergei schmeichel echoes the sentiments saying the deal is attractive enough for compromise to be found russian shareholders and the n.k.v.d. have already made clear their wish to be involved so that leaves ross they have to

make a decision the deadline for that to happen is monday next week when its agreements undertake a sixteen billion dollars share swap with b.p. exploits the russian oil majors given few clues as to what it will decide except saying 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 types concessions offered to foreign carmakers to set up assembly plants inside the country the governor wants to extend the program started in two thousand and three until twenty twenty which the e.u. says is against the rules the program has had some global success with a number of world's biggest car makers setting up operations here but w t o entry is a matter of negotiation the kremlin may be prepared to offer the e.u. concessions on the important agricultural products move to the markets now the bit of change in the commodities take

a look at that while light sweet is actually now down ten cents when it was a growing rebounding from the previous session but brands is up still half a dollar over one hundred thirteen dollars per barrel. u.s. consumer prices rose assumes only just that a point before percent in april that was in line with expectations but the spike that we are seeing the dow jones and the nasdaq down twenty three percent yahoo is losing six percent of the search engine said it wasn't told until the end of march that ali baba group a transfer of ownership of its online payments to another entity. in the euro zone like half an hour to go until the end of the session games are trimmed of course with its negative movements in the united states now london's also down barclays nighty be among the top loses there down one zero seven but this improved is three percent in frankfurt on better than expected profits. closing picture for friday's session in russia flat to positive well the obvious m i six were actually

putting on a percent well most of the session second some of the main movers on the my sex energy shares were mostly crime ain't. those in wednesday's sell off but gazprom is down one percent on fears that some of its customers money probably example with the way. which is announced plans to buy gas from the u.s. as prices there thirty percent love banking shares are on the rise b.c.b.s. up one hundred percent at the close burbank lose a good one point three percent on news that it may buy b.m.p. paribas retail business in russia. and other news in brief brushes natural gas producer nova tech has boosted its net profits by almost seventeen percent to six hundred eighty million dollars in the first quarter the stronger than expected result was mainly driven by high gas prices the company's stock is up one percent. russian bank pretax profit not including the largest lenders burbank jumped sixty three percent the first four months of league banks and over five billion dollars

during the period according to a report from the bank of russia the central bank. the long planned merger of russia's two stock exchange of the night six and the r.t.s. should be finished by the end of this year though some technical issues might be left aside this year the legal integration is likely to be completed by the deadline as the president of the nice exchange told him stop the big deal troops are being legally binding he was not going to food here there are some details which we weren't given because the principle being at least we think. we time this will happen the end of the year deadline if the deadline which we mentioned is a good morning for business good gracious and great business and to preach but we leave this right for this year a parishioner with the grace and a team to gratian the end of the years is good governance legal issues you configuration what are you going to do with flows and when the. going to be legally

will become one company. and that's it from this edition of business we will be back next hour with plenty more headlines next. wealthy british scientists are. not on the title.

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